What three numbers have the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
Answer: 1, 2, 3
What bone has a sense of humor?
Answer: Humorous
What did the leg bone say to the foot?
Answer:"Stick with me and you'll go places."
What did the rib cage say to the heart?
Answer:"Got ya covered!"
What force and strength
cannot get through,
I with a gentle touch can do,
and many in the streets would stand,
were I not as a friend in hand.
Answer: A key!
What walks all day on its head?
Answer: A nail in a horseshoe
What is round as a dishpan and no matter the size, all the water in the ocean can't fill it up?
Answer: A sieve
The more you of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps
He who has it doesn't tell about it. He who takes it doesn't know about it. He who knows what it is doesn't want it. What is it?
Answer: Counterfeit money
It lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and is born in air. What is it?
Answer: An echo
I fasten it and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. What is it?
Answer: A sandal
What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?
Answer: The bark of a tree
I have a little house in which I live all alone. My house has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
Answer: A chicken in an egg
Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, I am greedy and devour them all. Who am I?
Answer: A pair of scissors
It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?
Answer: A cabbage
What is is that you will break every time you name it?
Answer: Silence
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
Answer: A wedding ring.
I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never seen out of darkness.
Answer: The letter -S-
What is put on a table and cut, but never eaten?
Answer: A pack of cards
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
I am around long before dawn.
But by lunch I am usually gone.
You can see me summer, fall, and spring.
I like to get on everything.
But when winter winds start to blow;
Burr, then it's time for me to go!
What am I?
Answer: The dew.
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
What has four fingers and one thumb, but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: 11 (count them: the alphabet)
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What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?
Answer: An icicle
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What flies without wings?
Answer: Time
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What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?
Answer: Soap (or a pencil, crayon, chalk, etc.)
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What force and strength cannot do, I with a simple touch can do; yet many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand. What am I?
Answer: A key.
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You can draw me, fire me or fill me in. What am I?
Answer: A "blank"
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Name three keys that unlock no doors.
Answer: monKEY, donKEY, turKEY
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What turns everything around, but does not move?
Answer: A mirror.
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While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why?
Answer: Every one on the boat is married.
What has four legs, a head, and leaves?
Answer: A dining table
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What has wheels and flies (not an airplane)?
Answer: A garbage truck
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What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea?
Answer: It sinks
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What do you have when twenty rabbits step backwards?
Answer: A receding hare-line
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What am I? I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. So tell me what I must be!
Answer: a mirror.
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What happens twice in a week, and once in a year, but never in a day?
Answer: The appearance of the letter "e"!
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Where do you find roads without vehicles, forests without trees, and cities without houses?
Answer: On a map!
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What are two things you cannot eat for supper?
Answer: Breakfast and lunch! (but, some people love to eat breakfast foods for lunch or supper)
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A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?
Answer: Three: one blonde, one brunette and one redhead.
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What time is it when 12 cats chase a mouse?
Answer: 12 after 1!
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What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot?
Answer: A shoe!
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What is black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper!
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A man without eyes saw plums on a tree;
He neither took plums, nor left plums Now how can that be?
Answer: The answer lies in the singular. The man doesn't have eyes, but he does have one eye. He saw plums, (2 plums). He didn't take plums (he only took one plum), so he didn't leave plums, he left one plum.
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Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. How can this be?
Answer: "Each" was the name of one of the men passing by.
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There's a one story house that's all blue inside. The floor was blue, the lamps were blue,the walls were blue,everything was blue. So what color were the interior stairs?
Answer: It's a one-story house, so there are no stairs.
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What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: SWIMS
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He has dust in his eye and a fan for a wing a leg akimbo on which he can sing and dye in his mouth instead of a sting
what is he?
Answer: a grasshopper!
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What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: SWIMS
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Have you heard the saying what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?
Answer: Your age!
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What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
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If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift.
Answer: Electric trains don't produce smoke
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What runs around a house but doesn't move?
Answer: A fence!
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What kind of fish chases a mouse?
Answer: A Catfish
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What is a cat on Ice?
Answer: A Cool Cat
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Do you know why orange juice is so smart?
Answer: It concentrates!
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This thing devours all
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel
Grinds hard stones to meal,
Slays kings, ruins towns
And beats high mountains down
(by J. R. R. Tolkein)
Answer: Time.
