Question:

What are four things that have an "eye" but cannot see?

Answer:
A needle, a potato, the alphabet and a hurricane.

Question:
In the dark they are found without being fetched, in the light they are lost without being
stolen. What are they?

Answer:
Stars

Question:
What are the next two numbers in this series: 2, 9, 16, 23, ...

Answer:
30, 37

Question:
What does this say?

HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH

Answer:

High five.

Question:
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll
die?

Answer:

Nothing.

Question:
Which of these doesn't belong: tall tale, autobiography, short story?

Answer:

Autobiography because it is not a work of fiction.

Question:
What is the Roman numeral for 500?

Answer:

D.

Question:
10 candles stand burning in a dining room. A strong breeze blows in through an open window and extinguishes
3 of them. Assuming the wind doesn't extinguish any more candles, how many candles do you have left in the
end?

Answer:

3. The 7 candles that manage to stay lit will melt down completely. The only candles that remain in the end
are the 3 that are extinguished by the wind and therefore stay intact.

Question:
How do you write 23 using only the number 2?
34 using only the number 3?
56 using only the number 5?
100 using only the number 9?

Answer:

By using fractions. 22+2/2=23, 33+3/3=34, 55+5/5=56, 99+9/9=100

Question:
A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the
punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

Answer:
The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen.
Gradually, as the ice cubes melted the poison was released into the punch.

Question:
How many squares are there on a chessboard? (Hint: The answer is not 64.)
Answer:

204.

Question:
Change this into a multiplication problem; 5+5+5+5=20

Answer:

5 x 4=20

Question:
A boy is 2 years old, his brother is half as old as him. When the first boy is 100, how old will his brother be?

Answer:

99!

Question:
A man is found dead one Saturday morning. He was killed while his wife was sleeping. The wife tells the police
all that she knows. She tells them that the cook was cooking breakfast, the maid was cleaning and the butler
was getting the mail. The police immediately arrest the person who is responsible. Who is responsible and
why?

Answer:

The wife because she was sleeping, how could she know that all of that happened?!

Question:
A detective who was mere days from cracking an international smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While
inspecting his last-known location, you find a note: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718

Currently there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Can you break the detectives code and find the criminals
name?

Answer:

Bill. If you read the message upside down, youll notice that the numbers resemble letters and that those
letters form legible sentences. The message is "Bill is boss. He sells oil."

Question:
A man walked all day long but only moved 2 feet. How is this possible?

Answer:

He only has two feet with which to move!

Question:
What does this say?

REET
T
S

Answer:

Street corner.

Question:
What can you break without touching it?

Answer:

A promise.

Question:
The red house is on one side and the blue is on the other, where is the white house?

Answer:

In Washington D.C.

A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left?

Answer:
Nine.

Question:
A boy and his big sister are sitting around the kitchen table chatting.

The boy says, "If I take two years away from my age and gave them to you, you'd be twice my age."

The sister added, "Why don't you just give me one more and then I'll be three times you age."

How old are the siblings?

Answer:

They are both 6 years old. They had to have been born with in one year of each other.
In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28
days?
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They all do.

immys mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second
Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
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Jimmy, because Jimmys mother had four children!

What is full of holes but can still hold water?

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A sponge
A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son
takes the elevator from the familys apartment on the 10 thfloor to the ground floor and
goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth
floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?
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Because he cannot reach the buttons higher than five.

I do not have any special powers, but I can predict the score of any football game before
it begins. How can I do this?
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Well, the score before any football game is always zero to zero!

You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. The second stop, three men
get on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a
man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus drivers
hair?
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Whatever color your hair is! Remember, you are the bus driver!