Can you name the Answers to these Trick Questions?

Question	Answer	Reason
What color was Napolean's white horse?
Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
How many months have 28 days?
What is the only thing you can put in a barrel to make it lighter?		Adding anything else would add weight
What do you get when you divide 20 by half and add 10?
What do you put in a toaster?
If you combined 3 leaf piles from your back yard with the 4 leaf piles in your front yard, how many piles would you have?

Question	Answer	Reason
If movie tickets cost $10, how much would it cost to take two friends to the movies twice?
What popular cheese is made backwards?		Edam is made spelled backwards
What was the U.S. President's name in 1973?		He hasn't changed his name since '72
What is the only English word that is always spelled incorrectly?		How else would you spell 'incorrectly'?
Where do the largest potatoes grow?		Can't grow them on a tree
What color is an airplane's black box?
What volume of dirt (in cubic inches) is in a hole measuring 3 inches by 4 inches by 6 inches?

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Trick Questions Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: Djibouti -
Contributed: October 26th, 2009
Category: Just For Fun
Plays: 3,245

Tags: trick, Trick Questions, reason, question

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	JohnJF:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 02:53 GMT	4 points
	It should accept 60 without the $. Zero should work for volume of dirt. And wasn't Barack Obama working as a secret spy for Kenya in 1973, so how do we know what his name was?

	Brobert2:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:15 GMT	10 points
	Seconded on the 60 thing. I think "Grant" should suffice for "Grant and his wife." I question the Arlington National Cemetery question on the basis of it not making sense. AFAIK there are indeed unburied servicemen at the cemetery; namely, the guards at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Otherwise it was a fun quiz.

	iceman1731:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:16 GMT	5 points
	You should except nobody for Grant's Tomb since technically noone is buried in there.

	TheReaver88:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT	5 points
	If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, he picked a peck. Sure, you pickle them later, but not according to the original stipulation "If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Don't make that statement if it doesn't hold later on.

	jmc1988:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 03:53 GMT	4 points
	I agree with all of the above, change it to accept 60, and no matter when they're pickled it still says he picked them. Also, putting air in a barrel makes it lighter (aka taking something out out the barrel).

	NikeSkylark:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	6 points
	the answer to the grant question is 'no one'. that's why it's a trick question. grant and his wife are there, but they're not buried. the definition of buried is being underground, their tombs are above ground, therefore, no one is buried in grant's tomb.

	Niques:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	5 points
	I second the above 60 comments. And '1' should be acceptable for 'one'. The cemetery question also really doesn't work as a 'trick' question. Other than that, good quiz.

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	cochiseTX:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 15:39 GMT	5 points
	I got a lot of these right but couldn't get the answer to pop up because you didn't allow alternate phrasing or single-character answers. I tried 1 on the leaf piles and it didn't work. I tried 60, without the dollar sign, on the next and it didn't work. And so on...good idea but not the best execution.

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	Djibouti:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT	3 points
	Took out the cemetery and peter piper questions. Added "60" as an answer, thought I already had, but apparently I had sixty but not 60. 1 and 0 were already in as answers but I forgot to enable one character answers, should work now. Also added no one as an alternate to the Grant one and changed the explanation, was thinking about doing that anyway.

	rgottfried:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 22:42 GMT	4 points
	wouldn't putting helium or hydrogen in a barrel make it lighter?

	Rom:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	7 points
	For What do you put in a toaster?, I tried Bagel, lol.

	Nafets:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 02:44 GMT	8 points
	How'd you start out with fractional piles of leaves? And for the barrel question, if I have an upside-down barrel filled with air and put helium into it, the helium will displace the heavier gasses and the barrel will become lighter. Hah! =P

	Djibouti:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 22:15 GMT	5 points
	I knew the helium issue would inevitably come up, so here's the explanation: If you replace the air with helium you are making the barrel lighter, but you are also taking something out. By the same logic, I could say about a barrel full of fish, replace all the fish with a roll of quarters and you've made the barrel lighter. The barrel is assumed to be a closed system. The point of the question is the trickery with the English language involved in "adding" a hole. It's not meant to be a physics exam.

