Logic
You are participating in the swimming finals at the Olympics. In the final few seconds of the race you narrowly pass the swimmer who was in third place. What place did you get?
3rd
How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
You can't break concrete with an egg
If you buy a rooster for the purpose of laying eggs and you hope to have two eggs every day for your breakfast, how many eggs can you expect to have after 13 days?
0. Roosters don't lay eggs
I saw a man in white, he looked quite a sight. He was not old, but he stood in the cold. And when he felt the sun, he started to run. Please answer me. Who could he be?
A Snowman
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
your name
A grandmother, two mothers and two daughters went shopping together and everyone bought one purse each. How many purses did they bring home all together?
3
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king. Who am I?
DAVID
In Roman numerals
First, think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend, the middle of the middle and the end of the end? Finally, give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word. Now, string them together, and answer me this: Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
A spider. you may have read this in Harry Potter.
Four men sat down to play and played all night. They all had different scores. At the end they all made a profit. how is this possible?
they were in a band
If it took 4 people 8 hours to build a house, how long would it take 8 people to build the same house?
none. the house is already built.
My first is a very uncomfortable state, In cold weather it mostly abounds. My second's an instrument formed of hard steel, That will cause the stout foe to stagger and reel, And when used, is a symptom of hate. My whole is an author of greatest renown, Whose fame to the last day of time will go down. Who am I?
Shakespeare
Four jolly men sat down to play, and played all night till break of day. They played for gold and not for fun, with separate scores for every one. Yet when they came to square accounts, they all had made quite fair amounts! Can you the paradox explain? If no one lost, how could all gain?
they were in a band
I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. Who am I?
smoke
Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black blue, and grey, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I?
Eye