Why is the little finger called the pinky?
on October 14th, 2010 | 3 answers

Does orange rhyme with orange?
on February 4th, 2009 | no answers

What does odd mean in sentences like 'I wouldn't want to take a photograph of my mother because she's seventy odd',...
on February 4th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

You out there: do you play Scrabble?
on February 4th, 2009 | no answers | 8 people like this

What pops into your heads when I mention the word inappropriate?
on February 4th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What colours do I use to make indigo?
on February 4th, 2009 | no answers | 2 people like this

Do you think a 27-year-old man should still have a set bedtime?
on February 4th, 2009 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Ladies, how would you feel if you were told you shouldn't talk and put on your make-up at the same time?
on February 4th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What are the prime factors of 84?
on February 4th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

To which family of birds does the robin belong?
on February 4th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Ladies: when you're putting your make-up on, do you talk or sing or just get on with it quietly?
on February 4th, 2009 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

Complete this sentence: I'm not going to __________ again.
on February 4th, 2009 | 18 answers | 9 people like this

Why isn't there a square root of minus one?
on February 4th, 2009 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What is the square root of 1936?
on February 4th, 2009 | 2 answers

If you tell someone he is treading on thin ice, what exactly would you mean?
on February 4th, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when you hear the word ice?
on February 4th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What's it like to be placed in the penalty box? I resent being in the penalty box.
on February 4th, 2009 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Name something that you shouldn't be doing at 2 am.
on February 4th, 2009 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

If there is a fire, what number do you dial?
on February 4th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Complete this sentence: There is too much _______.
on February 4th, 2009 | 11 answers | 4 people like this

Multiply seven by three.
on February 3rd, 2009 | One answer

Is 87 divisible by 3?
on February 3rd, 2009 | 21 answers | 9 people like this

What is 27 divided by 9?
on February 3rd, 2009 | One answer

What is 23 divided by 5?
on February 3rd, 2009 | no answers

If I get agitated for no reason, what is the best thing for me to do?
on February 3rd, 2009 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Complete this sentence, which I remember being told when I was nine point four. Never guess a lady's ____________________.
on February 3rd, 2009 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the UK phrase 'dial three nines' mean?
on February 3rd, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do you enjoy the snow?
on February 3rd, 2009 | no answers | 4 people like this

Multiply your age by the # of letters in yellow.
on February 3rd, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a fruit with 5 letters or under.
on February 1st, 2009 | 23 answers | 12 people like this

Name an animal with only 3 letters.
on February 1st, 2009 | no answers | 12 people like this

Complete this sentence. _________________ is my own private business.
on January 31st, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What's the matter?
on January 31st, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What does 'take a shot in the dark' mean?
on January 28th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What is 84 divided by 14?
on January 28th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

If there were 8 of us in the group and 24 fish fingers, how many fish fingers would we get each?
on January 28th, 2009 | 8 answers

Do you often eat salad on hot days?
on January 28th, 2009 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Complete this sentence. Could you ___________________, since it's only two o'clock in the morning.
on January 28th, 2009 | 2 answers

Is 217 a prime number?
on January 28th, 2009 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Complete this sentence. There is too much ___________ twelve years later, proclaimed Mr Roland.
on January 28th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Is 3 a factor of 9?
on January 28th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

If you needed someone to talk to whenever you got upset, who would it be?
on January 28th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

What is the square root of 64?
on January 28th, 2009 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

How many cosmetics can you name?
on January 27th, 2009 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

In what accent do they say kneelin' instead of kneeling, posin' instead of posing, etc?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Is this year (2009) a prime number?
on January 27th, 2009 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Multiply your age by the # of letters in green.
on January 27th, 2009 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Name something that would be no use at all.
on January 27th, 2009 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Do we need to dress smartly when we are visiting someone else's home?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer

Have you ever worn shoes that hurt and were therefore the wrong ones?
on January 27th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

When did Ceylon become Sri Lanka?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

What are all the states of the USA?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer

Complete this sentence: Miss Deighton looks oh so ___________ in her dress and boots.
on January 27th, 2009 | 12 answers | 5 people like this

Complete this sentence: the headmaster will telephone fire brigade, by dialling ________.
on January 27th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What is a nosy parker?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer

How many countries can you think of beginning with A, B or C?
on January 27th, 2009 | One answer

Multiply your age by the # of letters in Deighton.
on January 27th, 2009 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

Name something we learn before we are about 5.
on January 27th, 2009 | 15 answers | 8 people like this

Complete this sentence. Stop __________ my knees.
on January 25th, 2009 | 12 answers | 6 people like this

Name something a six-year-old would do that it is inappropriate for a twenty-six-year-old to do.
on January 25th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Multiply your age by the # of letters in knee.
on January 25th, 2009 | 18 answers | 5 people like this

Name a surname that contains eight letters.
on January 25th, 2009 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Looking back now, casting your mind back to your schooldays, did you feel you had the wrong teacher?
on January 25th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Name something that doesn't matter to us.
on January 25th, 2009 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Name something that most of us would consider not only annoying but also disrespectful.
on January 25th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

How did the policeman's address 999 Letsby Avenue come to be?
on January 21st, 2009 | One answer

