Recently there arrived a set of 25 ques­tions in our e-​​mail inbox. They are ques­tions about things we see every day, or have known about all our lives. Appar­ently, though, the aver­age per­son gets only seven right answers out of the twenty-​​five.

We have divided the batch into smaller batches. In this and each of the next four elec­tronic newslet­ters from SRI at Home, we will present you with five ques­tions to test your­self with. The cor­rect answers are posted on our website.

Be warned, this can be more dif­fi­cult than it looks. Put your think­ing caps on, and don’t cheat by look­ing around or using any­thing on your desk.

1. On a stan­dard traf­fic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

2. How many states are there in the USA ? (Don’t laugh, some peo­ple don’t know)

3. In which hand is the Statue of Lib­erty ‘s torch?

4. What six col­ors are on the clas­sic Camp­bell ‘s soup label?

5. What two num­bers on the tele­phone dial don’t have let­ters by them?

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ANSWERS

1. On a stan­dard traf­fic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

Bot­tom

2. How many states are there in the USA ?

50

3. In which hand is the Statue of Lib­erty ‘s torch?

Right

4. What six col­ors are on the clas­sic Camp­bell ‘s soup label?

Blue, red, white, yel­low, black & gold

5. What two num­bers on the tele­phone dial don’t have let­ters by them?

1 & 0