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Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
Answer: There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.The grandmother is also the mother's mother, so there are 2 daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3 people.
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What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush!
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If one child has 6 2/3 sand piles and another has 3 1/3, and you combine them, how many sand piles do you have?
Answer: One (if they are all combined, there is just 1 sandpile)
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While on Safari in the wild jungles of Africa, Professor Claudia woke one morning and felt something in the pocket of her pajamas. It had a head and a tail, but no legs. When Claudia got up she could feel it move inside of her pocket. However, Claudia showed little concern and went about her morning activities. Why wasn't she concerned?
Answer: She knew it was only a coin.
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I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg. I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole; I can be long like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole. What am I?
Answer: A snake!
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You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, one has nothing. Which primate in the room is the smartest?
Answer: You are the smartest! Humans are primates too.
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What is gray,has a tail, and a trunk?
Answer: A mouse on vacation!
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A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this?
Answer: The other end of the rope isn't tied to anything!
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Here on earth it is always true that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today. What place is that?
Answer: The dictionary!
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A boy goes and buys a fishing pole that is 6' 3" long. As he goes to get on the bus, the bus driver tells him that he can't take anything on the bus longer than 6'. The boy goes back to town, buys one more thing, and the bus driver allows him on the bus. What did he buy, and what did he do with it?
Answer: The boy bought a 6' long box. He put the fishing pole in diagonally,and the entire package was only 6'And visit our Swim with the Goldfish activity!
What weighs more -- a ton of feathers or a ton of gold? Answer: They weigh exactly the same, one ton each!
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Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground. Which side of a cat has more hair?
Answer: The outside, of course!
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A railroad crossing, look for the cars.
Can you spell all that without any R's?
Answer: Yes, "all that"!
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Your mother's brother's only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?
Answer: Your father.
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Why is it so easy to weigh fish?
Answer: Because they have their own scales.
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Why can't a man living in Winston Salem, NC, be buried west of the Mississippi?
Answer: Because he is still alive.
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Who can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard?
Answer: A barber.
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Which moves faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heat, everybody can catch a cold.
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When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I?
Answer: Wine.
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What is the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
Answer: To cover cows.
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What's the difference between here and there?
Answer: The letter T.
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What's colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter?
Answer: a hole
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What's better than the best thing, and worst than the worst thing?
Answer: Nothing
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What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?
Answer: A tissue.
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What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
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What runs but cannot walk?
Answer: Water; also, your nose.
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What one word has the most letters in it?
Answer: alphabet
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?
Answer: the letter M
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What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River?
Answer: Wet rocks.
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What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Answer: mushroom
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What kind of nut has no shell?
Answer: a doughnut
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What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
Answer: A coat of paint.
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What is the moon worth?
Answer: $1 -- because it has 4 quarters. See the current phase of the moon and learn more about space science.
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What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: Smiles (there's a mile between the first and last letter.
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What is the center of gravity?
Answer: V
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What has to be broken before it can be used?
Answer: An egg.
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What has no beginning, end or middle?
Answer: a doughnut
What is in the middle of nowhere?
Answer: H
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What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick
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What happened in the middle of the 20th Century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
Answer: A year like the year of 1961, which reads the same upside down. This will not happen again until the year 6009.
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What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire
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What grows up while growing down?
Answer: A goose.
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What goes up and down without moving?
Answer: Stairs.
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What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A blackboard or chalkboard.
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What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
Answer: An anchor.
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What do you serve that you cannot eat?
Answer: A tennis ball.
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What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
Answer: They read the same right side up and upside down.
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What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
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What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
Answer: the wind
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What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella.
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What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?
Answer: Salt
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What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
Answer: water
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What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now nearly everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?
Answer: A telephone book.
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The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
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The capital of Turkey is a long word. Can you spell it?
Answer: I T
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Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, what am I?
Answer: An onion
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Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?
Answer: Yes, it is $99 better than a one dollar bill.
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In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?
Answer: It happens every year.
In Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a sign. Why not?
Answer: Because you'd need a camera! You can't take a picture with a sign!
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If you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?
Answer: Two. You'd have the two that you took.
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If you were standing directly on Antarctica's South Pole facing north, which direction would you travel if you took one step backward?
Answer: North -- all directions from the South Pole are north.
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If you were locked in a concrete room with no windows or doors, and all you have with you is a bed and a calendar, how would you eat and drink?
