{"id":10365,"date":"2015-03-05T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=10365"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:05","slug":"the-easy-does-it-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2015\/03\/the-easy-does-it-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easy-Does-It Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 100 Billionth Person presents The Easy-Does-It Quiz.\u00a0 Answer these questions for a chance to win — get ready — 100 billion dollars!\u00a0 That’s right, you can be worth more than Bill Gates<\/a> if you answer these easy-does-it questions.\u00a0 No annoying Will Shortz puzzles.\u00a0 No ridiculous Survivor<\/em>-style challenges.\u00a0 Just a few easy-does-it questions and you can be on your way to winning 100 billion dollars!\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Here we go.<\/p>\n

(Warning: these easy questions get a little tougher as we go along, so be prepared.)<\/p>\n

1. Remove one letter from DOWNTOWN ABBEY, a massive church in the middle of a city,\u00a0 to obtain the name of a popular British soap opera, without rearranging any other letters.<\/p>\n

2. Remove one letter from CROWBOY, the famous Nova Scotia science-fiction character, to obtain the name of the traditional hero of the 19th-century American West, without rearranging any other letters.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Remove one letter from GEORGE W BLUSH, a man who is easily embarassed, to obtain the name of a famous man who was not embarassed at all by his incompetent and arrogant presidency.\u00a0 Without rearranging any other letters.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Remove one letter from SKYDIVER, an insane man who jumps out of an airplane and hopes that his parachute works, to obtain the name of the insane man who jumped out and his parachute didn’t work.\u00a0 Without rearranging any other letters.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Remove one letter from BROKER, a man who promises to make you rich if you buy the stocks he recommends, to obtain the word that may describe your financial situation after you follow his advice.\u00a0 Without rearranging any other letters.<\/p>\n

6. Remove one letter from REMOTE, the device we use to control entertainment devices, to obtain what we should be doing instead of sitting on our asses hoping to be entertained.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Remove one letter from JEEESUS, without rearranging any other letters.\u00a0 Now remove another letter, and another, and one more, to obtain the name of an extra-wide shoe.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Remove one letter from HOKEY-POKEY.\u00a0 Now put it back in.\u00a0 Now take it back out.\u00a0 Shake it all about, then turn yourself around, to obtain what it’s all about.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Remove one letter from MIN, to obtain the postal abbreviation for one of the states of the United States, without rearranging any other letters.\u00a0 Since you are so smart and such a special friend, I know you will get this question right.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Remove one letter from my MAILBOX and see if you get arrested.<\/p>\n

If you think you have the correct answers to all ten questions, just follow these easy-does-it instructions to get your 100 billion dollars!\u00a0 Write your answers on an 8″ x 11″ sheet of plain white paper, then scan the sheet, convert it to a PDF file and send the PDF file as an attachment to an ASCII text message to Bill Gates @gatesfoundation. (Important!\u00a0 Make sure your message is no longer than 140 characters, otherwise it will crash his computer.)\u00a0 If Bill Gates reads your message and thinks that you really need help, he may decide to send you 100 billion dollars!\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n

No need to thank me.\u00a0 There’s no END in FRIEND here at The 100 Billionth Person.\u00a0 Oops… well, there is, isn’t there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 100 Billionth Person presents The Easy-Does-It Quiz.\u00a0 Answer these questions for a chance to win — get ready — 100 billion dollars!\u00a0 That’s right, you can be worth more than Bill Gates if you answer these easy-does-it questions.\u00a0 No … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}