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A potato's key tool, I have all the power.
I am generally used on the half or full hour.
If my cells were deceased or lost or the such,
My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
Eliminate all 26 letters of the alphabet in alphabetical
order, but not necessarily starting with 'A', to reveal a sentence.
sohmeitjkimlemsnthopeseqtresasteursvwcaxnydrziaveybcoduesifllgy
You are in a room that is an 8x8x8 perfect cube. There are no windows, or doors (don't ask me how you got in there!) In the center of the floor there is a 12 inch pipe that is sticking 6 inches out of the floor. In the bottom of the pipe is a ping pong ball with a diameter that is one millimeter smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe. You have a 12 inch piece of string, a match, a magnifying glass, a 6" ruler and a paper clip. How do you get the ping pong ball out of the hole?
You don't need any of the listed items!
422. When Ashley was six years old she hammered a nail into her favorite tree to mark her height. Ten years later at age sixteen, Ashley returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?
421.
A little pool with two layers of wall around it.
One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn
with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
When you curtail a word, you remove the last letter and
still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word
first.
Example: Begin -> Heavenly body
Answer: The words are Start and Star.
1. Attract or please through personality -> To burn; scorch
2. Giving out moderate heat -> Conflict between nations
3. Kingdom; domain -> True; genuine
4. Solid, hard; fixed in place -> Type of evergreen tree
5. Remove from the surface; glide on a surface -> Narrow runner for gliding on
snow
6. Line formed by sewing two pieces together -> Large body of salt water
7. Sew the edge of a cloth -> Male person
8. Agriculture site -> At a great distance
The words start
with these letters:
1. C
2. W
3. R
4. F
5. S
6. S
7. H
8. F
There are two groups of four-letter words used in the
sentences below. The first missing words of each sentence are anagrams of each
other, and the second missing words are also anagrams of each other. Can you
find them?
1. The hunters set a ____ for the hare. How else were they to enjoy its
succulent _____ ?
2. They all listened in ____ attention as their leader spoke and motivated them
to work as a ____.
3. There will always be a small ____ of wildness in a cat, though it is
considered to be a ____ animal today.
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Sam is talking to his lawyer in jail. They are very upset because the judge has refused to grant bail. At the end of the conversation Sam is allowed to leave the jail. Why?
Q: Is it important
why Sam was in jail?
A: Yes
Q: Did Sam's lawyer provide Sam with any legal
assistance that day?
A: No
Q: Would Sam have been able to get out of jail if his
lawyer had not been there?
A: Yes
417. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each
bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the
right. Good luck.
Perfu (--) rge
Barb (--) itor
Again (--) ain
Sta (--) sture
Giraf (--) deral
Featu (--) medy
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 1/2 goat?
414.
We are twins,
We are close together,
But we will not touch,
But far apart,
We become one.
What are we?
413. First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
411. A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
Some anagrams are almost too good to be true. The letters
in the capitalised words or phrases can be rearranged in delightful ways to fill
the gaps!
e.g. Is my lovely _____ really a WOMAN HITLER?
Answer: mother-in-law
1. The _____ Church can be BEST IN PRAYER.
2. The school bully gave his victim NINE THUMPS as a _____.
3. Someone with BAD CREDIT can still manage to pay with a _____.
4. If you missed it last time, keep waiting, for _____ SHALL YET COME!
5. Perhaps because _____ could be a NICE SILKY WOMAN, a president fell for her!
Warning! The hint will give you the starting letters of all words. It will make
the teaser quite easy, so only check if really necessary!
1. P__
2. P__
3. D__ C__
4. H__ C__ (around 2061!)
5. M__ L__
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
How is failure represented in the rebus below?
Options:
A) Success
B) Victory
C) Triumph
D) Accomplishment
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Two people come to a river. There is a boat, however it can carry one person only. How can they each get to the other side of the river using the boat?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Two people come to a river. There is a boat, however it can carry one person only. How can they each get to the other side of the river using the boat?
406. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Handel has been killed and Beethoven is on the case. He has
interviewed the four suspects and their statements are shown below. Each suspect
has said two sentences. One sentence of each suspect is a lie and one sentence
is the truth. Help Beethoven figure out who the killer is.
Joplin: I did not kill Handel. Either Grieg is the killer or none of us is.
Grieg: I did not kill Handel. Gershwin is the killer.
Strauss: I did not kill Handel. Grieg is lying when he says Gershwin is the
killer.
Gershwin: I did not kill Handel. If Joplin did not kill him, then Grieg did.
Below are incomplete words. Replace the letters in each
bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the
right. Good luck.
Indivi ( _ _ _ _ ) ity
Din ( _ _ _ ) ve
Can ( _ _ _ ) lar
Bru ( _ _ _ ) ly
L ( _ _ _ ) litude
403.
I have a light side and a dark side, and I hold the universe together.
What am I?
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What phrase is this?
Interrogator."Who stole the gold?"
Parsley."..."
Sage. "..."
Rosemary. "..."
Thyme. "It was Basil."
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial
sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not
necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse
heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone &
stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following
definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) a lock's companion and a bright-colored tropical bird & a vegetable and a
vegetable
2) a chilly tome & a courageous chef
3) a mournful song & a spoiled cold dish of vegetables served with dressing
4) an excavation of an underground ore deposit in Geneva & the winner of a
beauty pageant sponsored by pig farmers
400. Always invisible, yet never out of sight. What are they?
399. What is so delicate that when you say its name it is broken?
A magazine competition invited people to come up with
"invented" inventions of the cyber-age.
For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word
processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this is?
It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or
batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical
effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.
I can be straight or not
I can be flat or round
I have three layers
The rounder I am - the straighter I am
I can be a person's trademark
I can be chemically challenged
My center layer is
called a Medulla
The following sentences have two blanks that can be filled
with two words that are anagrams of each other. Please find those words.
1. Mark's math __________ was a mild-mannered man. But one thing he would not
tolerate was a __________. He would immediately fail anyone caught doing so.
2. The patient __________ his pain through physical therapy. He had seen enough
__________ surgeries to know that too many people elected surgery when they
shouldn't have.
3. After a long and successful career of serving his country, the nation was in
shock as the highly regarded __________ was arrested and tried for __________.
395.
Chuck, a bestselling author of romantic fiction, had suspected for some time
that his wife Eva was unfaithful, though he had no proof. One afternoon, while
Chuck was working on his latest bodice-ripper, Eva mentioned that she intended
to go to the movies and would be out for a few hours. As Eva went to the door,
Chuck looked at her pensively, then resumed his work. Three hours later, Eva
returned, took her coat off and asked Chuck weather he wanted some coffee. When
she returned from the kitchen, Chuck asked her to sit down as he wanted to talk
to her.
"Eva," he said, "I want a divorce."
Can you figure out how he knew?
394.
I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
What am I?
393.
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks.
Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face.
What is it?
My first is a number, my second another,
And each, I assure you, will rhyme with the other.
My first you will find is one-fifth of my second,
And truly my whole, a long period reckoned.
Yet my first and my second (nay, think not I cozen),
When added together, will make but two dozen.
How many am I?
If a cork is put into a glass of water, the cork will almost always drift to the side of the glass. There is one simple way, however, to get the cork to float in the center of the glass (the horizontal center, not the vertical). What is it? Water, the glass, and the cork are all that is required.
390.
A "Wise King" devised a contest to see who would receive the Princess hand in
marriage.
The Princess was put in a 50x50 foot carpeted room. Each of her four suitors
were put in one corner of the room with a small box to stand on. The first one
to touch the Princess hand would be the winner and become the new King.
The rules of the test were that the contestants could not walk over the carpet,
cross the plane of the carpet, or hang from anything; nor could they use
anything but their body and wits (i.e. no magic or telepathy, nor any items such
as ladders, block and tackles etc).
One suitor figured out a way and married the Princess and became the new King.
How did he figure it out?
389. The sun bakes them, the hand breaks them, the foot treads on them, and the mouth tastes them. What are they?
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Can you unscramble the countries in Part 1 and match them
with the appropriate fact about them in Part 2? And your answer is?
Part 1
1. HCAIN
2. GRIINAE
3. PAJNA
4. SUKTROOAEH
5. MIKUDITDNENGO
6. HUFAIORSACT
7. MNAAORI
Part 2
1. This is the world's most populous country.
2. The capital of this country is Abuja.
3. This is the only country to ever suffer an attack with atomic weapons.
4. The capital of this country is Seoul.
5. This country is a great industrial power despite the fact that it must import
many resources.
6. The capital of this country is Pretoria.
7. Dracula's home, Transylvania, is in this country.
Answer the clues with a pair of rhyming words.
(plump feline = fat cat)
1. Moby Dick fan letter
2. Stream cove
3. Medieval soldier competition
4. Extra couple
5. Metal drain plug
386. Continue this pattern: 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, ?
385.
It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the begining of the
end, and the end of every space?
What is it?
My father gave me a brain teaser with two groups of words
missing. The four words in each group are anagrams of each other. I've solved
the first group, but I'm stuck on the second group. Can you help?
Time to decorate the Christmas tree! Putting up the lights was my job, but after
that it was time to ENLIST some help. While the kids were busy adding TINSEL, I
put on some music to LISTEN to; my favourite song is "SILENT Night".
After we finished decorating the Christmas tree, I hung the stockings on the
__1__. Feeling a chill, I looked down and had to __2__ my __3__ lapse; the fire
was out. I threw on my __4__ and stepped out into the cold night to gather some
firewood. Upon my return, we were soon roasting chestnuts and sipping eggnog to
complete a wonderful evening.
Here are
definitions of the missing words:
1. a shelf above a fireplace
2. to express sorrow
3. relating to the mind
4. a cloak
The more you make of me the more you leave behind. What am I?
On a hot summer day by a lake you are determined to build a boat made of ice, using a refrigeration unit and a large mold in which you can pour water. Nearby you notice an Egyptian mummy resting on a pile of wood pulp. What is the best strategy for building an ice boat that will not melt before you sail it across the lake?
Many of our everyday words have more than one meaning.
Below are eleven pairs of definitions. Both definitions in each pair fit the
same word. When read down, the first letters of the eleven answers will spell
out the name of a beloved TV celebrity.
1. Spend time idly or bread unit
2. Worker's organization or marriage
3. Pine tree fruit or ice cream holder
4. Feeling of curiosity or savings account accrual
5. Land parcel or considerable quantity
6. Illumination or not weighty at all
7. Typewriter type style or the VIP crowd
8. Baby's toy or city square
9. Weapon or upper body appendage
10. Bowling group or three nautical miles
11. Stand at a slant or thin
The following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined
to form the name of an animal or insect.Try to figure it out.
1. Zeal, Gel
2. Neat, Help
3. Boa, Luff
4. Bow, Mat
5. Evil, Owner
A man wanted to get into a members only club so he hid and watched the guard at the door of the club house. The guard said a number to each member as they approached, and the member would respond with a number of their own. If the member responded with the correct number they were let in. If they responded incorrectly they were thrown out. One member came up to the door, the guard said twelve, and the member responded with six and was let in. Another member came to the door, the guard said six and the member responded with three and was let in. Believing he had heard enough, the reject went up to the guard. The guard said ten, and the reject said five, but was not let in. What should the reject have said?
I can jump from the highest to the lowest place,
But the bottom is what I chase.
Do not fear me, for what I am is yours to take,
Just don't jump with me, for your sake.
What am I?
Whenever a phrase or sentence becomes part of the common
language, there is a strong possibility that it will be quoted inaccurately.
Over the course of time, a letter gets shifted or a word is changed and
forevermore the quotation becomes a cliche that nobody ever gets quite right.
Try to complete each proverbial cliche:
1.) " I only regret that I have but one life to ______ for my country." - Nathan
Hale
2.) "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no ______ ."
3.) "Music hath charms to soothe ______ ." - William Congreve
A lady, very concerned about her appearance and the
environment, was being interviewed about keeping her beauty without compromising
on environmental issues. When she was asked how she managed to keep her hair so
shiny and silky without washing it every day, she declared she never washed it!
How could this be true?
Following are 6 words that have the same two letters
repeated at some point. Those two letters have been removed, replaced by two
sets of asterisks. Can you figure out which two letters to use in each word? You
use the same two letters within each word, but use a different set of letters
for each word.
1. **chorm**
2. **joym**t
3. **iqu**te
4. **ip**ape
5. **s**cere
6. **p**zard
374. Three men sitting in a small motorboat one mile from the shoreline. The first is afraid of water, the second afraid of drowning, and the third afraid of sharks. The boats motor is not operational and there is nothing to row with. How do they get to the shoreline.
373. Gertrude Mills was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, "You brought me the same tea!" How did she know?
372. 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?
371. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
370. Five baby boomer couples each have one child. Each child is a different age than any of the other children. Each child has a favorite toy which is different from any of the other children's favorite toys. Each family eats at only one fast food restaurant. No two women have the same name and no two men have the same name. The children's names are not known. The child who plays with trains is the youngest. Bill's child plays with GI Joe. Julie's child likes Pokeman. Mike's family eats at Taco Bell. The family of the 4 year old likes Kentucky Fried Chicken. The oldest child is four years older than Marie's child. The child who plays with Barbie is 8 years old. The child with the age is in the middle, has a mother named Marie. The child in the family that eats at McDonalds has a two year age difference with Larry's child. Carol is the mother in the family that eats at Dairy Queen. The child that plays Nintendo likes Burger King. Steve's child is two years apart in age from the child of the family that eats at Kentucky Fried Chicken. The child that plays with trains is two years apart from the 6 year old. The child that eats at McDonalds is two years older or younger than Regina's child. Lisa's child is 10. Who is married to George?
