Mental Floss

1. If you multiply together the number of fingers on one person's right hand to another person's to another person's until you get the product of the fingers on the right hands of everyone in the world, what is the most likely product?   For instance, one person has 5 fingers, and his friend has 5 fingers. The product is 25. Another person with 5 fingers would make the product 125. This goes on until everyone's finger number is multiplied.  What's the answer? Estimate what the final product would be. ( Current world population is about 6.8 billion. Alert: MATH )
2. In a small town in the country, a male cow swallowed an explosive device. The town newspaper had a front page story about it.   Which one-word headline did they use?  * Shocking!  * How?  * Dangerous!  * Terrifying!  * Abominable!  * What?  * Horrible! 
3. Where do you leave a "place" by closing the window?  (On a _____.)
4. Wacky Wordy:  GWETORUSTD  (Hint: $)
5. Can you figure out the logic I used to decide the order of the following words?
   gun, shoe, spree, door, hive, kicks, heaven, gate, line, den
6. At noon, you look at the old-school clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the three and the four. What time is it?
7. What word is missing?   begin, inch, chapel, elastic, ___ ___ ___ ___, edge, gear, arched

Test #24
Doodle Theme: Pranks