Brain Teasers
you live in a one storey house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
What stairs? You live in a one storey house
Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Because it has Greece at the bottom
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire.
What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
A choice
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands?
What is it?
A shirt.
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?
A die (dice).
Which President wore the largest hat?
The one with the largest head
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons for a total of 3!
I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat.
Who am I?
Mercury
Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?
It's a Shadow!
There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?
Place the apple on one person's head.
A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.
How can this be
The parrot was deaf.
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws.
Why not?
He was walking...not driving.
I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?
I am a Dentist.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man. Who Am I?
Rain.
How do you make the number 7 an even number without addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?
Drop the "S".
How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?
SEE O DOUBLE YOU
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
A fence
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Queue
have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. I can take a mans house and build anothers, And I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I?
The King of Hearts in a deck of cards.
I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters is a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
A carpet.
What kind of goose fights with snakes?
A mongoose.
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
NOON.
Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.
Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts, Two of Spades