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
A phobia is an irrational fear or hatred of a specific
thing or situation which compels one to avoid it despite awareness and
reassurance that the object or situation is not dangerous. Listed below are the
names and definitions of six phobias. Five are real phobias documented in
psychology journals, while one is an imposter. Can you determine which one from
the list below is not a real phobia?
Trichopathophobia - Fear of hair
Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law
Aibohphobia - Fear of Palindromes
Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals
Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of certain names.
Look at the words carefully.
Identify the fruits and vegetables from the following
clues:
(Don't assume that you know how part of a clue is pronounced. There may be more
than one way!)
1. "Mom, may we please go outside? Will you please let us play? PLEASE! PLEASE!"
2. Another name for a taxi + the rings in a tree indicate what? =
___________________.
3. A pool stick + C + a burnt brownish color = ______________________.
4. Your mother pairs socks at the toes.
5. A drink + me + the end of the word "talon" = _____________________.
Jesse James' lesser known brother, Eddie has also decided
to take up robbing banks for a living. He is unfortunately a little slow and has
forgotten to bring the dynamite to blow open the safe!
Using logic, the following clues and a large amount of patience, can you figure
out the 10 digit number to crack the safe?
*All digits from 0 to 9 are used exactly once.
*The sum of the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 8th digits is a single digit number.
*The 4th digit is a perfect square.
*The 3rd digit is 1.
*The sum of the 4th and 7th digits is a perfect square.
*The value of the 10th digit is twice that of the 2nd.
*The product of the 4th and 6th digits is equal to that of the 10th and 2nd
digits.
*The 5 is next to the 6 but not the 4.
The easiest
failsafe way to solve this is to draw a grid with all the numbers from 0 to 9 in
each position, and cross them out as they are eliminated by the clues.
You may need to revisit each clue a few times...!
I have been called a savage, a chief and oft times a
leader.
Some have called me the embodiment of courage, although to a Crook I did
surrender.
Where I was born, there were no enclosures.
In the end, to bring me down, it took 5000 soldiers.
As the "terror of the country", I had a reputation of cruelty and cunning.
My tactics consisted of hitting and then running.
Many movies and stories of me were made.
The memories of me, the most famous of my people, will never fade.
People have spoken ill of me so many times it would give your throat a lump.
Yet sometimes, my name is the last word said when people make a big jump.
Now it's time to give it a try.
Do you know my name; who am I?
My birth name,
Goyathlay, did not last long.
Of me, words were written and put to a medicine song.
The meaning of my birth name is the title of this
riddle.
I have but one name for my first, last and middle.
The following not only describes a famous monument, but is
an anagram for its name. What is it?
Built to Stay Free
A gift from France
Using real names to make common words/phrases, name the
offspring: (the first one is free!)
1. Mr and Mrs Voyant - Clare (as in Clairvoyant)
2. Mr and Mrs Tress
3. Mr and Mrs Nasium
4. Mr and Mrs Tate
5. Mr and Mrs Anthemum
6. Mr and Mrs Mander
7. Mr and Mrs Mite
8. Mr and Mrs Time
After a long day of work, I was relieved. I had been working since 4pm in a circuitry lab, working on the next big project. I observed the sun just starting to descend as I start to walk out to my car. All of a sudden, however, I had an urge to sneeze furiously! If it's the middle of January on a windy day, what's happening here?
- It's January, so
there isn't very much pollen... at least not enough to be the cause.
- I don't have any allergies.
- It's windy, so dust can't really settle anywhere.
- I'm not sick.
- This is a common occurrence for me.
- 20-25% of people will get this teaser right off the
bat.
332.
Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son.
Who is that man?
331.
Note: this riddle must be done in your head and not using pencil and paper.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Now add another
1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total
330. How many sides does a circle have?
329. You have 9 golf balls. 8 of which are equal in weight. The ninth is slightly heavier then the rest. You also have a balancing scale. Can you use this scale two times and only two times in order to tell which ball is heavier?
You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.
Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.
My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.
I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.
I love the time of Christmas,
But that's not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.
327. I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my substance behind. What am I?
Help Beethoven use these clues below to decipher these
popular Christmas/Holiday tunes.
Example: A Triad of Monarchs
Answer: We Three Kings
1. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis.
2. Frozen precipitation commences.
3. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas.
4. I envisioned a trio of marine vessels.
5. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure that stimulates my auditory
sense organs?
6. Leave and do a broadcast on an elevated peak.
Bonus: The apartment of 2 psychiatrists.
Hint: The bonus one is not a song with words. Use a thesaurus to help you with some of the words.
The blanks below can be filled in with words spelled with
the same four letters in different order. Find them.
There once was a musical, _ _ _ _.
It was performed in three _ _ _ _.
When it was through,
The audience flew
And all of the _ _ _ _ went _ _ _ _.
324. I'm in a zoo
But not in a jungle
I rarely come in pairs
But I'm in every puzzle
Some think I'm in a xylophone
But, I most certainly am not
You don't see me with a loan
But very strangely in a zealot
I'm in the magical prison of Azkaban
Well, can't you see?
I'm in the buzz of a fan
But, my oh my what could I be?
How does xylophone sound like it should start with?
323.
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving.
What is it?
322. There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?
321.What builds up castles, tears down mountains, makes some blind, helps others to see?
There was a death on Treebark Ln. The victim was identified
as Mark Oswalt, who recently was married. The police went to the crime scene and
they reported the death as a suicide.
Later that day, after the police left, a private detective, hired by the
victim's friend who thought it was a murder, searched the crime scene and found
a note the police missed.
It read,
"4,3: 8,1:_: 9,1: 2,1: 7,4:_: 6,1:9,3:_: 9,1: 4,3: 3,3: 3,2: !"
The detective took out his cell phone and started dialing the police to tell
them about his findings. Once the detective opened the phone to dial, he
immediately screamed out, "I SOLVED IT!"
Who was the murderer and how did the detective find out?
Mark Oswalt used his cell phone for business calls many times a day.
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Place the same pair of letters onto both sets of blanks to
complete a common word. Each answer will have a different pair of letters.
1. F __ __ G __ __ N T
2. P A __ __ T __ __ G
3. __ __ C K L I __ __
4. B __ __ D S T __ __ D
5. __ __ A F __ __ T
These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which of the following words does not belong in the list,
and why?
Reappear
Caucasus
Inefficiencies
Signings
Arraigning
Horseshoer
Intestines
Appeases
Other words that
would fit in the list are:
Hotshots
Couscous
Beriberi
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What phrase is shown in the figure below?
S-n-o-w
316.
I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?
315. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
314.
What do these three things have in common?
Dogs, Diamonds, Double Plays
I'm often seen around a lot, referred to many ways,
See me black and you may find misfortune haunts your days.
Tell a thing, that should have been kept quiet, to all around,
Then look inside the sack, there I'm no longer to be found.
Nosiness, prying, snooping, leaves me fearing, full of dread,
For all these things are likely to see me soon lying dead.
These clues combined should start to give a picture, an idea,
Of who or what I am, so can you tell me? Is it clear?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
I am more microscopic than microscopic; I am more minuscule
than minuscule.
I am smaller than small and I am tinier than tiny.
Yet surprisingly, I am still big. What am I?
Don't be too small-minded!
311.
There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies.
What is it?
310.
What is:
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end
And the end of every place
When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and
still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word
first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Wear away -> Travelled on an animal
2. Fill with joy -> Not on time; dead
3. Each; all -> To a high degree
4. Something that happens -> To let off pressure
5. Large property with a house -> Declare; say
6. Come out from -> To combine; unite
7. Feeling; passion -> Movement
8. Same in ability; fairness -> Trait; character
The shorter words
start with these letters:
1. R
2. L
3. V
4. V
5. S
6. M
7. M
8. Q
308. While walking down the street I met a man. He tipped his hat and drew his cane and in this riddle I told his name. What is the mans name?
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What phrase is represented below?
HEA wooden stick VEN
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head VEN
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What is represented below?
C = @
D = !
N = *
O = %
T = #
U = /
@%*!/@# = ?
When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and
still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word
first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Outer layer -> Oxidized metal
2. Defraud; violate rules -> Thermal energy in transit
3. Sensation of cold -> Local land elevation
4. Go upward -> Jointed appendage; branch
5. Strong metal rope -> Having necessary skill
6. Confined; restrained -> Old; grew older
7. Stop; discontinue -> Freedom from hardship
8. Lacking dirt -> Lacking fat
The shorter words
start with these letters:
1. R
2. H
3. H
4. L
5. A
6. A
7. E
8. L
304. You are in a room that is completly bricked in on all four sides, including the cieling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?
Once there was a night watchman who had been caught several
times sleeping on the job. The boss issued the final warning. On the next night
he was caught with his head on his hand and his elbows on the desk.
"Aha, I've caught you again," exclaimed the boss. The watchman's eyes popped
open immediately and he knew what had happened. Being a quick thinking man, he
said one word before looking up at the boss. The boss apologized profusely and
went home. What was the one word?
A Name Train is a puzzle where each name is connected
together like box cars in a train. You are given the first car (the Engine) and
the last car (the caboose), and you have to fill in the car or cars in between.
Every two consecutive cars will form a name of a person or character. Here is an
example Name Train: Joan [ ] Li. The answer is Joan Jet Li (Joan Jet-Female
singer, Jet Li-Actor) Ready? OK here goes:
1. Chris [ ] Hudson
2. Chris [ ] Asimov
3. Boy [ ] [ ] Ford
4. Elton [ ] [ ] Newton
5. Curious [ ] [ ] [ ] Browne
1. Comedian, Actor
2. Singer, Author (Sci-Fi)
3. Singer, Singer, Actor
4. Singer, Actor, Singer
5. Character in kids books, Singer, Singer, Singer
Answer the clues with a pair of rhyming words.
(plump feline = fat cat)
1. unadorned necklace
2. happy fellow
3. old story
4. dim enamel
5. timid gnat
6. colorless shellfish
7. big boat
Georges, Patrick, Charlis, Samuel and Bruno are five
Frenchmen. Georges knows English and Chinese. Patrick knows Chinese and
Japanese. Charlis knows Japanese and German. Samuel knows German and English.
Bruno knows them all: English, Chinese, Japanese and German.
In how many ways can they sit in a row, such that any two neighboring persons
have no problems in communication?
Look at its category.
I hover out there in darkness unseen.
I will shred things to pieces 'till they're just smithereens.
I might serve as a gateway to places unspoken,
Yet I'm sealed off to man, forever unbroken.
I twist and distort, only darkness escapes,
I destroy all I find
Whatever I take.
I'm a wonderful
thing, a mysterious lure.
But if you reach my horizon you're a goner for sure.
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
ACT_O_
Oh soldier, oh
soldier, where are you hidden?
Put this on,
And warm you'll be.
Take one off,
And an emotion, you'll see.
"Take one off" is a letter.
I am three words,
Two of them appear the same,
Two are pronounced the same.
One is the third person use of "capable" or "permit".
One means to sleep, but only for a bit.
The last word means a group of deer,
Perhaps now you can tell me, what words are here?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
At noon, you look at the clock in your bedroom. The big hand is on the five and the little hand is in between the 3 and the 4. What time is it?
Just think...
294. Count the number of “Y” in this text:
Yesterday, Lucy went all the way to Boston. She wanted to buy new shoes. She had to go in many shops before she found the shoes she wanted. She was happy to stop at a restaurant to have some tea and cookies before she took the train back home.
Count the number of “F” in this text:
Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.
Count the number of “E” in this text:
Last summer, Jean and Harriet spent their vacation in Michigan. They rented a cabin on the lake. The cabin had two bedrooms and a nice deck. They used to spend a lot of time on the deck, just looking at how the light would change on the water. Several times, they borrowed bikes from their neighbors and spent a few hours exploring the villages not far from their cabin.
In each sentence, an animal is concealed. The first
sentence has dog concealed. Can you find the others?
1. What shall I do, Gertrude?
2. Asking nutty questions can be most annoying.
3. A gold key is not a common key.
4. Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
5. People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
6. Did I ever tell you, Bill, I once found a dollar?
7. John came late to his arithmetic class.
8. I enjoy listening to music at night.
A very mean king went to a nearby village. He wanted some more slaves to serve him at his royal palace. He decided that if any family in the village had more than five children, he would take them. A cobbler and his wife had ten children. When the king came to take them, the cobbler and his wife begged and begged. Finally the king said, "I see that you have ten pairs of shoes in a box. If you can give each of your children a pair and still leave one pair out of ten in the box, you can keep your children. The cobbler and his wife began to smile at each other. How did they keep all of their children?
A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same, if
it's turned back-to-front. The names Bob, Eve, and Otto are all palindromes. So
is the name of the pop group Abba. Try to identify palindromic words from the
following clues. Good luck!
Example: Part of the body
Answer: Eye
1. Midday
2. A young dog
3. Flat
4. Word for addressing a lady
5. An Eskimo canoe
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc.
7. An action
8. Pieces of music for one person
9. Grass that grows on the seashore
10. In music, half a semibreve
11. Doctrine
12. Restorer
Use the syllables in the sylalist to complete the clues
below. Each clue gives how many syllables the answer of it has. Can you complete
every question?
Sylalist: com con dent e el el er fort junc man ment na nov o or or phant pi ro
rus sat sau scor the tion urn
Clues:
1. Sign of the zodiac (3)
2. A Planet (2)
3. A Mammal (3)
4. Decoration (3)
5. Mansion (2)
6. Long Fiction (2)
7. Rat, Squirrel, etc. (2)
8. Quilted Bedcover (3)
9. Book of Synonyms (3)
10. and, but, for, so, etc. (3)
What different types of Radio are represented below?
