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Two
convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window
high up in the
cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one
on top of the other they
can't reach the window to escape. They
then decide to tunnel out. However,
they give up with the
tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one
of the
convicts figures out how to escape from the cell.
What is his plan?
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2.
Use
the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 once only, in this multiplication sum to make it
correct.
? ?
x ?
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? ? ?
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3.
A
boat is at anchor. Over the side hangs a rope ladder
with rungs a foot apart.
The tide rises at a rate of 10 inches per hour.
At the end of six hours,
how much of the rope ladder will remain
above water, assuming that 10 feet
were above the water when the tide
began to rise?
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4.
Little
Johnny buys 10 trees at a local nursery. How does he
plant these 10 trees
in 5 rows with 4 in each row?
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5.
When asked how
old she was, Mary replied, "In two years I will
be twice as old as I
was five years ago." How old is she?
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6.
A
man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is
it?
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7.
A
snail is at the bottom of a well 30 feet deep. It crawls
up 3 feet each day,
but at night, it slips down 2 feet. How long
does it take for the snail to
crawl out the well?
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8.
A
man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of
other people there.
They were all naked and all looked as
they died at the age of 21. He looked
around to see if there was
anyone he recognized. He saw a couple and he knew
immediately that
they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
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9.
Is
it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
Why or why
not?
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10.
My
brother, the local bus driver, was telling me that recently
he was driving
a bus full of people and no-one got off on the
way. However, at the end of
the journey, there was not a single
person left on the bus. How?
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11.
The more you take the more you leave behind.
What are they?
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12.
If
I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is
45 degrees F, and dropped
another ball of the same weight, mass,and size
in a
bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time,
Which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?
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13.
If
you had only one match, on a freezing winter day, and you
entered a room
which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a
wood burning stove, which
should you light first.
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14.
If
2 hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the
afternoon as it was before
one o'clock in the morning.
What time would it be now?
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15.
What question can you never truely answer "yes" to?
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16.
Translate the following group of letters:
YYYMEN
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17.
There
was a guy who had a Fox, a Chicken, and a bag of Grain.
He had to cross a
river to get back home, but he could only take one
item with him at a time.
He could only take the fox, or the grain,
or the chicken. Well, if you leave
a chicken and a fox on one side
of the river while taking the bag of grain
across, the fox will
eat the chicken, same thing with the chicken and the
grain.
Can't leave those two alone or the chicken will eat the grain.
How
do you get them all across the river safely?
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18.
Two
boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick
boxing). The fight
is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6
rounds, after one boxer knocks
out the other boxer. Yet no man
throws a punch.
How is this possible?
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19.
If
Susan is 10, Arabella is 20, Richard and Neal are both 10,
but Jim is 5,
how much is Jennifer by the same system?
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20.
Farmer
Joe came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of
them plus half a
melon, and found that he had one whole melon left.
How many melons did he take to town?
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21.
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
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22.
A
local school teacher wanted to share 703 sweets equally
between the pupils,
if there were more than 20 pupils, how many
sweets did each receive?
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23.
You're
driving a bus that is leaving from Los Angeles and ending
in San Francisco.
To
start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop,
11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got
off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people
got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off.
What color are the bus driver's eyes?
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24.
If
2 hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the
afternoon as it was before
one o'clock in the morning.
What time would it be now?
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24.
On
a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink.
There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front
of the spectators eyes.
What caused the ship to sink?
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25.
What turns everything around, but does not move?
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26.
A
carpenter agrees to work on the condition that he is paid 2
units for everyday that he works, while he forfeits 3 units for
everyday that he does not work.
At
the end of 30 days he finds
that he has paid out exactly as much as he has received.
How many days did he work?
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27.
It's
always 1 to 6,
it's always 15 to 20,
it's always 5,
but it's never 21,
unless it's flying.
What is this?
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28.
I
went into the woods and got it
I sat down to seek it
I brought it home
with me because I couldn't find it
?
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29.
Two
words,
my answer is only two words.
To keep me,
you must give me.
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1.
Two
convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window
high up in the
cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one
on top of the other they
can't reach the window to escape. They
then decide to tunnel out. However,
they give up with the
tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one
of the
convicts figures out how to escape from the cell.
What is his plan?
They
piled the dirt dug out of the tunnel and climbed out
the window from the
top of the pile.
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2.
Use
the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 once only, in this multiplication sum to make it
correct.
? ?
x ?
-------
? ? ?
5
4
x 3
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162
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3.
A
boat is at anchor. Over the side hangs a rope ladder
with rungs a foot apart.
The tide rises at a rate of 10 inches per hour.
At the end of six hours,
how much of the rope ladder will remain
above water, assuming that 10 feet
were above the water when the tide
began to rise?
Since the boat is afloat,
the water level in
relation to the ship stays the same. Therefore, 10 feet
are above water,
just as the beginning!
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4.
Little
Johnny buys 10 trees at a local nursery. How does he
plant these 10 trees
in 5 rows with 4 in each row?
Draw a 5 pointed star.
Plant one tree at each point and one tree where the sides intersect.
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5.
When asked how old she was,
Mary replied, "In two years I will
be twice as old as I was five years
ago." How old is she?
12 yrs old
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6.
A
man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is
it?
1:45.
The man gave away a total of 25 cents.
He divided it between two people.
Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
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7.
A
snail is at the bottom of a well 30 feet deep. It crawls
up 3 feet each day,
but at night, it slips down 2 feet. How long
does it take for the snail to
crawl out the well?
28 days. Once it reaches the top, it does not slip down 2 feet.
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8.
