Tricky questions /riddles

Sure! :)

NEW BATCH - Some easy ones.

1. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

2. If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first?

3. Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?

4. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

5. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days; how many have 28?

6. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

7. Take off my skin -- I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

8. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh?

9. What can you catch but not throw?

10. What crime is punishable if attempted, but is not punishable if committed?

1. Rooter doesn't lay eggs
2. Match
3. Yep! $100 is better than $1 (but only if you are receiving, not giving) :-)
5. All
6. Size of holes
7. A)Onion b) a hissing Cobra :-)
8. Meat
9. Cold
10. Suicide

Cake cutting question

1st cut = Diameter
2nd cut = 4 quadrants (by disecting the diameter)
3rd cut = cut across the side of the cake (cross section). Voila! You have 8 equal pieces

Gunther...1
You are unconditionally correct for cake
problem as
Piece of cake... 1

Guess still FUSES problem left ???


Cheers !!!

Fuse problem:

Light the slow burning end and let it burn 4/5 of the way from the center. That should take 40 mins.
Now light the fast burning end and let it burn halfway from the original midpoint. That should take 5 minutes.

I think the same puzzle was posted in some other thread.

Hi MV..
I didnt know it was posted earler...

Anyway...i am afraid its not the answer.

you cant predict which end of fuse is slow burning or fast one...I gave that 50-10 to illustarte that All fuses are UNuniform in thinckness along the length and wont burn predictably along intervals.
Only thing one knows is that each of the fuses burns for exactly for an hour.

Okay..

I have a number of fuses - good. Randomize their orientation, to make sure that all slow burning ends are NOT lined up the same way. Ideally we want half of them lined up in opposite orientation.

Mark the set at 1/4th intervals.

Next light up the suckers at one end - say left - so the fire of the buring fuses advances from left to right.

One half of the set would reach the 3/4th mark in
~ 45 minutes and the other half of the set would not have reached even the half way mark.

So, wait for one half (roughly) of the set to reach the 3/4th mark.

Kelvi Nayagan's riddles.

**No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
>>>> Silence.
All others answered by 'piece of cake'.

Good Shekar.
Also "secret"

Let Senthil wrap up his questions before I post a fresh set.