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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Chicago
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Queue
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Dozens
What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
The letter “o”
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile
and I’ll always smile back.
What am I?
A mirror
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp
What building has the most stories?
The library
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
A deck of cards