The
technically correct response to number two is '
albumen'. (
Q: What do you call the white of an egg? A: The white! is rather redundant, eh?)
Even if you don't trip them up, you can
sting them with this
technicality, because no one knows the word
albumen... except, apparently, me.
Azure Monk runs off to hide in a hole.
Anyway, here's another one:
Ask them to say '
silk'.
Ask them to spell '
silk'.
Ask them to say '
silk' three times.
Ask them "
What do cows drink?"
The answer, of course, is
water.