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What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
Fire.
If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
The 4 you took away.
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and Dinner.
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A clock.
What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Your cellphone.
What can be broken but is never held?
A promise.
What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?
Stairs.
What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
A coin.
Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?
Seven.
What can one catch that is not thrown?
A cold.
Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
All the months have 28 days.
What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
What is it that goes up, but never comes down?
Age.
If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
Survivors are not buried.
What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have?
A secret.
If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?
The match.
How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?
The two survivors were married.
How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
He was bald.
How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?
He kicked it up.
A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come?
She fell off the bottom rung.
If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
No time, because the wall is already built.
What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?
Friday was the name of his horse.
A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be?
The doctor was the boy’s mom.
Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.