Our Show 2006 - The Answers to the Gate Quiz!

The Winners of the Gate Quiz were Adrian, Joanne and Elliott Harris. Well done and thanks for the donation to our Charity.

1. What is at the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?
    Answer The letter E

2. What is the closest relation that your father’s sister’s sister-in-law could be to you?
    Answer Your Mother

3. A woman had two sons who were born in the same hour of the same day of the same year, but they were not twins. How could this be so?
    Answer They were two of a set of triplets

4. If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
    Answer The same 3 Cats. Since these are averaging one mouse per minute.

5. What are the next two letters in the following series? A E F H I K L M
    Answer N & T These are the next two letters composed of straight lines

6. If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been? 
    Answer 21 Most people would think there were 42 but when A shakes hands with B, B has shaken hands with A etc

7. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How can this be?
    Answer She lives in the Southern Hemispere

8. Professor Smart has two coins which total 30p. Since one of the coins is not 10p, what are the two coins?
    Answer A 20p and a 10p. One coin is not a 10p but the other one is

 9. In the ‘Everyday’ family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters are in the family?
    Answer There are four daughters and three sons

 
10. What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?
      Answer The word ‘AND’

11. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years.
      Answer The letter ‘M’

 12. Which one of the three would see most clearly in total darkness? A leopard, a bat or an owl?
      Answer None - In total darkness it is impossible to see anything

13. How would you rearrange the letters in the words new door to make one word? Note: there is only one correct answer.
      Answer One Word

14. There is a town in England where 5% of all the people living in the town have ex-directory phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from a town’s phone directory, on average, how many of these people selected would have ex-directory phone numbers?
       Answer None – you will not find ex-directory numbers in the phone book. 

15. If nine thousand, nine hundred and nine pounds is written as £9,909, how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred and twelve pounds be written?
      Answer It should be written as £13,212