Trick Questions!

インフェルノの津波

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    Quick! How many months in the year have 28 days?!

    Answer: All of them.

    What're your opinions on trick questions? Like em, think they're useless, use'em a lot? Which ones are your favorite?

    One I use every day: How many Chuck Norris' does it take to screw a light bulb?

    Answer: None, because the light bulb would be so scared of that much awesome in the vicinity that it would explode instantaneously.
     
    TheSmartOne said:
    Ooh, trick questions are fun. I don't use them much, but I like answering them (and feeling smug when I get them right).
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    This. XD Unfortunately for me, I tend to be a little to slow on the uptake to realize it's a trick question, so I end up looking stupid when I really would otherwise have known the answer. >__<
     
    I love trick questions. But then, I'm a big box of useless information so I tend to have fun with these kinds of things.
     
    Nice trick question! XD Trick questions are funny, but the people who ask them are annoying... It's fun to figure them out and answer them.
     
    インフェルノの津波 said:
    Quick! How many months in the year have 28 days?!

    Answer: All of them.
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    o rly
    The "number of days a month has" implies the total number. If someone asked, "How many days are in a month?" only an idiot would answer "They all have 28 days."
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    Trick questions that work by way of exploiting the usual interpretation of are therefore open to differing interpretations. In all right technicality, there is no single answer to your question because it is too ambiguous.
    The 'correct answer' you gave is likewise ambiguous, it would better be put as "all of them have at least 28 days".

    I suppose you can tell — I'm not fond of these things.
     
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    They are annoying, but the useless trivia collecting computer in brain makes me love them none the less.

    The most common one:

    "Which weighs more, a tonne of bricks or a tonne of feathers?"
     
    Trick questions are fun, but frustrating for me at the same time. I hate it when the answer isn't the obvious.
     
    They're funny after they're answered. I'm slow and don't like them. For instance, that first example about 28 days in a month, I would have just said February.
     
    I'm not a big fan. That might be because I'm the stupid person who always falls for them. D; That's not what I'm good at, I suppose.
     
    I actually quite like them!
    Some of them are real fun, yet some may make you want to hurt your brain from exesive thinking...
    In general, i like them, and i like trying to solve them!
     
    Trick questions, huh?
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    But, seriously. I like them, because most of them are fairly clever. It really depends on the attitude of the person asking, though.
     
    I'm not a big fan of trick questions, due to the fact I haven't been asked trick questions that much. :P
     
    Trick questions are fun, but I like word games so anything that has ambiguous language or double entendres is appealing for me.

    I prefer the kind that don't have a common answer that you're meant to fall for though. "How many grooves are on the average record?" is one I like.
     
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