It's that time of year for us to take our annual senior citizen test. Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge how your memory compares to the last test. Some may think it is too easy but the ones with memory problems may have difficulty. Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not. The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.

OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.

1. What do you put in a toaster?

2. Say 'silk' five times. Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?

4. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on. In Swindon, 2 people get off and 4 get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, 3 people get off and 5 people get on. In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven ..

Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus driver?

Answer 1: 'bread.' If you said 'toast' give up now and do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to Question 2.

Answer 2: Cows drink water. If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World. However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.

Answer 3: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these??? If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.

Answer 4: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own age? It was YOU driving the bus!!

If you pass this along to your friends, pray they do better than you.

PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions!! Information is Power

Thanks for the laugh...mostly at myself.  lol

Good one...posting it to my smart but old friends poste haste

I have smoke coming out of my ears...  brain too tired..

LOL!

I failed the cow one, the rest I had correct.

Corrie

Answer 3: Greenhouses are made from glass ,

Question 3: was about a green house , notice the "space" between green and house , so the correct answer is or might be green bricks :)

Hey! I don't have dementia afterall!!!!!!

Hein is right!

I love these.

I have one for you...........

We all know Korea is split into two with a strip of neutral territory between them. So, imagine a plane crashed in the neutral territory. Where would they bury the survivors?

Hehehe
Nowhere, because you don't bury survivors! ;-P

Corrie

Well done, Peedy! :lol:

Well try these out. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. I didn't try very hard. I think I got three.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls.

(The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

1. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.

4 The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.

1. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle.

The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

1. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

2. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

3. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.

9 Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

6: You forgot 'Dweeb' and 'Dwelling'.

Quote - PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions!! Information is Power

damn.. i failed the last one..

Quote - 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.

Actually, when no KO is reached, points can be given for moves made during the fight in at least some forms of boxing. So a fighter can actually be in the lead during the contest.

Quote - 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

Shouldnt quote, and doublequote be separate punctuation marks? instead of "quotation mark"?

Quote - 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.

How about the lettuce you buy already cleaned and cut in a salad? Isnt that a form of processing?

Quote - 9 Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

And snowboard :)

Forgot 'Scholls' ;-)

Quote - Forgot 'Scholls' ;-)

:m_laugh:

Quote - 4. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on. In Swindon, 2 people get off and 4 get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, 3 people get off and 5 people get on. In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven

...except, of course, no-one would get off in Swindon.....!

I have cooked lettuce quite often. In lettuce soup and Garden soup and often in Burgers it's cooked by the heat of the other items.  So I don't think that qualifies.

and for DW I got:

Dwarf, dwarves dwarvish

Dwell dwells dwelling

Dwindle dwindles and dwindling!  ROFL!

But then I love playing Boggle.

Missed the Rhubarb, but then I always think of it as a fruit, wrong I know, but there we are - you don't often come across stewed potatoes and custard, or potato crumble.

But another perrenial veg would be Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus) but it's best early in the season.

Artichokes, (Jerusalem too)

Sorrel.

Swiss Chard - I like the Traffic Lights ones, that come in different colours, green, red and yellow... but mostly to look at - they can taste bitter.

Radicchio

Peppers,

Chillies - Although I don't call chillies a vegetable - it's more of a poison.

Sweet Potatoes/yams

Bamboo shoots, might be hard in the UK though...

Sea Kale - use like cabbage - yummy.

Garlic - although it's a bit hard to think of it as a veg, more of a flavouring, but bulbs can be roasted whole and then taste quite mild.

Welsh Onion/ garlic ditto. (the ones that grow on the top of a tall stem)

Ditto ginger

and there's loads more, some guy wrote a book about them, it seems there are hundreds!

Oh and "sabot" - it's another name for a clog (- different question)

Knew the one about the pear - cucumbers used to be grown by the Victorians in a similar way to ensure straight ones consistantly and snip off the cuc when big enough and use the glass 'straightener' again for another one. (not a bottle - like an open-ended bottle)

Didn't know the Niagara one or Boxing - but Ian (husband sitting next to me) - did.

But he didn't get "Strawberries" (and I did) which is odd as like me he also watches a lot of QI and it was on there recently.

We got a couple more, or different puctuation marks, but apart from tilde (which is more of a computer programmer-ish thing (Ian)) extras are mostly due to our (un)common tongue from US to UK, or more likely just me calling things by the wrong name. Lol!

Got stockings but wasn't sure about them as they are not just on the feet - what about pop socks?

Shackles? (more ankles than feet) ditto stocks.

Interesting stuff, certainly passed the time... Thanks.