Name a word of at least 7 letters beginning with an R and ending with an R.
on January 21st, 2009 | 30 answers | 12 people like this

I believe people who become fussy about the small details of life can be very useful but they can also become very annoying. Could you...
on January 21st, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Fill in the blank: you're not _____ or _____ any longer.
on January 21st, 2009 | 14 answers | 3 people like this

Fill in the blank: there is nothing we can do about ______________.
on January 21st, 2009 | 42 answers | 22 people like this

Is it considered inappropriate for pupils to send schoolteachers birthday cards?
on January 21st, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Is it considered inappropriate for a 12 or 13 year old boy to say something nice to the female teacher on whom he has a big-time crush?
on January 21st, 2009 | 2 answers

What does the UK slang phrase 'on cloud 9' mean to you?
on January 21st, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Did you know that if you have a chimney fire you should call the fire brigade?
on January 21st, 2009 | One answer

What does 'when the cat is away, the mice will play' mean to you?
on January 21st, 2009 | 7 answers | 5 people like this

Do any of you out there play Scrabble?
on January 21st, 2009 | 26 answers | 4 people like this

Is it appropriate for pupils at school to know when teachers' birthdays are?
on January 19th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Why haven't we had world war 3 yet?
on January 18th, 2009 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Would there be anything wrong with a 6-year-old boy telling his mom: "Sorry mom but we cannot go to the shops yet since you have a...
on January 18th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

How do you think an adolescent boy would cope with a change of teacher?
on January 18th, 2009 | One answer

How do you think a 10-14 year old boy would cope with the news that his favourite female teacher is leaving? What strategies do you think...
on January 18th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

If a female teacher is wearing something a male pupil doesn't like, and he has a temper tantrum, what is the best thing to do? I...
on January 18th, 2009 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Complete this sentence: I will __________ what I jolly well like!
on January 18th, 2009 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Does 1 count as a prime number?
on January 18th, 2009 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Do any of you out there own the Beatles' white album?
on January 16th, 2009 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

It was on 10 January 77 that I was told 'you won't blow a fuse just because Miss Deighton is wearing a black skirt'. What...
on January 16th, 2009 | One answer

Did you ever own a morris minor post office van?
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many mums give their children the advice 'exams/work experience/daily living responsibilities come first, girlfriends...
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer

What is 23 take away 14?
on January 15th, 2009 | 19 answers | 7 people like this

What does the slang phrase 'what time do you call this' mean to you?
on January 15th, 2009 | 2 answers

Complete this sentence: if you want ______________________, let me know.
on January 15th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make from these 8 letters, using the letter D plus at least 3 others? D I G E N H O T
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is the capital of Ghana?
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

You out there: how old were you when you could do simple adding-up sums?
on January 15th, 2009 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Ladies: do you wear make-up any old day, just for special occasions or not at all?
on January 15th, 2009 | 18 answers | 6 people like this

Ladies: how many of you out there blot your lipstick?
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Can you think of bingo phrases for every # from 1 through 90?
on January 15th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention bingo?
on January 14th, 2009 | 18 answers | 6 people like this

Are you smart enough to compose a limerick?
on January 14th, 2009 | no answers

Are you smart enogh to compose a limerick?
on January 14th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a prime number more than 20 but less than 50.
on January 14th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Name a song suitable for St Valentine's Day.
on January 14th, 2009 | One answer

Name a word rhyming with Deighton.
on January 14th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Name something children do which annoys teachers.
on January 14th, 2009 | 2 answers

When was the last time you went to Brighton?
on January 14th, 2009 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

What was the most exciting time of your teenage years?
on January 14th, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Am I still on the penalty box? If not, I'm really pleased about this.
on January 14th, 2009 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

When would we need to phone the police?
on January 14th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Surely I wouldn't get into trouble if I played my records at 24:45?
on January 13th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many times have you been in the penalty box in the last twelve months?
on January 13th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Name something that we might consider a trifle infantile for a man of forty three.
on January 13th, 2009 | 5 answers

What is a scalene triangle?
on January 13th, 2009 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Complete this sentence: I have told you a bazillion times ______________.
on January 13th, 2009 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the number umpteen mean to you?
on January 13th, 2009 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

What does the UK slang phrase 'what does that have to do with the price of tea in China' mean to you?
on January 13th, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention coast to coast?
on January 13th, 2009 | One answer

Name a food we usually eat with our fingers.
on January 13th, 2009 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

How many words (5 letters or less) end in ee?
on January 10th, 2009 | One answer

What words are not allowed in the game of Scrabble?
on January 10th, 2009 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Name a word (any length will do) that begins and ends with a P.
on January 10th, 2009 | 18 answers | 3 people like this

I was told (when I was 8 or 9) that Deighton rhymes with Brighton. Am I right?
on January 10th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Name a food which goes stale after a day or two.
on January 10th, 2009 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Do you remember when ITV played the national anthem at closedown?
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What is the idea of having computers?
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

What were you doing 40 years ago today?
on January 10th, 2009 | 11 answers | 9 people like this

Describe the Polish flag.
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention harbour lights?
on January 10th, 2009 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What comes to mind when I mention pretty knees?
on January 10th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

When you were at school, did you ever need to 'write lines'? I believe I had 400 lines from Miss Deighton on 10/09/1976.
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

