Lateral Thinking Questions
ANSWER: L.T.Q. #36 
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 19:08
Here is this week's question:
16. Can a bird fly backward?
2. Is the rainbow ever seen as a complete circle?
1. The letters in the name "Anzac" stand for what group of words?
3. What bird can outrun a horse and roar like a lion, but cannot fly?
8. What do the letters S O S, used as the radio distress dignal, stand for?
4. What famous landmark in the United States moves backward constantly?
12. What is shivering for?
20. Why are they called the "high seas?"
ANSWER:
16. The hummingbird can.
2. Yes. From an airplane, with the plane's shadow directly in the centre.
1. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
3. The ostrich.
8. Nothing. They were chosen as a distress signal in Morse code because of their simplicity— three dots, three dashes, three dots.
4. Niagara Falls. The brink is receding about two and a half feet a year.
12. Shivering increases muscular action, thereby heightening the heat of
the body.
20. The "high seas" are those lying beyond the territorial bounds of any
nation. The word is used as in "highways" and means the chief seas belonging
to everybody.
Creative thinking points go to Craig, who said:
- 3) Firebird (unless it is in the shop)
- 8) Send our Sausages
- 4) The Republican Party
- 20) High Seas cuz the waves are high, right?
Bonus Question: What is the significance of the order of the questions above?
Answer: The questions were in alphabetical order. The numbers were the reference
to the order in the Reader's Digest book. So there. However, Gord said: "They all
have to do with water. Or light beer." And John thought it was a trick question "because
that's the order you decided." Nope.
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