A quick test of your intelligence?

Question

1. Which seven-letter word in English has hundreds of letters in it?

2. I have a head, but I don't have a body. I have a tail, but I am not a snake. Who am I?

3. A man was born in 1955, how is it today is his 18th birthday?

4. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

5. There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Answer 1

1. Hundred
2. Coin
3. He was born on a leap year
4. Egg
5. Startling

Answer 2

1. Mailbag.
2. A sperm cell is one possibility.
3. You are asking the question in 1973.
4. Corn on the cob.
5. I can do eight: patients, patient, patent, paten, pate, ate, at, a.

Answer 3

1. Mailbox
2. a Penny
3. he was born on February 29th.
4. egg
5. startling

Answer 4

mailbox

coin

born on a leap year

a potato

1. Startling-starting-staring-string-sting-singsin-
in-I (Tharman, pp 4, 2006) (this i found from the net...my brain wasnt working on this one, see ref. below. hehe...i found it on some hokey newsletter for a small organization or something!)

Answer 5

1. hundred
2.river
3.if it is 1973
4.chocolate:))
5.no idea ) i don't understand this question

Answer 6

1. mailbox
2. a coin
3. born in room 1955
4. an egg
5. startling: starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I

Answer 7

i don know sorry

Answer 8

i just can't figure it out

Answer 9

okay ur are more clever!!