Can you name the answers to these classic puzzles? by Loona

Question	Answer	Details
In what country is the 4th of July?
How many birth days does the average person have?		You're only born once.
Some months have 31 days, how many have 28?
In baseball, how many outs are in an inning?		Three for each team.
In which U.S. state is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
What do you get when you divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10
If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?		You took away two.
A doctor gives you three pills, telling you to take one every half hour. How many minutes will the pills last?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?		This isn't subtraction.
How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?		Moses didn't have an ark. Try Noah.

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Classic Puzzle Quiz

by Loona

Created Sep 30, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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	smart_mom:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	8 points
	It took me a while to get the pill one because it says, "How many minutes will the pill last?" I thought it was 30 - each pill lasts 30 minutes. You need to change "pill" to "pills".

	hscer:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	23 points
	Should accept "none" for 0.

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	jaspa:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 06:23 GMT	4 points
	@RebeccaAMax: I think 'retrospectively' is the key there.

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	dodsface:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	21 points
	sorry my bad, it does say minutes

	milkmeister:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	9 points
	Nice quiz. Must be room for a sequel or more questions methinks. Like the plane crashed on the border between US and Canada, where would you bury the survivors etc

	random_cloud:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 11:16 GMT	15 points
	got all but the baseball question because i don't know anything about baseball.

	demarcus:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 11:31 GMT	-3 points
	it wouldnt accept 9 for me for the sheep one

	orattob42:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 11:58 GMT	-2 points
	yes or no answer ones are kind of pointless....

	JensonsBeard:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 12:35 GMT	5 points
	Ahhhh, that last one got me!

	montecarlo:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 13:45 GMT	6 points
	the nerd in me wants to say it should be 61 minutes, since you wouldnt take the 2nd pill until the 31st minute, and the third at the beginning of the 61st. vote me down!

	Pinktit:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 14:06 GMT	6 points
	Got all but the baseball one which is the subject I'm most clueless in.

	rockgolf:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 14:09 GMT	6 points
	Good quiz, but go to the style page and resize it. Put the question at 50%, the answer at 10% and leave 40% for the explanation. That way as the quiz is answered, it won't roll off the screen. And yes, you should explain that 30 divided by one-half is 30 times two. If it were that easy, it would be a trick question.

	rockgolf:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 14:55 GMT	3 points
	Another question: An airplane flying from France to Japan crashes in China. According to Chinese law, are the survivors buried in France, China or Japan?

	cottb128:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 16:00 GMT	57 points
	The survivors are buried in China duh. Now normally you don't bury survivors of a plane crash, but these people from France were from the IOC and found out those little gymnasts from the Olympics were only 10 years old. Also, this starts World War 3.

	theurbanmapper:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	6 points
	Grumble grumble grumble.....Great quiz....grumble.

	Loona:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 20:58 GMT	3 points
	Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I was trying to adjust the columns last night, but stupidly messed them up. Fixed now. By the way, some of you may recognize these questions are for a classic quiz that's been circulating online for many years. Hence why I included yes/no answers. I could probably adjust the question so it's not in yes or no form.

	fletchman03:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 04:07 GMT	-1 points
	got em all i must be a genius! muahah...I enjoy these types of quizzes

	JohnJF:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	5 points
	@cottb128: I don't like to say this lightly, but you just had the greatest comment in the history of Sporcle.

	Qazza2k9:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 19:13 GMT	5 points
	@ cottb128, i second johnjfs call, great comment!

	rdogge:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	4 points
	Very nice quiz--would like to see a sequel to this one.

	fasttrack:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 02:37 GMT	0 points
	that was really clever lol i failed because i didnt look at that many when i play again ill look overall that was a great GREAT quiz though

	rhebus:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 14:26 GMT	2 points
	If the 4th of July is "Y" then it's in yemen, germany, kyrgyzstan, malaysia, etc etc. That was the angle I was taking! Nice quiz though.

	cottb128:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 17:01 GMT	0 points
	Yeah, I've always been good at the tricky riddles

	Skydog:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	2 points
	AWESOME!!!

	JezuzFingerz:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	8 points
	Wow. I feel like an idiot not getting the ark question

	Father_Time:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 07:47 GMT	2 points
	I can't believe I missed the Moses one because I've heard it before, the widow one is kind of clever.

	Father_Time:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 07:51 GMT	4 points
	"The "widow's sister" question is actually possible. He marries her, she dies," At that point she wouldn't be considered his widow, so it still doesn't work.

	anna:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	-1 points
	@Father_Time, if a woman is a widow it is because her husband dies, not her. Cool quiz, got them all with 5 seconds to go.

	Cheezdude:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:28 GMT	0 points
	I did this in school - copied off a website, some phrased differently.

	Loona:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	2 points
	@Cheezdude: read up.

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	naylor182:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	2 points
	more of this

	Peanut:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 23:33 GMT	3 points
	Apart from the baseball one that doesn't translate at all internationally, this isn't a bad quiz.

	peachie92:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 01:01 GMT	0 points
	not bad, but could use another minute

	caligal14:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 01:43 GMT	2 points
	If this quiz won't teach me to read the WHOLE question I don't know what will - I must've typed so many different versions of 'one hour' (1 hour, 1 hr, one hr...) and only after realized it wanted minutes :(

	pdu:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 10:20 GMT	-3 points
	Apart from that they are all really old - I'll give you that many won't probably know some, these questions don't really make sense in this form. You should only have one answer per question, else it's pointless.

	naturefreak2101:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 19:01 GMT	2 points
	@anselm - you were born more than once? or you were born on two separate days of the year? :D @loona - great quiz - only recommendation is that you reword the pills question; the phrase "last" could be confusing, as it seems as though each pill has an effect for thirty minutes - maybe phrase it as "How many minutes until you'll be out of pills?" or something like that.

	davidr:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	3 points
	Question 1 is incorrect. The Gregorian calendar is not universal: Israel uses the Hebrew calendar; Afghanistan and Iran use the Persian calendar; most other Muslim countries use the Islamic calendar; there are various other calendars in official use. None of these non-Gregorian calendars has a 4th of July.