Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #13

Date: Friday, September 08, 1995 11:16AM

Speaking of the C.N.E., I went down there last Saturday night. The place was practically empty! Could it be the last year for The Ex? I drank some beer, ate some junk food (Beaver Tails are good!), went on the Ferris wheel* (lots more fun after dark!), and played some games and won three stuffies, making a 28-year-old girl and a 15-month-old boy very happy! (She would have been happier if I'd gone on the roller-coaster with her, but as Mick says, "you can't always get what you want!")

* Trivia: Did you know that the Ferris wheel is named after the American engineer who developed it, and not (as I thought) because it was made out of iron?

Here is this week's question:

Part #1: A horse jumps over the tower and lands on a man, who disappears. How can such a thing be?
Part #2: Two priests sitting in the castle's chapel see the queen attack the king and kill him. The priests rise, shake hands, and leave the room. Why so sanguine about regicide?

ANSWER:

Part #1 — It's a game of chess. A knight jumped over a rook and captured a pawn.
Part #2 — Two priests are playing chess; one of them just checkmated by moving his queen.

Or as Gord said:
   1. Queen's Knight 3 to Queen's Bishop 5. Check.
   2. Queen to Queen's 7. Mate.
   G'Day.

Well, I did say "Medieval Times... Let the games begin!"

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