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1. What color is red?
2. What is the purpose of life?
3. If a tree falls in the woods and there's NOTHING around to hear it, does it make a sound?
4. When a person blind since birth dreams, do they see anything?
5. A person deaf from birth, when they dream do they hear things?

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1. What religion are you?
2. Can I have a dollar?
3. Why do you answer all these questions?
4. How do you answer all these questions?
5. How many questions have I asked you? I forget!
6. What's your bra size?
7. Will you guys print any old crap?
8. How many pieces of grass are on your front lawn?
9. On what date did you post the first Stump Me question?
10. Do you have a day job? If so, what is it? And how much do you make?
11. What is your favorite color?
12. How many licks does it take you, Glenn "Spot" Weintraub, to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop without biting it at any time?
13. Who is your favorite music band?
14. Because you are Jewish, what temple do you go to?
15. Who is your favorite Disney character?
16. Are you married?
17. How many times do you predict that you will be "Stumped" this year?
18. What do you think our country should do about the whole Sept. 11th attack?
19. Are you ever gonna make a compilation of your favorite Stump Me questions?
20. Has Mindless Crap ever won any awards?
21. Don't you get bored doing this day after day? Not meaning to be rude, but are you really rich or really unpopular?
22. What's your astrological sign?
23. Would you like a free sock?
24. Can I borrow $50,000?
25. Know any good jokes?
26. Where exactly on your site are the unanswered questions?
27. What question can I ask you that obeys your one rule will you never be able to answer?
28. How old are you?
29. What is your wife doing while you're answering all these questions?
30. Do you make this stuff up - the answers?
31. Are you religious?

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1. Why can't we eat meat on Good Friday?
2. How many times is God's name mentioned in the Bible?
3. What is the etymology of the word "Jehovah?"
4. What is the book of the devil?
5. What would I have to do to acquire the Codex Gigas, and how much it is valued at/worth?  (note: this is related to the Book of the Devil question listed above)
6. Why does God need followers?
7. Where is the original "Book of the Dead" located? Are there copies of it you can purchase at a local bookstore or online?
8. Can God make a rock so big that He cannot lift?
9. What is the point of worshipping Satan if the only knowledge of him is from the Bible where Jehova killed him and proved to be the true god?
10. If actual "Satanists" are people who just chose there own way of life and act as a more independent person rather than following a mainstream, why are they named after such a taboo character?  Is my idea of Satanists completely wrong?
11. What did Satan actually do?
12. Did the Catholic Church change the Sabbath Day from Saturday to Sunday? And if so when and by whom?
13. What was the largest secular building constructed during the 17th century?

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1. Do you think Adam and Eve had a belly button?
2. What was Jesus' middle name?
3. If Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth and the whole human race are their descendants, and since incest has now been proven to cause genetic mutations, why is the human race not a load of mentally deficient blobs?  Does this not prove that the bible is fiction?
4. If Adolf Hitler was the reincarnation of the same reincarnation as Osama Bin Laden, who is the original reincarnation of?
5. Why do monks take a vow of silence?

