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There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house? |
In Washington, D.C.! |
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You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire? |
You light the match first! |
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Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby? |
The baby, because he is a little bigger. |
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Mike is a butcher. He is 5’10” tall. What does he weigh? |
Meat |
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A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left? |
Nine |
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A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left? |
Nine |
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How far can a rabbit run into the woods? |
Halfway. After that, he is running out of the woods. |
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In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? |
They all do. |
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What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ |
S, O, N. The sequence is first letter of the months of the year. September, October, and November are the next in the sequence. |
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Jimmy’s 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? |
Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had four children! |
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Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? |
Mt. Everest. It was still the highest in the world. It just had not been discovered yet! |
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Which is heavier? A pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? |
Neither. Both weigh a pound! |
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What is full of holes but can still hold water? |
A sponge |
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A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10thfloor 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? |
Because he cannot reach the buttons higher than five. |
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A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? |
You do not bury the SURVIVORS! |
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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? |
Well, the score before any football game is always zero to zero! |
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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 driver’s hair? |
Whatever color your hair is! Remember, you are the bus driver! |
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magine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, you are surrounded by hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this? |
Stop imagining! |
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Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? |
Fire |
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Which travels faster? Hot or Cold? |
Hot is faster, because you can catch a cold. |
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When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do not have me. |
A secret |
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What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands? |
Your breath! |
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First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat? |
Corn on the cob |
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Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL |
I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence. |
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A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor? |
The doctor is the boy’s mother |
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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 out of darkness. |
The letter S |
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Joseph and Lena are found dead on the floor with some water around. The windows are open and a strong wind draft is blowing the curtains around. How did they die? |
Joseph and Lena were goldfishes. The wind tipped their bowl over, hence killing them! |
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What has a mouth, but cannot eat; moves, but has no legs; and has a bank, but cannot put money in it? |
River |
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A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. He had to use seven characters consisting of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it, he wrote down “You force heaven to be empty.” What is his password? |
Try to pronounce the sentence like these characters: u472bmt. |
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A man condemned to death has the option of picking one of the mentioned three rooms. The first room is a furnace filled with flames. The second has armed men with loaded guns, while the third has lions starving for years. Which one should the man choose? |
The third room, because lions starving for years would be long dead! |
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A man wanted to work, but he could not log in to his computer terminal successfully. He tried twice, but still his password did not work. He suddenly remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So, he called his boss and said, “Hey boss, my password is out of date.”His boss replied, “Yes, that’s right. The password is different. Listen carefully. I am sure, you can figure out the new one. The new one has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.””Thanks boss.”With that, the man could correctly log into his station. What are both the new and old passwords? |
Answer: The old one was “out of date.” The new one is “different.” Both passwords contain the letters d, f, e, and t. |
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The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number. What is so special about it? |
This is the only number that includes all the digits arranged in alphabetical order. |
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A man is headed to a mountain along with a lion, a goat, and a basket of vegetables. On the way, he needs to cross a river and the boat can only carry two things at a time. If he takes the vegetables, the lion will eat the goat. If he takes the lion, the goat will eat the vegetables. How does he cross the river? |
Trip 1: He takes the goat with him, leaving the lion and the vegetables behind. On reaching the other riverbank, he drops off the goat.Trip 2: He then comes back for the lion, leaving the vegetables behind. On reaching the bank this time, he drops the lion, and again takes the goat along.Trip 3: He drops off the goat again and takes the vegetables with him to the other shore.Trip 4: Lastly, he comes back alone for the goat. |
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Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family? |
Nine. Two parents, six sons, and one daughter. All of them have one sister (not six sisters). |
