01-19-2004, 08:13 AM
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Quiz Wizz™: Part one
Hello, this is the first edition of the Quiz Wizz™ series. The Quiz Wizz™ series is going to be week-to-week mind boggling questions! Each week 5abanja is going to post a tricky question and will give the answer in 3 days only.
The rules are: - Only post 1 answer only! - Never write a comment in any Quiz Wizz™ thread unless 5abanja gives the answer to the Quiz Wizz™ question. - Never EDIT your answer. - Have Fun!* *there will be no prizes given to any people that got the answer correct! winners will be posted by 5abanja OK! now for the First Quiz Wizz™!! 5abanja is a butcher. He weighs 146kg in one foot. What does he weigh in two feet? Remember, 3 days only. EDIT: I'm EXTREMELY sorry about this. I have remebered the correct question and I posted it in the Question. I'm TERRIBLEY sorry. for those of you who want to edit their answers can. BUT THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO EDIT ANY QUESTION IN THE Quiz Wizz™ SERIES. I'M GIAGANTICLY SORRY! -- 5abanja Last edited by 5abanja; 01-20-2004 at 09:43 AM. |
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01-19-2004, 02:00 PM
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Whinging Pom
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Is it 42x10^6 kilograms per sausage consumed in china. Squared. Or did I forget to carry the 1?
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01-20-2004, 10:00 AM
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I don't see any difference between the old version of the question and the new one. Also, 5abanja, you meant "on" one foot/two feet. Not "in."
Regardless, the answer is "meat." He's a butcher. {Edit: the editing was to correct punctuation in my introductory sentence.}
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01-20-2004, 12:22 PM
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He could be sitting.
Ah there! See! Hole in your Quiz Wizz™ Mr QuizWizzMaster™! (P.S. 146kg? Our butcher has a bit of a weight problem)
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01-21-2004, 02:38 PM
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Is the trick in the question the difference between "weigh" and "weight"? Umm... I don't know if that's right. Is "weigh" when you weigh something else and "weight" as in "how much do you weight?". The latter is a transitive verb, but I don't know what that means exactly.
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01-21-2004, 06:06 PM
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"Weight" is a noun, not any kind of verb. It is the measure of how heavy something is, so one could say "The weight of that box is four kilograms" or, in a more colloquial usage, "I give a lot of weight to his opinion."
"Weigh" is a verb, and one could say "He weighs two hundred pounds" or "He weighed a hunk of meat, and determined that it weighed four pounds." I don't really know how this applies to the question, since I don't really feel like reading it at the moment. 
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01-21-2004, 07:06 PM
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Whinging Pom
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I think it's 292kg, as 1 foot weighs 146 so two feet weigh twice that much. I have no idea what meat product he would measure in feet while using metric weights, unless we're talking about a cows feet or something and not a length.
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01-21-2004, 07:16 PM
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It's a play on words, Dom. He "weighs" 146 KG standing on one foot. He "weighs" meat while standing on two feet. Because he's a butcher. The riddle is taking advantage of the fact that the word "weigh" can be used two different ways (hehehe) and by mentioning kilograms first your mind tends to latch onto that usage of the word and glide right over the other.
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01-21-2004, 07:19 PM
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Quote:
 A similar question I've heard before goes along these lines: Tom is a butcher. What does he weight?. People reply with "How the hec should I know what Tom weighs..." and so on, when in reality, the answer is just meat. 
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