StrangerInAStrangeLand
Ancient Mariner
I'm getting bored of trivia:
1) Let's assume a god exists for this. Assuming that he is the only god, the supreme being, all knowing and all seeing, what can we see but god can NOT see?
2) In 1930, two men drove from New York to LA in a regular Ford motor car. These men still hold a world record for their journey but the car was completely normal, it was not the fastest ride nor the slowest, and the men themselves were perfectly normal. What was their record?
3) Mr. Jones is reading a newspaper articlev with this headline: Woman dies in holiday accident." The article goes on to say: 'Mrs. Rigby-Brown, while on holiday with her husband in Rome, fell to her death from the balcony of her seventh-floor room." Mr. Jones says to his wife that is was not an accident, but a murder. He had never met either of the Rigby-Browns so how could he have known it was a murder?
4) You have an equal-arm balance scale and 12 solid balls. One ball has a different weight from the others but you don't know which one or whether it is lighter or heavier. You can weigh the balls against each other on the scale. Can you find the odd ball and tell if it is lighter or heavier in only three weighings?
Post answers right away and publicly. It's not fun if it's not completely the same as the 'Random trivia thread'. You'll know right away if you're correct or not.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I think I put these in order of difficulty (1 being easiest, 4 being hardest) so whoever gets #4 is riddle king.
1) Let's assume a god exists for this. Assuming that he is the only god, the supreme being, all knowing and all seeing, what can we see but god can NOT see?
2) In 1930, two men drove from New York to LA in a regular Ford motor car. These men still hold a world record for their journey but the car was completely normal, it was not the fastest ride nor the slowest, and the men themselves were perfectly normal. What was their record?
3) Mr. Jones is reading a newspaper articlev with this headline: Woman dies in holiday accident." The article goes on to say: 'Mrs. Rigby-Brown, while on holiday with her husband in Rome, fell to her death from the balcony of her seventh-floor room." Mr. Jones says to his wife that is was not an accident, but a murder. He had never met either of the Rigby-Browns so how could he have known it was a murder?
4) You have an equal-arm balance scale and 12 solid balls. One ball has a different weight from the others but you don't know which one or whether it is lighter or heavier. You can weigh the balls against each other on the scale. Can you find the odd ball and tell if it is lighter or heavier in only three weighings?
Post answers right away and publicly. It's not fun if it's not completely the same as the 'Random trivia thread'. You'll know right away if you're correct or not.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I think I put these in order of difficulty (1 being easiest, 4 being hardest) so whoever gets #4 is riddle king.