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1. What is more powerful than God, worse than the devil, and if you eat it you will die?
2. You can see 30,000 of these _____ in 30 minutes.
3. How many birthdays does the average man have?
4. What came first...the chicken or the egg?
5. Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son.  Who am I?
6. What is the only crime that will get you in prison if you attempt it, but if you succeed in committing the crime, you won't get punished?
7. Can a man living in Philadelphia be buried in New York?
8. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
9. The man who built it, sold it. The man who bought it, never used it. The man who used it, never saw it. What is "it"?
10. A man is in a building, rushing down a corridor, with a piece of paper in his hand.  All of a sudden the lights go off and then quickly back on again.  The man stops rushing and drops the piece of paper.  Who is the man and what did the piece of paper say?
11. What do you call a women with a washing machine on her head?
12. If a hen in a half, could lay an egg and a half, in a day in a half, how many eggs do they have?
13. Why was the number 6 afraid of the number 7?
14. 80% of us have done this...what?
15. What is big, red and eats rocks?
16. What do you throw away when you need it, but bring in when you don't?
17. You can buy 1 for five pence, 12 for ten pence, and 321 for fifteen pence. What is it?
18. Is there something that there can be less of, but weigh more?
19. What's the next line in the following sequence:
        1
        11
        21
        1211
        111221
        312211
        13112221
        1113213211
20. What has no content yet you are still able to see it?
21. Using 8 , 8 , 3 and 3, make 24. All four numbers MUST be used, and only standard math is allowed ( + , - , / , and multiply).
22. You peel off the outside and cook the inside then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
23. A man is walking through the forest when he comes upon a block of ice. In the block of ice is a frozen naked man. The man thinks to himself "that is Adam" (as in the biblical Adam) and is correct. How did he know?
24. If you give it air it will live. If you give it water it will die.  What is it?
25. There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".  ONE is angry and the other is hungry.  EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for.  EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word.  What is it? __gry?
26. Held in the hand it's round to the touch, take away half and it's worth twice as much.   NEW
27. The maker makes it, but never sees it.  You may buy it and see it only once.  What is it?
28. What gets bigger every time you cut the ends off?
29. Figure out what these numbers represent…..6-5, 5-4, 13.
30. It was tragic that Mr. Bigger got into an accident and he passed away leaving behind his wife and his son Mike. Mrs. Bigger subsequently met a new man, dashing and caring towards both of them. The best part was that this man bore the same surname as her ex-husband which was "BIGGER". She decided to marry him. The question: WHO IS BIGGER? Is it Mrs. Bigger, Mike Bigger, or the new man in Mrs. Bigger's life - the new Mr. Bigger?
31. If 2000=d, 2001=s, 2002=h, 2003=s, and 2004=m what does 2005=?
32. A certain 9-letter word may seem a bit deft, because it consists of a whole but you still have some left. Tell me what this word could be because it's all right here for you to see.   NEW

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1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2. If Peter Piper picked a patch of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
3. Why don't brown cows make chocolate milk?
4. Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
5. Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
6. Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
7. Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
8. Can fat people go skinny dipping?
9. If protons have mass , are they catholic?
10. Why is it that doctors call what they do a "practice"?
11. Why is the man who invests all of your money called a broker?
12. Why is it that to stop Windows 95 you have to click on "Start"?
13. Do you know the Muffin Man? you know, the one that lives on Baker Lane?
14. 80% of us have done this...what?
15. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
16. Why do drive up ATM's have Braille on them?
17. Why do we drive on a parkway, but we park on a driveway?  How did these two terms get mixed up?
18. Who do the insurance companies get there insurance from?
19. How does a blind man know when he's done wiping his ass?
20. Where do teaspoons, lighters, socks and other small necessities disappear to? And why do they only go missing when you need them desperately?
21. Why do people always ask when you are going to have children after their child misbehaves?
22. Why do people want to share bad smells and tastes?
23. Why do people have to tell you in graphic detail about their bowel movements?
24. What animal walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs during the day and 3 legs during the afternoon?
25. Will you really post this up?

