Random Brainteasers
If I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?
Beauty. Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder. ;)
What months have 28 days?
all months
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
Your parents have six sons including you, and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
Nine - 2 parents, 6 brothers, 1 sister
A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
An hourglass.
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
His son.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The pope never uses his. What is it?
Their surname/family name
Paul’s height is 6 feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop and he wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
meat
What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?
There are three doctors, and none of them are surgeons. All three perform surgery. How?
They're veterinarians
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.
What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
He's playing Monopoly.
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The river was frozen.
A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
He's completely bald.
Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?
19
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. What is it?
a coffin
You’re escaping a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the center leads to a room filled with deadly gas. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
The right one; lion's dead bruh
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
The water level in a reservoir is low but doubles every day. It takes 60 days to fill the reservoir. How long does it take for the reservoir to become half full?
59 days: If the water level doubles every day, the reservoir on any given day was half the size the day prior. If the reservoir is full on day 60, that means it was half full on day 59.