Saffy's puzzling questions created a lot of interest, and a reader did not have to anser a particular question with precisely the answer given here, as long as the answer was also correct.

The winner was Maid Angela, who scored 7.5 marks. She rather cheekily suggested that Eve was recognisable because she was the only woman in Heaven; everybody else in Paradise being male. I wanted to dock her 5 marks, but Saffy overruled me on that suggestion. Saffy is probably right - otherwise I might have another typing pool strike, which will only give the 'Guardian' something to crow about.

Bob also scored very repectably with 6 marks.
Susan 

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?

Ans. He keeps ducks (or geese).

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?

Ans. Mount Everest. The discovery did not change the height.

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?

Ans. Mules. They are a cross between a horse and a donkey.

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?

Ans. She took home the man's empty champagne bottles after a party. She left them outside with her rubbish to impress the neighbours.

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 age 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?

Ans. Adam and Eve were the only people there without navels. Because they were not born, they had never had umbilical cords, and therfore lacked 'belly buttons'.

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?

Ans. Her husband was a stuntman. She had been watching him at work.

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?

Ans. The last person took the last egg, still in it's 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?

Ans. Two, one on each side.

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?

Ans. None. Eskimos live in the Arctic, penguins live near the Antarctic.

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

Ans. An ostrich!
Saffy