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1. How long do the main engines on the space shuttle run during a typical launch?
2. Why can't rubbing alcohol make you drunk?
3. What is a calorie?
4. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
5. Which of these approaches is true and why?  1) Before a big competition, you should not have sex or masturbate days before the event because it builds testosterone in the body and makes your performance better; or 2) You should indulge in sexual activity as close to a sporting event as possible to be more relaxed and allow you to perform better.
6. What genetic differences distinguish a new species from a new breed? How different must the DNA be as a percent?
7. Why is the sky blue?
8. How many days are in a light year?
9. Why is it that we can see better (or, at least, think that we can) when we squint our eyes?
10. What is the metal/alloy with the highest melting point and what is the temperature at which it melts?
11. Why do the blades of a household fan always spin clockwise?
12. What could have other life forms evolved from besides carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and how would it affect them (i.e. what would it be to be a "human" in these other forms)?
13. Why are cells generally small?
14. How many water molecules fit in a volume of a milliliter or a teaspoon?
15. Does something weigh more if it's frozen?
16. What is a science question that I could use to stump my genius science teacher?
17. You have 12 ping pong balls, one of them is of a different weight. Using a balanced scale only 3 times, find the different weighted ball.
18. A doctor was quoted as saying “Cow dung is the time-tested and traditional cure for lightning-struck people. Had they not been covered with dung, the scene would have been different.''  Have you ever heard of this or why it may have worked?
19. It's been proposed to me that if someone falls/jumps from an extreme height, that he/she will die prior to hitting the ground. Is there any truth to this, and if so: 1) does it happen in every case, and 2) is there a certain height that this would occur?

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1. Which freezes faster...a cup of hot tea or cold water?
2. What makes the sound when you crack a whip?
3. What causes a sonic boom?
4. If you were inside a massive hollow sphere, in a perfect vacuum, with edges of uniform thickness, which direction would you go because of gravitational pull between you and the edge of the sphere?  (i.e. you are in a big sphere in the center of the earth).
5. What causes heat when an electron moves through a wire?
6. Is it true that if you put a wooden spoon over a boiling pot it will keep it from boiling over? If so, how does it work?
7. What happens if you are going the speed of light in your car and you turn your headlights on?
8. If your moving at the speed of light and went to sleep, could you get a full night's sleep or what?
9. If objects that fall a great height can injure us, why don't rain drops go through our heads when they hit us?
10. How come a ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber?
11. If I were to down some steroids, work out, and generally improve my physique, and I were to throw a cat weighing 5 pounds at one tenth the speed of light, how many cars weighing 2,500 pounds traveling at 55 mph would have an equal amount of kinetic energy according to classical physics?
12. An atom is composed of a nucleus surrounded by electrons, so here's my question: "If an electron was the size of a baseball, how far away from the nucleus would it be?"
13. What is the coriolis force?
14. I was looking at your "What happens if you are going the speed of light in your car and you turn your headlights on?" question. What would the scenario look like to someone who's reference point is outside the car?
15. What happens if you honk the horn in your car while traveling at the speed of sound?  Would there be any difference in what happens from the perspective of someone who was just within hearing distance of your car when this happened?

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1. If the moon shines because it is reflecting the sun, why can't we see the sun's rays hitting the moon?
2. The highest temperature in our solar system is found where?
3. A perfect sphere is floating around in space.  The inside surface of this huge globe is like a mirror.  Floating in the center is a man with only his space-suit and a flashlight.  It's so dark in there, so he turns on his flashlight.  What does he see?
4. How can you calculate the weight of the planet Earth using Hooke's Law?
5. Which way does a compass point in space?
6. How was the universe made?
7. If the sun were to die, how long would it be before we all die?
8. Why, when there is only one real source of light in the universe, does the moon appear to be universally lit, unlike other planets that have a highlighted area and the rest of the planet falling away into darkness?

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1. How many days old was Maurice Richard when he scored his first NHL goal?
2. What was the most three pointers scored by Manute Bol in one game?
3. Who is the only player in NHL history to score a goal in each period, including overtime?
4. Who scored the first ever goal in an NHL game?
5. Who scored 1,000th goal between 1930-1998 in the World Cup?
6. Who was the baseball player who played every position in one game?
7. Who was the first NHL player to use a curved blade on their sticks, and what was the year?
8. Who was a thirty game winner for the Detroit Tigers in 1968?
9. What baseball feat was pitcher John Lee Richmond the first to accomplish in 1880?
10. Who is the youngest player to be on an NBA championship team?
11. Which opponent dismissed Julio Cesar Chavez's undefeated boxing record (at the time) as being filled with "Tijuana cab drivers?"
12. Which Philadelphia player played for 3 different sports teams in the same year (baseball, basketball & football)?
13. Name two players form the national World Cup 2002 squads whose surnames are anagrams of each other?
14. How many tackles per year Jack Lambert had each year of his career?
15. In 1946, Herman Keiser won the Master's golf tournament.  Is he still alive, and if so, where does he reside?
16. What Dallas Cowboys player had the nickname "Bullwinkle?"
17. Is it true that George Foreman named all of his children "George?"