(Don't take it too seriously)
1) \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Radio
2) ^^^^^^^^^^ Radio
3) BAAAAAAAND Radio
4) 8 Fingers 2 thumbs Radio
5) BlackBeard Radio
6) 90% Fat free Radio
7) Sister to Sister Radio
1) and 2) compare
the two (and view pictorially)
3) Faster Internet possibly?
4) Another name for fingers?
5) Illegal?
6) Calorie content?
7) Electrical component?
What are the answers to all these clues and what do those
answers have in common?
1. An amber tinted paste used on a wienerwurst.
2. A purple fruit
3. Besides the number of days, the months of May and August have this in common.
4. A finely feathered and polychromatic avian friend.
5. A 7 letter word for a pigment like crimson.
6. A bleached and neutral hue.
Board games.
What emotion is an anagram of a homonym of an antonym of a homonym of an anagram of wolf?
Which one of the following words does not belong with the
other six?
Issue
Mishap
Parachute
Ocean
Semiconscious
Anxious
Mansion
The title provides
three more words that do belong!
Feed, good, and kiss are 3 examples of words with double
letters. Use the clues and fill in the blanks to find words with consecutive
double letters. Remember, these words have 2 sets of double letters in a row!
1. A woodwind instrument that dates back to the mid 16th century.
B _ _ _ _ _ N
2. A sweet treat that is sometimes made with nuts or raisins.
T _ _ _ _ E
3. A term that can be used to describe boats and ships.
K _ _ _ _ _ _ S
4. A character in a courtroom.
A _ _ _ _ _ _ E
---Experts Only!---
5. A Belgian language.
W _ _ _ _ _ N
---Just For Fun!---
6. This word has 3 consecutive double letters!
B _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R
1. B A _ _ _ _ N
2. T O _ _ _ E
3. K _ _ _ _ _ S S
4. A P _ _ _ _ _ E
---Experts Only!---
5. W A _ _ _ _ N
---Just For Fun!---
6. B O _ _ _ _ _ _ E R
Swaff is sitting at his desk, being cool, when his younger
brother Geemiee walks up. Geemiee had recently been practicing his (fake)
magical powers, trying to turn cheese into more cheese, so he believes he can
beat Swaff in anything. He sets up a little competition, the first to get 5
ounces of water to freeze, will be proclaimed the coolest guy in their home.
They set up some rules, as follows:
-They both can only use normal water that comes out of their stainless steel
faucet.
-They both use identical containers
-They both must use the same freezer, at the same time.
Now, Swaff realizes that if he were to lose, he would become less cool, he just
doesn't roll like that. So, how can Swaff have the best chance of winning over
Geemiee?
Feed, good, and kiss are 3 examples of words with double
letters. Use the clues and fill in the blanks to find words with consecutive
double letters. Remember, these words have 2 sets of double letters in a row!
1. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...
B _ _ _ _ _ N
2. Body modification.
T _ _ _ _ O
3. A Group of people.
C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E
4. Acuteness or acumen.
K _ _ _ _ _ _ S
---Experts Only!---
5. Kangaroos, dingos, and kookaburras!
C _ _ _ E
1. B A _ _ _ _ N
2. T A _ _ _ O
3. C O M _ _ _ _ _ E
4. K _ _ _ N _ _ S
---Experts Only!---
5. C _ _ E E
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
My great-grandmother was exceptional from first to last.
She was the first baby born in the state in 1851. She was almost the first
centenarian in the family, but she died in 1950, one day before her 100th
birthday.
The cause of her death was not unusual; thousands of people died of the same
cause that year and also in previous years. Her death was exceptional because
she was the last person ever to die from that cause in the United States.
What was the cause of death?
Her age isn't
important, but the date is. If she had lived just one more day, she wouldn't
have died from that cause. No major disease was cured in 1951, but it would have
been illegal to die from that cause.
An antigram is an anagram which has a meaning opposite to
its unscrambled version.
Try these:
EVIL'S AGENTS
REAL FUN
NICE LOVE
NO MORE STARS
If you throw me from the window,
I will leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but in the door, and
You'll see someone giving life!
What am I?
I am seen through many eyes.
Even the blind see me.
Through me, nothing is impossible.
Many stories come from within me.
Time can hold still, or move at the speed of light.
The unthinkable comes to life in me.
I am a wondrous world full of life, or even death.
Love can rule, and hate fades out of the picture.
Peace can be found throughout and no wars.
It is within me where only I can control; no one else can.
I am a place that no one can take from you.
What am I?
In a sylasearch I give you a syllable-starter, which is the
first syllable in the words you are to find. I will also give you a listing of
the other syllables
(in which each may only be used once) which you must use to figure out the 9
words.
Syllable List - a, a, a, al, don, en, graph, ic, ka, keet, lel, ly, med, ses,
the, tial, ty
Syllable-starter: par
How many syllables, each word has:
1. (2)
2. (2)
3. (2)
4. (3)
5. (3)
6. (3)
7. (3)
8. (4)
9. (4)
Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Can you decipher these common Christmas Carols?
1. Happiness to the Global Ecosystem
2. Small male percussionist
3. I am pontificating of a colorless holiday
4. Festoon the Corridors
5. A Non-summer fairytale area
6. Oh holiday conifer
7. Ten plus two twenty-four hour periods of holiday festivity
8. Hey tiny city in Israel
9. In a remote location in a barn stall
Series teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.
Professor C. D. Rock ran out of teasers, so he went to
Teaserville to buy some more. After arriving there he went to 6 different
stores. He first went to the "Theater" to buy some teasers about movies. He then
went to the "ER Hospital" to buy teasers about health, and the human body. Then
he went to, in order, the "Art Center," the "Supermarket," and the "Energy
Plantation." He then went to one last store. It was one of the following:
A. Library
B. High School
C. Dance Arena
D. Saloon
E. Dog Pound
F. Railroad Station
G. Petting Zoo
H. Carnival
Can you figure out which place Professor C. D. Rock visited lastly?
The order of the places he visited has great significance.
A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a
dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water
onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or
moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use the match
and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the
waiter get the water into the glass?
The glass will be upside-down when the water is in it.
Who can't live without Spell Check in their email or word
software? It's a great tool...
Unless you are poor Paula Abdul who transforms into "Pail Abut" when the Spell
Checker has at her.
The following Music Stars have been Spell Checked and are ready for you to
uncover their true identities.
1. Keen Chimney
2. Bayonet Knowledge
3. Retching Wilson
4. Jousting Tumblers
5. Went Steamy
6. Madden
7. Tubby Kith
8. Pariah Curry
9. Rebel Mentioned
10. Cozy About
1. Old Blue Chair
2. Destiny no more
3. All Jacked Up!
4. Cried a river over Britney
5. Harajuku girl
6. Material girl
7. How do you like him now?
8. Emancipating Mimi
9. Country star with a TV Show
10. Rocker with a TV Show
Probability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers
you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50
white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, "Divide these 100 marbles into
these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the
marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose
one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the
marble is BLACK... you will die."
How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of
choosing a WHITE marble?
The answer does
not guarantee 100% you will chose a white marble, but you have a much better
chance.
What does each word in each group have in common?
Group A
A baby
A cow
A shoe
Group B
A duck
A restaurant goer
Congress
Group C
A river
A cave
A face
In a sylasearch I give you a syllable-starter, which is the
first syllable in the words you are to find. I will also give you a listing of
the other syllables that you must use to figure out the 7 words.
Syllable List - al, cras, fes, file, ly, mo, nate, noun, po, si, sion, tec, ter,
ti, tion, tor
Syllable-starter: pro
How many syllables, each word has:
1. (2)
2. (2)
3. (3)
4. (3)
5. (4)
6. (4)
7. (5)
270.
Many different types of my last seven letters can be found in newspapers,
magazines, & journals. Physicists have built devices to get me moving very fast.
What am I?
In your future and in your past
I come and go so senseless and fast
My purpose is unknown to all
Remembrance seems to drift then fall
I travel by night and fade by day
Because that is my common way
We all have them
Can you find a three-letter word that will go in front of
each word in the group to make a new, compound word? For each group, the
three-letter word will have just one letter changed from the answer to the
previous group! (Example: Group 1 = Run, Group 2 = Fun, Group 3 = Sun)
1) Fight, walk, fish, nap
2) Back, throat, lass, let
3) Case, cracker, house, shell
4) Side, come, match, size
267.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it
grows.
What is it?
266.
The higher I climb, the hotter I engage, I can not escape my crystal cage.
What am I?
265.
I can be short and sometimes hot.
When displayed, I rarely impress.
What am I?
264. If you were blindfolded and placed in front of a large bowl containing $50, $20, $10 and $5 bills, and you were allowed to take one bill at a time until you have taken four bills of the same denomination, what would be the largest amount of money you could draw?
263. What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
What is a living creature that has four legs, eats cat food, and sees equally well on both ends of its body?
Think optically.
I may run rings around you
Or escape your clutching grip
Or leave a treacherous trail
That gives a sudden slip.
(If you're not careful!)
You always end up winning,
While I shrink with each new meet:
Our bouts will be my ruin,
But you'll come out smelling sweet.
What am I?
Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following
paragraph:
Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in
kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato
patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found
swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth.
The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own
risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic
when viewed with our ultraviolet torch.
If you balanced a broom horizontally on your finger, so
that your finger was exactly on the broom's center of gravity, marked that spot
and cut the broom in two, then you would have a long and a short piece. The long
piece being most of the handle and the short piece being the bristle end and a
small part of the handle. Now what will happen if you weigh both pieces? (pick
all that apply)
A) The short piece will weigh more.
B) The long piece will weigh more.
C) Both will weigh the same.
D) Your mom will find out and hit you with both pieces!
Think about two kids on a see-saw. Where does the heavy kid have to sit to balance the see-saw with his smaller friend?
It roars like thunder,
And rises higher,
While breathing fire,
This wingless wonder.
If it leaves its cave,
Drags us in its tail,
Over hill and dale,
Then you must be brave.
Early morning flight,
Silently it flies,
Slowly in the skies.
Hides before the night.
My kingdom at least,
To the brave young knight,
If you name it right.
What is this huge beast?
Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch.
Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey
word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same
order.
Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion
See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. because
2. astound
3. municipality
4. charisma
5. damsel
See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. masculine
Fill in the sentence below so
that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example, given "The
prime minister ____ the meeting, even though the ____ was technically the ____
official," you would fill in RAN, KING, and RANKING.
If there is not enough light to ____, ____ ____ the lamp.
255.
I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I am the parent of numbers that
cannot be told. I am a gift beyond measure, a matter of course. I am given with
pleasure when taken by force.
What am I?
254. A girl is twice as old as her brother and half as old as her father. In 22 years, her brother will be half as old as his father. How old is the daughter now?
253. What always goes to bed with his shoes on?
252. What demands an answer, but asks no question?
251. A man weighing 180 lbs. carrying 3 bowling balls weighing 10 lbs. each, approaches a large ravine. The only way to cross is a bridge with a weight limit of 200 lbs. The ravine is to far to throw or roll the balls across. How can the man cross the ravine in only one trip, with all 3 bowling balls?
250. There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?
249. An open-ended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive! What am I?
A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day
he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his computer
terminal. His password wouldn't work. Then he remembered that the passwords are
reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and they had
this conversation:
Man-"Hey boss, my password is out of date."
Boss-"Yes, that's right. The password is different, but if you listen carefully
you should be able to figure out the new one: It has the same amount of letters
as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same."
Man: "Thanks boss."
With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.
What was the new password?
BONUS: What was his old password?
It is nine letters long. Also, a "password" can be more than one word...
If you're good at solving puzzles, these will be easy.
Every answer is a two-word phrase in which the first word begins with "BE" and
the second with "ST".
Ex: A fairy tale is a popular one.
BE_ _ _ _ _ ST_ _ _
BEDTIME STORY
1.)Nickname for Utah.
BE_ _ _ _ _ ST_ _ _
2.)One jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown.
BE_ _ _ _ _ ST_ _ _ _
3.)Cause of red bump on the skin.
BE_ ST_ _ _
4.)What separates Alaska from Russia.
BE _ _ _ _ ST_ _ _ _
5.)Star of "Zoolander" and "Meet the Fockers".
BE_ ST_ _ _ _ _
6.)Once a giant among the United States' metal manufacturers.
BE_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ST_ _ _
I am tall when I am young.
I am short when I am old.
When I live I glow.
From your breath I die.
What am I?
245.
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.
In this teaser, you have to find the odd ones out in the
groups of words. BUT WAIT! There's a catch. Each group of words has TWO words
which do not belong. Can you find them both?
EXAMPLE:
Lily - Jane - Tulip - Rose
Jane does not belong as it's the only one which is not a flower.
Tulip also does not belong because it's the only one which is not a girl's name.
You're on your own for the rest!
1. Dodge - Ford - Lincoln - Hoover
2. King - Earl - Knight - Bishop
3. Yellow - Green - Dead - Black
A clock has 60 lines on it; one at each minute interval.
Everyone knows that the hour and minute hands point to the same line at 12:00.
Can you figure out what time it is for these situations?
1. The hour hand is exactly on one line, and the minute hand is exactly on the
NEXT line.
2. The hour hand is exactly on one line, and the minute hand is exactly on the
PREVIOUS line.
Each hour, the minute hand moves 60 intervals, while the hour hand moves 5 intervals. The hour hand is exactly on a line every 12 minutes. ( 60 / 5 = 12 )
Six letters have I, and many more;
One word tells what the others are for;
Conceal a thing is what I do;
So what am I? Need a clue?
Words together
make this rhyme;
Now while you ponder for a time,
Your brain is on a merry chase,
And I'm staring you right in the face!
Who can't live without Spell Check in their email or word
software? It's a great tool...
Unless you are poor Paula Abdul who transforms into "Pail Abut" when the Spell
Checker has at her.
The following TV and Movie Celebrities have been Spell Checked and are ready for
you to uncover their true identities.