When was the last time you sent a birthday card (Charlie Alpha Romeo Deighton)?
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Do you watch The Simpsons?
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers

Do you have a mobile phone?
on January 10th, 2009 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

What can we expect from digital television? Is it better than analogue?
on January 10th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What were the names of the Beatles' White album tracks? Goodnight is the last one.
on January 9th, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Were 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2000 leap years? If not, why not?
on January 9th, 2009 | One answer | 4 people like this

Do you have any 45 rpm records on the CBS label from 1968?
on January 9th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many UK hits did the Love Affair have in 68 and 69?
on January 9th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many words of at least 4 letters can you make out of these 9 letters - c h o s e n h u t?
on January 9th, 2009 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Name a word (7 letters or more) which begins with an S and ends with an S. Plurals are allowed. Proper nouns may be used too.
on January 9th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many prime numbers are greater than 9 but less than 25?
on January 9th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What is your favourite Christmas meal?
on January 9th, 2009 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you sing in the bath, or whistle, or just have a nice quiet bath?
on January 9th, 2009 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a change a 14 year old would find hard to cope with at first.
on January 7th, 2009 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

What is a branch line?
on January 5th, 2009 | One answer

Can AB students (like me) be in the penalty box for life? I've been PB'd twice in 08 but don't want to risk a third visit...
on January 5th, 2009 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What does treading on thin ice mean to you?
on January 5th, 2009 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the Midlands?
on January 5th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention 'knickers on the line'?
on January 5th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the ballad of John and Yoko?
on January 5th, 2009 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention half past nine?
on January 5th, 2009 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention Mastermind?
on January 5th, 2009 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the colour white?
on January 5th, 2009 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when you hear the word insignia?
on January 5th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

In which year did you first own a cellphone (mobile phone to us)?
on January 5th, 2009 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

What was your favourite TV programme when you were little?
on January 5th, 2009 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

This is a quadruple bill. Do you prefer (1) indoor or outdoor activities; (2) milk or plain chocolate; (3) red or white wine; (4)...
on January 5th, 2009 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

Name a word (7 letters or more) which begins and ends with M.
on January 4th, 2009 | 12 answers | 8 people like this

What do you think the minimum age should be for a lady to wear make-up any time, even if it isn't a special occasion?
on January 4th, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Name a word (at least 6 letters) which begins with a T and ends with a T.
on January 4th, 2009 | 38 answers | 19 people like this

Name something that makes you happiest.
on January 4th, 2009 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Name something that makes you unhappy.
on January 4th, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

A follow-up question to the one I asked you 8 months ago. Do you think a 31-year-old female schoolteacher should wear make-up any old...
on January 4th, 2009 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What would you think of as being past its sell-by date?
on January 4th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Are you looking forward to 2010?
on January 3rd, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Do you regret after all these years not sending birthday cards to teachers at school?
on January 3rd, 2009 | 11 answers | 2 people like this

Is there a formula for finding out what day of the week a certain date was?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

How many words can you make out of these eight letters d e g h i n o t?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How old were you when you last had a crush on someone (especially a teacher)? For that matter, when did you start having a crush?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 3 answers

Did you ever get into trouble for defacing a library book? If so, why did you do it?
on January 2nd, 2009 | One answer | 2 people like this

Have you ever watched The Simpsons?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

When was the first time you had an alcoholic drink?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

What was the name of the last drink you had?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 12 answers | 8 people like this

Does bingo have catchphrases for each # from 1 through 90?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention 'having a hissy fit'?
on January 2nd, 2009 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Complete this sentence: the headmaster will telephone fire brigade, giving necessary ___________.
on December 31st, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the Latin phrase sub judice mean?
on December 31st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Guys, would you be kind enough to cast your mind back to your schooldays: have you ever in your life had at least one crush on a female...
on December 31st, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What are the names of the Simpsons?
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers

How many different colours are there? There might be at least fifty three.
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers

In Welsh, certain consonants are mutated, as Miss Deighton mentioned when she started teaching. Thirty nine years later, I seem to have...
on December 31st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What are the names of the 5 Channel Islands?
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

The third of three. When (and how) did the 24-hour clock start?
on December 31st, 2008 | One answer

The second of 3 24-hour clock questions. Would Mary Deighton be right in assuming twenty five to one in the morning is 24:35? I believe...
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What is the origin of the UK slang phrase 'dressed up to the nines'?
on December 31st, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

The 24-hour clock now. Would Emmanuel Williams be right in assuming a quarter to one in the morning is 24:45?
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What are off cuff comments?
on December 30th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

How do you think an adolescent (i.e. no longer 9 but not yet twice 9) boy would cope when the news comes that his favourite female...
on December 30th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What things are all right when you're little, but won't wash with people when you've reached double figures?
on December 30th, 2008 | 141 answers | 19 people like this

Have you ever attempted to make hoax (Hutcheson Oscar Alpha Xanadu) calls to the emergency system?
on December 30th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Would you sooner have a themed birthday party or simply an informal gathering on your birthday?
on December 30th, 2008 | 2 answers

Which do you prefer: indoor activities or outdoor activities?
on December 30th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention Brazil?
on December 30th, 2008 | 12 answers | 5 people like this

