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1. Its
more powerful than god
its more evil then the devil
poor people have it
rich people want it
What is it?
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2. What
row of numbers comes next?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
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3. A
man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?
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4. What weighs nothing, can be seen with the human eye, but if you put it in something it will make it weigh less?
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5. Back in the old days a guy rides into town on friday, leaves the town on friday, but only stays in the town for three days. how did he do it?
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6. What has an ear but cannot hear, has a colonel but no army?
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7. A
woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.
How can this be possible?
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8. A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?
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9. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."
The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
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10. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
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11.
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee.
Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.
Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
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12. I
cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet I have my own style of music.
What Am I?
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13. What
kind of cheese is made backwards?
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14. How do you keep a moran in suspence?
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15. It is brown, has a head, a tale and a date ... what is it?
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16. What holds water, but is full of holes?
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17. There
is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a
letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right
down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words
that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
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18. The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how?
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19. Bill bets Craig $100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Craig agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Craig lose the bet?
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20. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not a single time in a hundred years?
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21. A box without hinges, key, or lid; Yet golden treaseure inside is hid ... What is it?
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22. How many letters are in the alphabet?
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23. FOUR
is HALF of FIVE.
Is this statement True or False?
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24. How
can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line:
5+5+5=550
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25. I
soar without wings, I see without eyes.
I've traveled the universe to and fro.
I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home.
Who am I?
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26. It
has a mouth but never eats, has a bed but never sleeps, always running never
walks,
What is it?
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27. I need a crowd, without it i am nothing. What am I?
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28. The
people who make it don't want it!
The people who buy it don't use it!
The people who use it don't know it!
What am I?
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29. Forward I am heavy. Backward I am not.
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30. There is 1 in every corner but only 2 in every room?
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31. A
woman shoots her husband.
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.
Finally, she hangs him.
But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner
together.
How can this be?
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32. What
do these 3 have in common?
Superman
Moses
The Cabbage Patch Kids
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33.
I am the ruler of shovels
I have a double
I am as thin as a knife
I have a wife
What am I?
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34. You
peel the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside,
and throw away the inside?
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35. I can wear a mountain, take peoples lives, keep on going and never die??
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36. What
is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it
away?
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37. What is black and white but red all over
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38. What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
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39. Can
you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
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40. 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?
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. . . ANSWERS . . .
1.
Its
more powerful than god
its more evil then the devil
poor people have it
rich
people want it
What is it?
Nothing
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2.
What
row of numbers comes next?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
The next row is
1113213211
Starting with the second
line, every line describes the line before it. In writing, it is:
One One
Two
Ones
One Two One One
etc.
etc.
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3.
A
man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is
he telling you the truth or is he lying?
He's lying. Even though he's lying when he says "everything" he says is a lie, some of the things he says can be a lie, and this is one of them.
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4.
What weighs nothing, can be seen with the human eye, but if you put it in something it will make it weigh less?
A hole
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5.
Back in the old days a guy rides into town on friday, leaves the town on friday, but only stays in the town for three days. how did he do it?
His horse's name was Friday
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6.
What has an ear but cannot hear, has a colonel but no army?
Corn
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7.
A woman has 7 children,
half of them are boys.
How can this be possible?
ALL the children are boys, so 1 half are boys and so is the other half.
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8.
A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?
The farmer's load was heavier. His hired help only carried two sacks, while the farmer carries one sack, but his sack is a sack of grain. The hired help only carried 2 sacks
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9.
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."
The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
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10.
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
You would be in 2nd. You thought first place, huh? Well, you passed the guy in second place, not first.
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11.
George, Helen, and Steve
are drinking coffee.
Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.
Using logic,
is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Elizabeth
is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the
names of the others that are drinking coffee.
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12.
I cannot be felt, seen
or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet
I have my own style of music.
What Am I?
A Soul
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13.
What
kind of cheese is made backwards?
EDAM cheese (made backwards is edam)
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14.
How do you keep a moran in suspence?
I'll tell you tomorrow.
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15.
It is brown, has a head, a tale and a date ... what is it?
A penny.
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16.
What holds water, but is full of holes?
A sponge.
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17.
There
is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter
from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a
single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes
after removing one letter at a time?
The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
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18.
The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how?
C and Y
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19.
Bill bets Craig $100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Craig agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Craig lose the bet?
Bill said the score would be 0-0 and he was right. "Before" any hockey game starts, the score is always 0-0.
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20.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not a single time in a hundred years?
The
Letter 'M'
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21.
A box without hinges, key, or lid; Yet golden treaseure inside is hid ... What is it?
An
Egg
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22.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
11 'the alphabet'
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23.
FOUR
is HALF of FIVE.
Is this statement True or False?
It's True. The Roman Numeral FOUR (IV) is in the middle of the word Five: F(IV)E
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24.
How
can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line:
5+5+5=550
Draw a line on the first plus sign. This turns it into a 4! The equation then
becomes true:
545+5=550
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25.
I
soar without wings, I see without eyes.
I've traveled the universe to and fro.
I've
conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home.
Who am I?
I'm your imagination.
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26.
It has a mouth but never
eats, has a bed but never sleeps, always running never walks,
What is it?
A River.
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27.
I need a crowd, without it i am nothing. What am I?
A
conversation
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28.
The
people who make it don't want it!
The people who buy it don't use it!
The
people who use it don't know it!
What
am I?
A coffin.
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29.
Forward I am heavy. Backward I am not.
I am a ton.
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30.
There is 1 in every corner but only 2 in every room?
I am the letter O
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31.
A
woman shoots her husband.
Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.
Finally,
she hangs him.
But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful
dinner together.
How can this be?
The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
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32.
What
do these 3 have in common?
Superman
Moses
The Cabbage Patch Kids
They were all adopted!
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33.
I am the
ruler of shovels
I have a double
I am as thin as a knife
I have a wife
What
am I?
The
King of Spades (from a deck of cards)
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34.
You
peel the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside,
and throw away the inside?
I am a corn
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35.
I can wear a mountain, take peoples lives, keep on going and never die??
TIME
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36.
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
The
answer is Charcoal. In Homer Simpson's words: hmmmm... Barbecue.
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37.
What is black and white but red all over
A newspaper.
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38.
What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
An Umberella
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39.
Can
you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Sure
you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!
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40.
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?
The outside of the Cat
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