Muppet Brainteasers

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1. Which Muppet comes next in this sequence? Fozzie, Statler, Scooter, Miss Piggy, Trash Heap..." Sam The Eagle Waldorf Gobo Fraggle Rizzo the Rat

2. In the opening sequence to "The Muppet Show", the number of Muppets you see onscreen progressively increases (you know, where they're all sitting in windows, singing "It's time to put on makeup"). If you start with two muppets, and the number of muppets is squared every second, how many muppets do you have after 5 seconds? 4294967296 65536 16 10 (if you don't count the elephant)

3. Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is carrying out one of his ill-fated experiments, while his assistant Beaker goes "Mimimimi" in the background. The Doctor puts 2 litres of explosive liquid into a 6 litre jar, adds twice that volume of green goo, and then adds some gravy (one quarter the volume of the goo). He then removes half the liquid and adds one litre of bubbling froth. Assuming it hasn't exploded, has the jar overflowed yet? Yes No

4. The Great Gonzo is sitting in a cannon in France, facing across the border into Germany. If the cannon fires him at an angle of 45 degrees, and his initial velocity is 45 miles per hour, is there any chance he will land on a trampoline 200 yards to the west? Yes No

5. Another sequence - what comes next? Sweetums, Oscar the Grouch, Nigel the Conductor, Dr. Teeth, Julius T. Strangepork, Fozzie, Miss Piggy ... Cookie Monster Bert Animal Ernie

6. "We fetch his shed" is an anagram of which muppet? Answer: (Three Words)

7. Fozzie has 3 jokes. The first joke he tells isn't funny, no matter how much he goes "Waca Waca Waca". Neither is the later joke about the pig. He tells the joke about the horse before the one about the surveyor. One of his jokes does manage a few faint laughs at the back of the room. Which is the funniest joke? The one about the surveyor The one about the pig The one about the horse It is not possible to tell

8. Cryptic crossword type clue: Fail to hit the Golding boy. Answer: (Two Words)

9. Now a riddle. My first is in rainbow, my second in through, my third is in boring, my fourth in caribou, my fifth is in pineapple, bingo and new, my whole is in Kermit's annoying nephew. Answer: (One Word)

10. All the vowels have been removed from the following list of muppets "swtmscrzyhrrysctrrwlfcmllthchcknbrgrdflydztlpsthmpptnwsrprtr" - if you add back in the vowels, how many muppets' names are there? 12 10 8 16