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Think fast: There's
an electric train traveling south. The wind is from the north-west. In which
direction would the smoke from the train be blowing?
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2 |
What is the second
most used letter in the English language? Hint: it is also the first letter
of the most used word in the English language.
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3 |
In an unabridged
dictionary, what 3 letter word has the most definitions?
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4 |
How can you avoid
hitting your fingers when driving in a nail with a hammer?
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5 |
Why did the bubble
gum cross the road?
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6 |
What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and
3 legs in the evening? |
7 |
What 5 letter word can have its last 4 letters removed and still
sound the same? |
8 |
If you see a bird sitting on a twig, how could you get the twig
without disturbing the bird? |
9 |
When is a yellow dog most likely to enter a house? |
10 |
What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat,
but isn't a cat? |
11 |
When is a doctor most annoyed? |
12 |
Why isn't your nose twelve inches long? |
13 |
What has five eyes, but cannot see? |
14 |
What is it that by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose? |
15 |
What has a foot on each end and one in the middle? |
16 |
Which one of our Presidents had the largest shoes? |
17 |
Some months have thirty days and some months have thirty-one days.
How many months have twenty-eight days? |
18 |
At the hardware store I was quoted 12 cents for one, 24 cents for
50, and 36 cents for 144. I wanted six. What was I
buying and how much did it cost me? |
19 |
If two boys and a girl can beat their father in a tug-of-war, but
their mother can win against a boy and two girls, who should win a contest
between the father and a girl against the other and a boy? |
20 |
If a crab and a half weigh a pound and a half, but the half crab
weights half as much again as the whole crab, what do half the whole crab and
the whole of the half crab weigh? |
21 |
A chessboard has squares that are two inches by two inches by two
inches. What is the diameter of the largest circle that can be drawn on the
board in such a way that the circle's circumference is entirely on black
squares? |
22 |
Compose a grammatical and sensible sentence in which all words
begin with the same sound and yet none begin with the same letter. |
23 |
Now compose a grammatical and sensible sentence in which all
words begin with the same letter and yet none begin with the same sound. |
24 |
I started 2 watches at the same time, It turned out that one of
them went two minutes per hour too slow, and the other went one minute per
hour too fast. When I looked at them again, the faster one was exactly one
hour ahead of the other. How long had the watches been running? |
25 |
What is so unusual about the number 2520? |
26 |
My first wears my second; my third might be what my first would
acquire if he went to sea. Put together my one, two, three, And the belle of |
27 |
Why were the
inventors of the airplane correct in thinking they could fly?
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28 |
What part of
a clock is always old?
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29 |
Why do hurricanes travel so fast? |
30 |
What did the January calendar girl say to the February girl
calendar? |
31 |
What person
can jump higher than a house?
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32 |
When do the
leaves begin to turn?
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33 |
If fish
lived on land, where would they live?
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34 |
Why is a
dollar smarter than a quarter?
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35 |
Seven
is an odd number. How can it be made even?
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36 |
I
walk into a room where there are 10 people in who are 20 years old 10 who are
19, 10 who are 18 and 10 who are 30. How many people are there in the
room?
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37 |
FOUR is HALF of FIVE. Is this statement True or False? |
38 |
If you wrote
all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would
you have written the number 3?
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39 |
What has 18
legs and catches flies?
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40 |
When will a
mathematician die?
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41 |
When do 2
and 2 make more than 4?
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42 |
What is the largest possible number you can write
using only 2 numbers - just 2 numbers, no other
mathematical symbols? |