Answer: Dates from the calendar, and water from the bed springs.
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If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
Answer: a secret
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If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine.
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If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
Answer: None, roosters can't lay eggs!
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I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the word?
Answer: Few
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How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
Answer: There is no dirt in the "hole".
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How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Answer: Only once. After that, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 5 from 15, etc.
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How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
Answer: Only one, the last one!
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Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: A "ton"
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Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?
Answer: There are no penguins in the Arctic; penguins are native to Antarctica.
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Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
Answer: She lives in the southern hemisphere where the seasons are reversed from those in the United States.
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A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
Answer: A potato
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What is the tallest building in town?
Answer: The library -- it has a lot of stories!
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You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on?
Answer: You are probably playing Monopoly!
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As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, the seven sacks had seven cats, the seven cats had seven kittens; kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: One! It doesn't say that the people he met along the way were going to St. Ives!
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What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
Answer: Water
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The one who made it, didn't want it. The one who bought it, didn't need it. The one who used it, never saw it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
What sits in a corner while traveling all around the world?
Answer: A stamp
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What question can a person ask all day long, getting a different answer each time, and yet all the answers were correct.
Answer: The question would be: What time is it?
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What runs all day, but never walks; often murmurs, never talks; has a bed, but never sleeps; has a mouth, but never eats?
Answer: A river!
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If a father bull drinks 4 gallons of water a day and a baby bull drinks 2 gallons of water, how many gallons of water does a mother bull drink a day?
Answer: There is no such thing as a "mother" bull -- bulls are male, not female.
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You come into a room with a table, chairs, and fifty-three Bicycles lying around. A man in the room is being accused of something. What is it?
Answer: Cheating at cards. "Bicycles" refers to a well-known brand of cards by that name. Someone must have been cheating since there are only 52 cards in a deck.
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What three word phrase describes the following:
Einstein, Edison, Newton
Answer: Three wise men!
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I have a face, two arms, and two hands, yet I can not move. I count to twelve, yet I can not speak. I can still tell you something everyday.
Answer: A clock.
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You enter a dark room. You have only one match. There is an oil lamp, a furnace, and a stove in the room. Which would you light first?
Answer: The match!
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What time is it when Sir Lancelot looks at his belly button?
Answer: The middle of the knight!
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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? Answer: A stick!
Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans; What must you fill with empty hands?
Answer: Gloves!
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What do you get when you cross a banana peel with a computer?
Answer: A slipped disk!
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A barrel of rainwater weighs twenty pounds. What must you add to make it weigh fifteen?
Answer: Holes!
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Pull one out and scratch my head. What once was red is black instead. What am I?
Answer: A match!
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What is round on both ends and "hi" in the middle?
Answer: Ohio!
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Jack and Jill were found gasping for breath, lying in a puddle of water with broken glass all around. What happened?
Answer: They were goldfish and their bowl had been knocked over.
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Hank is at work. He goes off to his right. Then he goes off to his left three times and passes a man in a mask. What is Hank's occupation?
Answer: Hank is a baseball player!
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A man turned out all the lights and went to bed. He woke up, saw something on the news and became very upset with himself. Why?
Answer: He lived in a lighthouse. When he turned out "all" the lights it caused a shipwreck.
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What did the ocean say to the sea?
Answer: Nothing...it just waved.
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Give me a quick "off-the-top-of-your-head" answer to this: How many second's are there in a calendar year?
Answer: Twelve! January second, February second, March second, April second, May second, etc.
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What did one math book say to the other math book?
Answer: I have a lot of problems!
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Tommy's mom has three sons. The youngest son is named "Nickel". The middle son is named "Dime". What is the name of the oldest son?
Answer: Tommy!
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Three people are standing under an umbrella looking at a hole in the center of it. Which one(s) is getting wet?
Answer: No one -- it isn't raining.
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What needs an answer, but doesn't ask a question?
Answer: A telephone!
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Why did the farmer feed his cow money?
Answer: Because he wanted rich milk!
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Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Answer: Because 7 ate 9 (7 8 9)
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Why did the elephant cross the road?
Answer: Because it was the chicken's day off!
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What goes up and down, but never moves?
Answer: The temperature! And here's an alternate answer from a visitor: the stock market! So perhaps the "Y" generation thinks about stocks as much as the weather!
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Why did the little boy name his dog "Computer"?
