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What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A clock
If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow?
An electric train has no smoke
What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?
Day breaks and night falls
What can run but not walk?
Rain drops
Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
All 12
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?
A widow
What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive?
A glove
What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
A coin
How can a door be not a door?
When it’s a jar
A girl leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two guys wearing masks. Who are the two guys?
The catcher and the umpire
What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm
The teacher asked the two girls who looked exactly like the following questions: a.) Are you from the same family? b.) Do you have the same parents? c.) Were you born on the same day? They answered truthfully “yes” to those questions, and yet told the truth when they indicated they were not twins. How can this be?
They were triplets
Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
Advice
Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.
This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.
What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?
Stairs
What can you hold without touching it at all?
A conversation
Where is an ocean with no water?
A map
A woman pushes her car to a hotel and then proceeds to tell the owner that she is bankrupt. Why?
She is playing Monopoly
Hephaestus
Neil Gaiman
Winston Churchill
Botswana
Thomas Hobbes