Reading Signs
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
One afternoon, a retired air force pilot and his family were driving through Texas on a vacation. They pass a road sign. One of the children remarks on the fact that the sign is named after a dance style.
After about five minutes, they pass another sign, which reads, "Golf Road". As soon as they pass it, the man turns to his wife and says he knows what the next sign will say, and that he'll bet her twenty dollars that he's right. She agrees, and they drive on. After passing the next road sign, the wife finds that her husband is right, and hands him twenty dollars.
What did the last sign say and how did the man know?
HintRetired Air Force Pilot
The dance style is also a well known comic strip in the USA.
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Answer
The key was that he was a retired air force pilot.
The military, and other organizations, use words to represent letters when talking via radio, etc, to avoid confusion of the many similar sounding letters.
The international standard for this is the NATO alphabet:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
The one for F is Foxtrot, which is a style of ballroom dancing or a well known comic strip in the USA. Golf is for G. The one for H is hotel, so, seeing the pattern of Foxtrot and Golf, he correctly guessed Hotel Road.
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hirshy1230
Feb 24, 2005
| I really enjoyed this one. |
froggygg   
Feb 24, 2005
| Really good one! You had me going in every direction - except the right one! |
ben2   
Feb 24, 2005
| good one, i had no idea until i saw the hint. then it was easy  |
doggyxp  
Feb 25, 2005
| I guessed the first road correctly (admittedly, upon reading the hint), but I couldn't guess the last road. Well done! |
Kalliann   
Feb 25, 2005
| Great Teaser!  |
dbs241   
Feb 25, 2005
| I can't believe I didn't get this one!!! LOL Great teaser! |
prettykitty
Feb 25, 2005
| Yes ... everyone really has a chance here (sarcasm) |
Jon0513   
Mar 03, 2005
| right... |
r3lish 
Mar 19, 2005
| was thinking of the wrong dance (tango) so i was looking for a diff pattern =P shouldve looked at it longer..  |
-chica-
Mar 24, 2005
| omg...so confusing...great teaser...=P |
bigSWAFF_69_   
Mar 25, 2005
| WAH??????????????????????? |
magicguy
Mar 25, 2005
| Very good!!  |
supersmart  
Mar 25, 2005
| That was the hardest teaser ive had in a long time!!!!!!!!!!  |
putzz7993 
Mar 25, 2005
| i didn't get that one but i'm a blond what do you expect  |
IMCUL4E   
Mar 25, 2005
| I didn't know the codey thing, but I had JUST READ the comic foxtrot before this. D'oh!  |
myalyn_77 
Mar 25, 2005
| I know of that alphabet, but I never would have guessed that.
Great teaser!  |
Daedalus  
Mar 25, 2005
| The fact that he was a retired pilot meant nothing to me. I don't know anything about that kind of crap. That thing totally confused me even though I just finished reading a book fulla Foxtrot comics. I'm so retarded.  |
chick   
Mar 25, 2005
| That was the hardest so far!!  |
CHUCKLZ 
Mar 25, 2005
| I figured the clues out but didn't know where they should take me!! great teaser...Hard for me being as I don't know that code... |
patpat553 
Mar 25, 2005
| retired air force meant nada to me this was a confusing riddle for some of us |
Crazy-G 
Mar 25, 2005
| I didn't really enjoy this one. |
madgurl31  
Mar 25, 2005
| hahaha!!!! either im very dumb... or that made no sense!! sorry! didnt like it  |
gamegirl 
Mar 25, 2005
| I think I already read this one. Does this site to repeats???  |
godess012
Mar 25, 2005
| Hey that would have been easier if I were in the militarty and knew about Alpha Bravo Charlie ect...  |
DJNic   
Mar 25, 2005
| hey gr8 teaser my dad wuz in the air force so i new the alphabet thing it was pretty simple 2 me but hey, im special!  |
dayner
Mar 25, 2005
| HOLY!!!!!!!! NEVER in a million years would have got that one!  |
Frogtvjr 
Mar 25, 2005
| This one was easy for me, too may years in the military, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bravo Zulu |
swbb
Mar 26, 2005
| Did not like that one at all.. |
Jessa 
Mar 26, 2005
| I didn't get this but i don't know anything about the Air Force! Good Teaser if I knew things about the Air Force!  |
Leviathan
Mar 27, 2005
| It was hard. I didn't know the air force stuff |
deadeye823  
Mar 27, 2005
| how the hell were we supposed to know the Air Force alphabet??? |
girlygirl
Mar 30, 2005
| I could of never figured that out.  |
spookboy0   
Mar 30, 2005
| way too easy |
xsadclowneyezx   
May 06, 2005
| i was on the right track of think what dance had incommon with golf and my favorite comic strip foxtrot, but with my lack of knowlege of the alphabet (you know the alphabet i mean, im not retarded ) i couoldnt have guessed hotel, good one, i would had to used the knowlege of him being and x air force pilot and some research behind that to have gotten what you were really saying. |
jakeodee  
May 08, 2005
| great teaser
very hard but fun  |
cutey    
May 14, 2005
| it was so easy. your hint totally gave it away.  |
LadyInkdon 
May 25, 2005
| Great one! Fortunately I participated in a Community Police Academy and learned the alphabet. I actually got this one. Yipeee!  |
rashad   
Jun 08, 2005
| Very precious informations.  |
needlepoint1324 
Jun 16, 2005
| i think this one is common sence if u no the one alphabet but if u dont ur kinda without a clue |
gemini05
Jun 26, 2005
| I is a very good one! You should do more!  |
smarty_blondy   
Sep 30, 2005
| Heehee, great teaser, keep them coming.  |
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