Answer: Because it came with lots of bytes.
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What do you call a dog that is left-handed?
Answer: A south paw !
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What vegetable goes in a cake that you bake for Lassie?
Answer: Collie flour....(cauliflower)!
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What do you call a cat that sucks on lemons?
Answer:A sourpuss!
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What do you call a cat that lives in the desert?
Answer: Sandy Claws.
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What can be as big as a horse, but weighs nothing?
Answer:It's shadow.
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What disease did the cowboy get after trying to break his horse?
Answer: Bronc-itis.
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What do cats like to eat on a hot day?
Answer: Mice Cream.
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What do you get when you cross a frog and a hare?
Answer:A bunny ribbit!
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How did the mouse feel after the cat chased it through a screen door?
Answer:Strained
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How do snakes end a fight?
Answer: They hiss and make up.
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Why did the hawk cross the road?
Answer: To prove it wasn't a chicken.
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Three men were fishing. The boat flipped over and the three men fell into the water. Two of the men got their hair wet. Why didn't the third man's hair get wet?
Answer: He was bald.
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What do you get when you pour warm water down a rabbit hole?
Answer: Hot cross bunnies.
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Why did the cow have a bad temper?
Answer: Because he was in a bad moooooood!
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Why would a dog wear a clock around his neck?
Answer: Because he's a watch dog.
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A father and a son got into a car accident. The father went home to rest. The son was taken to the hospital for minor surgery. The doctor came in and said: "I shouldn't do any surgery on this boy because he's my son." How can that be?
Answer:The doctor was the boy's mother!
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A man rode into town on Tuesday and stayed in a hotel and two nights later he rode home on Tuesday. How is this possible?
Answer: His horse's name is Tuesday!
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Ten copy cats were sitting in a boat. One jumped out. How many were left?
Answer: None! They were copy cats so they all jumped out!
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What does a cat have that no other animals have?
Answer: Baby kittens.
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What has two heads, four eyes, 6 legs and a tail?
Answer: A horse and his rider.
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What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
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There is a box smashed on the sidewalk. There is a package next to it, unopened. The equipment was ruined because the package didn't open. What's in the package?
Answer: A parachute!
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There was an accident on the border between Canada and the US. Where would they bury the survivors?
Answer: They wouldn't bury SURVIVORS!
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Your Mom is in a room with you. Where is one place you can sit where your mom cannot sit?
Answer: In your mom's lap!
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How can you put you left hand in your right pocket and put your right hand in your left pocket without crossing your arms?
Answer: First put the clothes on backwards.
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"SIX KINGS" can be converted into what word which describes a band of Scandinavian mariners?
Answer: Six = VI; VI KINGS = VIKINGS
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What starts out on 4 legs, then goes to 2, then 3?
Answer: A man starting out crawling as a baby, then walking, and finally walking with a cane.
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How come anteaters never get sick?
Answer: Because of all the ant(i)bodies in their stomachs.
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What goes up when the rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella!
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Tuff Stuff Riddles!
While driving home after a hard day's work, I came upon the following problem. An entire town had been painted black; the roads, pavements, buildings, hedges, and everything that did not move had been painted black. In addition, my vehicle's headlights were not working, no moon was visible, and power was off in the area, so there were no street or house lights around. At that moment, I entered a curve where a solid black dog (deaf, and thus unaware of the approaching car) was sitting in the road. He had his back to me, so there was not even a glint in his eye, yet I was able to swerve round him quite easily and without danger. How was this achieved?
Answer: It was 2 o'clock on a lovely sunny afternoon!
A man has an acreage where grass grows continuously and evenly. If 20 cows eat all the grass in 96 days and 30 cows eat all of the grass in 60 days, then how long does it take 70 cows to eat all of the grass?
Answer:
Let's say one cow can eat X pounds of grass per day.
The field grows Y pounds of grass per day.
At the start the field already has N pounds of grass standing.
At the end, the field has zero pounds of grass remaining.
So we set up the equations for the amount of grass for the two cases, adding growing grass and subtracting eaten grass:
For 20 cows eating for 96 days:
N + 96Y - 20x96 X =0
For 30 cows eating for 60 days:
N + 60Y - 30x60 X = 0
Or
N + 96Y - 1920X = 0 and
N + 60Y - 1800X = 0
Subtract the two equations and we get
36Y - 120X = 0, or
36Y =120X or
3Y = 10X
In other words, in one day ten cows can eat as much as the field grows in three days.
