NOTE: Answers to Guess-The-Novel  are on page 108 of the high school dates section, or a copy of them are below:

2008 MYDIARY ANSWERS

Jan 25
An electric train is travelling at 100kmh. The wind is blowing in an easterly direction at 25kmh. Which way is the smoke from the train blowing?
Answer: There is no smoke, its an electric train.

Feb 1
A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. ANSWER: He's a priest -- he's marrying them to other people, not to himself.

Feb 8
A man is alone on an island with no food and no water, yet he does not fear for his life. Why? ANSWER: The island is a traffic island.

Feb 15
Joe wants to go home but can't, because the man in the mask is waiting for him. Why? ANSWER: A baseball game is going on. The base-runner sees the catcher waiting at home plate with the ball, so decides to stay at third base to avoid being tagged out.

Feb 22
A man pushes a car up to a hotel and tells the owner he's bankrupt. Why? ANSWER: It's a game of Monopoly.

Feb 29
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Mar 7
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Mar 14
3) timing tim ing Answer = split second timing

Mar 21
4) YYY men Answer = Three wise men

Mar 28
GRFOOTAVE Answer = One foot in the grave

April 4
If a plane crashed on the border of the Western Australia and South Australia , where should the survivors be buried? Answer = You don't bury survivors.

April 11
How many months have 28 days? Answer = All twelve of them.

April 18
How far can a bear walk into the woods? Answer = Half way, then he is walking out of the woods

April 25
What is the value of coin dated 24 B.C.? Answer = Nothing, a coin could not be dated BC.

May 2
How many grooves does a 45rpm phonograph record have? Answer = Two -one (spiraling) on each side

May 9
A camper leaves her camp, hikes 1 mile south, then 1 mile east where she sees a bear. Then she hikes 1 mile north to arrive at her camp. What colour is the bear? Answer = The camp must be at the north pole, therefore the bear is white.

May 16
If a rooster lays an egg on the peak of a roof , will the egg roll to the left side or to the right side? Answer = Roosters don't lay eggs, chickens do.

May 23  
On which side of a chicken are the most feathers?Answer = The outside.

May 30
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? Answer = A towel.

June 6
What can you catch but not throw? Answer = A cold.

June 13
If you put a coin in an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck of the bottle, how could you remove the coin without taking the cork out or breaking the bottle? Answer = Push the cork into the bottle and shake the coin out

June 20
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son."Who was in the photograph? Answer = His son.

June 27
How many birthdays does the average man have? Answer = One

July 4
A woman gives a busker $2; the woman is the busker's sister, but the busker is not the woman's brother. How come? Answer = The busker is her sister

July 11
Is it legal for a man in Perth to marry his widow's sister? Why? Answer = No, he is dead.

July 18
Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. How can this happen? Answer = The men are not playing each other.

July 25
Without using a calculator, divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer? Answer = 70

Aug 1
All of my flowers except two are roses. All of my flowers except two are tulips. All of my flowers except two are daisies. How many flowers do I have? ANSWER: Three: one rose, one tulip, and one daisy.

Aug 8
A Mother is four times as old as her son. In twenty years, she'll be twice as old. How old are they now? ANSWER: The Mother is 40, and the son is 10

Aug 15

Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones? ANSWER: A square manhole cover can fall into the hole on the diagonal; a round manhole cover cannot be dropped into the hole.

Aug 22
If there are 3 big bananas and you take away 2, how many do you have? Answer = You have two big bananas

Aug 29
If you have only one match and you walked into a kitchen which has an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which one would you light first? Answer = We suggest that you would light the match first.

Sept 5
The butcher at Woolworths is 168cm tall. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat

Sept 12
A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last? Answer: 1 hour

Sept 19
You have 6 crazy crabs all but 4 die. How many are left? Answer: 4

Sept 26
If there are 4 empty seats in a movie theatre, how many combinations are there for the number of ways 4 people could sit in these seats? ANSWER: 24.

Oct 3
There are a carrot, a pile of pebbles, and a pipe lying together in the middle of a field. What happened? ANSWER: The snowman melted.

Oct 10
Three large people try to crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible? ANSWER: The sun is shining; there's no rain.

Oct 17
A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word? ANSWER: Short.

Oct 24
A woman gave birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year but were not twins. How is this possible? ANSWER: They were two of triplets.

Oct 31
Forward I'm heavy, backwards I'm not. What am I? ANSWER: A ton.

Nov 7
What two words have the most letters in it? ANSWER: Post Office.

Nov 14
You have a 3L & a 5L measuring device. you wish to measure out 4L, descrbe how?

Nov 21
How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live? ANSWER: The baby fell out of a ground floor window.

Nov 28
There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket? ANSWER: The last person took the basket with the last egg still inside.

Dec 5

A little girl was warned by her guardian never to open the cellar door or she would see things that she was not meant to see. One day while her guardian was out she did open the cellar door. What did she see? ANSWER: When the girl opened the cellar door she saw the living room and, through its windows, the garden. She had never seen these before because her parents had kept her all her life in the cellar.

Dec 12
What 3 letters can be arranged to describe:

1) A verb

2) A drink &

3) A homonym

Answer: ate

Dec 19

Answer: Toolbox

Dec 26
How many different ways can you tiw your shoe laces? Answer: 31

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