Brain Stormers
What has hands but cannot clap?
Clock
Which month has 28 days?
All twelve months.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
If you overtake the person in second place in a race, what position are you in?
Second place.
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
A plane crashes on the border between two countries. Where should the survivors be buried?
Nowhere. Survivors aren't buried!
What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
A postage stamp.
You have three apples and take away two. How many apples do you have?
Two — the ones you took.
Why can't you trust stairs?
Because they're always up to something!
What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
A map.
Which is heavier: one kilogram of iron or one kilogram of feathers?
Neither. They weigh the same.
Why do people say that money can't buy happiness, even though it can buy holidays, food and entertainment?
Because happiness also depends on relationships, health, purpose and emotional well-being.
You enter a dark room with a candle, a fireplace and a lamp. You have one match. What do you light first?
The match
What disappears the moment you say its name?
Silence.
A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. Who is he?
A barber.
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every 30 minutes. How long will the pills last?
One hour. Take the first immediately, the second after 30 minutes, and the third after 60 minutes.
You have two coins that add up to 30 cents. One of them is not a 10-cent coin. What are the coins?
A 20-cent coin and a 10-cent coin. One coin isn't 10 cents; the other one is.
A woman has four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many children does the woman have?
Five. All four daughters share the same brother.
If five machines make five products in five minutes, how long would 100 machines take to make 100 products?
Five minutes, assuming all machines work at the same rate.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps.
A prisoner is told: “If you tell a lie, you will be hanged. If you tell the truth, you will be shot.” What can he say to make the punishment impossible to carry out consistently?
“I will be hanged.”
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
5 cents. The bat costs $1.05.
You are in a race. You overtake the last person. What position are you in?
You cannot overtake the last person if they are truly last and you are behind them in the same race.
Outside a closed room are three switches. Inside is one traditional light bulb. Only one switch controls it. You may operate the switches however you like, but enter the room only once. How do you identify the correct switch?
Turn on switch 1 for a few minutes, then turn it off. Turn on switch 2 and enter the room. If the bulb is lit, switch 2 controls it. If it is off but warm, switch 1 controls it. If it is off and cold, switch 3 controls it.
You have 8 identical-looking balls, but one is heavier. Using a balance scale only twice, how can you find the heavier ball?
Divide them into groups of 3, 3 and 2. Weigh the two groups of 3. If they balance, weigh the two remaining balls against each other. If they don't, take the heavier group of 3 and weigh two balls from it against each other. If they balance, the third is heavier; otherwise, the heavier one on the scale is the answer.