Now we substitute this back into either of the two starting equations to find how much grass (N) was in the field at the start:
N + 60Y - 1800X = N + 60Y -540Y = 0
And N = 480Y
Now we set up the equation for 70 cows eating and the field growing for T days, until the grass is gone:
N + TY - 70 TX = 0, or
480Y + TY - 21TY = 0
480Y -20TY = 0
thus T = 24
So the 70 cows finish off the field in 24 days.
You have three houses or squares drawn on paper and below them three smaller squares representing gas, water, and electric service. Can you draw a line to get each utility into each house (9 total lines) without crossing over any line?
Answer: No -- the statement 'drawn on paper' implies that this is a 2D surface, and in two dimensions the problem has no solution. The best result you may get using the drawing above is only eight proper connections. But in three dimensions, the problem can pretty easily be solved.
Good at math? Try this one.... 1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3
So what does
11=?
12=?
Answer: 11=6 and 12=6 (the number of letters in the number's name)
What do these words have in common: age, blame, curb, dance, evidence, fence, gleam, harm, interest, jam, kiss, latch, motion, nest, order, part, quiz, rest, signal, trust, use, view, win, x-ray, yield, zone?
Answer: All the words can be used as both nouns and verbs.
What are the science teacher's favorite states?
Answer: Solid, liquid, and gas...the "states" of matter!
Problem: You have three containers. One has only red marbles, one has only blue marbles and the third has an equal number of red and blue marbles. The labels on the containers have intentionally been switched so that each container is now marked incorrectly. Your job is to relabel the containers correctly. Of course you could just look in the containers to find out which labels match, but can you do it without looking in each container? Reach into any of the containers and select one marble. Can you now correctly label all three containers? If not, select a second marble from any container. What is the fewest number of marbles you need to inspect in order to correctly label each container?
Answer: You would only need to take out one marble because we know that all of the labels are incorrect. So you pull one marble out of the container labeled "mixed." If red comes out, you know that has to be the all-red container, so you put the red label on it. The container labelled "Blue" must then be labelled "mixed" because you know it is also labeled incorrectly, and therefore can't be blue. You would label the last container"red" because that is the only color/container combo left. Of course, if the first marble you pulled out from the container labeled "mixed" is blue marble, then you solve the problem in the same general way.
Problem: During a school lunch break, ten kids are discussing after school jobs. In particular, they would like to know their average monthly salary (for the ten of them), but no one wants to admit openly exactly what their salary is. Can you devise a way for them to calculate their average (mean) salary without anyone having to tell anyone else what their individual salaries are?
Answer: Although there may be other solutions, here is a simple one: The first person takes his monthly salary (lets say $100), adds an arbitrary amount that only he knows (lets say $475) and whispers that number ($575) to the second person. The second person then adds his monthly salary (lets say $150) to that value and whispers the new total ($725) to the third person. The third person adds in his salary, whispers the new total to the fourth person and so on until the tenth person adds in his salary and whispers the final total to the first person. The first person then subtracts his arbitrary number from that total, divides by 10, which produces (assuming that no one made an error in arithmetic!) the average monthly salary for the group without anyone having to divulge their salary to anyone else.
Two postmen meet on their routes and they start talking.
Postman 1 says: "I know you have 3 sons, how old are they?"
Postman 2 says: "If you take their ages in years, and multiply them together, the result is your age."
A: "That`s not enough info"
B: "The sum of the 3 numbers equals the number of windows in that
building over there."
A: "Hmm... that`s still not enough."
B: "My middle son is red-haired."
A: "Ah, now I see!"
How old are the 3 sons?
Answer and Explanation for Solution: With a little bit of work, you can discover that only one solution is possible: the kids must be 1, 5, and 8 because a solution with the same A and B involving twins (2, 2, and 10) is ruled out by the middle son with red hair. The product of both are 40 and the sums are 14. The basis for that solution is as follows: The postman's first statement tells us that x*y*z = A; the postman's second statement tells us that x+y+z = B; and the third statement tells us that x does not equal y does not equal z. We know that the three ages are different because the "middle" son has red hair, which implies that none of the children are twins. The most important piece of information in the puzzle is that there must be at least two sets of numbers that add together to give the same sum and multiply together to give the same product -- or he would have been able to figure it out without the third parameter about the middle child (no twins). Thus, there are two sets of three numbers x1, y1, & z1 and x2, y2, & z2 where x1 + y1 + z1 = x2 + y2 + z2 and x1 * y1 * z1 = x2 * y2 * z2 . It is not the fact that there are no twins, but the fact that the postman could NOT figure out the answer UNTIL he knew that there were no twins that is essential. He needed to know that fact in order to solve the problem, and there must be only two different sets of age choices for the kids (one with twins; one without twins) that produce equivalent A's and B's.