1. Court Coax
2. Action Cutter
3. Kite Wingless
4. Summon Cowbell
5. Mercy Stripe
6. Deli Moose
7. Camera Dies
8. Renew Sewage
1. Rachel's friend
2. See #6
3. Titanic star
4. Paula's costar
5. Mrs. Kramer then and Aunt Josephine now
6. Paired with #2
7. There's something about her
8. Bridget Jones
Bob was having a big party. He decided on a technique to
get lots of people to come. He invited his five closest friends and said that
they could each invite 4 people.
Each of those could invite 3.
Each of those could invite 2.
Each of those could invite 1.
Overall, how many people did Bob invite to his party?
In the land of Brainopia, there are three races of people:
Mikkos, who tell the truth all the time, Kikkos, who always tell lies, and
Zikkos, who tell alternate false and true statements, in which the order is not
known (i.e. true, false, true or false, true, false). When interviewing three
Brainopians, a foreigner received the following statements:
Person 1:
I am a Mikko.
Person 2:
I am a Kikko.
Person 3:
a. They are both lying.
b. I am a Zikko.
Can you help the very confused foreigner determine who is who, assuming each
person represents a different race?
Pay close attention to Person 3's statements.
238. Two thin ropes hang from the high ceiling of an empty room, just too far apart from each other to be grabbed with both hands at the same time. How can you tie a knot with both ends using only a pair of sharp scissors.
Each of the clues below describe the name of a candy. Can
you name them? Example: Galaxy would be a Milky Way.
1. Sign of affection
2. Favorite day for working people
3. Can't hold on to anything
4. Famous swashbuckling trio
5. Sun explosions
For each group below, fill in the blanks with two words
that differ only by their first letter.
1. Stop thinking over here. Go _ _ _ _ _ _ over _ _ _ _ _ _.
2. An untrained person could be killed in these woods, but there is little _ _ _
_ _ _ for a _ _ _ _ _ _.
3. Writing an "A" on your dish rag would make it a _ _ _ _ _ with a _ _ _ _ _.
235. If you screw a lightbulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right with your right hand, which way would you turn the socket with your left hand in order to unscrew it while holding the bulb stationary?
234.
The king dies and two men, the true heir and an impostor, both claim to be his
long-lost son. Both fit the description of the rightful heir: about the right
age, height, coloring and general appearance. Finally, one of the elders
proposes a test to identify the true heir. One man agrees to the test while the
other flatly re-fuses. The one who agreed is immediately sent on his way, and
the one who re-fused is correctly identified as the rightful heir.
Can you figure out why?
233. What kind of bees make milk?
232. I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I?
On July 7th, I had a most unusual day. I woke up at exactly
7:07, stumbled to my refrigerator and had a 7up. I got dressed, went downstairs,
and caught the number 7 bus to go to my office on 77th street. While sitting in
my office on the 7th floor, it dawned on me how my day was going so I called my
bookie and placed a $777 bet on the number 7 horse in the seventh race, whose
name was Seventh Heaven, to win.
Do you know what happened?
Unscramble the words below and follow the instructions in
parentheses.
1. REDE (Take the 3rd letter)
2. SAVEREB (Take the 4th letter)
3. HERSWS (Take the 5th letter)
4. OSINB (Take the 4th letter)
5. SOMEO (Take the 4th letter)
6. LETANPOE (Take the 5th letter)
Now unscramble the letters you got to find your answer.
Read the title!
WHAT DOES THIS EQUAL?
12=DD + 11=PP + 10=LL + 9=LD + 8=MM + 7=SS + 6=GL + 5=GR + 4=CB + 3=FH + 2=TD +
1=PPT = ?
Can you name the salad veggies? Use synonyms of each word
in the clue; put them together to sound out the answer.
EG. Clue: Dog Bloom
Answer: Cauliflower
Explanation: "Collie" "Flower"
1. Caution Groove
2. Rotate Bite
3. Fish-egg Hair
4. Allow We
5. Twirl Scratch
6. Taxi Shift
7. Animal-park Crucial Leg-joint
8. Signal Burden
9. Awesome Plate
10. Invigorate Each
Bonus:
-Room Jumble
-Compel Whip
-Not Age
I included some roots and fruits classified as 'salad vegetables'.
227. When buried deep in Mother Earth, the high pressure transforms black coal into clear diamonds; a diamond in the rough.
Unscramble the below 4 words.
K N A T
T I C E D
P R I A D E
H E U S I O N
Black as night I can be,
Until my Mother sits on me;
Then clear as ice I become
In the rough, thank you Mum.
What am I?
225.
A "Wise King" devised a contest to see who would receive the Princess hand in
marriage.
The Princess was put in a 50x50 foot carpeted room. Each of her four suitors
were put in one corner of the room with a small box to stand on. The first one
to touch the Princess hand would be the winner and become the new King.
The rules of the test were that the contestants could not walk over the carpet,
cross the plane of the carpet, or hang from anything; nor could they use
anything but their body and wits (i.e. no magic or telepathy, nor any items such
as ladders, block and tackles etc).
One suitor figured out a way and married the Princess and became the new King.
How did he figure it out?
224. Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
The same five-letter word can be added to either the front
or back, but not both, of the following words to create four new words. Can you
determine what is the five-letter word's identity?
KEY
WALL
GEM
WASHED
You are enjoying your breakfast after having put some salt on your scrambled eggs when your nerdy brother presents you with an ice cube floating in a glass of water and a short length of string. He challenges you to remove the ice cube from the glass using the string without tying any knots. What strategy do you use to remove the ice cube from the water glass?
You can use other elements that are at your disposal besides the string.
I am a word of meanings three.
Three ways of spelling me there be.
The first is an odour, a smell if you will.
The second some money, but not in a bill.
The third is past tense, a method of passing things on or around.
Can you tell me now, what these words are, that have the same sound?
Can you identify the following songs and their artists?
1) Refrain from halting, the first person, immediately.
by Female monarch.
2) Multiple timepieces.
by Low temperature, stage production.
3) Unbleached, natural sweetener.
by Perpetual motion of small rock.
4) Sugary infant, belonging to me.
by Firearms & thorny plants.
5) Refrain from remaining, on your feet, near myself.
by Poisoned insect injection.
219. Which would see most clearly in total darkness? A bat, a tiger, or an owl
218. Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight. "No Fair" cried Robert, "You have 3 times as many as I do!" David said "Fine!" and gave Robert 10 more balloons. "Still not fair!" argued Robert, "You still have twice as many as I do." How many more balloons must David give Robert for them to have the same number?
Here are some well-known expressions rewritten into "Cliff-ese".
For those of you who don't know what that means, he was a very wordy person on
the TV show "Cheers" and never used a small word where a larger one would work.
Try to figure out the phrases in simpler terms.
1. To place a primitive agricultural conveyance in a position anterior to the
animal Equus caballus.
2. It requires a number of people greater than one to perform a terpsichorean
series of low dips and twisting steps on the toes.
3. To accumulate an excess of temperature beneath a circular, tight-fitting
clothing component.
4. Emanating from a culinary vessel into a site of pyrogenic activity.
David Van Gogh (pronounced "Go") had many relatives. Can
you guess by the clues who they are?
Example: His dizzy Aunt?
Answer: Verti-Gogh
How many other relatives can you guess?
A fruit loving cousin?
The Grandfather from Yugoslavia?
The cousin from Illinois?
His Mexican cousin?
His Great Grandfather who drove a stage coach?
The ballroom dancing aunt?
The bird lover Uncle?
A sister who loved disco?
And his niece who travels the country in a van?
Four of us are in your field
But our differences keep us at yield
First, a one that is no fool
Though he resembles a gardener's tool
Next, one difficult to split in two
And a girl once had one as big as her shoe
Then, to the mind, one's a lovely bonder
And truancy makes it grow fonder
Last, a stem connecting dots of three
Knowing all this, what are we?
A synonym to "truancy" can be "absence."
213. There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?
212. There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?
211. The time is twenty-six minutes to one in the
afternoon.
The year is 1978, and the date is May 6th. What is the
significance of this?
Here are some well-known expressions rewritten into "Cliff-ese".
For those of you who don't know what that means, he was a very wordy person on
the TV show "Cheers" and never used a small word where a larger one would work.
Try to figure out the phrases in simpler terms.
1. Projecting short, loud, canine-like noises erroneously toward the top of an
incorrect arboreal plant.
2. To subject a slender illumination device to rapid carbonization on its
antipodal points.
3. To slay a brace of avian creatures with just a single petrous conglomeration.
4. Like sending dense shelly concretions through the air to fall in front of
stout-bodied, artiodactyl creatures.
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Can you find 13 animals hidden in these words?
Pheasantoadderaturtleechareelionewtiger
A simple riddle you behold,
All that glitters is not gold.
My first is second in line,
I'll send shivers up your spine.
Though I'm not quite shining bright,
I seem to glitter in the light.
What am I?
Each group of words has one four letter prefix that fits in
front of them to form another word or phrase. Can you figure out which word it
is for each group?
1. Nail, man, out, ten
2. Sick, work, room, plate
3. Do, up, shift, believe
4. Range, shot, horn, bow
5. Back, baked, way, hour
6. Dress, band, ache, rest
7. Chair, jump, light, rise
8. Note, print, ball, step
9. Arm, fly, works, sale
Construction of a stronger and more massive bell tower for
the monastery to replace the one destroyed during the last civil strife with a
neighboring lord was well underway when the old Monk visited the site. The Abbot
showed the Monk the drawings and model for the three-bell tower. The Monk was
impressed until he stood where the bell chamber would be and saw the spiral
staircase in this medieval bell tower running the wrong direction
(counterclockwise).
"The staircase direction must be changed," said the Old Monk. The Abbot looked
at the staircase and agreed. Why?
Left-handed people, it was assumed, were descendants of the devil.
On the wing, the breeze seduced me.
Newly born to take my flight.
From the darkness I did rupture.
From my prison, wrapped up tight.
Come to rest on petals of brightness.
All can see, my change is cast.
I flutter by in paper lightness.
And my species, they are vast.
Darwin wrote of my pure beauty.
I'm collected, caught in nets.
Forever free to dance my duty.
Never kept as pets.
What am I?
Flutter By
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial
sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not
necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse
heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone &
stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following
definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) overweight dam builder & symptom of a sick flying mammal
2) bottom of the ocean & an insect-bitten dog has this
3) a cooking utensil & a nosy admirer
4) the person in charge of clocks and watches & the result of exposing silent
actors to the sun
202. I have 10 red socks and 10 blue socks in a drawer. How many socks must I take out to ensure that I have at least one matching pair? One how many to ensure I have at least a pair of red and a pair of blue?
What is represented by this ?
William March
William June
William September
William January
For each of the pairs of words below, insert a word in the
blank space between them to form two separate words such that the inserted word
finishes the first word and begins the second. For example, given "MAN ____ ON",
you would insert the word "GO" to form "MANGO" and "GOON". The hint gives the
number of letters in each of the words that must be inserted.
BOW ____ AGE
GENE ____ KING
LAND ____ GOAT
DIG ____ SELF
PAR ____ ATE
The number of letters of each word that must be inserted are, respectively: 4, 3, 5, 2, 3.
Four legs have I, a sturdy fellow
A fuzzy back that isn't yellow
But (often) green or (rarely) red
A den is where I make my bed
My keepers feed me coloured balls
With sticks they store on my den walls
Sometimes I store them in my pouch
Sometimes deep in my belly; ouch!
That's when you'll see me acting strange
Instead of balls, I'll eat your change
And that's my cue to feed again
Chalk it up to hunger, friend!
Take two words in the last two lines out of their context for a big hint.
It fell from a star,
But not very far.
It seems to fly
Above you and I.
Look further down to see
Cousin Jay below us three.
Jump down further to see an empty space.
Tell me what "it" is, and where is this place?
Above the star you may just find
A place designated for a function of some kind.
To its left is seven and and to its right you'll find
nine,
I should tell you that there is no in front or behind.
Use the missing words or word fragments in the film titles
below to make a festive phrase.
The ____maker
___ Golden Pond
Battlefield _____
Thelma ___ Louise
_____ _____ Hunting
The Road ___ Perdition
The Sum of ____ Fears
_____ in Black
Insert a word from group B into a word from group A to form
a larger word. (Try & Eat = Treaty)
Group A
Slight
Bless
King
Pain
Hock
Shed
Rue
Hen
Wing
Group B
One
Now
Lad
Eight
Tar
Even
Cat
Itch
Add
What is represented here?
Spring - Hola
Summer - Bonjour
Fall - Hello
Winter - Aloha
Find a rhyme for each word below so you end up with a
familiar three-word phrase in the form "__, __, and __"
Example:
Clue = "Took, Sign, Blinker"
Answer = "Hook, Line, and Sinker"
1. Flop, Crook, Glisten
2. Pin, Brace, Though
3. Versed, Beckoned, Heard
4. Leg, Sorrow, Wheel
5. Bawl, Park, Ransom
6. Sprawl, Tedium, Barge
7. Trap, Shackle, Top
190. While walking down the street I met a man. He tipped his hat and drew his cane and in this riddle I told his name. What is the mans name?
189.
A. BLAST,
PAPER, BOX, BANK
B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET
188.
I am both Mother and Father.
I am seldom still
yet I never wander.
I never birth nor nurse.
What am I?
187.
The following number is the only one of its kind.
8,549,176,320
Can you figure out what is so special about it?
Once upon a time there was a dad and 3 kids. When the kids were adults, the dad was old and Death came to take the dad. The first son, who became a lawyer, begged Death to let the dad live a few more years. Death agreed. When Death came back, the second son, who became a doctor begged Death to let his father live a few more days. Death agreed. When Death came back the third son, who became a priest begged Death to let the dad live till that candle wick burned out and he pointed to a candle. Death agreed. The third son knew Death wouldn't come back, and he didn't. Why not?
