{"id":394,"date":"2007-06-26T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/06\/26\/wombats-and-trick-questions\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T00:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:17:01","slug":"wombats-and-trick-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/06\/26\/wombats-and-trick-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wombats and Trick Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a trivia question for you: In which direction does a wombat&#8217;s pouch point?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tricky question, but I learnt the answer from my uncle&#8217;s Australian version of Trivial Pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is: Halley&#8217;s Comet.<\/p>\n<p>No, it wasn&#8217;t a deliberate <a href=\"http:\/\/somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/02\/27\/a-hat-trick-of-trick-questions\/\">trick question<\/a>. It turns out about half a dozen of the cards were misprinted. The wrong answers sheet appear on the back of the questions!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the other Science and Nature question on the corresponding misprinted card was even worse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Q: What only appears every 76 years?<\/p>\n<p>A: The rear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a trivia question for you: In which direction does a wombat&#8217;s pouch point?<\/p>\n<p>The answer will surprise you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30,41],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-humour","category-story-telling","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}