How many prime numbers between 20 and 50?
on December 29th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What is a bazillion, as in 'I've told you a bazillion times to mind your own business!'?
on December 29th, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Would vernacular mean the same as slang?
on December 23rd, 2008 | One answer

If the fire alarm went off for no apparent reason, would it be essential to phone three nines?
on December 23rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What would Emmanuel Williams mean by riven?
on December 23rd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Do any of you go to midnight mass?
on December 23rd, 2008 | One answer

If I say that Miss Deighton was dressed up to the nines, what would I mean?
on December 23rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the phrase 'dealing with a naughty boy'?
on December 23rd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Is there really such a girl's name as Cherilyn? I believe ther is but I hadn't heard of it until Monday 17 March 1997.
on December 19th, 2008 | One answer

Do teachers find it irritating when children call teachers by their Christian names? I got into trouble for doing this when I was 9.2....
on December 19th, 2008 | 3 answers

Here's the third of three extra special questions to mark the 40th anniversary of when I started chanting alphabetical phrases. In a...
on December 19th, 2008 | no answers

In some countries, they use rubbing people's noses as an alternative to kissing. My mother told me this when I was four point six...
on December 17th, 2008 | 2 answers

If Mrs Feldschreiber mentioned that I wasted one ream, what would she mean?
on December 17th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Here's the final number question (until 9 December '09) to replace the rejected question of 2 days ago. What springs to mind...
on December 17th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Complete this sentence: if I find you _______________, I shall be cross.
on December 17th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Did Jacky Lee's one-hit wonder (#14) Rupert have anything to do with the bear?
on December 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

If you had to watch someone like a hawk, when exactly when this would have to occur?
on December 17th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Speaking of which (while we're about it) what exactly is a Xanadu? I believe it's a place of paradise. How did that term come...
on December 17th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I broach the term Xanadu?
on December 17th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

What does phone mean in 'Andrew Pook, could you phone three nines?'?
on December 16th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What sort of pet would you like to have, if you could choose?
on December 16th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

Name 7 words to do with Christmas.
on December 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Name 7 things to do with work.
on December 16th, 2008 | One answer

Here's the F1 NAL (sic) number question from me until 9 December 2009. What springs to mind when I mention the number zero?
on December 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What do you enjoy most about Christmas?
on December 16th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What is your favourite girls' name?
on December 16th, 2008 | no answers | 6 people like this

Do you prefer long words or short words? I have preferred the former ever since I was 1524 days.
on December 15th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Here's the penultimate number question for Christmas. What springs to mind when I broach the number 337?
on December 15th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What (a) boys' name and (b) girls' name do you like the most?
on December 11th, 2008 | no answers

If I'm getting upset, which people can my mother talk to me about? Is it partially up to me or is it her business and hers alone?...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

When you're being spoken to, do you always take the literal meaning of what's being said?
on December 11th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Guys: what is your favourite girls' name? (BTW, I don't mean your girlfriend's name, I mean 'what girls' name do...
on December 11th, 2008 | no answers

What does since mean in (1) you can't make latish out of Linda Deighton since there's no S; (2) I have been a man of varied...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many flags of the world can you think of?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

During the festive season, what would YOU prefer to talk about? Things to do with work or things to do with 1968? Why?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Would it be the end of the world if I DID have to face staying single for the rest of my life? I haven't had so much as a proper...
on December 11th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

During the 'festive season' is it understandable that I would sooner talk about things to do with thirty years ago than things...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Just supposing, this is just a hypothetical. If you had gone at least 6 years without a proper girlfriend, how would you cope with...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer

What sort of questions are more in keeping with a six-year-old than a mature/intelligent young man of 22? I would say 2 examples of these...
on December 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

If I mentioned that in December 1971 Paul Callaghan had an early ticket to bed, what would I mean?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Did Toto have any hits apart from Hold The Line (which I subtitled I Dialled Three Nines)?
on December 11th, 2008 | 3 answers

Here's the second of three extra '40th anniversary' questions? K for keep it down or K for...?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

What does 'a change is as good as a rest' mean to you?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How would you feel if you were asked 'Shouldn't you be in bed now'?
on December 11th, 2008 | 14 answers | 10 people like this

Ladies, how would you feel if you were told to refrain from talking and making up at the same time?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What would be classed as a hoax 999 call?
on December 11th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What examples of personal questions can you think of? And what examples of puerile questions can you think of?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Second of 2 complete this sentence questions for Christmas. I would like to have a(n)/some ______________________ for Christmas.
on December 11th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Here's the first of 5 special 'complete this sentence' questions. I don't give a ____________________ if it gets dark...
on December 11th, 2008 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Having finished with the Miss Deighton questions, here is the antepenultimate (i.e. middle) 'special festive number' question...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer

Since I don't want to be placed in the Penalty Box a third time, what can I do in order to prevent this from happening? I have...
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer

How many things can you think of that should stop right now?
on December 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Is it all right for little kids of 4, 5 or 6 to tell people the # of letters in a certain word, phrase or name? I may have asked you this...
on December 11th, 2008 | 3 answers

N for none or N for...?
on December 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

I won't give myself a chance to receive silly answers to any of the questions, so here is a new one. How many stations on the...
on December 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Here is the F1 NAL (sic) Miss Deighton question. Did Miss Deighton really need to count the mincemeat tarts when we were having them at...
on December 10th, 2008 | 3 answers

