Fun for Girls

Marriage Proposals

• There are five 'f's in the next sentance, and they're two errors in this one. - "It's often easy for folk to miss the finer points of life." - How many errors are there in the first sentence? There are four mistakes in the first sentence - they are: there are six 'f's not five; 'sentence' is spelt wrong; 'they're' should be 'there are'; and the statement that there are two mistakes is wrong, which makes four mistakes in all.

• Sentence with five consecutive Ands: The owner of the 'Hare and Hounds' bar complained to the artist who had just painted a new sign: "There should be more space between the Hare and 'and' and 'and' and Hounds..."

• Eleven hads: (Scenario is an English Language test, when John and David answer differently on the question of whether to use "had" or "had had"): John, where David had had "had had", had had "had"; "had had" had had the better effect (on the examiner).

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Wedding Ordination

• What connects the words sitcom, smog, brunch, muppet and cyborg? They are all 'portmanteau' words, ie., combinations of two different words. (Sitcom is derived from situation and comedy; smog from smoke and fog; brunch from breakfast and lunch; muppet from marionette and puppet; cyborg from cybernetic and organism. The term portmanteau as description of word combinations was devised by Lewis Carroll when it first appeared in Carroll's book 'Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There', dated 1872, appeared in 1871. More about portmanteau words, and how to use them increativity and development activities.)

• A conference room contains three separate wall-mounted spotlights - right, left and front of stage. Each is controlled by its own on-off switch. These three switches are numbered 1, 2 and 3, but they are in a back-room which has no sight of the the spotlights or the conference room (and there are no reflections or shadows or mirrors, and you are alone). How do you identify each switch correctly - right, left, front - if you can only enter the back-room once?
Switch on number 1 and leave it on for 30 seconds, then switch it off. Switch on number 2 and leave it on. Enter the conference room. The spotlight that is on is obviously number 2. The spotlight that is warm is switch 1, and the other spotlight is number 3. (Adapted from a suggestion by D Thomasson)
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Party Co-Ordination

• What do these Shakespeare plays have in common?... Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth. Each features a ghost.

• Where was Britain's first escalator installed? Harrods department store, Knightsbridge London, around 1900.

• 'Dieu Et Mon Droit' appears on which daily header? The Times Newspaper (of England). 'Dieu Et Mon Droit' is now commonly and wrongly translated as 'God and my right', but the original meaning was based on medieval French: 'God and my duty', which in addition to The Times' more recent usage, was much longer ago adopted by past monarchs, and various other families and institutions, appearing on crests, coinage and other symbols of grand authority.

• What are these cities? There is more than one answer for some :

• City of Dreaming Spires - Oxford, UK.

• City of Magnificent Distances - Washington DC, USA.

• City of the Angels - Los Angeles, USA.

• City of Churches - Adelaide, Australia.

• City of Love - Paris, France; Rome, Italy; Calcutta, India.

• City of Peace and Justice - The Hague, The Netherlands.

• City of the Tribes/the Eternal City/City of Love - Rome, Italy.

• City of the Violated Treaty/Stab City - Limerick, Ireland.

• City of the Violet Crown - Athens, Greece.

• Crescent City - New Orleans, USA.

• Empire City - New York, USA.

• Fair City - Dublin, Ireland. (Also Perth, Scotland)

• Forbidden City - Beijing and Lhasa, China.

• Granite City - Aberdeen, Scotland.

• The Harbour City/Emerald City - Sydney, Australia; (Wichita, USA is also known as Emerald City).

• Monumental City/Charm City - Baltimore, USA.

• Mormon City - Salt Lake City, USA.

• Orchid City - Shah Alam, Malaysia.

• Quaker City - Philadelphia, USA.

• Soul City - Harlem, New York, USA.

• The Stampede City - Calgary, Canada.

• Windy City - Chicago, USA.

• Motor City - Detroit, USA.

• Music City - Nashville, USA.

• The River City - Brisbane, Australia; Edmonton, Canada; Wanganui, NZ.

• The Steel City - Sheffield, England.

• The White City of the North - Helsinki, Finland.

Fun for Girls

• Why are buttons on women's and men's clothing such as jackets and shirts on different sides (and for the same reason, why do bras fasten at the back?) Because when garments of these types were first worn, men traditionally dressed themselves, so buttons were placed on the right side, (for the right-handed majority). Women were often dressed by maids, so the buttons were put on the opposite side to make it easier for the maid. Bras were made rear-fastening to preserve the dignity of both maid and mistress.

• A part of a wheel is a SPOKE, another word for people is FOLK, so how do you spell the word for the white of an egg? Not yoke or yolk - the white of an egg is called the albumen.

• A stamp collector paid $100,000 for a stamp and then deliberately destroyed it. Why? To make the other one unique and therefore dramatically increase its value. (There were only two in the world and he owned the other one.)

• Two chess masters played fifteen consecutive games of chess. No games were drawn, every game was finished, yet both players won and lost the same number of games as each other. How could this happen? They were each playing other people.