> ...beleive it or not all of these came from my year 7 school planner. There a few questions about English words but I'm fairly confident that they would still work for an American reader.
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> You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the inside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
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Is there a typo on this question? I know a few people who only eat the yolk out of an egg...
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> The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't use it. The man who uses it doesn't know it. What is it?
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A coffin.
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> What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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The letter "m".
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> You have a barrel, filled to the top with water, which weighs 150 kilos. What can you add to the barrel in order to make it lighter?
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A hole.
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> What is greater than God, more evil than the Devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you die?
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Nothing. (And I don't think I've heard this one before, so it was fun to come up with it.)
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> An electric train is travelling north at 100mph. The wind is blowingin an easterly direction at 25mph. Which way is the smoke from the train blowing?
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Unless it's on fire, an electric train shouldn't create smoke.
> A cock lays an egg right at the border between France and Spain. Both countries are argueing who will get it. Who has the right?
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I'm not sure... but an egg laid by a male chicken is probably a valuable thing indeed.
> Last week I went to York, the traffic was OK and the journey took 2 and a half hours. On my return, the traffic was similar, but I made it back in 150 minutes. How come?
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Because the trip takes 9000 seconds?
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> A man rides to town on Saturday, stays two nights, and then rides home on Wednesday. How does this happen?
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Hmmm... I would say he simply went somewhere else before heading home on Wednesday, but that doesn't seem clever enough.
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> Until I am measured
> I am not known
> Yet how you miss me
> When I have flown
> What am I?
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Time?
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> When set loose
> I fly away
> Never so cursed as when I go astray
> What am I?
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> Each morning I appear to lie at your feet,
> All day I will follow no matter how fast you run,
> Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
> What am I?
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A shadow.
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> You heard me before,
> Yet you hear me again,
> Then I die
> Till I call me again.
> What am I?
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> All about but cannot be seen
> Can be captured, cannot be held
> No throat, but can be heard.
> What am I?
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> A big boss had a brother who died. What relation was the big boss to the brother who died? (brother isn't the answer)
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Sister, I suppose.
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> What English word can have four of it's five letters removed and still retain its origional pronounciation?
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> Jacks mother had four children. The first was called North, the second was called South, and the third was called South. What was the fourth called?
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> I'm sitting at a table. Ten flies land on it. With one swot I kill three flies. How many flies are left on the table?
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I'd guess the three dead ones.
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> A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract just one and twelve is what remains. What is the word?
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This one got me. I kept thinking I was supposed to cram another letter into the word "twelve", but couldn't do it. I found the answer online.
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> If green plus blue equals 89 and red plus black equals 56, what does yellow plus black make?
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> Which of the following is not an anagram of an reptile?
> ON CANADA, TIN ROOM, COOL CIDER, CAROB, BIT HAUL.
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Anaconda, Monitor, Crocodile, Cobra and Halibut... the last one being a fish, not a reptile. Of course, none of them are an anagram of "an reptile" either, if you want to get smarmy about it.
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> The more you make the more you leave behind?
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Footprints?
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> An old fashioned bike has 21 spokes. How many spaces are between the spokes? 20, 21 or 22?
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21
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> What always ends everything?
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A "g"?
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> A snail is at the bottom of a 15m tree. Each day he manages to climb 4m. During the night , while he sleeps, he slips back 3m. How many days will he need to reach the top?
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12 days.
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> A man looking at a photo said: "Brothers and sisters I have none. Yet that mans father is my fathers son." Who was in the photo?
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The man speaking.
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> What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
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We had a year that reads the same rotated 180 degrees upside down as rightside up?
> Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
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A chance?
> What belongs to you but is used more by others?
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> What didn't Adam and Eve have that everyone else has?
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Navels. Or parents.
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> Are there more two's or eight's in the numbers one to 50,000?
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This one is confusing. Depending on what counts, you may have more eights... as there is an "eighteen", but no "twoteen". Really, though, there's just one two and one eight. And there's one "to".
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> Some ducks were walking down a path. There was a duck in front of two ducks, a duck behing two ducks, and a duck between two ducks. How many ducks were there in all?
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3
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> Can you name four days starting with the letter t?
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Today, Tomorrow, Tuesday, Thursday.
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> Can you find a five letter word, which, when typed in upper case, reads the same upside down?
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> What was roads but no cars, rivers but no water and forests but no trees?
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> If you were to spell the letters out in full, (One, Two, Three, ect.) how far would you have to go until you hound the letter a?
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You mean spell out each number? One Thousand has the first letter a, I believe.
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> Which is the odd one out - Cube, Square, Sphere, Cylinder, Octohedron?
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A square is only 2 dimensional.
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> Can you name at least ten parts of the human body, which are only three letters long?
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Arm
leg
toe
eye
ear
rib
lip
jaw
umm... I can think of 2 that aren't very polite...
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> He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of earth has six. What do they have?
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I was going to say vowels, but the last one threw me.
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> What common English word becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
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> What is it that you can keep after giving to someone else?
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The time?
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> I'm something you eat
> You might know my name
> Or else my description
> They're one and the same
> What am I?
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An Orange
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> What question can you never answer yes to, even as a lie?
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> What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
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A river.
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> Richard, Sue and James like coffee, but Andrew, Ann and John don't. Following this pattern does Simon like coffee?
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> Three people go fishing - two fathers and two sons. How is this possible?
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A grandfather, a father and a son.
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> John turns off the light in his bedroom. The light switch is 20ft from the bed, but he still manages to get into bed before it is dark. How does he do it?
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The sun hadn't set yet.
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> If nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine pounds is written as £9,999, how should twelve thousand, twlve hundred, and twelve pound be written?
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£13,212
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> How many times would a football rotate if rolled around the middle circumference of another football of the same size?
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Once.
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> Can you stand behind your best friend whilst, at the same time, they stand behind you? Or is it impossible?
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Stand back to back.
