[SOC] Are You Qualified for SOC?

[Bob Patten]

Think Hard

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. 
The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall 
and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in 
the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet 
by four feet?

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the 
summer. How is this possible?

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. 
Why not?

8. What was the President’s Name in 1975?

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in second 
place, what place would you be in now?

10. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white” or “The 
yolk of the egg is white”?

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 
another field?

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Here are the answers

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. 
The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
Answer: Johnny of course.

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches 
tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in 
the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn’t discovered yet. [You're not very 
good at this are you?]

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet 
by four feet?
Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the 
summer. How is this possible?
Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. 
Why not?
Answer: You can’t take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or 
a cell phone) to take pictures.

8. What was the President’s Name in 1975?
Answer: Same as is it now – Barack Obama [Oh, come on ....]

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in second 
place, what place would you be in now?
Answer: You would be in second.. Well, you passed the person in second 
place, not first.

10. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white” or “The 
yolk of the egg is white”?
Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]

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 
another field?
Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one 
big stack.

You can go back to sleep now ….


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73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL

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