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ANSWER TO “HOW
______
GOT TO JAPAN”
(
page 320
)

The answer is…sausage. Jahn and his fellow prisoners were sausage makers, and Yoshifusa was a government engineer experimenting with new ways to process meat. The photos show the prisoners slaughtering, butchering, and smoking pigs, and then stuffing the minced pork into pig intestines. Sausage making is an especially effective way of preserving meat without refrigeration, and Japanese meat processors eagerly adopted it—which is why there are still sausage and hot dog stands all over Japan today. We probably (we hope) fooled you, because Tsingtao is a fairly well-known brand of Chinese beer—and the Germans are, of course, expert beer makers. But beer had actually been in Japan since the 1870s, when Dutch traders first introduced it.

There’s enough electricity in a single lightning bolt to power 10,000 electric chairs.

ANSWER PAGES

OL’ JAYBEARD AND BRIAN

(Answers for
page 166
)

1
.
Ol’ Jaybeard placed the
Bathroom Reader
on the floor up against the wall in a corner of the room.

2
.
Each word contains three consecutive letters as they appear in the alphabet:
hij
ack, cou
ghi
ng, a
stu
te, wo
rst, def
ine.

3
.
41 cents. Ol Jaybeard was holding four coins, one of each denomination.

4
.
“World Wide Web” has three syllables, whereas “WWW” has nine.

5
.
The password is the amount of letters in the spelled-out number that Ol’ Jaybeard said, so the password for “8” was “5.”

6
.
It was daytime.

7
.
1,687.

8
.
Brian knows that the odd pages of a book are on the right-facing pages, and the evens are on the left, so there’s no way Ol’ Jaybeard could have hidden the cash between pages 57 and 58 because they are on the opposite sides of the same sheet of paper.

9
.
SNOWING

SOWING

SWING

SING

SIN

10
.
Ol’ Jaybeard sold seven eggs that day. Here’s how it worked out: He sold four eggs to the first customer, which was three-and-a-half—or half of seven—plus one-half. That left him with three eggs, so he sold two to the next customer: one-and-one-half plus one-half equals two. That left him with one egg. Half of that plus one-half equals one.

It figures: Soda drinkers have more CO
₂in their farts than non-soda drinkers.

MISSING LINKS WORD GAME

(Answers for
page 246
)

ANSWERS TO #1

1
.
Days;
2
.
Star;
3
.
Run;
4
.
Hot;
5
.
House;
6
.
Ear;
7
.
Sea

BONUS:
Dog

ANSWERS TO #2

1
.
Whistle;
2
.
Sign;
3
.
Pit:
4
.
Short;
5
.
Light;
6
.
By;
7
.
Loss

BONUS:
Stop

PORTMANTEAU MOVIE QUIZ

(Answers for
page 308
)

1
.
Red Dawn
(1984) +
Dawn of the Dead
(1978) =
Red Dawn of the Dead

2
.
Up in the Air
(2009) +
Air Bud
(1997) =
Up in the Air Bud

3
.
American Beauty
(1999) +
Beauty and the Beast
(1991) =
American Beauty and the Beast

4
.
Iron Man
(2008) +
Man of La Mancha
(1972) =
Iron Man of La Mancha

5
.
Little Miss Sunshine
(2006) +
Sunshine Cleaning
(2008) =
Little Miss Sunshine Cleaning

6
.
Kill Bill
(2003) +
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
(1989) =
Kill Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

7
.
District 9
(2009) +
9 1/2 Weeks
(1986) =
District 9 1/2 Weeks

8
.
Freaky Friday
(2003) +
Friday the 13th
(1979) =
Freaky Friday the 13th

9
.
That Thing You Do!
(1996) +
Do the Right Thing
(1989) =
That Thing You Do the Right Thing

10
.
There’s Something About Mary
(1998) +
Mary Poppins
(1964) =
There’s Something About Mary Poppins

11
.
300
(2007) +
101 Dalmatians
(1961) =
301 Dalmatians

It takes 300 gallons of water to produce a loaf of bread. A pound of beef: 3,500 gallons.

BONUS:
The Godfather
(1972) +
Father of the Bride
(1950) +
Bride of Frankenstein
(1935) =
The Godfather of the Bride of Frankenstein

THE NANNY STATE QUIZ

(Answers for
page 338
)

1
.
b)
The tombstone program was halted in 2009, in part because the taxpayer-funded topple-testing made cemeteries
more
hazardous, not less. “If you look at the cemetery now, it’s in a dangerous state with all the stakes stuck out for people to trip over,” said Mavis Fields, whose husband’s marker was damaged by topple-testing.

2
.
a)
The fine was proposed as a means of saving gas and reducing air pollution, but the idea was abandoned in the face of vehement public opposition and fears that it would increase traffic and air pollution. “The danger of everyone switching off in a jam is that some may not start up again,” says a spokesman for the British Automobile Association.

3
.
b)
“The average shoplifter makes off with £149 worth of goods every time they steal. It is nonsense to think a repeat offender is going to be put off by an £80 fine,” complained Kevin Hawkins, a spokesperson for an association of U.K. retailers. “It’s a license to walk into shops and take things.”

4
.
a)
According to the council, the splashing of raindrops clouds the surface of the water, making it harder for lifeguards to spot anyone drowning at the bottom of the pool. “It was difficult to believe what I was hearing,” one swimmer told the
Daily Mail
newspaper. “The idea that it could be too wet to swim seems almost incredible, but that was what they were actually saying.”

5
.
c)
Cans are weighed as they are lifted into garbage trucks; the information is collected in a database that lets officials monitor whether households are recycling.

6
.
c)
In the U.K., the legal drinking age for alcohol consumed in the home is five years of age. “Health department officials point out that current guidance on safe drinking levels exist only for
those over 18. They argue that this is a gap which is a cause for concern,”
The Independent
newspaper reported in 2008. “The Government is also reviewing whether the current age at which it is legal to drink should remain at five.”

The
Old Farmer’s Almanac
has a 60% accuracy rate for its weather predictions.

7
.
b)
The U.K.’s National Health Service spends £1 billion treating obesity related diseases each year. But health experts warn the program could encourage yo-yo dieting, which increases the risk of heart attack and stroke and may actually
increase
health costs. The plan has also been criticized for consuming the resources of an already overburdened NHS. “When people who are ill through no fault of their own are struggling to get appointments and drugs, it is unfair for money to be allocated to people who simply need to choose to exercise more and eat less,” says Mark Wallace, a spokesperson for a British taxpayer watchdog group.

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