Follow these steps and see if you can figure this out.
1) Get a brown, cardboard box.
2) Get purple, orange, and turquoise paints.
3) Paint the box orange.
4) Paint on purple spots.
5) Paint on turquoise stripes.
7) Turn it upside down.
8) Lie on your side.
What is missing from this sequence?
The answer isn't to get a paintbrush, wait for it to dry, paint the bottom, or something similar. Remember, this is a TRICK teaser... :)
Here is a group of common three-letter words. Can you take
these and turn them into half as many 6 letter words? Each three-letter word is
used only once.
bar, bit, box, boy, car, day, den, dim, fly, hid, low, now, nut, pan, pea, sun,
ten, try, win, wit
What expression is represented below?
+ DEEF
- DEEF would be
the opposite expression
Every clue below can be answered with a two word phrase in
which each word contains OR. Your job is to figure out what they are. Good luck.
1. Person on an assembly line
2. Whiskey made from ears of a certain vegetable
3. Vet with an equine practice
4. 1970s-'80s tennis champ from Sweden
5. Listing in the Guiness Book
6. Home of Texas Christian University
7. Person who gives a kidney or liver
8. Piece of fiction not as long as a novel
Here are the
initials of the words:
1. F W
2. C L
3. H D
4. B B
5. W R
6. F W
7. O D
8. S S
I am a world-renowned "symbol". In the English language, if
I'm added to a noun, it turns to an adjective (in most cases).
If you put horizontal lines through me, I become a currency, but it is not used
in many countries.
In Spanish, I am a "symbol", but also I am a word. I am used to connect words
and phrases. If you watch your School House Rock, I go along with a junction.
What am I?
In this word pyramid you have to take the letters from the
word pea and put them around the 'h' to form a new word. Once you have the next
word, do the same with the next line.
pea
h _ _ _
s _ _ _ _
_ _ r _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ n
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ l
176.
Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
A. BLAST, PAPER, BOX, BANK
B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET
175.
Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown.
What am I?
174. I can slash but I have no knife, I can dash but I have no legs, I can pound but I have no hammer, I can star but I have no stage. What am I?
173. Dave and Brad, two popular politicians, met at a club to discuss the overthrow of their party leader. They each ordered a vodka on the rocks. Brad downed his and ordered another. He then drank his second in a gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. Meanwhile, Dave, who was sipping his drink, suddenly fell forward dead. Both men were setup for an assassination. Why did Dave die and Brad live?
172. Dave and Brad, two popular politicians, met at a club to discuss the overthrow of their party leader. They each ordered a vodka on the rocks. Brad downed his and ordered another. He then drank his second in a gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. Meanwhile, Dave, who was sipping his drink, suddenly fell forward dead. Both men were setup for an assassination. Why did Dave die and Brad live?
171. In a major league baseball game, a pitcher faced only 27 batters. Every batter he faced, he struck out. He allowed no hits and no runs, yet his team lost 4-0. How could this be?
I have two arms and a back,
Supported by four legs.
But there is something I do lack,
Actually, I have no eyes to see.
I also cannot move around,
Or at least, not on my own.
Unfortunately I can make no sound,
Except perhaps a squeak.
If you chop off my head,
You are left with a hair.
If you chop off my tail,
Only tea is left there.
One more clue I will add,
Is that you often use me.
Yet you barely ever notice,
In fact I'd much rather be a tree.
What am I?
Each of the following sentences has three missing words.
The first missing word of each sentence is 6 letters long, the second missing
word is 5 letters long, and the third missing word is 4 letters long. All the 6
letter words are anagrams of each other, as are all the 5 letter words, and all
the 4 letter words. Can you fill in the blanks?
1) Nobody would ______ to the old pirate any more, because his _____ were far
too ____.
2) The fans were ______ as the opposition managed to _____ the game from the
home ____.
3) When he decided to ______, he did not expect _____ bread with his ____ every
meal.
4) On many of the lake's ______ in the Spring, _____ will be out looking for a
____.
167. A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?
166.
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones and blood all at the same
time.
What is this object?
Recently, Snow White's seven dwarfs met up with three of
their friends and went to the cinema to see Bambi. From the clues below, can you
determine the order in which they stood in the ticket queue?
Grumpy was in front of Dopey. Stumpy was behind Sneezy and Doc. Doc was in front
of Droopy and Happy.
Sleepy was behind Stumpy, Smelly and Happy.
Happy was in front of Sleepy, Smelly and Bashful.
Bashful was behind Smelly, Droopy and Sleepy.
Sneezy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was in front of Grumpy, Stumpy and Sneezy.
Dopey was in front of Droopy.
Sleepy was in front of Grumpy and Bashful.
Dopey was behind Sneezy, Doc and Sleepy.
Stumpy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was behind Doc.
The blanks in the following sentences will be filled in
with three different homonyms (words that are spelled differently but sound
alike) to make valid sentences. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the
words. Can you fill in the blanks?
1. The cut on his _ _ _ _ won't _ _ _ _ in time for the race, so _ _ '_ _ have
to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being _ _ _ _ that he regularly _ _ _ _ _ _
himself up on the bed and _ _ _ _ _ _ his eyes out.
3. I couldn't _ _ _ _ _ any of the _ _ _ _ _ _ in the flower shop, because for
some strange reason I had 50 _ _ _ _ _ crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the _ _ _ _ and essentially _ _ _ _ _
everything he _ _ _ _.
What king can you make if you take
the head of a lamb
the middle of a pig
the hind of a buffalo
and the tail of a dragon?
161. In a stable there are men and horses. In all, there are 22 heads and 72 feet. How many men and how many horses are in the stable?
Find out what the animals are! (for example, "To run away
or escape" could be a "flea")
1. A strong body tissue
2. Government head of a town/city
3. To sound low, husky, or grating
4. Relating to a group of singers
5. Stealin'
6. A parent's female sibling
7. A mythical curse or bond
8. A second-person pronoun
9. Thin thread-like outgrowth from the skin
10. To exist. A form of 'am' or 'was.'
159.
You can see me.
You can feel me.
If you touch me, you will die.
What am I?
158. Four couples are going to the movies. Each row holds eight seats. Betty and Jim don't want to sit next to Alice and Tom, and Alice and Tom don't want to sit next to Gertrude and Bill. On the other hand, Sally and Bob don't want to sit next to Betty and Jim. How can the couples arrange themselves so that they all sit where they would like?
What does the star represent in the rebus:
A N O
T * I
TENT
The following 15 words can be divided into 5 groups of 3
words. The words in each trio will share a similar characteristic. What are the
groupings? Why?
astern, bony, con, deal, land, lien, nit, pending, pinion, range, slander,
steroid, tile, vary, venue
Use the syllables in the sylalist to complete the clues
below. Each clue gives how many syllables the answer of it has. Can you complete
every question?
Sylalist: al, ag, er, ful, ga, hope, ig, im, ine, ize, loo, rand, re, rus, sa,
wal
1. Arctic marine mammal (2)
2. Eskimo Home (2)
3. Optimistic (2)
4. Understand Clearly (3)
5. Chore (2)
6. Suppose (3)
7. Long Narrative (2)
For each of the pairs of words below, insert a word in the
blank space between them to form two separate words such that the inserted word
finishes the first word and begins the second. For example, given "MAN ____ ON",
you would insert the word "GO" to form "MANGO" and "GOON". The hint gives the
number of letters in each of the words that must be inserted.
WIN ____ HERE
DISC ____ AGE
TEN ____ OR
ANT ____ LOCK
SIN ____ SHIP
The number of letters of each word that must be inserted are, respectively: 3, 2, 3, 3, 4.
A number of people have broken the sound barrier, either in a super-fast car, or in nice fancy planes. However, hundreds of years ago it was broken on horseback. How?
1. I am always excited
2. I tell people where things are at
3. You can play a game on me
4. I'm very rich
5. I give percentages
6. I am always looking up
7. And.........
8. I look like a light in the sky
9. I keep things arranged that are to my right
10. I keep things arranged that are to my left
What Are We?
Use the Number System
148. Name the automobile makes:
1. endlessness
2. ringed planet
3. famous emancipator
4. weep convulsively
5. Star Wars action figure
6. earth wanderer
7. spotted cat
8. heavy metal
9. evade
10. diminutive
From wood it's made,
From string it's made,
It floats upon the wind.
It's made by one,
It's made by many,
From hands and mouths it spins.
A score without a game.
A staff not for the lame.
With seven letters tamed.
With five letters named
Decipher this phrase-
NHAPPY
What's missing?
My first is double twenty-one but twice of twenty-two,
Decipher it and you will see that statement is quite true.
My next two are just three apart, or, looking at the link,
You'll have the answer easily and will not have to think.
My fourth is so more ways than one, so long as you can spell,
While my fifth splits first and second, so what is it? Can you tell?
It may seem like these words of rhyme are nonsense things to say,
Though the five together are right here (two ways) so what are they?
This clue will
lead you to the answer which I hope you'll get.
The question is just how well do you know your alphabet?
And if you look more closely you will see, to your
surprise,
The answer has been used a lot, they're right before
your eyes!
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
What is special about these four words?
what, hole, ales, test
This wouldn't work if the words were listed in a different order.
Every clue below can be answered with a two word phrase in
which each word contains OR. Your job is to figure out what they are. Good luck.
1. Title for the head of London
2. Largest city in the Beaver State
3. Northern Lights
4. Author of 1984
5. Piece of paper you fill out in a catalog
6. Twining plant with funnel-shaped flowers
7. Pyongyang's country
8. Neighborhood place to buy a quart of milk
The initials are:
1. L M
2. P O
3. A B
4. G O
5. O F
6. M G
7. N K
8. C S
For each of the following clues, what is a synonym that
contains the letters CAT?
1.Baseball position
2.Copy
3.What you get with a doctor's prescription
4.Underground cemetery
5.Time off from school or work
6.Ten-event contest
7.Disaster
8.Mimic
9.Cows
10.Teacher
140. Two identical tanks full of water are being drained at the same time. One of the tanks has one -two centimeter circular drain outlet and the other has two -one centimeter circular drain outlets. Will one of the tanks empty faster than the other?
139. Four sparrows found a dish of seed,
Fine birdie food, no common weed.
Said Pip: "In turn each take two grains
And then a third of what remains.
It's me as first, then Pep, then Pop,
With Pap the last. And then we stop.
But Pap cried out: "It isn't fair.
Mine's two seeds less then half Pep's share."
Old Pip was boss, his word was law,
So little Pap got nothing more.
Poor Pap, his share was rather small!
How many seeds were there in all?
A young boy went to a Catholic school. During school he
started goofing around, so the teacher called him out and sent him to the
Pastor. Since this was a traditional school the boy would be spanked, but the
Pastor believed in giving people a chance. He said, "If you can ask me a
question about something you learned and I don't know the answer on the spot you
will go free."
The boy may have been lazy, but he was very witty. He asked, "What is it that
you can see and I can see, usually every day, but God cannot see." The Pastor
stood there, stumped. He couldn't figure it out because he strongly believed
that God sees and knows all, and that there is only one God. The boy smiled and
told him.
What was it?
You can't see what isn't there.
137. What is the largest amount of money you can have in coins and still not be able to make change for a dollar?
What does this rebus represent?
1.Bob drowned Frosted Flakes
2.Joe buried Cap'n Crunch
3.Sarah threw Rice Krispies off a cliff
4.Emily shot Cocoa Puffs
135. What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
134.
What can be driven, but has no wheels.
And can be sliced, and still remain whole?
133. A hunter met two shepherds, one of whom had three loaves and the other, five loaves. All the loaves were the same size. The three men agreed to share the eight loaves equally between them. After they had eaten, the hunter gave the shepherds eight bronze coins as payment for his meal. How should the two shepherds fairly divide this money?
Can you determine the professions/jobs described below?
Each clue is an anagram of the answer.
One Word
1. Stamp on
2. For trees
3. Remit sin
4. Menial cop
5. Court poser
Two Words (first word is "a" or "the")
6. Dints teeth
7. He tots income
8. Sit, chat, pay, sir
9. I seen at birth cot
10. Their art's caustic
Two Words
11. Spirit shaper
12. Poles gather a report
Bonus (two jobs, middle word is "and")
13. Mass dress alteration
Which is the odd one out?
Boundaries
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Chameleon
Keyboards
Look to the night sky for a clue...
As you are reading this message, you will notice some
spelling errors. Do not be frigtened, however. This is how you must anelyze:
First, find al of the missing, repeated, or incorrect letters.
Second, alow yurself to look at these and look at the wword that is represinted.
Finally, tell me a numbur that most commonnly is associated with the word.
Good luck.
When I tell you
"repeated letters," I mean the repeated letters in one word that are incorrect.
Ex: wword
Repeated Letter: W
Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first
line of a different Christmas carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser,
these clues only have the first letters of each of the words.
Can you figure out what songs they are?
1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSMWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR
128. Nick the marathon man timed himself and found out that if he wore a bright white outfit he ran 20 miles in 80 minutes, but when he wore a dark outfit, he ran 20 miles in one hour and twenty minutes. What does this mean for his next race?
127. Round I start, yet no shape have I.
Allow me to breathe, and my life will die.
The older I grow, the more sought after I become.
You will feel much better when I am done.
What am I?
Unscramble these four word jumbles and use the instructions
given below them to form the name of a country which is a jumble of those
letters.
1. KERWC. Take the 1st and 2nd letter.
2. LZEA. Take the 1st, 2nd and the 4th letter.
3. KURNT. Take the 1st and the 4th letter.
4. IASB. Take the 2nd and 3rd letter.
5. SUKD. Take the 1st and 3rd letter.
For much of the 20th century, this country was the wealthiest country in Europe by a considerable margin.
