Easy questions people get wrong

[BeatOnRiver]

What are some questions that seem easy, but people seem to get wrong?

I have one that i have asked over 20 college students and none of them have gotten it right, If you are running a race that you have not been lapped in, and you pass the person in 2nd place, what place are you in? The only person that got this right is my mother lol

[private joker]

2nd place, right? Am I missing something?

[JasonK]

2nd.

[Aloysius]

Where do you go to college?

-Al

[BeatOnRiver]

st johns and everyone says 1st for some reason, i dont understand how stupid these people are, does anyone have any questions like this that seem simple but for some reason people get them wrong?

[milliondollaz]

On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?

crapola people send me at work

[pkr2k5]

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On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?

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this is a bad example. i'd say a large % of people dont pay close enough attention to our flag to give a [censored] which stripe comes first.

unfortunately, this thread will be full of similar examples

[doucy]

A fair number of people seem to forget that Alaska is bigger than Texas.

[NSchandler]

When I was younger everybody seemed to get wrong "which is heavier, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?"

[KOTLP]

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...02&lb=brusc