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Cards
a. a batch of cards containing one from each player, usually played in turn and won by the player or side that plays the card with the highest value
b. a card that can potentially win a trick
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It's not a trick question, it's just one way of finding out if someone is a keeper or a weeper.
Trick question: Frequent application of soaps dissolves away the protective oil layer on your skin surface.
I wasn't sure if this was a trick question, so I didn't answer immediately.
Can you find me a number?" "I heard you, but I'm wondering if it's a trick question." "Why would it be a trick question?" "Well it's impossible.
I don't think it was a trick question – but it like asking how long is a piece of string.
It was a trick question -- there was no good answer -- but Churchill, fighting his natural urge to express an opinion on everything, refused to reply and in the uncomfortable silence, Halifax spoke up, insisting that Chamberlain should convince King George to ask Winston, and not himself, to "form a government,'' which was the prerequisite for becoming prime minister.
This is not meant to be a trick question, and the only credible answer should be "no." In a recent property tax appeal case in Oregon, the county's appraiser presented a collection of comparables in connection with an appeal concerning 20 two-bedroom duplex units and one three-bedroom unit.
Some people have remarkable memory.'' ''Kelly's memory is phenomenal, like a computer,'' said Percy, ''and it can't just be memory, because I asked him a trick question and he answered it.
New Delhi, March 6 -- Here is a trick question - who is Honda's biggest competitor in India?
I've already led you astray with a trick question. The answer is none of them accepts.
"If you were in a department store at the Coach counter, and a fire broke out at the Lancome counter and the sprinkler went off, would you get wet?" Bowe asked a reporter, who knows a trick question when she
In the state of Kentucky, that's not a trick question.
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