{"id":8209,"date":"2018-08-10T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T17:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2018-08-18T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T11:28:03","slug":"mind-numbing-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8209","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Numbing (Friday afternoon) Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bg067-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"bg067\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bg067-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bg067-450x439.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bg067.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is <em>By George<\/em>\u2019s TGIF-Friday-afternoon quiz to determine whether the work week has knocked your mind sideways. Let us know how you scored&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Johnny&#8217;s mother had three children.\u00a0 The first child was named April.\u00a0 The second child was named May.\u00a0 What was the third child&#8217;s name?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers.\u00a0 What does he weigh?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Before Mt. Everest was discovered&#8230;what was the highest mountain in the world?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>What word in the English Language &#8230;is always spelled incorrectly?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.\u00a0 How is this possible?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.\u00a0 Why not?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>What was the U.S. President&#8217;s name in 1975?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>Which is correct to say:\u00a0 &#8220;The yolk of the egg are white&#8221; or &#8220;The yolk of the egg is white&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a bonus question\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n<li>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 another field?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Answers can be found in the <em>By George<\/em> comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; Complete the quiz &#8211; and don&#8217;t peek. Then tell us what you got &#8211; honestly. Anything under 5\/10 and you deserve to leave the office immediately and start the weekend!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is By George\u2019s TGIF-Friday-afternoon quiz to determine whether the work week has knocked your mind sideways. Let us know how you scored&#8230; &nbsp; Johnny&#8217;s mother had three children.\u00a0 The first child was named April.\u00a0 The second child was named May.\u00a0 What was the third child&#8217;s name? &nbsp; There is a clerk at the butcher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}