I'm powerful enough to clean most anything,
Yet gentle enough to eat.
I'm used to make an explosion of sorts,
Yet can be found at millions of stores worldwide.
I can kill grass,
And even tenderize your meat.
I can clean up even the smelliest stench,
and soften your fabrics.
What am I?
Unscramble the words below, then take the letters from each
word as instructed:
EQUEU Take letters 1,4 and 5
YMRRA Take letters 1,2 and 3
IELAN Take letters 1,3 and 5
CBA Take letter 2
Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?
121.
I can be any colour you can imagine.
You see me in everyday life.
I have been around for many, many years, look around... you can probably see
some of me right now.
What am i?
120.
It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the begining of the
end, and the end of every space?
What is it?
119. A worm is at the bottom of a forty foot hole. It can crawl upwards at the rate of four feet in one day, but at night, it slips back three feet. At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out of the hole?
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial
sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not
necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse
heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone &
stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following
definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) a circular depression & a part for a canine actor
2) a container for an alcoholic beverage & an insignificant insect
3) a container for a container & the bottom of a coffin
4) a cunning wolf relative & insect foot coverings
117. Double Letters!
She so peaceful, yet causes fear
Him so bright and full of cheer
She rests the body, he wakes the soul
Him so light, she black as coal
Her with mole and tiny bright freckles
He covers us with tiny tear speckles
She hides us, he beams with pride
He her husband, she his bride
He in bright silk, her all in velvet
A yin-yang marriage as they tell it
Two lovers who meet but twice a day
When he must go, she need stay
Now I ask you, who are they?
One more thing you
should know
She tucks us in, he bathes us in glow.
Can you decipher this common phrase?
Salt: Good morning
Pepper: Hello
One day, Bob and Hannah were sitting out on their deck,
sipping on some drinks. Bob ran into the house, got an empty two-liter bottle
from the freezer and a quarter, and returned to the deck.
"I bet you money that this quarter will move with nobody touching it."
Hannah thought this was a sure win, however, she lost. When Bob placed the
quarter on the mouth of the bottle, the quarter began jumping on one side and
making popping sounds.
How did Hannah lose?
These two famous sayings have been rewritten into
traditional Australian slang. Can you decipher them and rewrite them into
correct English prose? Good luck!
1. Make sure you're a dead cert to put your plates of meat in the right spot,
then be you'd best not move a muscle.
2. The whole bang lot's ruddy-well hilarious as long as its happening to some
other bloke.
Hopefully you may have seen 'Crocodile Dundee' for some help with this language.
113. A dozen Royals gathered round,
Entertained by two who clowned.
Each King there had servants ten,
Though none of them were also men.
The lowest servant sometimes might,
Defeat the King in a fair fight.
A weapon stout, a priceless jewel,
The beat of life, a farmer's tool.
What are we talking about here folks?
112.
Chuck, a bestselling author of romantic fiction, had suspected for some time
that his wife Eva was unfaithful, though he had no proof. One afternoon, while
Chuck was working on his latest bodice-ripper, Eva mentioned that she intended
to go to the movies and would be out for a few hours. As Eva went to the door,
Chuck looked at her pensively, then resumed his work. Three hours later, Eva
returned, took her coat off and asked Chuck weather he wanted some coffee. When
she returned from the kitchen, Chuck asked her to sit down as he wanted to talk
to her.
"Eva," he said, "I want a divorce."
Can you figure out how he knew?
111.
Mountains will crumble and temples
will fall, and no man can survive its endless call.
What is it?
110.
Jack and Jill took turns driving on a round trip using the same route both ways.
Jack drove the first 40 miles and then Jill drove the rest of the way. Jack
started to drive on the return trip and then Jill drove the last 50 miles. Which
of the two drove more miles and
how many more did the person drive?
109. I buried a stone in the ground, and it grew and produced fruit. How is this possible?
108. In Baseball, if you ran each length at exactly the same speed, which of the following would take you longest to complete: Home to first ,first to second, second to third or third to home? Think about it
I can be as blue as the sky or have a white top.
I roll through my world and crash into yours.
I can be as gentle as a newborn puppy or as vicious as an angered bull, ripping
through anything I find.
I will topple anything you put in my way if I am strong enough.
What am I?
There are three houses built exactly the same. One is filled with cotton, the other with wood, and the third with iron. One day an arsonist sets them all on fire. The sound of sirens was growing louder at the scene. People were screaming. Which house did the ambulance try to put the fire out at first?
Can you decipher this phrase:
O_er_t_o_
The following sentences can be completed by adding two
words that are anagrams of one another. Each word has only four letters. Enjoy!
1. If you prick your finger while picking a ____, it may be very ____.
2. If you take a ____ at the Mad Hatter's party, you still may not get a sip of
his ____.
3. If you need some stamps, then you must ____ by the ____ office.
4. If you eat a whole ____ of a wedding cake, you may develop a spare ____
around your middle.
5. If you have a ____ with your friend, you should forgive them and focus on the
future, not on the ____.
If O2 is O=O.
H2O is H-O-H,
and CO2 is O=C=O,
then what might this represent?
=James=
Would MQ be M-Q or M=Q?
100. Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
99.
What comes next in this sequence?
1
3
4
7
11
98.
I can be any colour you can imagine.
You see me in everyday life.
I have been around for many, many years, look around... you can probably see
some of me right now.
What am i?
97. The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
96.
My first is often at the front door.
My second is found in the cereal family.
My third is what most people want.
My whole is one of the United States
95. Can you spot anything at all remarkable about
this list of
words?
FLUFF
IRAQI
ROBIN
SANTA
TOTAL
94. It was the middle of the winter in Scandinavia, and the poor boy, sick with a cold, was lying in bed. He woke up in the night, but he knew that the night lasted from 3:00 P.M. to 9:00 A.M. at that time of year. The boy wearily glanced at his clock and, thinking it said 4:42, buried his head back in the pillow. But as he fell asleep he realized he hadn't distinguished the hour hand from the minute hand. If it wasn't 4:42 in the morning, what other time (or times) could it have been?
Find the synonymous word for each word in the following
pair. For each pair, the words you find should rhyme with each other, the first
word being an adjective and the second a noun. Some of these are easy, others
are more challenging. Good luck!
For example: angry father= mad dad
Depressed circus entertainer
Not living center of a pencil
Cool film
Not soft protector
I am where the sky is orange;
I am where the grass is red;
I am the land of violet bananas
and the home to blue oranges.
What am I?
What do these sentences translate to?
"A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance,
the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid
hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified.
One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the
upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure; subsequently the second
member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same
direction taken by the first team member."
It's a common nursery rhyme.
90.
Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
A. BLAST, PAPER, BOX, BANK
B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET
89. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
88. Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground. Which side of a cat has more hair?
87. Count the number of “E” in this text:
Last summer, Jean and Harriet spent their vacation in Michigan. They rented a cabin on the lake. The cabin had two bedrooms and a nice deck. They used to spend a lot of time on the deck, just looking at how the light would change on the water. Several times, they borrowed bikes from their neighbors and spent a few hours exploring the villages not far from their cabin.
86. Count the number of “F” in this text:
Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.
85. Count the number of “Y” in this text:
Yesterday, Lucy went all the way to Boston. She wanted to buy new shoes. She had to go in many shops before she found the shoes she wanted. She was happy to stop at a restaurant to have some tea and cookies before she took the train back home.
Find the synonymous word for each word in the following
pair. For each pair, the words you find should rhyme with each other, the first
word being an adjective and the second a noun. Some of these are easy, others
are more challenging. Good luck!
For example: angry father= mad dad
sneaky insect
humorous rabbit
happy boy
muscular tune
close fright
83. Lost in Liars and Truthtellers Town, you are in real trouble. You need to ask directions from a Truthteller, but how can you tell who is a Truthteller? You stop a group of three women and ask if they are Truthtellers. The first says, "Two of us are Truthtellers." The second says, "Only one of us is a Truthteller." And the third one chimes in, "The last woman who spoke is telling the truth." Well, who was or were Truthtellers?
82.
Four men sat down to play,
They played all night ‘till break of day.
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
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?
81. Dead in the center there is a bunny on an island. 6 feet north, 6 feet south, 6 feet west, and 6 feet east is land. How many jumps does it take to get to the other side?
80. A telephone conversation:
"Hello. Is this XYZ8765?"
"Yes. Who's that?"
"What? You don't recognize my voice? Why, my mother is your mother's
mother-in-law."
What is the relationship of the speakers?
79. Sabrina gave Samantha as many dollars as Samantha started out with. Samantha then gave Sabrina back as much as Sabrina had left. Sabrina then gave Samantha as back as many dollars as Samantha had left, which left Sabrina broke and gave Samantha a total of $80.00. How much did Sabrina and Samantha have at the beginning of their exchange?
1-2-3-4-5-6
I am a 6 letter word.
Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.
Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.
Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.
Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.
What am I?
77. In Jamaica, if you drop a steel ball weighing five pounds from a height of 45 inches, will it fall more rapidly through water at 20 degrees Fahrenheit or water at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Or will it make no difference?
In this teaser, you have to find the odd ones out in the
groups of words. BUT WAIT! There's a catch. Each group of words has TWO words
which do not belong. Can you find them both?
EXAMPLE:
Lily - Jane - Tulip - Rose
Jane does not belong as it's the only one which is not a flower.
Tulip also does not belong because it's the only one which is not a girl's name.
You're on you own for the rest!
1. Aqua - Hazel - Willow - Cherry
2. Cat - Sword - Hamster - Dog
3. Prince - Double - Queen - King
If I were to bleed from a wound or two,
You'd note in amazement, my blood is blue.
I'm found as a fossil in ancient stone,
Yet living today, I'm almost a clone.
My eyes will adjust a great many fold,
To see by the moonlight, who I can hold.
If I could tell my mate, I would say it is true,
These wonderful eyes are only for you.
I'm one of the last to die from pollution,
A living exception to evolution.
If you are
searching for just one more clue,
My name is derived from a beauty's shoe.
Below is a (very) short story with 10 capitalized words or
phrases which are anagrams of words that all fit in a certain category. Can you
find the anagrams and determine the category?
NOTE: One of the answers contains two words.
A recently PAROLED man named Ari was going to ROB A PEARL boat of all of its FIG
FARE. The boat was just off of the SHORE. He put on his BALM and donned his TOGA
to SNEAK aboard. ARI GOT ALL of the NEAT HELP he needed from a safety pin that
kept his toga IN PLACE.
Category: Animals
Today little Frederick and his mother visited a school and
a family. While they were there, they saw a band, checked out the litter, and
noticed a sleuth standing nearby. Later that day, they watched an army and a
troop for quite a while, and noticed they were standing beside a battery. As
they were leaving to go home that day, Frederick and his mother saw a party just
near the den and were indeed very happy.
What was happening here?
Can you decipher this:
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
issues
It's something you wear.
71. "Dix questions pour toi !"
1-
Le fabricant n'en veut pas, l'acheteur ne s'en sert pas
et l'utilisateur ne le voit pas.
Qu'est-que
c'est ?
2-
Quand peut-on ajouter deux à onze et obtenir un ?
3-
Il existe une vieille invention dont on se sert encore
dans certaines régions du monde et qui permet
aux gens de voir à travers les murs.
Quelle est-elle
?
4-
2 enfants sont nés à la même heure le même jour,
de la même mère et du même père, mais ils ne sont pas jumeaux.
Comment cela est-ce possible
?
5-
Le fleuriste vend une pivoine 14$, une tulipe 12$, un lys 6$.
Combien demandera-t-il pour une rose
?
6-
Pendant la crise de verglas, à -30 °C, vous avez des journaux,
des chandelles, un foyer, du petit bois et une lampe à l'huile.
Que devriez-vous allumer en premier
lieu
?
7-
Que diriez-vous après avoir lu les 3 phrases suivantes :
elu par cette crapule
la mariee ira mal
l'ame sure ruse mal
8-
Qu'est-ce qui commence avec l'enfant, finit avec le père et
la mère et pourtant commence et finit avec l'éternité ?
9-
Si 3 chats attrapent 3 souris en 3 minutes,
combien de chats faudrait-il pour attraper 100 souris en 100 minutes ?
10-
Il y a un crime qui est punissable s'il s'agit d'une tentative,
mais qui n'est pas punissable quand on le commet.
Quel est ce crime?
70. There was a wise king who had two sons. He wanted to make sure his two sons would not fight over his fortune when he was gone. What did the king write in his will to ensure his two sons would split up his fortune fairly?
What do the following words have in common?
Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo
It is more than having letters repeated in each one...
In each sentence the name of a tree is hidden. The willow
is hiding in the first sentence. Can you find the others?
1. I will owe you a favor if you drive me to the airport.
2. I am afraid of going up in elevators.
3. Drinking cocoa keeps me warm on long winter nights.
4. I hope the map leads us to buried treasure.
5. "Eat another bonbon," said our charming hostess.
6. Nepal may be the most interesting place I have ever visited.
7. Remember to fold the map, please.
8. I feel many lumps in this mattress.
9. Word processing is not as useful as pens and paper for creative
brainstorming.
If E times ILE equals BANISH, and TE times T equals BOOK,
what does TO times IN equal?
A. BREATH
B. TEASER
C. RUTABAGA
D. POISON
E. COPPER
No math is needed.
The following riddle was originally printed in 1867 in
"London Society".
On six feet, I am a noxious drink,
Of whose effects you shudder to think.
Change only my second foot, and then
You convert me into a horrible den
Where the culprit, who gave the noxious drink,
Awaits the fate of which you shudder to think.
Try reading it with "letters" instead of "feet".
