The Wally Test
1. Write your name in the square provided. What square?
2. Take two apples from five apples. How many do you have? 2
3. Do they have a Fourth of July in England? Yes
4. If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, a
newspaper, and some kindling wood, what would you light first? the match
5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left? 9
6. How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark? None
7. A plane full of English tourists flies from Holland to Spain. It crashes in France.
Where should the survivors be buried? Nowhere, unless you’re really sadistic.
8. If a redhouse is made of red wood and a whitehouse is made of white wood, what
is a greenhouse made of? glass
9. If Mr. Jones’ peacock laid an egg in Mr. Brown=s garden, who is the rightful
owner of the egg? The National Enquirer! Peacock’s can’t lay eggs.
10. Mrs. Taylor’s bungalow is decorated entirely in pink. Her lamps, wall, carpets,
and ceilings are all pink. What color are her stairs? Depends on how you define bungalow. In some cities bungalows have stairs.
11. If you drive a bus with 42 people on board from Boston to Washington, D.C.,
and drop off 3 people at each of six stops and pick up 4 people at half the stops,
when you arrive at Washington 10 hours later what is the driver’s name? Don’t want to violate the anonymity of the CR. Sorry.
12. Write this down as one number: 15 thousand, 15 hundred and 15. 16,015
13. What do Kermit the frog and Attila the Hun have in common? Their middle name.
14. What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with? oomis said “hand” and that’s what I was thinking, too.
15. How many times can you take 3 from 25? I think this is a trick question and it’s after midnight and my brain has already shut down, but I’m going to say 1?