Bored during a long flight, an eminent scholar leaned over and woke up
the man sleeping next to him to ask if he would like to play a game.
"I'll ask you a question," he explained. "If you don't know the answer,
you pay me $5. But if I don't know the answer to your question I'll pay
you $50."
When the man agreed to play, the scholar asked, "What's the distance
from the earth to the moon?" Flummoxed, the man gave him the $5. "Ha!"
said the scholar. "It's 400 000 kilometres. Now it's your turn."
The man was silent for a few moments and then asked, "What goes up a
hill with three legs and comes down with four?"
The academic racked his brains for half an hour, and finally handed over
his $50. "Okay, okay, what is the answer?" he asked.
The man said, "I don't know," handed him a $5 bill and went back to sleep.
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