Each of the clues make up a type of flower, for example
"small container + to allow" would be "vial + let", or "violet."
Can you figure out these five?
1. an implement + flesh around mouth
2. foppish + a large carnivorous wildcat
3. to wed + a soft yellow element
4. a false statement + be deficient in
5. indicates an alternative + child
64.
Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones:
TABLE- - - -HOUSE
63.
In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995 that same person is 10 years old.
How is this possible?
62. The sentence below is George Bernard Shaw's comment on chess. Can you reconstruct the original quotation?
they clever are time making expedient foolish doing wasting very something
for idle is a they chess people when their are only believe
Which is the only word in the English language to be comprised of two letters, each used three times?
My work is based on give and take
I can make a difference by a hand shake
The older I get the smaller I grow
And my best friend is my worst foe
What am I?
Translate each word group into a phonetic sound, and then
string them all together to form the name of a body of water.
For example:
polar or grizzly, finger jewelry, not curved
Translation... Bear, Ring, Straight
Answer... Bering Strait
1. Vehicle, curved bone, to exist, not yang, to look at
2. Circle segment, bloodsucking arachnid, to be in debt, tibia
3. Cat sound, dreidel letter, 18-hole sport
4. Unaffiliated film, Japanese currency, interjection, to eschew
5. Helper, flightless South American bird, clock sound, programming language
Some of these are stretches, but they'll be obvious if you focus on the sounds.
A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands two parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other behind. Why did he want two?
A part of the body is hidden in each of the following
sentences. The first sentence contains "head." Can you find the rest?
1. The ad is for Monday's sale.
2. The tour group can go to either country.
3. My car makes funny noises sometimes.
4. Sarah and Tony are getting married.
5. That casino seems shady.
6. Can't you see that Hank needs help?
7. The sea is so calm out here.
8. Would you like to go surfing, Erin?
56. In 1209, on a hot summer day there was a man who was ordered to be executed by king. The king was a nice king though, and he said that if the man could prove himself wise, he would let him go. The king filled a room with fake flowers, and only put in one real flower in the room. The king said the man had 20 seconds to find the real flower. The man said, "It's very stuffy in here. Could you open a window?" The king opened a window, and the man immediately knew which was the real flower. How did he know?
55. Do you know???
Before Copernicus, everybody thought the sun revolved around the earth; it took
a while (and several inquisitions) to catch on, but nowadays most people know
better. Here are a couple of persistent scientific myths. Or maybe not. Which
are true?
1. Water swirls down the drain the other way in Australia.
2. You can catch a bird if you put salt on its tail.
3. You can't stare too long at the sun.
4. There is no such fish as a sardine.
5. Hair and fingernails keep growing after death.
6. Mixing milk and meat is dangerous.
7. Owls see perfectly well during the day.
8. It's okay to mix alcoholic drinks.
9. When you freeze food, it kills the bacteria.
What expression is represented here?
Run, Hit, Jump = Volume Level 9
Dictionary = Volume Level 2
Do you just talk the talk or do you also walk the walk?
53. Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
52.
It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the begining of the
end, and the end of every space?
What is it?
51.
With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?
50.
I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet I have my own style of music.
What Am I?
Each of the following sentences contains clues to a set of
three words that are anagrams of each other (each sentence describes a different
set).
1) The jail keeper counseled the prisoners not to stray beyond the barricade.
2) Due to the warning, Mary had to change her plans to arrive at a future time.
3) The crippled man had eggs and toast for his breakfast.
4) Paul was not excited about making large bundles of black rope.
Abuse me for I will not care.
Curse me when I stray from fair.
Brute force won't put me in my place.
Smooth and even wins the race.
Envy colors where I rest.
No sandy beaches for the best.
A swing will get me started.
Hidden in the sentences below is a common phrase. For
example, the word "in" can be found in sentence number three. Each sentence only
contains one word of the hidden phrase. Happy Hunting!
1. Violet works with kids in town, and her husband works with kids too.
2. Phillip easily agrees with everything Violet says.
3. You could say that this pair is inseparable.
4. A more perfect couple can't be found!
5. Violet and Phillip both visit the podiatrist often.
Each sentence is describing Violet and Phillip's relationship, which vaguely hints at the phrase.
46. Examine each of the five sentences below. What is
unusual about them? They all display a special property that shouldn't be too
difficult to spot.
a. Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
b. Stella won no wallets
c. Eva, can I stab live, evil bats in a cave?
d. I maim nine men in Miami
e. Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram
I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it
remains.
It dies hard!
Remaining part is most important.
In these Word Pyramids, the first letter is given to you
(which is the first answer). Use the clues to build the pyramid to find the
answer. In each consecutive answer, a letter is added to the previous answer.
However, the answer letters might not be in the same order. Good Luck!!
Starting letter: I
Clues:
1. 3.1415926535...
2. to cut, tear apart
3. a support for two adjacent bridge spans
4. first in excellence, quality, or value
5. ------ State Building
Located in "The
Big Apple".
What is this phrase?
King Garfield and Queen Felix
King Scooby and Queen Lassie
English Weather
39.
Two men were being tried for murder. The jury found one man guilty and the other
innocent. The judge turned to the guilty man and said, "Even though your guilt
has been established, the law compels me to set you free." How could such a
bizarre judgement
occur?
38. NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?
37.
What are the next two letters in the following series and why?
W A T N T L I T F S _ _
36. First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
I will make your day great
But during the night I'll keep you up late.
Away the darkness runs from me
Just so that you may see.
By nature and by man I am made.
Call me and I'll come to your aid.
Even though you may try so much
You'll never touch.
I am faster than a speeding train,
Faster than any plane.
So who may I be?
You'll just have to guess and see.
There are 100 birds on a tree. Using what method will you be able to capture them all in one shot?
33. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, and the only food she had for her ten children was six potatoes. How did she make sure that each child had an equal share?
32. Four athletes, Ann, Bea, Carol, and Dorothy went
out one morning and ran a race. At the end of the race. At the end of the race,
the following statements were made:
Ann: "I didn't come in first or last."
Bea: "I didn't come in last."
Carol: "I was first."
Dorothy: "I was last."
It is known that one, and one only, of the four athletes is lying.
Who won the race?
After recent events, Question Mark is annoyed with his
brother, Skid Mark. Skid thought it would be funny to hide Question's wallet. He
told Question that he would get it back if he finds it. So, first off, Skid laid
five colored keys in a row. One of them is a key to a room where Skid is hiding
Question's wallet. Using the clues, can you determine the order of the keys and
which is the right key?
Red: This key is somewhere to the left of the key to the door.
Blue: This key is not at one of the ends
Green: This key is three spaces away from the key to the door (2 between)
Yellow: This key is next to the key to the door.
Orange: This key is in the middle.
We're all nuts .. can you name us?
1. Big country in South America.
2. A pod is my pad.
3. This came down in Germany.
4. Confection ingredient.
5. Sneaking a look-on.
6. Gorillas show dominance by beating this.
7. May be found in the company of a witch.
Scoring:
1-3 right. Sorry, you're normal.
4-5 right. I'm beginning to worry about you!
6-7 right. Definitely certifiable nut expert!
Trouble getting into the meat of this? Almond is not on this list.
If you like pretty gems that sparkle and shine,
I invite you to dig in my virtual mine.
My first is purple, fit for a king,
My second is green where Dorothy did her thing.
My third is red, July's birthstone as well,
My fourth is seen in strings and is found inside a shell.
My fifth is hard, pure Carbon and expensive to buy,
My sixth is Crocidolite, striped like the big cat's eye.
Seventh is two words, a man-made fake of April's stone,
Eighth is very dark and found at Lightning Ridge alone.
Now take from each gem, one letter in its turn,
And you will find the stuff for which even the gods yearn.
Lightning Ridge is
in Australia and is famous for being the only place in the world where a certain
gemstone is found.
Unscramble the words below and follow the directions in
parentheses. Unscramble the new letters to get the name of a former U.S.
President.
evon (take the 1st and 2nd letters)
cromaeviw (take the 5th and 9th letters)
drigef (take the 2nd and 6th letters)
knsi (take the 1st letter)
blate (take the 1st and 4th letters)
What phrase is represented below?
JG
UN
MI
PP
IM
NU
GJ
Good
New
New
26. Though small I am, yet, when entire,
I've force to set the world on fire.
Take off a letter, and 'tis clear
My punch will hold a herd of deer:
Dismiss another, and you'll find
I once contained all humankind.
25. A certain number consists of two digits. The number is equal to five times the sum of its digits. If you add 9 to the number, the order of its digits is reversed. What is the number?
Eating white is what I mostly do
If quick enough, a fruit and some things blue
When you see pink, sky blue, orange, or red
It would be wise to turn my yellow head
In a dark room with blue walls
I run from the ghosts that roam the halls
What am I?
22.
There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first
runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and
is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.
Who are they?
21. What the first man-made object to break the sound barrier?
20. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
19. In
birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth
restores all.
What am I?
18.
See if you can translate the following?
Y Y U R Y Y
U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E
17. A worm is at the bottom of a forty foot hole. It can crawl upwards at the rate of four feet in one day, but at night, it slips back three feet. At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out of the hole?
Assuming you can't steal an animal's sense of hearing, or use an electrical device, what would you need in order to hear a pin drop from over 20 yards?
15. Can you decipher this nursery rhyme?
Complications arose during an investigation of dietary
influence; one researcher was unable to assimilate adipose
tissue, and another was unable to consume tissue consisting
chiefly of muscle fiber. By a reciprocal arrangement
between the two researchers, total consumption of the
viands under consideration was achieved, thus leaving
the original container of the viands devoid of contents
14. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Now add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
13. Bill rode his bicycle 300 miles. Three tires were used equally in accumulating this distance. How many miles of wear did each tire sustain?
12. Bill bets Craig $100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Craig agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Craig lose the bet?
7 dogs were boarding at the local Pet Lodge. Each dog was
in a separate run, all in a single row. One of the employees left the cages
unlocked and the dogs have all gotten out of their runs. She needs to put each
of them back in the right cage, but this is all she remembers. Help her get them
in the right cages, and QUICK!
Dogs: Beau, Duke, Fluffy, Lady, Princess, Rover, and Spike
1. Spike doesn't like other dogs much, so he was on one of the ends.
2. Princess was somewhere to the left of Beau.
3. Rover was in the third run from the right.
4. The only dog between Fluffy and Lady was Princess.
5. Duke was directly to the left of Lady.
Add together each of the defined words to get a whole new
word.
Example: to shout + what you say when you feel pain = a color = yellow.
1) A light brown color + to leave = a dance.
2) A store's announcement + a type of women's clothing = a building's location.
3) A vehicle + an animal pal = a floor covering.
4) The ocean + a father's boy = part of the year.
5) Another name for dad + a yellow veggie = a white fluffy snack.
What is the next number in the following series?
123, 354, 897, 1875, 10626, ?
8. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Now add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
Unscramble the words below, then take the letters from each
word as instructed to form another word that is the answer to this teaser:
YLAP Take letters 1 & 2
DRAAW Take letters 1 & 4
ELT Take letter 2
Unscramble the letters you collected... What do you get?
In a sylasearch I give you a syllable-starter, which is the
first syllable in the words you are to find. I will also give you a listing of
the other syllables which you must use to figure out the 9 words.
Syllable List - cu, di, er ets, ist, lar, ni, ni, o, pen, phy, ra, ri , rou,
sels, ter, tog, toon, val, vas, vore
Syllable-starter: car
How many syllables, each word has:
1. (2)
2. (3)
3. (3)
4. (3)
5. (3)
6. (3)
7. (3)
8. (4)
9. (6)
4.
You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of
the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the
mainland.
Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island. Puzzled as to
how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the
tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on
the island.
Explain how the tractor got there?
3. I buried a stone in the ground, and it grew and produced fruit. How is this possible?
2. A man weighing 180 lbs. carrying 3 bowling balls weighing 10 lbs. each, approaches a large ravine. The only way to cross is a bridge with a weight limit of 200 lbs. The ravine is to far to throw or roll the balls across. How can the man cross the ravine in only one trip, with all 3 bowling balls?
1. In Baseball, if you ran each length at exactly the same speed, which of the following would take you longest to complete: Home to first ,first to second, second to third or third to home? Think about it.
Answers:
6. 1. Carets
(car ets)
2. Carnival (car ni val)
3. Carnivore (car ni vore)
4. Carpenter (car pen ter)
5. Carrier (car ri er)
6. Carousels (car rou sels)
7. Cartoonist (car toon ist)
8. Cartography (car tog ra phy)
9. Cardiovascular
(car di o vas cu lar)
7. YLAP Take letters 1 & 2 - PLAY,
take P,L
DRAAW Take letters 1 & 4 - AWARD, take A,R
ELT Take letters 2 - LET, take E
Unscramble the above to get 'Pearl'
Pearls are an organic gem, created by Nature. A pearl is
created when oysters cover any object with beautiful layers of nacre.
Long ago, pearls were considered to be very sound and
important financial assets, equivalent to owning a house of your own, as
thousands of oysters had to be searched for only one pearl. They were rare
because they were created only by chance.
Today, pearls are cultured by man. Oysters are
stimulated to cover beads with nacre and create the pearls. Pearls are available
in white and beautiful hues of off white and pink. They are also available in
black.
8. Most people will answer 5000. The correct answer is 4100.
9.
The next number in the series is 16887. Take
the first number and move the number in the unit's place to the ten's, the
number in the ten's place to the hundred's and the number in hundred's place to
the unit's place.
Example: 123 becomes 231
and
354 becomes 543.
Add the original number with the number obtained from
shuffling the digits to get the next number in the series.
10. 1) tan + go = tango.
2) ad + dress = address.
3) car + pet = carpet.
4) sea + son = season.
