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2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
    What time is it?

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart.
    The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12
    inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide
    is at it’s highest, how many rungs are under water?

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a
    window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What
    color is the bear?

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass
    on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on
    the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water
    which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight,
    mass,and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same
    time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same
    question, but the location is in Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-
    four minutes past noon on May 6th.

10. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
     (Hint…chim chimminy)

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
     other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
     all in the center field?

12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?