Wrong Answer Game

A: It's the Coriolis effect  influencing everything to go counter-clockwise. In the southern hemisphere, the opposite would be true, but faucets were invented in the northern hemisphere.

Q: Do bats fly into people's hair, and if they do, why would they?

coluber - Q: Do bats fly into people's hair, and if they do, why would they?

A: Pheromones! Fruit-scented shampoos are the bane of a bat's life!

Q: Who decided the height and depth of steps? *

*A standard stair has 11″ treads and 7″ risers (29.94cm X 17.78cm)

Q: Who decided the height and depth of steps? *
*A standard stair has 11″ treads and 7″ risers (29.94cm X 17.78cm)

A: A boy had a slinky that would only work going down stairs with those exact dimensions. His father was a carpenter, and he rose to the occasion and started the standardized riser/tread trend.

Q: Why did people become hairless? A sasquatch named Little Bigfoot wants to know.

coluber - Q: Why did people become hairless? A Sasquatch named Little Bigfoot wants to know.

A: This was the only means of preventing inter-species breeding! Mother Nature knew that her cave-dwelling people kept certain animals in the cave with them for safety... in the darkness of the cave (in the days before interior lighting) people would reach for their mate and enter whatever came to hand... this resulted in some grotesque relatives... MN decided to have her cave people shed their hair so that the enterer would know at a feel whether it was animal or cave person... unfortunately, some of her cave people enjoyed mating with animals and the end result, after many generations, is one Tonald Drump! You may advise Little Bigfoot that he need fear no relation to said Drump, but rather, he descends from a long line of fine Bigfoots

Q: Is it true that a recently deceased person's hair and fingernails continue to grow after death? If so, why?

Q: Is it true that a recently deceased person's hair and fingernails continue to grow after death? If so, why?

A: Back in the old, old days, people were often buried in shallow graves to keep the animals from having a meal. Being buried alive was not uncommon because of undetected comas and traumas that mimicked death. Fortunately, the fingernails kept growing so the person waking from the coma could dig himself out. That led to the myth of the dead arising from their graves with long fingernails and shaggy hair.

Q: Militaries often demand that their soldier's hair is short. Do they make better fighters?

True. The myth where Samson gets his strength from his long hair is fake news perpetuated by big shampoo/conditioner. Short haired soldiers spend less time worrying about where they can get their supply of $250 an ounce luxury shampoos and conditioners and more time killing people with much longer hair then their own.
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Q. Why do so many elderly women over 65 years old or older have candy bowls overflowing with stale hard candy?

Stepan - Q. Why do so many elderly women over 65 years old or older have candy bowls overflowing with stale hard candy?

A: This comes about because these termagants have come to realise they have lost their physical power, and now must rely on their vicious tongues to rule the unfortunates who come into their homes... enter little Mary, who immediately espies the bowl of candy and reaches out to take one... no "Please may I" or "Can I have one of those"... Grandmama doesn't raise her voice, but the vitriol contained in a single hissed "NO" reinforces her mental state and raises her self-esteem... these bowls and their contents are discussed and analysed, and hints and preferences are passed around among them (the termagants) at their weekly card-evenings

Q: What was Little Red Riding Hood's horse's name?

Q: What was Little Red Riding Hood's horse's name?

A: In the original fairy tale, there was no mention of a riding hood. It should have been translated as little red hat, but there it is fancified in English. She probably never had a horse except for a hobby horse, if that. It's also worthwhile noting that this little girl was walking through the woods that was the habitat of highly predatory wolves, and her parents were probably too poor for her to have a horse or a nanny. At least she should have had a dog named Red Roverto protect her.

Q: Fairy tales were messages and admonitions to the young people. So what was the message of, "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe who had so many children she didn't know what to do."

coluber - Q: Fairy tales were messages and admonitions to the young people. So what was the message of, "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe who had so many children she didn't know what to do."

A: This is a message to young people (especially young girls) about the pitfalls of vanity! We all know females who try to squeeze their feet into too-small shoes! Vanity! Vanity! Thy name is woman! - Had the old woman not been so vain she would have bought a larger shoe to live in, and then the 'so many children' would have had more room to rampage in! What this fairy tales DOES NOT mention is that Old Mother Hubbard lived next door; two old termagants living next door to each other! And what does that conjure? Bowls of rock-hard candy, but no food!

Q: When bakers are finished mixing the ingredients for bread, they put the mixture aside to 'prove' - Prove what?????

Q: When bakers are finished mixing the ingredients for bread, they put the mixture aside to 'prove' - Prove what?????

A: Prove that they can rise to the occasion.

Q: Is it possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps?

coluber - Q: Is it possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps?

A: No. Not unless you are nano-sized! The word 'bootstrap' has come to mean the program a computer uses when first switched on, to load any other programs the computer needs... hence 'booting up' the computer. However, through diligent effort and concentration, this Dant has, in the past, pulled himself out by his bootstraps after waking up feet-first in a muddy ditch

Q: Why are bananas curved?

Question: Why are bananas curved?

Answer: Because if they weren't, they'd be straight, and then they wouldn't be bananas because banana's are curved.

Question: Why don't people ever name their dog Steve?

Q: Why don't people ever name their dog Steve?

A: Because Steve is a door, not a dog. Stevedore, not stevedog.

Q: Why do dogs like people more than cats like people?

coluber - Q: Why do dogs like people more than cats like people?

A: Because dogs, like humans, are pack animals; they like to be in a group and they like being told what to do... Cats, on the other hand, are aliens; their sole purpose of existence is to take over the World and they do it one human at a time

Q: When Melon Tusk gets his village on Mars, who will be President of that place?

Q: When Melon Tusk gets his village on Mars, who will be President of that place?

A: The Great Orange One comes to mind. We could entitle him Grand Perpetual President and Generalissimo of the Solar System.

Q: What's the main obstacle to establishing a moon base?

coluber - Q: What's the main obstacle to establishing a moon base?

A: Land Title

Q: The pages in a book are called (right) Recto and the left Verso - Why aren't they called 'Right' and 'Left'?

Q: The pages in a book are called (right) Recto and the left Verso - Why aren't they called 'Right' and 'Left'?

A: What is confusing to us is less confusing to book manufacturers especially since they may print Chinese texts where it's reversed. And I'm already confused.

Q: Why do owls have faces?

coluber - Q: Why do owls have faces?

A: So they can be pictured on clocks

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Q: I have never seen a Unicorn in the wild! Why is this?

Q: I have never seen a Unicorn in the wild! Why is this?

A: They are behind you just barely outside your field of vision. Even if you turn your head quickly, they're perfectly synchronized to avoid your gaze. Strangely enough, you can't see a unicorn behind somebody else because it seems to be a totally subjective experience.

Q: Why do flying fish fly?

coluber - Q: Why do flying fish fly?

A: It's quicker! Trains take forever and even big fish have trouble driving

Q: If I use a mirror, will I be able to see a Unicorn behind me?