The most important feature to recognize in solving this puzzle is that Postman A needed to know that Postman B did not have twins in order to solve the puzzle. That means that there must be two possible solutions that satisfied the "age in years" and "number of windows" conditions of the problem. He needed to rule out twins to solve the problem. To summarize, there must have been two potential solutions with 3 son's ages having:
(i) equal products (the age condition)
(ii) equal sums (the windows condition)
(iii) one involving twins and one not.
If you really wanted to be fussy, since a house cannot have a fraction of a window, it also means that the ages of the sons must all be in integers (whole numbers) and not involve fractional ages.
The one solution to the problem that satisfies all of these conditions is (1, 5, 8) which has the same sum (14) and the same product (40) as another possible solution involving twins (2, 2, 10). There is just no other solution that works involving a postman's age less than 90 years old. That is, another solution that works mathematically is 2-5-9 and 3-3-10, but that would make the postman 90 years old.
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An old man said to a young man, "I have a daughter. She has as many brothers as she has sisters. Each one of her brothers has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters do I have?"
Answer: 3 sons and 4 daughters (total of 7 sons and daughters). The answer to this problem can be found with a little algebra. Let S be the number of sons and D be the number of daughters. From the first statement we have: S=(D-1).
From the second statement we have: 2(S-1) = D
Solving for S and D gives S=3, D=4; i.e., 4 daughters and 3 sons.
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The "he" puzzle:
Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters 'he' (in that order). (Actually, there are two possible correct answers -- but "hehe" is not an acceptable solution.)
Answer: Headache, or heartache
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Pill Puzzler: You've been placed on a course of expensive medication in which you are to take one tablet of medicine A and one tablet of medicine B daily. You must be careful that you take just one of each because taking more of either can have serious side effects. Taking an A without taking a B, or vice versa, can also be very serious, because they must be taken together in order to be effective. In summary, you must take exactly one of the A pills and one of the B pills at one time. Therefore, you open up the A bottle, and you tap one A pill into your hand. You put that bottle aside and you open the B bottle. You do the same, but by mistake, two Bs fall into your hand with the A pill. Now, here's the problem. You weren't watching your hand as the pills fell into it, so you can't tell the A pill apart from the two B pills. The pills look identical. They are the same size, same weight, same color, same everything, and they are not marked differently in any way. What are you going to do? You cannot tell which pill is which, and they cost $100 a piece, so you cannot afford to throw them away and start over again. How do you get your daily dose of exactly one A and exactly one B without wasting any of the pills?
Answer: CUT EACH OF THE THREE PILLS IN HALF, AND CAREFULLY SEPARATE THEM INTO TWO PILES, WITH HALF OF EACH PILL IN EACH PILE. You do not know which pill is which, but you are 100% sure that each of the two piles now contains two halves of pill B and half of pill A. Now go back into the pill A box, take out a pill, cut it in half, and add one half to each stack. Now you have two stacks, each one containing two halves of pill A and two halves of pill B. Take one stack of pills today, and save the second stack for tomorrow. And the problem is solved."
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Voiceless cry, wingless flutter, toothless bite, mouthless mutter. What am I?
Answer: The wind.
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
cannot be heard, cannot be smelled;
it lies behind stars and under hills
and empty holes it fills.
What is it?
Answer: Darkness
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Dies half its life,
lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath.
What is it?
Answer: A tree
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Alive without breath,
as cold as death,
never thirsty,
ever drinking,
when tired, never winking.
What is it?
Answer: Fish
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I live above a star, and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q) are my initials, now tell me what I mean.
Answer: The "7" key on a telephone keypad. (Note: Newer phones have added the letter "Q" to the initials.)
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What is better than the best, more evil than demons, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die?
Answer: Nothing
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I am one simple word, but I mean different thing
One of my meanings brings great forceful swings
The other of me, may have curve, like the first.
