A Christmas Annual would not be complete without a few brain-teasers to stump its young readers. And Saffy has prepared some really brill ones here.

Here are a few brainteasers to keep those brain cells active over the Christmas period! Be warned that some lateral thinking is involved. If you wish to take part, send your answers to susan@petticoated.com in time for the January issue, when the winner and correct answers will be published. In case of a tie Susan will draw the winner’s name randomly.
Saffy

1. Mr. Smith eats two eggs every day. He never buys any eggs, nobody gives him any, he doesn't steal them from anyone and he doesn't keep hens. Where does he get his eggs?

2. Mount Everest was first climbed in 1953, although it's location and height had been recorded long before that in 1841. What was the highest mountain before then?

3. Even if every one of these animals were to be destroyed, they still would not be extinct, but would reappear within a few months. What are they?

4. A cleaning woman asked the man she worked for if she could take home his empty bottles. When she got home she threw them out. Why did she do this?

5. A man died and went to heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and everyone looked as they did at 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone that he recognized. Suddenly, he saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?

6. A woman watched her husband plunge head first down a deep ravine. She returned home to find him in the kitchen, chopping onions! How is this possible?

7. On the table is a carton containing six eggs. If six people each take one egg, how can it be that one egg is left in the carton?

8. How many grooves are there on a long-playing record, 30 cm in diameter, with a 10cm label in the centre and a 1cm margin on the outside?

9. If the average Eskimo eats ten walruses in a lifetime, and one walrus is equivalent to five and a half penguins, how many penguins would he eat if he couldn’t get any walruses?

10. While travelling up the Amazon an explorer noticed an ostrich egg floating downstream. Where did it come from?