Brain Teasers 1
A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, a girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Turn me on my side, and I am everything. Cut me in half, and I am nothing. What am I?
The number 8
You're escaping a labyrinth, and there are three exits. Exit A leads to an inferno. Exit B leads to an assassin. Exit C leads to a lion that hasn't eaten in 3 years. Which exit do you pick?
Exit C. If a lion hasn't eaten in 3 years, it has definitely starved to death.
Four cars come to a four-way stop, all coming from a different direction. They can't decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. They do not crash into each other, but all four cars go. How is this possible?
They all made right-hand turns.
What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
Echo
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn't a single person on board. How?
Everyone's married.
Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult and then walks with a cane as an old man.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
The letter "m"
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Still Mt. Everest, it just wasn't discovered yet.
Smallest country in the world.
Vatican City
In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower--everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
there were no stairs. It's a one-story house
In my hand, I have two coins that are newly minted. Together, they total 30 cents. One isn't a nickel. What are the coins?
Quarter and a nickel
What are the next 3 letters in the following sequence: J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A
S, O, N, D: these are the initials of the months
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
A Match
What is at the end of everything?
The letter G
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
A Map
What is the car's parking spot number?
| 16 | 06 | 68 | 88 | car | 98 |
Numbers are upside down. 87.
He has married many women but has never been married. Who is he?
A preacher
I come in different shapes and sizes. Some parts of me are curved, and others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?
A puzzle piece.
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The River was frozen
You walk into a room and see a bed. On the bed, there are two dogs, four cats, a giraffe, five cows, and a duck. There are also three chickens flying above the bed. How many legs are on the floor?
There are six legs on the floor. Four legs from the bed and your own two legs as you stand in the room.
All the animals are on the bed and not on the floor.
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
Eat
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?
An anchor
. Put a coin into an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck. How can you remove the coin without removing the cork or breaking the bottle?
Push the cork down into the bottle. Then, shake the coin out.