| A half is a third of it. What is it? Answer | |||||||||||
|    A Minneapolis man was charged with third degree murder in the
death of his cousin. According to police he suggested a game of Russian roulette and put a semiautomatic pistol
(instead of the more traditional revolver) to his cousin's head and fired.    According to police in Windsor Ontario, 2 were killed in a head on collision (thus making it a tie) in a game of chicken they were playing on their snowmobiles. |
In 1908 New York Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. Mayor McClellan quickly vetoed the measure. |   3 years ago voice calls represented
90% of phone traffic. Since the Internet has grown so wildly recently, data now accounts for 50%.    Within 5 years data is expected to account for fully 80% of all phone line traffic. |
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Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th in them. | ||||||||||
| A clock runs 4 minutes slow per hour. It was set 3 1/2 hours ago. A watch shows noon. When will the clock show noon? Solution | |||||||||||
 
Solution to a slow clock problem.
In 3 1/2 hours the clock has become 14 minutes slow,
or about 1 minute each 1/4 hour. It now shows the time
to be 11:46. During the next 1/4 hour it will lose an
additional minute. It's hands will show noon in 15 minutes.
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