Calendar 2001 Answers

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	Q: How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark? A: None. Noah took two of each, though!
January

	Q: You are alone in a deserted house at night. You have a lamp, some firewood and a candle, but only one match. Which would you light first? A: The Match.
February

	Q: An archaeologist claimed he found some gold coins dated 46 BC. Do you think he really found the coins? A: No. Because Christ wasn't born when the coins were made.
March

	Q: The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Monday. What day is today? A: Sunday.
April

	Q: Two identical cannons are aimed at each other, their shells fired simultaneously at exactly the same speeds. Ignoring wind resistance, will they hit each other or will they miss? A: The cannonballs will hit each other. Each ball will fall from the line of fire by the same amount due to gravity so a collision is inevitable. Unless they are out of range of each other.
May

	Q: If a train travels south, some parts of it are travelling north. How? A: As the wheels turn, the part of the wheel in contact with the rails would be travelling in the opposite direction to the motion of the train.
June

	Q: If two monkeys sit in a corner of a room and look at another pair in the next corner and so on until every pair in a corner is looking at another pair, how many monkeys could say that they were looking at another monkey? A: None. Monkeys can't speak!
July

	Q: Twelve boys sit at a table on which a bowl containing twelve bananas is placed. Each boy takes one banana after which there is still a banana left in the bowl. How can this be? A: The last boy took the banana and the bowl.
August

	Q: A beggar collecting cigarette ends can make a new cigarette out of four ends. One morning he collects a total of 32 ends. How many cigarettes can he smoke that day? A: Ten. He can make 8 cigarettes, smoke them and make a further two cigarettes out of those 8 ends.
September

	Q: Grandma made some pizza dough using extra strong mix. When left in a warm place it always doubles in size every 24 hours. If it takes four days to rise to the top of her extra large bowl, after how long would it be exactly half way up the bowl? A: After three days
October

	Q: The police find a dead man in the desert. He had hung himself off a seven-metre lamppost with nothing near it and yet no chair or ladder was found. The only clue was a patch of water below the post and forensic evidence that proved he hanged himself. How did he do it? A: He stood on a giant block of ice that melted in the desert sun.
November

	Q: Place 14 dots along the side of a square in such a way that there are an equal number of dots along each side. A:
December