Faculty Development Initiative

The maker of this item doesn’t need it. The person who uses this item can neither see nor feel it. What is the item?

• A hat

• A coffin

• A book

• A chair

Billy’s mother had three children. The first child’s name was April. The second child’s name was May. What was the third child’s name?

• June

• Billy

• July

• August

An employee at the butcher shop stands six foot two inches tall and wears size 12 sneakers. What does he weigh?

• 180 pounds

• 200 pounds

• Meat

• Vegetables

A plane takes off from JFK Airport in New York. An intense storm develops causing the plane to crash. Half of the plane lands in Canada and half in New York. In which country do you bury the survivors?

• Canada

• New York

• You don’t bury survivors

• Both countries

What can travel anywhere in the world while staying in a corner?

• A stamp

• A letter

• A postcard

• A map

Which word in the English language is always spelled wrong?

• Incorrect

• Wrong

• Misspelled

• Mistake

What unique trait do all of these words have in common: banana, revive, voodoo, grammar, uneven, potato, assess, dresser?

• They all have double letters

• They all start with a vowel

• If you remove the first letter, you still have a valid word

• They all end with a vowel

A man dressed entirely in black and wearing a black mask is standing in the middle of a crossroad. All of the streetlights at the intersection are broken. A car speeds down the road heading straight for the man yet it turns in time and doesn't hit him. How does it manage to miss him?

• The driver saw him

• The man moved

• It’s daytime

• The car stopped

A woman who assists in childbirth is called a:

• Nurse

• Doctor

• Midwife

• Surgeon

This part of the brain is responsible for passing messages from the spinal cord to the brain (2 words):

• Cerebral Cortex

• Medulla Oblongata

• Hippocampus

• Thalamus