ROMAN NUMERALS I

1. What Roman numeral can climb a wall?

The students in the alternative learning center have tied their teacher up on a tabletop which rests on the letters XL.

2. How old is the teacher?
3. How do you know the teacher is going to succeed?

4)
150, when joined to a tree,
Makes a fine garment that warms you and me.

5. Remembering that L = 50, solve this rebus: LS

HINT:
5)
200 colleges I have seen,
Of national parks, at least 15;
And of the LS 44,
And hope I live to see 6 more.

Answers:

1. IV (ivy) --- see below for interesting historical note
2. He's over 40 (XL)
3. He's bound to excel.
4. CLOAK
5. Fifty capitals (50 capital S)

Note: The so-called Ivy League schools were originally the IV (4) schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia.