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100

What's a teachers favorite nation?

Expla-nation

100

What has six faces and 21 eyes?

Dice

100

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

The letter "M"

100

I have a large money box, 48 centimeters square and 42 centimeters tall. Roughly how many coins can I place in my empty money box?

Just one, after which it will no longer be empty. 

100

Paul's height is six feet. He's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

Meat

200

Why did the girl need a ladder to go to school?

Because it was high school.

200

If you were BORN 5 years ago, how old would you be?

Five years old.

200

What color in the English language doesn't rhyme with any other English words?

Orange

200

What does this mean? I RIGHT I

Right between the eyes. 

200

What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?

They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

300

What is big and yellow that comes in the morning to make Mom's day?

A school bus.

300

What's big and bouncy?

A trampoline

300

You can often see my effects

Although I am not ever seen

I come after cross, whirl, and wood.

And come before sock, mill, and screen.

Wind

300

You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?

Your name

300

A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

His horse's name is Friday.

400

This is the only country in the whole world that occupies the entire continent. What country is it?

Australia

400

Where do zombies go swimming?

The Dead Sea

400

We are all little airy creatures,

All of different Voice and Features,

One of us in Glass is set,

One of us you'll find in Jet,

The other you may see in Tin.

And the fourth a Box within,

If the fifth you should pursue

It can never fly from you.

Vowels

400

What grows in winter

Dies in summer

And grows roots upward?


An icicle

400

The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is using it. What is it?

coffin

500

How does a cheerleader answer the phone?

H-E-L-L-O

500

Where did the turtle fill up his gas tank?

At the Shell station.

500

Who helps the small pumpkins cross the street at school?

The crossing gourds

500

The turtle took two chocolates to Texas to teach Thomas to tie his boots. How many T's in that?

There are 2 T's in THAT

500

From the beginning of eternity 

To the end of time and space

To the beginning of every end

And the end of every place.

What am I?

The letter 'e'

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