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1. What are the top ten (in order) winningest college football programs? What are their respective records?
2. What are the top five (in order) colleges with the most National Titles (football)?
3. Who has to longest college football winning streak? When?
4. Who in college football has to longest home winning streak?
5. Who in college football has to longest road winning streak?
6. What was the most lopsided victory in college football history?
7. Who was the first woman to score points in a Division I college football game?
8. What were the most points ever scored in a college football game?
9. What is the record longest field goal in a college football game?
10. What is the longest recorded college football game? Who played it, and what was the final score?
11. When was Pegasus, the Oxford and Cambridge University football club, disbanded?
12. Why is Stanford's mascot named The Cardinal, but they have a tree logo and costume?
13. What is the only top 20 ranked team that Bear Bryant never beat?
14. What is the oldest American college sport still in existence?
15. Can you name seven Division 1 schools whose team nicknames do not contain a color or an "s" in their name?

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1. Who first invented basketball?
2. Why is a boxing ring square?
3. Where has The Little League World Series been played every year for 55 years?
4. Why are tennis balls bright green?
5. What sporting event lasts only 2 minutes and is viewed by millions every year?
6. In sporting / motor racing terms, where does the phrase "pole position" originate from?
7. In baseball, name all the ways a batter can get to first base without getting a hit.
8. Is cheerleading a sport?
9. What city became home to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939?
10. What was the shortest professional baseball game, where was it played, what was the score, and, who was the 15 year old bat boy?
11. If conjoined twins played football or any sport, would they count as one or two players?
12. What is a dime package in football? How does it differ from the nickel package?
13. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.  What is it?
14. In baseball, can a hitter switch sides of the plate in the middle of an at bat?

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1. How many years is it Since Rotherham United last beat Chesterfield?
2. Can you tell me who was the UK champion flat racing jockey in 1942 please?
3. Why is Leeds United's nickname the peacocks?
4. What did Gloucestershire CCC ban members from doing in 2003?
5. Up to the end of last season, who was the youngest ever player to appear in the F.A. Premier League?
6. What have David Beckham, Marcus Trescothick and Shane Warne all got in common?
7. Why did the ancient Greeks participate in the Olympics naked?

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1. Which teams changed leagues from the NFL to what became the AFC? When did the transition take place?
2. The American Football League and National Football League played preseason games from 1967-1969. Can you tell me which league won the most games in these encounters?
3. How many spots does an NBA basketball have?
4. When did the NHL stop using square/cuboid pucks?
5. When did the NHL stop using wooden pucks?
6. Can you tell me the NFL record for the longest field goal?
7. In what year did regular season inter-league play begin?
8. Whose award goes to a player who best combines outstanding skills on the baseball field with civic responsibility?
9. The NBA officially began in 1949. Which original owner held the longest tenure and where was that team located upon the league's inception?
10. What is the shortest game played in the NFL in real time (from kickoff until final buzzer)?

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1. Where did the Los Angeles Lakers get their name?
2. Do you know where the name Lakers came from originally?
3. How come the Dolphins can't beat the Jets?
4. Which NFL team had the first mascot?  What was the mascot's Name?
5. What was the Logo of the Louisville Rebels?  I have been trying to get hold of a description or picture of the Louisville Rebels Pro IHL Hockey team of 1956-60.
6. What does the New Orleans Saints helmet logo mean?   NEW
7. Why do the Dallas Cowboys and The Detroit Lions always play on Thanksgiving?

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