	Beefy:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	5 points
	If both Grant and his wife are in there, it should be Grants' tomb, not Grant's tomb.

	bzq:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 16:43 GMT	-2 points
	Stupid

	nhorne:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 17:13 GMT	4 points
	You should accept 'nobody' for the Grant's tomb question if you're going to accept 'no one'.

	707penguin:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 00:28 GMT	1 point
	I second nhorne; missed it because of that.

	Osprey39:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 21:55 GMT	-1 points
	If you put a vacuum in a barrel, it will get lighter.

	PublicEnemy:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 02:35 GMT	-4 points
	that potato one was stupid. I know they aren't grown on trees but I still didn't try typing underground

	Nelroy:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 15:03 GMT	3 points
	To be fair, you could put a torch or candle in a barrel to make it lighter, so long as the torch was switched on and the candle was lit.

	arcticbanter:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:34 GMT	2 points
	So much fun!

	Icymantaman:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 13:30 GMT	4 points
	Pretty good quiz. And I agree with putting some source of light into the barrel as an acceptable answer. It is a trick question, so answers that pertain to different meanings of the word "light" should be accepted.

	westing1992:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 16:46 GMT	2 points
	"All of them" should be an accepted answer for the months one.

	Brendever:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 13:31 GMT	2 points
	pretty good quiz, some are very clever.

	JasonJP:	Nov 8th, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz!

	hsox05:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	0 points
	Ok, the leaf one stumped me. I was trying to do math and trying to figure out if you meant 3.5 leaf piles or 1.5 leaf piles (as in three 1/2 leaf piles). I feel kinda dumb... but really, I think that one is contradictory of itself because if all of those add up together to make 1 pile, how can you have 1/2 and 1/3 piles to begin with? Wouldn't they just be smaller full piles since "No matter how much you combine you get one...pile" ??Nice quiz

	DougButcher:	Nov 27th, 2009 at 23:46 GMT	1 point
	The correct answer to Grant's tomb is "nobody." Grant and his wife is never the correct answer since the bodies are ABOVE GROUND. The trick in the question is the word BURIED.

	bigthree4life:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 01:08 GMT	1 point
	lol how else would you spell incorrectly

	Navarro2814:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 02:02 GMT	-2 points
	Would it kill you guys to just type in $ Good quiz

	FLoaf:	Mar 9th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT	2 points
	It should accept "holes" as well as "a hole for the barrel question.

	mat1331:	Mar 18th, 2010 at 02:31 GMT	0 points
	US President question should be re-worded. Based on your logic (for the answer) any previous president's name would suffice for the answer.

	carbon_rod:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 21:09 GMT	2 points
	The piles one confused me at first, because how can you have half a pile? That's like half a hole. Also, should accept "Grant and Mrs Grant" or "Mr and Mrs Grant".

	Jmisho:	Apr 2nd, 2010 at 01:48 GMT	2 points
	For the Barrel one I was thinking a candle or a light Bulb, because it would make it "lighter."

	alexandracabot:	Apr 6th, 2010 at 02:42 GMT	0 points
	The Grant's tomb one is stupid. There's no reason not to accept "Grant" because Grant is buried in Grant's tomb (unless you're arguing that he's not actually buried blah blah blah). Just because his wife is there doesn't mean he's not.

	707penguin:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 01:28 GMT	-1 points
	I am sure that someone has spelled incorrectly wrong before, thus it isn't always spelled incorrectly.

	Glimril:	Jul 16th, 2010 at 18:15 GMT	2 points
	@707 penguin: if you spell it wrong, then by definition you're spelling it incorrectly ;)

	Videomaniac29:	May 6th, 2011 at 04:55 GMT	3 points
	You know what you can put in a barrel to make it light? A torch.

	starwars314159:	Aug 24th, 2011 at 23:01 GMT	1 point
	Anyone else try Idaho for the potato question?