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200

What has to be broken before you can use it?

an egg

200

I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

The letter “e”

200

I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get too close I’ll make you cry. What am I?

An onion

200

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Wet

200

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A candle

200

What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge

200

What is the end of everything?

The letter “g”

200

What gets wet when you get dry?

A towel

200

What gets bigger the more you take away?”

A hole

200

What is orange in color, green on top, and sounds like a parrot?

A carrot!

400

What’s black and white and read all over?”

A newspaper.

400

 If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

A secret.

400

What building has the most stories?

The library

400

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Foot steps

400

What has many keys but can’t open any doors?

A piano

400

Tom’s father has three sons: Jim, John, and what’s the third one’s name?

Tom

400

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A penny
400

What has legs but cannot walk?

A chair

400

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter M

400

Everyone has it and no one can lose it; what is it?

A shadow

600

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

A barber.

600

81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?

Turn it upside down. 108 = 6 x 18.

600

How do you make the number one disappear?

Add the letter G and it’s “gone”.


600

If six children and two dogs weren’t under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?

Because it wasn’t raining.

600

A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?

He was born on February 29.

600

Zoey has a very big family. She has 20 aunts, 20 uncles, and 50 cousins. Each of her cousins has an aunt who is not Zoey’s aunt. How is this possible?

Their aunt is Zoey’s mom!

600

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

Your breath.

600

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

 All the people on the boat are married.

600

It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?

Dictionary

600

Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?

Advice.

800

I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.

Compass

800

What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?

A potato.

800

Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?

A Map.

800

Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?

Five—each daughter has the same brother.

800

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

He was born on February 29.

800

Not many people have stepped on me. I never stay full for long. I have a dark side. What am I?

The moon.

800

A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?

He took the goose over first and came back. Then he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.

800

A man looks at a painting and says, ‘Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.’ Who is in the painting?

His son.

800

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

800

 I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?

A bank.

1000

A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?


The river was frozen.

1000

A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?

She fell off the bottom step.

1000

 What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?

Cupcake or hiccup

1000

What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?

The Post Office

1000

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?

The letter N.

1000

What month of the year has 28 days?

All of them

1000

What kind of apples do computers prefer.

Macintosh.

1000

 After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?”

All of the couples.

1000

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and white when you are done with it?

Charcoal!

1000

 There were two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?

Three.

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