FOUR RIDDLES

1. Why did the student fail his geology class?
2. If Betsy Ross were living today, what would she be most noted for?
3. What can be dropped, but may or may not be not picked up?
4. A box has nine ears of corn in it. A squirrel carries out three ears a day, but it takes him nine days to carry out all the corn. How is this explained?

Answers:

1. He took everything for granite. 
2. Living to be 240 years old
3. A hint
4. The squirrel carries out one ear of corn each day, plus his own two ears.

Credit: #2: GAMES Magazine - June 1992
Dr. Quizzler aka John Henry Cutler