Was it really compulsory for Miss Deighton to count the beefburgers at lunchtime?
on December 10th, 2008 | One answer

Why is # the sign for number?
on December 10th, 2008 | One answer

What does # mean?
on December 10th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Did you ever sing or learn Tinga Layo when you were little?
on December 10th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you have a ukulele at home?
on December 10th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many times have you been to your local library to borrow books on whatever subject you choose?
on December 10th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you use the library often?
on December 9th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

How many words of six letters or more can you make out of Richmond Upon Thames?
on December 9th, 2008 | One answer

OK, so I won't ask any more silly questions like I asked back in April '76. Instead, I'll ask you this: what springs to...
on December 8th, 2008 | One answer | 4 people like this

Second of 4 questions in the Mary Deighton category. Was it really necessary for Miss Deighton to count the fish fingers at lunchtime? If...
on December 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

If you tell me I'm crossing too many boundaries for your liking, what would you mean?
on December 8th, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Was it really necessary for Miss Deighton to count the sausages when we're having them at lunchtime?
on December 8th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Have you ever owned a collection of vinyl on 78 rpm?
on December 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What is 26 take away 17?
on December 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is the Twelfth Commandment?
on December 8th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

Is Bristol an area famous for museums?
on December 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention pi?
on December 8th, 2008 | 19 answers | 12 people like this

What is the first word that pops to mind beginning with the letter O?
on December 8th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

What pos into your heads when I mention monochrome?
on December 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What does living on borrowed time mean?
on December 8th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How many words (five letters or LESS) end in S?
on December 8th, 2008 | 2 answers

How often do you have a nice quiet evening at home, especially when it gets dark early? As a rule of thumb, I only have a nice quiet...
on December 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What does I don't give a damn (Deighton Alpha Mary November) mean in 'I don't give a damn if it gets dark very early...
on December 8th, 2008 | One answer

Number questions never die - they only reappear during the festive season. So here's the second of 5 special number questions for...
on December 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Can you remember how old you were when you started solving crosswords?
on December 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Since it's Christmas, here's the first of 4 special word game questions. How many words of six letters or more can you make out...
on December 8th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Sorry if I seem to be asking you a question I asked you 3 weeks ago, but are any of you you looking forward to Jeff Stelling and Rachel...
on December 8th, 2008 | no answers

What springs to mind when I mention the word 'dial'?
on December 8th, 2008 | 10 answers | 4 people like this

What sort of time would be 'the middle of the night'?
on December 6th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Did you know that if you have a chimney fire, you should call the fire brigade by phoning three nines?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

If you say something could easily go overboard if you didn't ignore it sometimes, what would you mean?
on December 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

How do you cope when the shops are too queue-y?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer

What is French for once?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention Deighton?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is a tertiary colour?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer

In football, what is (a) a yellow card and (b) a red card?
on December 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What does the proverb 'marry at haste, repent at leisure' mean to you?
on December 6th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What are the names of all the Simpsons characters?
on December 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

When would people need to dial three nines?
on December 5th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What does only mean in 'it's only two o'clock in the morning'?
on December 5th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

When would someone be 'dressed up to the nines'?
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What does stale mean in connection with (a) food; (b) jokes?
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What strategies should I use in order to stop me getting upset like I did on 12/07/86? I've tried reciting x tables and the # of...
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer

Have any of you heard of the Daily Express Target word game? I started my collection when I was 4.6 (four point six) but they've all...
on December 5th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

For what purpose would you use an eighteen-wheeler?
on December 5th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Given that my joke from 1974 (= I don't know anyone named Miss Behaves) has long since passed its sell-by date, what other sayings...
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer

Do you have any 45 rpm records on the CBS label?
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

When you tell someone 'this joke became passe a year or 4 ago' what would you mean by passe?
on December 5th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Are you keen on having a Chinese takeaway?
on December 5th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Can you make a sentence (the longer the better) without using the letter U?
on December 5th, 2008 | 10 answers | 5 people like this

How did Dr Seuss' zyxuzpf birds come about?
on December 5th, 2008 | no answers

What is a brontosaurus?
on December 5th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of washing machine?
on December 5th, 2008 | 2 answers

How did the # symbol come to mean number?
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Can a tortoise live to be 200+?
on December 5th, 2008 | no answers

Do any of you remember the kiddies' TV series Sesame Street? It doesn't seem to be on any more, but in my view it should be...
on December 5th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What is the key to being able to do long division sums?
on December 5th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Do they still teach children in the infants' class 'magic magic e'?
on December 5th, 2008 | no answers

If something is a waste of time, what exactly does this mean?
on December 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

In your view, has the pencil + paper game in which we take a longish word, phrase or name (usually any # of letters from 7 to 17) and see...
on December 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

If you say something doesn't prove anything, what would you mean by that?
on December 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

If you say there is no real challenge in something, what exactly would you mean?
on December 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Do you find coping with changes difficult?
on December 3rd, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Part 2 of 6. How many stations on the Central Line can you think of?
on December 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How many words can you make out of withheld?
on December 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers

How is it it gets dark much earlier in the winter than it does in the summer, whereas library-closing time is the same all the year round...
on December 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What pets would you like to have in your home, if you could choose?
on December 3rd, 2008 | no answers

Do you count in order to stop yourself getting angry? Does it help?
on December 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers

Since it's Xmas (sic), here's the first of 5 special number-related questions. What springs to mind when I mention the number...
on December 3rd, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

New series. How many stations on the Bakerloo Line can you think of?
on December 2nd, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

As a special treat, I have a sixth question before I start a new series of questions tomorrow. L for leave the building or L for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer

Here is the fifth of five questions in this category. It's to celebrate my 40th anniversary. Y for yourself or Y for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Penultimate question. I for I wish to make a complaint or I for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers

To mark the 40th anniversary of when I started chanting alphabetical phrases, here is the 3rd in a set of 5 questions in my new category....
on December 2nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

__________________ is the eleventh commandment.
on December 2nd, 2008 | no answers | 4 people like this

My TV tastes run to quiz shows, so which quiz shows on BBC or ITV are still on the air?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Were the staff at my previous home right to withhold permission for me to watch Masterteam on the grounds that it could easily become an...
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer

Are you pleased the Krypton Factor is coming back to British television after a 13-year hiatus?
on December 2nd, 2008 | no answers

What is a boa constrictor? Is it poisonous?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

How many meanings of mug can you think of?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

D for dictate or D for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention oval?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

O for once again or O for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

S for spine or S for...?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer

Do people think I should have a change from word/number games so I don't get in a rut?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer

How many words can you make out of least?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Can you think of a word in which the same letter appears thrice in a row? The only one I know of is tooold.
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is the first word that pops to mind beginning with Z?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 21 answers | 10 people like this

What is a zillion?
on December 2nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What foods do you like and what foods don't you like?
on December 2nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Does it matter to you if you've lost your calculator? Would you get upset? If so, how easy is it to do most maths in your heads?
on November 28th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention Bristol?
on November 28th, 2008 | 14 answers | 10 people like this

How easy is it to count in twos?
on November 28th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Can you compose a short sentence using only words of 4 letters or under?
on November 28th, 2008 | 12 answers | 6 people like this

What is 64 divided by 1/16?
on November 28th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Here's a tough question after all these years: what records did you listen to when you were 10 odd?
on November 27th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of triangle? All 8 letters must be used.
on November 27th, 2008 | 3 answers

Is 177 a prime number? If not, why not?
on November 27th, 2008 | 2 answers

Do you think you'll eat too many calories for your own good over Christmas and the New Year?
on November 25th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

One word can be made out of all 10 of the letters in indiscreet (or is it two?). Do you know what they are?
on November 25th, 2008 | 2 answers

What springs to mind when I mention owls?
on November 25th, 2008 | 16 answers | 11 people like this

I hear Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley are going to take over from Deso and Vord when Countdown restarts in early 2009. I'm looking...
on November 25th, 2008 | no answers

What is the first word that springs to mind containing the letter X?
on November 24th, 2008 | no answers | 4 people like this

How do we calculate the area of an octagon?
on November 24th, 2008 | 5 answers | 7 people like this

How come there isn't an English word with 4 Y's?
on November 24th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

When did you learn to count in fives?
on November 24th, 2008 | One answer

How many of you have been to the doctor's for the sake of it?
on November 24th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

When was the last time you made a complaint?
on November 24th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Complete this sentence: _____________________ is what we want from January to December.
on November 24th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Why is zero times everything zero?
on November 24th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

What is the first word that springs to mind beginning with the letter 'Y'?
on November 24th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words (of 6 letters or more) can you make from irrelevant?
on November 24th, 2008 | no answers

Does it matter to you if a word isn't even in the dictionary?
on November 24th, 2008 | 2 answers

Why can't you have a shape with only 2 sides?
on November 24th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

What is a surd?
on November 24th, 2008 | 2 answers

How many of you out there collect jars?
on November 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Is it unacceptable for children to count the # of letters in a certain word/phrase/name? If so, until what age would it be considered...
on November 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

If someone can be a bit repetitive at times, what exactly does this mean?
on November 22nd, 2008 | One answer

Where would you like to go the next time 4 February is on a Friday? In previous years I went to: 1966 = Battersea Park; 72 = Smiths in...
on November 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers

What can I do to avoid being placed in the penalty box for the third time?
on November 22nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

How many 'rest' idioms can you think of, including 'a change is as good as a rest' and 'give it a rest'?
on November 22nd, 2008 | One answer

Here's the 26th word game question. To mark 3 months after when I was re-removed from the penalty box, how many words can you make...
on November 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

How true is it that a unicorn existed?
on November 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

How many of you don't seem to watch television at all?
on November 22nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

I may have asked you this * 6 months ago, but which television programme(s) are you glad have been axed? * Approximate time
on November 22nd, 2008 | no answers | 3 people like this

How many words can you make out of stop?
on November 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Which newspapers/periodicals do you enjoy reading and why?
on November 22nd, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Do German Shepherd Dogs need to be muzzled both day & night?
on November 21st, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What does 'what's that got to do with the price of tea in China' mean to you?
on November 21st, 2008 | One answer

Is needn't the opposite of should?
on November 20th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Can you think of anything which has been going on for too long?
on November 20th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

