COMMON
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Echo
What has only two words, but thousands of letters?
Post Office.
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
E N T (Each letter represents the first letter in the written numbers: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, etc.).
There is a single-story blue house where everything is blue; the doors, windows, couch, television, kitchen, etc. are blue. What color is the carpet on the stairs in this house?
There are no stairs, it’s a one-story house.
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Letter "R"
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?
Seven has two syllables and the other numbers only have one syllable.
What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?
A river.
My buddies and I were inseparable mates until one by one we were split. My teacher then gave me a smack on the head so off in the corner I sit. What am I?
A staple
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Map
The more these are taken, the more they are left behind. What are they?
Footsteps
What is it that no one wants but no one wants to lose?
Lawsuit
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
You are standing back-to-back with your father.
People in poverty have this. If you eat this you will die. What is it?
Nothing.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Silence
How many letters are in the alphabet?
There are 11 letters in the words “the alphabet”
Which English word is the odd one out: Stun, Ton, Evil, Letter, Mood, Bad, Strap, Snap, and Straw?
Letter as it is the only one that does not spell another word when it’s written backward.
What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?
An umbrella.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner. Explain.
She took a photo of her husband and then developed it in her darkroom before dinner.
How can the number four be half of five?
IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two letters) of the word five.
I am a five-letter word. I sound the same when you remove my first letter. I sound the same when you remove my third letter. I sound the same when my last letter is removed and I sound the same when all three are removed. What word am I?
Empty
If an electric train is moving north at 55 mph and the winds blowing east at 70 mph, which way does the smoke blow?
An electric train doesn’t emit smoke.
Three different doctors said that Paul is their brother yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying?
No one is lying because the three doctors are Paul’s sisters.
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine