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Are you the clever one in your group of friends? Do you know how to solve puzzles, think outside the box, and even do hard math in your head at the speed of light? You’re awesome! But no matter how smart you are or how many books on logic and reasoning you read, some questions can give the most brilliant brains a run for their money!

When it comes to trick questions and riddles, it’s easy to get stumped. That’s because tricky questions don’t just test your knowledge — they examine your ability to think critically and quickly. They require you to make assumptions, be creative, and apply what you know in new ways. In other words, they test your brainpower.

The trick questions below will challenge your mind and your intellect. Some are easy, some are hard, but all of them are fun. If you can answer them all, you might be smarter than Albert Einstein! Get your mind blown by these confusing questions and riddles, or send them to your friends’ group chat to confirm who’s the real smartass among you!

#1

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It I’m so fragile that if you say my name, you’ll break me. What am I?

Silence.

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#2

How do you make the number one disappear?

Add a ‘G’ and it’s gone!

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#3

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It If seven adults can eat seven cupcakes in seven minutes, how long would it take 30 adults to eat 30 cupcakes?

Seven minutes; one adult takes seven minutes to eat a cupcake.

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#4

Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so.

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#5

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It What gets sharper the more you use it?

Your brain.

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#6

What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

A river.

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#7

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

Seven.

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#10

Which room has no walls?

A mushroom.

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#11

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?

None, coconut trees don’t grow bananas.

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#13

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It What is always coming but never arrives?

Tomorrow.

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#15

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it. What is it?

A secret.

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D Battle II
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2 years ago

Debt. lol JK!!

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#18

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound.

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Gabe Parker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lies... The feathers weigh more, the pound of bricks is just a bunch of rock but with a pound of feathers you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds

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#19

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It What moves faster: heat or cold?

Heat because you can always catch a cold.

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#21

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?

A window.

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#24

What’s something that has a lot of problems not many people are eager to solve?

A math book.

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#25

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?

No problem, because concrete floors are very hard to crack.

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#27

The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?

Lunch and Dinner.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But... You can have leftovers from last night's dinner as today's breakfast...

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#28

What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?

A clock.

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Puppeteer Saint
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the clock has no legs then how does time keep getting away from me? Oh yeah.. Time flies

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#29

Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?

Advice.

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#31

If you were running a race and passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?

Second place.

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Christof Irran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not necessarily true. I could be two laps down, pass the second (perhaps while he had a spin at Arnage) and there would be no change in position.

#32

What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?

Incorrectly.

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#33

A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come?

She fell off the bottom step.

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#34

A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?

His horse is named Friday.

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#35

How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?

The two survivors were married.

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#36

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

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#38

What two words, when combined, hold the most letters?

Post Office.

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#39

What’s as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing?

Its shadow.

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#40

Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?

Beth.

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#41

A woman pushes her car to a hotel and then proceeds to tell the owner that she is bankrupt. Why?

She is playing Monopoly.

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#42

A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?

Never. The boat rises as the tide goes up.

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#43

What gets wetter the more it dries?

A towel.

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#44

What’s greater than God and more evil than the devil. Rich people want it, poor people have it. And if you eat it, you’ll die?

Nothing.

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Party Poison (They/She)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the second (the other was the River one) that looks like it was taken straight out of the Hobbit. This one I am sure is.

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#45

What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?

Day breaks and night falls.

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#46

What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?

A widow.

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#47

I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest girl can hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

Breath.

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D Battle II
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2 years ago

wow

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#48

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?

The letter M.

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#51

How many times can you cut a cake in half?

Technically, only once.

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#52

What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?

Fire.

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#53

If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?

The match.

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#54

If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”?

E-G-G W-H-I-T-E

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#55

If Mrs. John’s one-story house is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?

There are no stairs.

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#56

What happened when the wheel was invented?

It caused a revolution.

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#57

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short.

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#58

What has 4 wheels and flies?

A garbage truck.

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#59

How many legs does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg?

Four, because calling the elephant’s trunk a leg does not make it one.

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#60

Forwards I’m heavy but backwards I’m not. What am I?

A ton.

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#61

If you build a fort, drive a Ford, and fill out a form, then what do you eat soup with?

A spoon.

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#62

If there are eight oranges in a bag and you take away two, how many do you have?

Two.

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#63

What’s something that gets wetter the more it dries?

A paper towel.

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#64

How many sides does a house have?

Two: an inside and an outside.

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#65

What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?

Your cellphone.

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#66

What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?

Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.

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#67

What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?

An envelope.

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#68

If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?

Survivors aren’t buried!

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#69

If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?

No time, because the wall is already built.

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#70

What two keys can’t open any door?

A monkey and a donkey.

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Eat Dirt Crow
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sure the donkey could open a door if it wanted to. Whether or not you would be able to close it again is a different story.

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#71

What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?

The letter ‘W’.

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#72

How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?

He kicked it up.

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#73

A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be?

The doctor was the boy’s mom.

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#74

How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?

He is bald.

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#75

If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow?

An electric train has no smoke.

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#76

I start out tall, but the longer I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?

A candle.

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#78

Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?

All 12.

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#79

“The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?

Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.

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#80

How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it?

When the something is a hole.

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#81

What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive?

A glove.

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#82

Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one slice of pizza, yet only three slices were eaten. How’s that possible?

The group included a grandmother, her daughter and her daughter’s daughter.