What would you think was more appropriate behaviour from a 5-year-old than a 15-year old?
on November 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Should there be a maximum age-limit for a set bedtime?
on November 20th, 2008 | One answer

Should a 20-year-old have a set bedtime?
on November 20th, 2008 | 11 answers | 4 people like this

What would you find irritating after a while?
on November 20th, 2008 | no answers | 3 people like this

Do you like doodling?
on November 20th, 2008 | no answers

Antepenultimate word-question. How many definitions of belt can you think of?
on November 20th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Fourth-last question on words. How many definitions of silent can you think of?
on November 20th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Second of 6 word questions. How many definitions of last can you think of?
on November 20th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Now number questions have gone for ever, here's the first in a set of 6 word questions. How many meanings of slip can you think of?...
on November 20th, 2008 | 2 answers

What can you think of that you would deem boring, irrelevant & outdated?
on November 20th, 2008 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

If something is old hat, what does that mean?
on November 20th, 2008 | no answers

What does n/a mean?
on November 19th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Do you enjoy solving Kakuro?
on November 19th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

How many words can be spelt either with or without a K in front? What do they mean?
on November 19th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Word game 25. How many words can you make out of Northcote Library? You may only use words of at least 6 letters.
on November 19th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Do you always eat hot meals during cold weather and vice versa?
on November 19th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

If you say that some of these jokes won't wash with me any more, what exactly do you mean?
on November 19th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

If Countdown DID get axed, what TV programmes would you watch instead?
on November 19th, 2008 | One answer | 4 people like this

How many signs of OCD can you think of?
on November 19th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Now here's the very, very, LAST number question. What springs to mind when I mention the number 2,009?
on November 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Penultimate number question: what springs to mind when I mention the number 1,969?
on November 18th, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Before I 'put number questions to sleep once + for all', there's time to give you the middle special number question. What...
on November 18th, 2008 | 3 answers

Here's the second of 5 special number-related questions. What springs to mind when you hear the number eighty two?
on November 18th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

Here's the first of 5 special number questions. What springs to mind when you hear the number sixty seven?
on November 18th, 2008 | 14 answers | 6 people like this

Assuming some or most of your favourite TV programmes have long since been axed, how do you keep yourselves occupied instead?
on November 18th, 2008 | no answers | 5 people like this

Why do television programmes get cancelled after a while?
on November 18th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

What does 'at least' mean in these 2 sentences? Number one: some signwriters make spelling mistakes but at least they write...
on November 18th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

Which television programmes did you enjoy many years ago, but unfortunately have long since been axed?
on November 18th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

At the time of writing, do I deserve to be in the penalty box? I've been in the penalty box twice already but what would happen if I...
on November 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Here's a special complete-this-sentence question. A __________ can't talk back.
on November 18th, 2008 | 11 answers | 5 people like this

Sorry if I'm asking you more or less the same question as I asked you 10 odd weeks ago, but do you think Countdown (the word game on...
on November 18th, 2008 | 3 answers

What mathematical items are considered educational, and appropriate, for children aged from 4 to 8? I believe one of these is counting...
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Going back to the question raised almost 1 year ago, i.e. 'Is it normal to count the amount of letters in a word/phrase/name?',...
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What does the slang phrase 'to get in a rut' mean to you?
on November 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the phrase 'widen your horizons' mean?
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer

When I was 21, my mum mentioned that some of my jokes/funny sayings, many of which I came out with when I was 8 or 9, had long since...
on November 11th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Would my mum be right in announcing that quite a lot of my jokes like 'I don't know anyone named Miss Behaves' which I...
on November 11th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I say 'this has been going on for too long!'?
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Penultimate proverbs question. Would I be right in saying that children should be seen and not heard = children answer to their parents,...
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer

Antepenultimate (i.e. middle) proverbs question. What does the proverb 'as 1 door closes, another door opens' mean?
on November 11th, 2008 | no answers

Here's the second of five questions on proverbs. What does the proverb 'you can take a horse to water but you just can't...
on November 11th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

If you are advised to 'take it in your stride', what exactly does that mean?
on November 11th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

To howmanieth (sic) number can we do sums?
on November 11th, 2008 | One answer

What do you enjoy about your birthday?
on November 6th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Do you know any kids as young as 5 who are good at Scrabble or Countdown?
on November 4th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What is repetitive strain injury?
on November 1st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Have any of you out there dialled 999 'just for kicks'?
on November 1st, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

How many secondary colours can you think of? When I mentioned white earlier, I wasn't trying to be racist, I was harking back to...
on October 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Is white a primary colour?
on October 22nd, 2008 | no answers

What is the first thing that springs to mind when I mention the word behave?
on October 22nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

How many mnemonics can you think of?
on October 20th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Here's the last-ever 'am I right' question. Would I be right in saying that making words out of world takes neither 3 days...
on October 20th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

What is your favourite food?
on October 20th, 2008 | no answers | 4 people like this

What does the British slang phrase 'put 2 and 2 together' mean to you? My own version is to put 6 and 6 together (and get...
on October 20th, 2008 | no answers