But only one meaning can help quench a thirst.
One of my meanings will often bring cheers.
Either of them could hold a few beers.
Answer: A pitcher.
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As I watch I see the world pass me by.
All the good, the bad, in the twinkle of an eye.
I watch and wait, and patiently sit.
I never began, so I shall never quit.
My only presence is in my being.
It is hardly noticed, and not worth a thing.
I'm fast as light, thin as air.
Run if you can. Run if you dare.
To avoid me is the mark of a fool.
For all you're worth, your life is my tool.
Though concealed, I am not shy.
The question is: What am I?
Answer:
I can see you're confused by my little rhyme.
Don't fret, my friend. You have plenty of TIME!
(An original poem/riddle by Kaaljmirek Kahlia)
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What unusual property do the words FLOUR, TERN, and THIRSTY have in common?
Answer: Remove one letter from each word and they all spell a numeral: Four, Ten, and Thirty
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Here's an original brainteaser submitted by an NIEHS scientist:
What six letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters?
Answer: The word is "spared". The other words in it are: spa; spar; spare; pa (as in ma and pa); par; pare; pared; are; re (as in do-re-me); and red.
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On that same order, what seven letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters.
Answer: The word is "therein" The words are: the, there, he, re (as in do, re, mi), in, rein, her, here, ere, herein
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You have two fuses (a fuse is something you burn to eventually set off an explosive), one which burns 1 hour and one which burns 2 hours. The fuses do not burn at a constant rate, so, for example, the last few inches of the first fuse could take 5 minutes or 55 minutes to burn. You have as many matches as you want. With these fuses, you have to measure a time period of exactly 45 minutes. How do you do this?
Answer: First light the fuse of 1 hour AT BOTH SIDES and simultaneously light the fuse of 2 hours AT ONE SIDE. The first fuse will be gone in 0.5 hours. At that time, you light the second end of the fuse of 2 hours: 1.5 hours remain on this fuse. This fuse will now burn in exactly 45 minutes
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You have a rope that will reach around the earth (+/- 40,000 km). If you put sticks of 1 meter high around the world and lay the rope on these sticks, how much longer will the rope need to be?
Answer: ONLY 6.28 meter (= 2 PI) And the strange thing is that it even doesn't matter how great the original circle is: it can be 1m, 100m or 1000 km in radius, if you extend the radius by 1 meter, the rope always gets 6.28 meters longer.
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One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How could this be?
Answer: At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first, early on March 1st. The boat then crossed the International Date line and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. In a leap year the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother.
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Manhole Covers: Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?
Answer: A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.
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The Deadly Party: A man went to a party, drank some of the punch, and then left early. The others at the party who drank the same punch were poisoned and became very sick. Why did the man not get sick?
Answer: The ice cubes in the punch were poisoned. When the man drank the punch the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch. Alternative solution: Someone could have poisoned the punch after he drank from it.
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Trouble with Sons:
A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
Answer: They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.)
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Problems in the Elevator:
A person lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go out. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. Only on rainy days does he take the elevator to the tenth floor. He hates the stairs, so why does he do it?
Answer: He is a young man who cannot yet reach higher than the button for the 7th floor. But on rainy days, he can use his umbrella!
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You have four unmarked bottles of pills each containing 100 tablets. One bottle of pills is poisoned. The good pills weigh exactly 1 gram a piece. The poisoned ones weigh exactly 1.1 gram a piece. You also have use of a scale, but can only use it one time. How can you determine with certainty which bottle of pills is poisoned?
Answer:
Remove 1 pill from Bottle 1.
Remove 2 pills from Bottle 2.
Remove 3 pills from Bottle 3.
Remove 4 pills from Bottle 4.
Combine the 10 pills and weight them together.
If Bottle 1 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.1 grams.
If Bottle 2 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.2 grams.
If Bottle 3 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.3 grams.
If Bottle 4 has the poisoned pills, the 10 pills will weigh 10.4 grams.
And the problem is solved.
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You are in a room with 2 doors -- one leads further into the dungeon, one leads to freedom. There are two guards in the room, one at each door. One always tells the truth. One always lies. What one question can you ask one of the guards that will help you pick the door to freedom?
