The excellent Eric Crampton writes to me:
If you find any more, let me know. Ones I've found so far:
What is the meaning of life?
What is the velocity of an unladen swallow?
How many roads must a man walk down?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
He blogged this experience, along with the answers he got, here. WolframAlpha also tells us that angels have no extension and therefore an infinite number of them can dance on the head of a pin.
Sadly, it cannot tell us how long Catiline will abuse our patience. But so far this is pretty funny.
Who didn’t see that 42 would be the answer?
who let the dogs out is still one of life’s great unsolved mysteries
Where is John Connor?
Kind of scary!
I asked it: “How old are you?”
It answered: “2.677 days”
Is self awareness a sign of life?
Its answer to “Who is John Galt?” is disappointing.
Dan,
Also, 1.21 gigawatts: power required to operate the flux capacitor in the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine
http://www77.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.21+gigawatts+
what is the speed of dark? ( i know I know–both a book title about Asperger’s and a one-liner by the sardonic comedian whose name escapes me…
Also: “How are you?”
How high is up?
No answer to the following:
“Why do birds suddenly appear every time you draw near?”
Nor to this, which should surely be easy:
“Is the Pope Catholic?”
And I wasn’t expecting this:
“What is the secret of happiness?”
couldna answer: “what is the answer to this question?”
Should I be concerned that it doesn’t appear to know or care whether it’s GDP estimates are real or nominal?
Apparently Waldo is in Maine. http://www40.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=where%27s+waldo%3F
Where’s Waldo?
Now I know
‘How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?’ Answer: 3.
http://www73.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+licks+does+it+take+to+get+to+the+center+of+a+Tootsie+pop%3F
Why did the frog jump into the old pond anyway?
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Robert Scarth, the NFL is also the 5th or so entry when you type football in google.
It (wisely) did not respond to, “What would Jesus do?”
How about: who expects the Spanish Inquisition? Post 9-11, the answer can’t possibly be “no-one”.
Joe Bethancourt had a number of them in the form of a song which begins “Does Anal Retentive have a hyphen or not?”
I asked “Where am I?”
Sometimes, it doesn’t understand a very simple question, but still knows the answer…
I asked i: What time is it? I had no response.
But when I typed in : time.
I gave me the time…
What would Brian Boitano do?
how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
how old are you?
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