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Well, the dude is 65 now. Three years later he’ll be 68. He then gets into the machine and comes out as 89. He waits for two more years when he becomes 91. Enters the machine again, and BAM!

Sure, the hare won hands down, but what if his antagonist had not slumbered off in the meantime?

A newly invented time machine is such that if a person steps into it, the machine takes his or her age in years and turns it upside-down.

So we all saw this horror film without acknow-ledging the others’ existence on Earth and walked back to our real worlds the next day as if nothing had happened.

Anyway, the 12 given below require neither Ludwig Wittgenstein’s wig nor Stephen Haw-king’s hawk. They’re kind of way, way on the middle high ground. In other words, I expect at least one or two people to get at least 90 per cent correct, if not hit a hot hunner.

Two extremely common words like ‘oblige’ and ‘month’ have no rhyming words (unless you lisp and say, “I go to the dentist onth a month”).

The question is, is this system more, less stable than normal cycling or about the same as normal cycling?

Okay now, want to know an amazing thing about your body which they didn’t teach you at Harvard Med? No? Too bad. The strongest muscle in your mainframe is the long lonely length along the leg’s calf.

Now if you don’t have any other means of telling time, what is the most accurate method you can use to determine when exactly 45 minutes have passed, given that you can only utilise one string at a time?