Answer: If you just wanted to determine which one tells the truth and which lies, you would ask: "If I were to ask the other guard whether you always tell the truth, what would he say?" A reply of "no" means you are talking to the truth teller, a reply of "yes" means you are talking to the liar. So since you only have one question to select the right door, you would have to ask "If I were to ask the other guard, which door would he say leads to freedom?" You would then select the door opposite to the one he picked.
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Here's one for the math wizards: Three companies agree to split the $1,000,000 cost associated with a toxic waste cleanup, as follows: 1) Company A agrees to pay four times the amount of Company B; 2) Company C agrees to pay one-fourth the sum of the amounts paid by Companies A and B. How much will each company pay?
Answer: Let x, y, and z be the amounts paid by Companies A, B, and C respectively. Since the total cost is $1,000,000, we know that x+y+z=1,000,000. From the other two conditions, we have x=4y and z=(x+y)/4 or equivalently, 4z=x+y. Substituting 4z for x+y into the first equation gives 4z+z=1,000,000, 5z=1,000,000 and z=200,000. Of the remaining 800,000 (x+y=800,000), substituting x=4y for x gives 5y=800,000, or y=160,000. Finally x=4y or $640,000. Thus, Company A pays $640,000, Company B pays $160,000 and Company C pays $200,000.
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Einstein's Riddle:
Einstein wrote the following riddle. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it. But several NIEHS scientists were able to solve it, and they said its not all that hard if you pay attention and are very patient. Give it a try:
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
The question is : WHO OWNS THE FISH?
Answer: Note: The suggested steps to the final answer below are not unique and are just one of several logical approaches that one could take to reach the proper solution.
First consider color. The Norwegian lives in the first house (Fact 9), which is next to the blue house (fact 14). Thus, the second house is blue. The green house is to the left of the white house (Fact 4), which means that the green house must be either the third or fourth house. But the green house cannot be the third (center) house, because the owner of the center house drinks milk (Fact 8) and the owner of the green house drinks coffee (Fact 5). Thus, the fourth house is green and the fifth house is white. Since the Norwegian lives in the first house (Fact 9), and the Brit lives in the red house (Fact 1), the first house must be yellow, leaving the middle house red.
Next consider drinks. The owner of the red (third) house is a Brit (Fact 1) who drinks milk (Fact 8). The owner of the green (fourth) house drinks coffee (Fact 5). The Norwegian lives in the yellow (first) house. The Dane drinks tea (Fact 3), and must be the owner of either the blue or white house. But he can't be the owner of the white house. If he were, then the beer-drinking Bluemaster smoker (Fact 12) would have to live in the blue house, making the Norwegian in the yellow house drink water. But that can't be right because........... the water drinker lives next to the owner who smokes Blends, not Bluemaster. Thus, the Dane must live in the blue house, and since the beer-drinking, Bluemasters smoker cannot live in the yellow house (because that owner smokes Dunhill), he must live in the white house, leaving the Norwegian in the yellow house drinking water.
Next consider nationality. Only the German and Swede are unaccounted for. The German smokes Prince (Fact 13) and thus must live in the green house, since the owner of the white house smokes Bluemaster. Thus, the Swede must live in the white house.
What about cigars? Only Blends and Pall Mall are unaccounted for. The Pall Mall smoker rears birds (Fact 6) and thus cannot live in the blue house, which has horses. Thus, the Pall Mall smoker lives in the red house and the Blends smoker in the blue house.
Finally, what about pets? The horse and bird owners have been identified. The Swede keeps dogs as pets (Fact 2), which means dogs are pets in the white house. The Blends smoker lives next to the cat owner, which indicates that cats are the pet in the yellow house. And finally, the only pet left (although it is not even mentioned explicitly in the puzzle) is fish, which are the pets of the coffee-drinking, Prince-smoking German living in the green house.
And the problem is solved.
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SEND + MORE = MONEY:
Each letter in the above equation stands for a different number, and each time the same letter appears, it is the same number. What is the only set of numbers that makes this equation correct? This is a moderately hard one.
Answer: 9567 + 1085 = 10652
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Pronounced as one letter but written with three,two different letters there are and two only in me. I'm double, I'm single I'm black, blue, and gray I'm read from both ends and the same either way.
Answer: EYE
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What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
Answer: WHOLESOME
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We travel much,yet prisoners are, and close confined to boot. With the swiftest horse we keep pace, yet always go on foot.
Answer: Spurs
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