Some of these I'm not answering because I started reading some of HH's and Shrike's anwers before stoping and deciding to try some.
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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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Well, if you add something to freeze the water the molecules will expand and become lighter...but I think the answer you want is a hole.
> When set loose
> I fly away
> Never so cursed as when I go astray
> What am I?
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A kite?
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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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Wind?
> A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract just one and twelve is what remains. What is the word?
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> The more you make the more you leave behind?
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Memories?
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> Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
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Forgiveness?
> What didn't Adam and Eve have that everyone else has?
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Clothes not made of fig leaves?
> Can you name four days starting with the letter t?
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
> 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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One Thousand?
> Which is the odd one out - Cube, Square, Sphere, Cylinder, Octohedron?
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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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Ear, Eye, Toe...I can also think of two I probably shouldn't say.
> What common English word becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
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Eat - Ate
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> What question can you never answer yes to, even as a lie?
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"Do I look fat?"
> 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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River
> Richard, Sue and James like coffee, but Andrew, Ann and John don't. Following this pattern does Simon like coffee?
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I never liked Simon.
> Three people go fishing - two fathers and two sons. How is this possible?
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Grandpa, Father, Grandson
> 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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Well, either he goes to bed before the sun goes down or he's got one of those Clap-on/Clap-off dealies for the light.
> 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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We deal in dollars here, not pounds.
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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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Back to back.
