1. Which cheese is made backward?
Edam.

2. It is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it,
the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die. What is it?
Nothing.

3. Assume that penguins live with a density of 1,000 penguins per square mile and can run at an average speed of 7 miles per hour on land and swim at 20 miles per hour. Also assume that a polar bear has a territory of 10 square miles, can run at 25 miles per hour and swim at 10 miles per hour, how many penguins will an average polar bear eat in any given month, remembering that a polar bear could, as a maximum, only eat one penguin per hour and 7% of the land is next to the sea.
Zero. Polar bears live at the North Pole; penguins live at the South Pole.

4. Forward I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I? TON.

5. Here's a very famous quotation with all the spaces and vowels removed. What is the quotation? We've provided two punctuation marks to help you figure it out.

TRRSHMN;TFRGVDVN.
To err is human; to forgive divine.

6. Harry, the happy hippo, happily hopped from the hippo hospital. How many h's are in this sentence?
One.

7. Complete the word inside the brackets that means the same as the words outside the brackets.

REAR [S_______ ] SEVERE

STERN

SCORING:
6-7 right: Excellent.
4-5: No bad.
> 4: Ho-hum.

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