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#83

A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car with no lights on comes around the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car’s driver know he was there?

It was day time.

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#84

Robert, my neighbor, a forty-five-year-old blacksmith is seven feet tall, and eats all day long. What does he weigh?

Iron.

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#85

There are three important rooms in a house. The first one is filled with money. The second one is filled with important papers. The third one is filled with jewelry. One day all of these rooms burst into fire. Which room did the policemen put out the fire in first?

None of them, because policemen do not put out fires; firemen do.

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#86

On a Sunday morning, the oldest girl in a family was murdered. The father was reading the paper, the mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and the girl’s brother was playing video games. Uncle George was visiting and was out getting the mail. Who murdered the girl?

Uncle George. Mail isn’t delivered on Sundays.

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Sportsgal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

George isn't necessarily a murderer...he could be senile and have forgotten what day it was...OR, he could be getting yesterday's mail from the box! Just sayin'...🤣😉

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#88

First you throw away my outside and cook the inside. Then you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I?

Corn on the cob. Because you throw away the husk, cook the corn. Then you eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.

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#89

Why did the woman run around her bed at night?

To catch up on her sleep.

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#90

How much dirt is there in a hole that is 3 feet deep, 6 feet long, and 4 feet wide?

None, because a hole does not have any dirt inside.

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#91

I have all the knowledge you have. But I’m so small, you can hold me in your fist. What am I?

Your brain.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a brain that fits into your fist?... that belongs to the person who came up with this one.

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#92

How many animals did Moses take into the ark?

None because it was Noah who built and loaded the ark.

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#94

If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll?

It will not roll, because roosters do not lay eggs.

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#95

If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what do four and five make?

Nine.

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#96

How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

You cannot, because you will never find an elephant with one hand.

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#97

Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?

Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.

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#100

How can a door be not a door?

When it’s a jar.

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#101

A girl leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two guys wearing masks. Who are the two guys?

The catcher and the umpire.

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#102

What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it?

A hole.

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#103

I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?

Your bed.

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#104

What has one eye but can’t see anything at all?

A needle.

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#105

If you threw a red rock into a green sea, what would it come back as?

Wet.

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#106

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

A palm.

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#107

The teacher asked the two girls who looked exactly like the following questions: a) Are you from the same family? b) Do you have the same parents? c) Were you born on the same day? They answered truthfully “yes” to those questions, and yet told the truth when they indicated they were not twins. How can this be?

They were triplets.

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#108

If Mr. Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr. Jones yard, who owns the egg?

Peacocks don’t lay eggs.

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#109

A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught?

Because he was not driving! He’s walking on the sidewalk.

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#110

Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.

This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.

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#111

How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.

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#112

Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?

No one. Ulysses Grant is interred in Grant’s tomb but not buried.

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#113

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain on Earth?

Mount Everest.

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#114

How many letters are in the alphabet?

11.

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#115

What’s something that copies your looks but not your sounds?

A mirror.

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#116

Which word in the dictionary has an odd spelling?

Odd.

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#117

What’s something that gets warmer the more it cools?

An air conditioner.

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#118

What was the president’s name in 1990?

The same as it is today.

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#119

Every single person at a restaurant got sick, except for two people who were completely fine. How is that possible?

The two people were a couple and, therefore, not single.

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#120

A group of ten ostriches are in a field. If four of them take off flying, how many are left in the field?

Ostriches can’t fly.

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#121

How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?

She sleeps at night.

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#122

You spot a boat full of people but there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Everyone on board is married.

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#123

If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

The four you took.

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#124

How many seconds are there in a year?

Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.

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#125

Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?

Seven.

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#126

What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?

A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.

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#127

Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?

The baby, since he is a little Bigger.

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#128

If you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle?

No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside.

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#129

What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?

Noise.

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#130

Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies?

Because there is one more penny in 1968 pennies than in 1967 pennies.

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#131

There are eight men sitting on a couch. Three legs break and six men leave. How many legs are remaining?

Five; the legs of the two remaining men and the remaining couch leg.

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stardust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or, three PEOPLE'S legs break, and they and their bestie leave, and there are two pairs of perfectly fine legs, and the couch legs, making eight legs

#132

What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half by hand?

Once.

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#134

If ten birds are sitting in a tree and a hunter shoots one, how many birds are left in the tree?

None, because after one bird got shot, the rest flew away.

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#136

If the assistant captain of a sports team were to die, who would lead the team?

The captain.

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#137

Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?

Stop imagining.

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#138

A man lives on the 100th floor of an apartment building. On rainy days he rides the elevator all the way up. However, on sunny days, he goes half way and takes the stairs the rest of the way. Why?

The man is short and can only reach the button for the 50th floor on the elevator. On rainy days, he uses his umbrella handle.

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You are driving a bus. When you begin your route, there is an old woman named Mrs. Smith and a young boy named Raymond are on the bus. At the first stop, the old woman leaves, and a salesman, named Ed, enters. At the next stop, Jack and his sister Jill get on, as well as three women with shopping bags. The bus travels fifteen minutes, then stops and Raymond gets off and a man and his wife get on. Next, a woman with a bird in a cage gets on the bus. What is the name of the bus driver?

It’s you!

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#140

If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it take before all the pills had been taken?

1 hour! Take the 1st pill right away, half an hour later take the 2nd and half an hour after that the 3rd.

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#141

What word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle?

Island.

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#142

If the vice president were to die, who is supposed to be president?

The President.

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