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"Carol is travelling by ship from south of the equator to the north.

She has a nice little second class cabin which has a bathroom, but no window.

Carol has no compass nor other instruments.

 Yet, without leaving her room or talking with anyone, Carol knew exactly when the ship crossed the equator.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?

What has 4 legs and only 1 foot?

The three wisest sages in the land were brought before the king to see which of them were worthy to become the king's advisor. After passing many tests of cunning and invention, they were pitted against each other in a final battle of the wits.

Led blind-folded into a small room, the sages were seated around a small wooden table as the king described the test for them.

"Upon each of your heads I have placed a hat. Now you are either wearing a blue hat or a white hat. All I will tell you is this- at least one of you is wearing a blue hat. There may be only one blue hat and two white hats, there may be two blue hats and one white hat, or there may be three blue hats. But you may be certain that there are not three white hats."

"I will shortly remove your blind folds, and the test will begin. The first to correctly announce the colour of his hat shall be my advisor. Be warned however, he who guesses wrongly shall be beheaded. If not one of you answers within the hour, you will be sent home and I will seek elsewhere for wisdom."

With that, the king uncovered the sages' eyes and sat in the corner and waited. One sage looked around and saw that his competitors each were wearing blue hats. From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his, "What is the colour of my hat?"

For what seemed like hours no one spoke. Finally he stood up and said, "The colour of the hat I am wearing is . . ."

A long, long time ago - before airplanes were invented, a suspension bridge was being built to span the gorge near Niagara Falls.

However, there was no way a boat could carry the necessary suspension cables across the violent water, and the bridge could not be built until the cables spanned the river.

In desperation, the builders staged a contest, open to the public, as a way to solve their problem.

The contest was won by a young boy. Soon afterwards, the cables spanned the water.

 What countries did they stage the contest? What was the contest and how did it solve the problem?

Funny

Yup Darkchaosguy got the blue hat one right. The toilet improvements because the water flows differently when you are south of equator. 3 of all the question doesn't even ask that it asks what the competition was I don't think the competition was Canada and US

Nope because that didn't help them build a bridge(also you must explain how it helped).

YOur JK Lelouch a paperairplane carry a cable?

You try to swim across Niagra falls send me a postcard. No a BIg paper airplane won't work because it won't fly. YOu cant circle around Niagra Falls well unless you want to run a 100 miles south or north which would kinda defeat the purpose of making a cable go through Niagra Falls

No he does not belong on the X files

oh nvm i get it

that ones damn hard

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?

easy, its a paradox, it cant be treu cuz then the other one if false instead of tru etc etc. It is just not possible:)

well, i searched the one for the Niagra Falls one, and believe me, no honest, VU-Playing riddlesolver is going to guess that one, so if i may, may i post the answer???

ok:D

they used a cannon with a grapling hook in it and a rope connected to it and shot it across Niagara Falls and then tied it tightly and did that twice and then made a weak wooden bridge out of the ropes and wooden planks and that made it easier for them to build a stronger bridge.

that's probably not the right answer, but I bet it'd work if they did do that.

The contest was who could come up with an idea to do it right... haha, and the little boy was a medieval geek and knew everything about cannons and the like.

Anyway

Adieu,
Ben

Lelouch was uber close I'll give you guys a hint you need for something to cross the falls but you also need somthing with a rope built in.

the bird give you another hint its not living

Correct

2. A dog with three of it's feet cut off?

1 door closes, 9 open. When 9 close, 1 door opens. What is it?

I don't get it

2. was a bed

For what

so whats the answer to the door one.


3 bed posts an 1 foot

I don't know but to be totally honest I really can't imagine it being either of those two

Mr. Santa Claus 2/17/2007 5:37:24 PM

The door one, is it about times? It closes at 1 oclock and opens at 9, and then the other way around? Or does it has to do with meditation? They say that in meditation you open 9 doors of your body, but then i wonder what that 1 door is:S

a secret

what do you own, but never use, while everyone else uses it almost every time they see you.

Nope, I think you're right Aza :)