A
man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of
other people there.
They were all naked and all looked as
they died at the age of 21. He looked
around to see if there was
anyone he recognized. He saw a couple and he knew
immediately that
they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
He
recognized Adam and Eve as the only people
without navels. Because they were
not born of women, they
had never had umbilical cords, and therefore they
never had navels.
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9.
Is
it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
Why or why
not?
No,
because he is dead (that is why his wife is a widow).
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10.
My
brother, the local bus driver, was telling me that recently
he was driving
a bus full of people and no-one got off on the
way. However, at the end of
the journey, there was not a single
person left on the bus. How?
Everyone on the bus was married and therefore not single.
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11.
The more you take the more you leave behind.
What are they?
Footsteps.
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12.
If
I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is
45 degrees F, and dropped
another ball of the same weight, mass,and size
in a
bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time,
which ball
would hit the bottom of the bucket first?
the ball in the bucket
of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last.
Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is
frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about
that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no
water (or ice) to slow the ball down...
I suppose Hawaii had
nothing to with it either!!
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13.
If
you had only one match, on a freezing winter day, and you
entered a room
which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a
wood burning stove, which
should you light first.
The
match.
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14.
If
2 hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the
afternoon as it was before
one o'clock in the morning. What time
would it be now?
Nine o'clock. Since there are 12 hours between the 2 times,
and
half of that time is six, then the halfway mark would have to be 7
o'clock. If it were 7 o'clock, two hours ago, the time would now
be nine
o'clock.
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15.
What
question can you never truely answer "yes" to?
Are you sleeping?
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16.
Translate
the following group of letters:
YYYMEN
Three Wise Men
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17.
There
was a guy who had a Fox, a Chicken, and a bag of Grain.
He had to cross a
river to get back home, but he could only take one
item with him at a time.
He could only take the fox, or the grain,
or the chicken. Well, if you leave
a chicken and a fox on one side
of the river while taking the bag of grain
across, the fox will
eat the chicken, same thing with the chicken and the
grain.
Can't leave those two alone or the chicken will eat the grain.
How do you get them all across the river safely?
Take
the chicken first and come back. Get the grain, take it
across and take the
chicken back with you. Leave the chicken and
take the fox and come back.
Get the chicken...
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18.
Two
boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick
boxing). The fight
is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6
rounds, after one boxer knocks
out the other boxer. Yet no man
throws a punch.
How
is this possible?
They are female boxers.
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19.
If
Susan is 10, Arabella is 20, Richard and Neal are both 10,
but Jim is 5,
how much is Jennifer by the same system?
Jennifer
is fifteen, in a system that awards
five for each
vowel
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20.
Farmer
Joe came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of
them plus half a
melon, and found that he had one whole melon left.
How
many melons did he take to town?
He took 3 melons to town
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21.
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
A Stamp
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22.
A
local school teacher wanted to share 703 sweets equally
between the pupils,
if there were more than 20 pupils, how many
sweets did each receive?
19 sweets for the 37 pupils.
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23.
You're
driving a bus that is leaving from Los Angeles and ending
in San Francisco.
To
start off with, there were 32 passengers on the bus.
At the next bus stop,
11 people get off and 9 people get on.
At the next bus stop, 2 people got
off and 2 people got on.
At the next bus stop, 12 people got on and 16 people
got off.
At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 3 people got off.
What color are the bus driver's eyes?
Since
you are driving the bus,
the colour of the bus driver's eyes is your eye colour.
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24.
If
2 hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the
afternoon as it was before
one o'clock in the morning.
What time would it be now?
Nine
o'clock.
Since there are 12 hours between the 2 times, and
half of that
time is six, then the halfway mark would have to be 7
o'clock. If it were
7 o'clock, two hours ago, the time would now
be nine o'clock
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24.
On
a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink.
There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front
of the spectators eyes.
What caused the ship to sink?
The "Submarine" Captain ordered the crew to dive.
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25.
What turns everything around, but does not move?
A Mirror
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26.
A
carpenter agrees to work on the condition that he is paid 2
units for everyday
that he works, while he forfeits 3 units for
everyday that he does not work.
At
the end of 30 days he finds
that he has paid out exactly as much as he has
received.
How many days did he work?
He
worked on 18 days and did not work on 12 days
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26.
It's
always 1 to 6,
it's always 15 to 20,
it's always 5,
but it's never
21,
unless it's flying.
What is this?
A DICE
"It's
always 1 to 6": the numbers on the faces of the dice,
"it's
always 15 to 20": the sum of the exposed faces when the dice comes to rest
after being thrown
"it's always 5": the number of exposed faces
when the dice is at rest,
"but it's never 21": the sum of the
exposed faces is never 21 when the dice is at rest,
"unless it's
flying": the sum of all exposed faces when the dice is flying is 21 (1 +
2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6).
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27.
What is the next letter in the series: "B, C, D, E, G, ..."?
And
Why?
The
next letter would be ... P.
They all rhyme.
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28.
I
went into the woods and got it
I sat down to seek it
I brought it home
with me because I couldn't find it
A
Splinter
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29.
Two
words,
my answer is only two words.
To keep me,
you must give me.
Your Word
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30.
A
certain large animal lives happily and thrives here on Earth.
One day, every single one of these critters is wiped out by a
mysterious disease which affects only this particular animal.
There are none left anywhere on earth -- they are all gone.
About a year or so later, they begin to reappear on Earth again.
How can this be?
The
animal is the Mule. Since all Mules are born sterile, you can only get
a Mule by crossing a donkey with a horse. That is how the species is able
to repopulate itself.
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