The answer to both questions is immediately obvious.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

A literal answer is somewhat obvious, as egg-laying species pre-date the existence of chickens.

The first round questions usually had a number of plausible answers, while the second round questions were generally easier and were usually puns with an obvious or " definitive " answer.

* Lateral thinking puzzles, which can be open ended and sometimes referred to as situation puzzles, or ' closed ' lateral thinking puzzles which are designed to have only one correct and obvious answer.

The answer, however, can hardly be considered immediately obvious, especially since many of these 7 billion people might find they prefer growing food to current urban lower-class options such as data entry, food service, and telemarketing.

The answer is obvious.

However, yet more capacity was needed, the obvious answer was to go through Persia ( now Iran ).

The obvious answer was an on-board 25 kV link to the rear power car but this was considered infeasible at the time.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

On July 4, 1870, he said: " Senators undertake to disturb us ... by reminding us of the possibility of large numbers swarming from China ; but the answer to all this is very obvious and very simple.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

Points are also often deducted if an obvious joke answer is given.

Providing an " obvious but wrong " answer results in a sequence of klaxons and flashing lights, and a theatrical cry of despair from Stephen Fry.

In the vernacular, this form of rhetorical question is most often seen as rhetorical affirmation, where the certainty or obviousness of the answer to a question is expressed by asking another, often humorous, question for which the answer is equally obvious ; popular examples include Is the sky blue?

The answer is obvious.

A rhetorical question is asked to make a point, and does not expect an answer ( often the answer is implied or obvious ).

" The obvious answer is " yes ", but the context of the passage seems to demand a " no "; the usual reading therefore is to amend this to " Does one plough the sea with oxen?

For the first two trials, the participant would feel at ease in the experiment, as he and the confederates gave the obvious, correct answer.

It is obvious that career politicians are not the answer because they are often the problem.

To which it is obvious to answer, that though in the state of nature he hath such a right, yet the enjoyment of it is very uncertain, and constantly exposed to the invasion of others: for all being kings as much as he, every man his equal, and the greater part no strict observers of equity and justice, the enjoyment of the property he has in this state is very unsafe, very unsecure.

Since this decision has no obvious correct answer, the optimal answer depends on the needs of the customer.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

That she impressed me instantly was obvious ; ;

The obvious natural fact to ancient thinkers was the diurnal rotation of the heavens.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

It was obvious that to match Brumidi, white must be mixed with all but the darkest tones.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

This was a broth of a boy, our Felix, and nothing was more obvious than the joy he took in demonstrating how agile he was and how full of juice and spirit.

He flew about the place making these adjustments and it was obvious that what he was doing was the fruit of long experience.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

James wrote back to his brother of Caroline and Pergami, " they are to all appearances man and wife, never was anything so obvious.

Another is, an obscure incident with no obvious meaning, where a man with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane flees naked.

As obvious from Umar's own statement regarding his father during his later political rule, Umar said, " My father Al-Khittab was a ruthless man.

G. C. Barnard argues the prevalent interpretation of the ending ; the protagonist does not move because he is simply crushed: ‘ the man remains, defeated, having opted out of the struggle, lying on the empty desert .’ “ But within this obvious, traditional ending, Beckett works his consummate skill, for the real play begins with its terminus.

It was obvious to a young man as intelligent as Roger that there was no future in conforming any more.

William's obvious respect for Bede is apparent even within the preface of his Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he professes his admiration for the man.

He indicates that works such as " Will You Love Me Tomorrow ", written by a white couple, produced by an African-American man, with vocals by young African-American women and strings sounding like they were targeted at a white audience, conveyed a " color-blind " message on top of its more obvious sexual one.

He notes obvious advantages of armor and preparedness before a duel or battle as it applies to one man or a whole group of men:

The most obvious social contrast in the plot, however, is that of the affair of an aristocratic woman ( Connie ) with a working class man ( Mellors ).

When Richard enters to bargain with Queen Elizabeth for her daughter's hand – a scene whose form echoes the same rhythmically quick dialogue as the Lady Anne scene in Act I – he has lost his vivacity and playfulness for communication ; it is obvious he is not the same man.

He was a very smart man and knew how not to be obvious.

As the title suggests, Frum also discussed how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President: " George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job.

When it became obvious that the old man would not live much longer, his wife and daughter, who had always been fervent Catholics, strove to convert him to their religion.

But they have also most obvious defects: they are unquestionably the books of an old man who had thought much as well as spoken and written often on the themes he discusses, yet who had finally put his material together in haste at a time when his mind had lost, if not its dialectic vigour, yet its freshness and its sense of proportion ; and who had been so accustomed to amplify the single stages of his argument that he had forgotten how much they needed to be reduced to scale and to be built into an organic whole.

The review in Variety noted the performances of the lead actors: " Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability to project an inner quality that helps stave off the obvious banality of her character, and this goes too for the perceptive Jean-Louis Trintignant as the man.

Since Kubera's friend, Yama, is the obvious next target, Kubera tricks Sam, who has forgotten what a great warrior the fat old man was, and in a bout of Irish Stand-Down ( in which two men take turns hitting each other until one cannot continue ), knocks him out and prepares to flee on the giant bird Garuda.

( The segment is a parody of early 20th century cinema, complete with Michael Palin dressed up as Little Tich ; this film is also shown as part of the Hollywood Bowl performance of the skit ) After he tosses the projector off stage, Cleese offers Mr. Putey a grant that will allow him to work on the Anglo-French Silly Walk, La Marche Futile ( an obvious parody of the Concorde's Anglo-French development ), which is then demonstrated by a man ( Terry Jones ) dressed in a mixture of stereotypical English and French outfits, with a sped-up version of La Marseillaise played over the top.

The Reds have resolved to bond Asha ' man in preparation for the upcoming Tarmon Gai ' don: it is believed that Reds have the most experience with male channelers, and are therefore the obvious choice.

As soon as the man learns the routine, he takes the lead by combining firm, but gentle ( never obvious ) pushes and pulls.

Malone refers to “ Catastrophe … in the old sense … o be buried alive in lava and not turn a hair, it is then a man shows what stuff he is made of .” The more obvious definition applies of course to the act of defiance itself ; the effect is nothing less than catastrophic.

But no matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty, Trudy always finds in favor of them ( even defending them by making up reasons as to why the child did the incident ) and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults ( some of them occurring if the defendant doesn't have the fine money ) such as trapping a defendant in a rocket and sending him to Venus, having the defendant being chased by an unpredictable man in a gorilla suit, having the defendant be thrown into a leopard cage, having the defendants participate in a cage match with two professional wrestlers, crushing the defendant with a boulder, unleashing two hungry leprechauns to chew on the defendants, placing a nest of deranged woodpeckers on the defendant's head, having a defendant handcuffed to a sweaty opera singer, having the defendant trapped in a box with two contagious sick people, placing a defendant in a bathtub filled of cream and mushroom soup, having an old person doing a piggyback ride on the defendant, having the defendants play Dodgeball with three Marines, having the defendant being sold to the highest bidder in the courtroom, giving the defendant a little shot itself, opening a trap door beneath the defendants, confiscating the defendant's clothes, having the Bailiff spinnthe defendant until the defendant is uncomfortable, and putting an angry chipmunk in the defendant's pants.