Correct grammer

[kelfoan]

Which is the correct grammer

"The yoke of an egg IS white" or "The yoke of an egg ARE white"?

[Clanad]

Neither... "The yolk of an egg is yellow"... unless the egg is a double yolked egg, in which case it would be "The yolks of the egg are yellow"...

[kelfoan]

Nice to see someone is 'on the ball'. Must admit I fell for it when asked the question!

[andy-hughes]

Try this one -

ask your subject to say the word spelled 's-i-l-k'

When they have done so, ask them to repeat the word 'silk' five times, slowly.

Then ask them what cows drink ...

Nineteen out of twenty will say 'milk', but of course, as you smugly point out, cows drink water!

[spacechimp]

Calves drink milk.

[andy-hughes]

They do, so do babies, but that's not the question you ask either!

[bernardo]

The correct answer to your question is "IS is correct, because the yolk is singular". The statement "The yolk of an egg is white" is grammatically correct (which is what you asked) and factually incorrect (which is irrelevant, because it is not what you asked). Therefore Clanad's answer was incorrect, and your comment on clanad's answer is therefore misguided. If you want to play a trick on people, then you should have asked "Which is correct...?" instead of "Which is the correct grammar...?".

[Lonnie]

We used to do these years ago, try this one.

Your out walking, and you come accross a Lily pond, there are Lily pads covering the entire surfacee of the pond, and dead in the centre on a Lily pad is a Frog. How many jumps do you think it would take to get to the side?.

[andy-hughes]

The frog can't jump - as you advised, it's dead.

Try this - a pond lilly doubles its size every day. On the fiftyth day, the lilly totally covers the surface of the pond. On what did did it cover half the area of the pond?

[spacechimp]

Was it on the fifth day that it came to cover the whole surface of the pond? Or did it cover the whole surface of the pond on a day prior to the fifth?

[mandele-lcc]

the pond was half covered by the lily pad on the 49th day then doubled its size to completely cover the pond on the 50th day.

[spacechimp]

Was it the surface area which doubled in size every day or the lily pad as a whole? Do we need to account for water displacement caused by the added volume of the lilly pad?

[Bert]

I can't remember seeing so many spelling mistakes in such a short question on Answerbank before. Well done, kelfoan!

[spacechimp]

There are only 2, each repeated twice. Bert's mean.

[jenstar]

Of course a dead frog can jump. Have you never heard of faradism?

[Kuolema Nox]

Well, they're repeated once and stated twice.

[Azimov]

Similar to the "dead frog" question, is the "Eleven Sheep in a field" trick.
It doesn't work as written but when you say it aloud, all becomes clear:

Q. Eleven sheep in a field, the farmer removes one, how many are left?
A. None!

When met with the expected blank stare, repeat the question but stress the following pronunciation...

Q. A living sheep in a field... etc