SERIOUS QUESTIONS (SET - 1)

Below are some mind boggling questions that can be fun to answer. These are serious questions and have serious answers unlike my other "Riddles" where you may have to think of a non-serious answer. Some of these are very easy while some of them are really tough but once you know the answer everything is easy. Remember these questions to impress someone or may be to win yourself in a gathering. please me the questions and I would include it here with your (the author's) name and contact address. Now enjoy, test your brain and have fun. Don't feel bad if you cannot answer any question as no one can the first time.

Something Extraordinary happened on May 6th 1978 at 12:34am what was that?
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At that moment, the time, and day could be written as "12:34 5/6/78"
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When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer?
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When you add 2 hours to 11 O'Clock to get 1 O'Clock.
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What is the only 15 letter word in English that can be spelled without repeating any letter?
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"UNCOPYRIGHTABLE"
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What is the largest amount of money you can have in coins and still not be able to make exact change for a $?
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3 Quarters, 4 Dimes, and 4 Pennies for a total of $1.19
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Why are 1999 $ bills are worth more than 1989 $ bills?
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1990 $ bills are worth $1990 while 1989 $bills are only worth $1989.
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How high would you have to count before you would use theletter "A" in the English Language spelling of a whole number?
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"ONE THOUSAND!" If you answered one hundered and one it is incorrect. The number 101 should be spelled one hundred one.
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What is so unusual about the following sentense other than that it does not mack much sense? "Jackdaws has always loved my big spinx of quartz"?
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This is the shortest sentence in the English Language that includes every letter of the alphabet.
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The 22nd and the 24th Presidents of the US had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How is that possible?
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"President Grover Cleveland" served two no-consecutive terms.
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Which would be worth more, a pound of $10 pure gold coin or half a pound of $20 pure gold coin?
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A pound of gold is always worth more than 1/2 pound.
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Which two 5 letters English words do not change their pronounciation when 4 letters are taken away?
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The words "Queue" and "Aitch".
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