What springs to mind when I mention the word 'budget'?
on October 20th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Are you looking forward to Countdown with Alexander Armstrong?
on October 18th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Can you think of any magic number (or word) squares?
on October 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How many words beginning with the letter X can you think of?
on October 16th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Three numbers can be arranged in six different ways. How many different ways are there of arranging 6 numbers?
on October 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Seventeen coloured counters can be organised in how many different ways?
on October 16th, 2008 | One answer

In how many different keys can a tune be sung or whistled?
on October 16th, 2008 | 3 answers

What do you mean by dictate, as in 'Don't dictate to staff!'?
on October 16th, 2008 | 2 answers

Would a small child learn anything by counting the # of letters in a certain word, phrase or name?
on October 14th, 2008 | 2 answers

For that matter, is it NORMAL to count the # of letters in a certain word, phrase or name? I've often done this up until I was about...
on October 9th, 2008 | One answer

Is it really necessary for children to count the # of letters in a certain word, phrase or name? From what age would you consider it to...
on October 9th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Did any of you out there enjoy the TV series Mission:Impossible?
on October 6th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Did any of you out there enjoy the test card?
on October 6th, 2008 | no answers

What springs to mind when I mention the word turkey?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I broach the owrd police?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many number one hits of 1969 can you think of?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

At what age should children be allowed to choose their own bedtime?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the word ripe?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

How is it there isn't a square root of minus one?
on October 3rd, 2008 | 9 answers

What does the British slang phrase 'neither here nor there mean'?
on October 1st, 2008 | no answers | 4 people like this

If something is described as a foregone conclusion, what exactly does this mean?
on October 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the British slang phrase 'I'm in the same boat' mean?
on October 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What thing(s) would you find irritating after a while?
on October 1st, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

All right then, so you think these numbers should stop. I'm in the same boat. Instead I'll ask you this: what sort of foods...
on October 1st, 2008 | no answers

How many of you Answerbag users, who should be on a diet, find it difficult to give up...
on October 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What countries don't allow people to drink alcohol, no matter what age they are?
on October 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

How did the idiom 'neither here nor there' originate?
on October 1st, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Is there a highest prime number?
on October 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What does the slang phrase 'there's lots of other ways to skin the cat' mean?
on September 30th, 2008 | One answer

Do you think words of only 2 letters should, or needn't, be banned in the game of Scrabble? in the version of Scrabble I play at...
on September 30th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the word autumn?
on September 30th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

What is the longest word with only 1 syllable?
on September 30th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Did you have any Dr Seuss books when you were little?
on September 29th, 2008 | 11 answers | 4 people like this

What first springs to mind when I broach the word should?
on September 27th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What pops into your heads when I mention the phrase 'key signature'?
on September 27th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Do you still have analogue television or have you now gone digital?
on September 27th, 2008 | no answers

What pops into your heads when I mention the word bake?
on September 27th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

What do you get if you multiply your age by the number of letters in red?
on September 27th, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

What is the first thing that pops to mind when I mention the word no?
on September 24th, 2008 | 13 answers | 5 people like this

What is the biggest animal you know?
on September 24th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

Can you think of an 11-letter word/phrase/name in which all its letters appear once only?
on September 24th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

What pops into your heads when I mention the word apostrophe?
on September 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Is that the end?
on September 20th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do Indians still live in teepees?
on September 20th, 2008 | 11 answers | 9 people like this

Do any of you out there have any items at home which are as useful as a chocolate teapot?
on September 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Is a xerus a real animal?
on September 20th, 2008 | One answer

How many phobias can you think of?
on September 20th, 2008 | One answer

When did we last have a severe snowstorm?
on September 20th, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Which animals are voiceless? I believe the giraffe is the only one.
on September 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many animals can you think of, 26 of them, 1 from each letter from A to Z?
on September 20th, 2008 | 7 answers | 6 people like this

What do you get if you multiply your age by the number of letters in scarred knee?
on September 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

New category. How many number one hits of 1968 can you think of?
on September 20th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Penultimate question on 'top-and-tail-alike' words. How many words do you know which begin with L and end with L?
on September 20th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Middle question on 'top-and-tail-alike' words. How many words do you know which begin with H and end with H?
on September 20th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

How many of you out there have a nice quiet evening at home during the winter months?
on September 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Here's a 'top-and-tail-alike' question. How many words - any length will do - do you know which begin with P and end with P?
on September 20th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

What question do you think would have the answer 'Quite a lot!'?
on September 18th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

How many of you out there know the song 'I've got a gal in Kalamazoo (yes, Kalamazoo!)?
on September 18th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Whom did you last telephone?
on September 18th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

After what age do children hear, understand and inwardly digest what other people say rather than repeat?
on September 18th, 2008 | One answer

What are your culinary likes and dislikes?
on September 18th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

What does the letter Y mean to you?
on September 18th, 2008 | 8 answers | 4 people like this

As you may already know, Des O'Connor and Carol Vorderman are leaving Countdown at Christmas. We know that, but there is 1 important...
on September 18th, 2008 | no answers

Back in 1986 I was refused permission to watch Masterteam on the grounds that it could easily verge on becoming an obsession after a...
on September 18th, 2008 | One answer

Can triangles be equilateral?
on September 17th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What does the phrase 'get this out of your system' mean?
on September 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What ways are there of teaching sevens to tens times tables?
on September 17th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this