5) pop + corn = popcorn.
11. Duke-Lady-Princess-Fluffy-Rover-Beau-Spike
12. Bill said the score would be 0-0 and he
was right. BEFORE any hockey game starts, the score is always 0-0.
13. 200 miles. For every mile traveled, each of the two tires sustained one mile
of usage. Therefore, in a total of 300 miles traveled, there would be a total of
600 miles of wear. And 600 divided by three is 200.
14. Most people will answer 5000. The
correct answer is 4100.
15. Jack Sprat, Could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so, betwixt them both, They licked the platter clean.
16.A bowling ball.
24.
Pacman (Braingle version)
Pacman usually eats the white dots. When a fruit pops
up, he may get it or it disappears. When Pacman eats the bigger white dots, the
ghosts turn blue and he is able to eat them.
The colors of the ghosts are pink, sky blue, orange and
red. When you are coming close to one, you should turn the other way.
The background is black and the maze walls are blue.
25. 45
26. Spark
park
ark
27. Jumping up and down over good news.
28.
The unscrambled words are:
oven
microwave
fridge
sink or skin
table
o, v, o, e, r, e, s, t, l
Unscramble the letters to get:
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858 - January 6,
1919), also known as T.R. and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of
the United States (1901-1909). He was the 25th Vice President before becoming
President upon the assassination of President William McKinley. At age 42, he
was the youngest President to date. Within the Republican Party he was a
Progressive reformer who sought to bring his party's conservative ideals into
the 20th century. He broke with his friend and appointed successor William
Howard Taft and ran as a third-party candidate in 1912 on the Progressive Party
ticket.
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt is also an acceptable answer)
29. The
gems are
Amethyst
Emerald (Emerald city - Wizard of OZ)
Ruby
Pearl (From inside oyster shell)
Diamond
Tiger's eye
Cubic Zirconium (Fake diamond)
Black Opal
Taking the first letter of Amethyst, second of Emerald
etcetera gives
Ambrosia - The food of the gods.
30. 1.
Brazil
2. Peanut
3. Walnut (The Berlin wall)
4. Coconut
5. Pecan (Peek on)
6. Chestnut (Gorillas drum on their chest as a threat)
7. Hazelnut (Witch Hazel)
31. The order (from left to right)
is Green, Red, Orange, Blue, Yellow.
The blue key is the key to the door.
32. The winner was Bea, and Carol was lying. With only Carol lying, Ann, Carol, and Dorothy could not have won. All other possibilities do not work in one way or another.
33. She mashed the potatoes and used a spoon.
34. Using a camera
35.
Now I have to keep a deal
And my name I must reveal
I drive away the night
Because I am "the light"
41. Raining (reigning) cats and dogs!
42. I
PI
RIP
PIER
PRIME
EMPIRE
The Empire State Building is once again New York City's
tallest skyscraper (it was for nearly 40 years prior to the World Trade Center).
The building is a symbol of this city and was constructed in only two years -
1930 to 1931. It stands 1,453 feet tall and weighs approximately 365,000 tons.
43. Habit!
Remove h - a bit remains.
Remove a - bit remains.
Remove b - it remains.
46. Each of the sentences is a palindrome. That is, the same letters occur backwards as well as forwards.
47.
"Two Peas in a Pod"
Violet and Phillip are perfect for each other-- they
love kids, are inseparable, agree on everything, and have bad feet!
48. Golf ball
49.
warden = jail keeper
warned = counseled
wander = stray
alert = warning
alter = change
later = at a future time
lame = crippled
male = man
meal = breakfast
blase = not excited
bales = large bundles
sable = black
50. I'm a Soul. Style of music: soul music.
51. I'm a Stapler!
52. The Letter E.
53. There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard
54.
Actions speak louder than words.
Explanation:
Run, Hit, Jump are all actions and the volume level for
them is higher that than of Dictionary which simply contains a whole lot of
words. Hence you get Actions speak louder than words.
55. 1. False,
2. False,
3. Trun and False. Never stare into the sun---or use vague language.,
4. True,
5. False,
6. False,
7. True,
8. True,
9. False
56. When the King opened the window, a bee flew in and landed on the only real flower to gather pollen.
57.
1. head
2. toe
3. arm
4. hand
5. nose
6. knee
7. mouth
8. finger
58. If the officials thought he was jumping with a hostage, they would never risk giving him a faulty parachute.
59. 1.
Car - Rib - Be - Yin - See == Caribbean Sea
2. Arc - Tick - Owe - Shin == Arctic Ocean
3. Purr - Shin - Golf == Persian Gulf
4. Indie - Yen - Oh! - Shun == Indian Ocean
5. Aid - Rhea - Tick - C == Adriatic Sea
60.
Soap.
(Give and take=give foam and take away dirt,
by a hand shake=as you use me when rubbing your hands,
the older I get the smaller I grow=since I dissolve,
my best friend is my worst foe=water which helps me do
my work but at the same time dissolves me.)
61. Deeded
62. Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
63. The years are "B.C."... not A.D.
64. WARE.
65.
1. Tulip (tool + lip)
2. Dandelion (dandy + lion)
3. Marigold (marry + gold)
4. Lilac (lie + lack)
5. Orchid (or + kid)
66. poison/prison
"On six feet" means a six letter word. The first two
lines refer to poison. The next two lines refer to prison. The last two refers
to where "the culprit" who gave you the poison would go -- prison.
67.
POISON
Replace every instance of the word "times" with an 'X'.
68. 1. Willow
2. Pine
3. Oak
4. Maple
5. Bonsai
6. Palm
7. Apple
8. Elm
9. Aspen
69. If you take the first letter and move it to the rear of the word, you get the same word when read backwards.
70. He wrote one son would split up all his fortune into two piles. Then the other son got first pick!
71. "Les
réponses..."
1-
Le fabricant n'en veut pas, l'acheteur ne s'en sert pas et
l'utilisateur ne le voit pas.
Qu'est-que c'est ?
Un cercueil.
2-
Quand peut-on ajouter deux à onze et obtenir un ?
Quand l'horloge indique onze heures.
3-
Il existe une vieille invention dont on se sert encore dans
certaines régions du monde et qui permet aux gens
de voir à travers les murs. Quelle
est-elle
?
La fenêtre.
4-
2 enfants sont nés à la même heure le même jour,
de la même mère et du même père, mais ils ne sont pas jumeaux.
Comment cela est-ce possible
?
Ce sont des triplés
!
5-
Le fleuriste vend une pivoine 14$, une tulipe 12$, un lys 6$.
Combien demandera-t-il pour une rose ?
8$ selon que chaque lettre du mot vaut 2$.
6-
Pendant la crise de verglas, à -30 °C, vous avez des journaux,
des chandelles, un foyer, du petit bois et une lampe à l'huile.
Que devriez-vous allumer en premier lieu ?
Une allumette ou un briquet !
7-
Que diriez-vous après avoir lu les 3 phrases suivantes :
elu par cette crapule
la mariee ira mal
l'ame sure ruse mal
On peut lire les phrases dans les 2 sens.
8-
Qu'est-ce qui commence avec l'enfant, finit avec le père
et la mère et pourtant commence et finit avec l'éternité ?
Le lettre E.
9-
Si 3 chats attrapent 3 souris en 3 minutes,
combien de chats faudrait-il pour attraper 100 souris en 100 minutes ?
Les mêmes 3 chats
!
10-
Il y a un crime qui est punissable s'il s'agit d'une tentative,
mais qui n'est pas punissable quand on le commet.
Quel est ce crime ?
Le suicide.
72. Tennis shoes.
73. Frederick and his mother were
at the zoo.
'school' of whales
'family' of otters
'band' of gorillas
'litter' of puppies
'sleuth' of bears
'army' of herrings
'troop' of dogfish
'battery' of barracuda
'party' of rainbow fish
'den' of snakes
74.
LEOPARD
POLAR BEAR
GIRAFFE
HORSE
LAMB
GOAT
SNAKE
ALLIGATOR
ELEPHANT
PELICAN
75. A
horseshoe crab.
As an adult, some may reach about 20 inches and if
wounded indeed their blood is copper based and blue unlike most other blood.
The Horseshoe crabs that swim ashore each year to mate
are almost exactly the same as those found in the fossil record dating back an
estimated 300 million years or more according to scientists. That's 100 million
years before the dinosaurs!
Studies of their unusual eyes have shown that they
become much more receptive at night regulated by their own internal clock. One
article even stated a million times more receptive! Even studied for years in
total darkness, the eyes continue to adjust back and forth for night and day.
Since they locate food primarily by chemical scent, the only useful purpose for
the amazing eyes seems to be their use to locate mates during their short
breeding cycle. Hence, they could honestly tell their mate (if they could speak)
"I only have eyes for you."
Very hardy, they are almost impervious to pollution and
are often the last living creatures in polluted bays. Staying unchanged over
millions of years makes this creature an enigma to evolutionists who must try to
explain why they did not evolve or change over such a long period.
Not really closely related to a crab, these creatures
are more like spiders and scorpions.
The hint? .. the shoe you probably got, and beauty
refers to the classical horse adventure story "Black Beauty".
Search the web to learn more about these amazing
creatures!
76.
1. Aqua does not belong as it's the only one
which is not a tree. Willow does not belong as it's the only one which is not a
colour.
2. Sword does not belong as it's the only one which is
not a family pet. Hamster does not belong as it's the only one which is not a
type of fish.
3. Double does not belong as it's the only one which is
not a person of royalty. Prince does not belong as it's the only one which is
not a bed size.
40 degrees Fahrenheit. At 20 degrees Fahrenheit the water would be ice.
78.
CARPET.
6-5-2: tea
4-5-2-3: pear
1-2-6: cat
3-2-6: rat
Sabrina had $50 and Samantha had $30.
80. Father and child; or paternal uncle-aunt and nephew-niece.
81. None, because the bunny is dead
82. The players were musicians
83. None of them could be Truthtellers.
84.
sneaky insect= sly fly
humorous rabbit= funny bunny
happy boy= glad lad
muscular tune= strong song
close fright= near fear
85. There are 7 “Y” in the first text.
86. There are 6 "F" in the second text (got them?)
87. There are 38 “E” in the third text.
Well Duh! The outside of the Cat of course!
120 times
BAG. All of the words in group A can begin with the word SAND
91. Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
and Jill came tumbling after
92. I am a film negative.
On a negative, everything is its complementary color
(red and green complement each other, as do yellow and violet, and blue and
orange)
93.
Depressed circus entertainer =Down Clown
Not living center of a pencil = Dead Lead
Cool film= Groovy Movie
Not soft protector= Hard Guard
94. When no distinction is made between the hour and minute hands, the clock would look the same at 8;23 A.M., 4;42 P.M., and 8;23 P.M.
95. The first letters, in sequence, spell FIRST; the final letters spell FINAL
103.
"Bond, James Bond."
In chemistry, particularly organic chemistry, molecules
are drawn using - and = to represent covalent bonds between the atoms making a
molecule. (There are triple bonds too, but I can't represent those using the
basic character set). A covalent bond has both atoms sharing an electron pair,
or sharing two electron pairs in a double bond. In the initial examples, there
are representations of oxygen, water and carbon dioxide molecules. The advantage
in organic chemistry, for these representations, is that larger and larger
molecules could have the same atoms but in different configurations, (such as
ketones and aldehydes, for example).
The title is a quote from Bond in Dr No, referring to
the age of the champagne bottle he was defending himself with. The hint is
simply a reference to Bond's boss, M, and the research and development man, Q.
104.
1. rose, sore
2. seat, teas
3. stop, Post
4. tier, tire
5. spat, past
105. PAINLESS OPERATION
106. Ambulances do not put out fires.
107.
A wave.
A wave can have what is called a white cap.
A wave will roll through the ocean and crash into the
beach.
It can be a small wake or a roaring tsunami.
It can topple almost any boat.
108. Second to Third... there's a shortstop in the middle.
( I know...that was bad! :)
109. The seed of a cherry is called a stone.
110. Jill drove 20 miles more than Jack. Example, if it was a 300 mile round trip, Jack must have driven 140 miles, and Jill drove 160 miles. You can set the distance of the trip at any length, and the difference will always be 20 miles.
111. Time.
112. On Eva`s way out, Chuck had noticed a run in her stocking. When she went to the kitchen for coffee, he noticed that the run was on her right leg.
113. A Deck of Cards.
114. 1.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
'dead cert': a certainty; beyond doubt; a sure winner.
'plates of meat': rhythmic slang for 'feet'.
'right spot': the correct place.
'best be': should be; it's a good idea to be.
'not to move a muscle': stand firm; don't move under any
circumstance.
2. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to
somebody else.
Will Rogers (1878-1935)
'The whole bang lot': Everything
'ruddy-well': an Australian universal intensifying
adjective that was inherited from England.
'hilarious': something funny.
'bloke': A typical Australian expression that means a
person.
115. As the bottle had previously been in the freezer, the cool air inside expanded when placed in a warmer temperature and escaped through the only out, or the mouth. However, while the quarter was blocking this passage way, the cool air could not leave. Therefore, the expanding cold air moved the quarter enough so a little cool air could come out of the bottle. The popping sounds were from the quarter landing back on the bottle.
116. Season's Greetings
There's a land where there's mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?
117. Day and night.
118. 1) round hole & hound role
2) beer mug & mere bug
3) basket case & casket base
4) sly fox & fly socks
120. The Letter E.
121. Paint.
122. 0%. C must always be false, because it is impossible for A & B to both be false AND C to be true. If C is false, B is also false.
123. 2 2/3 miles. The trains are exactly 4 miles apart. Their combined speed is 15 miles-hour, so it will take them 16 minutes to collide. The first train will have travelled 1 1/3 miles, so 1/3 mile of it will be out of the tunnel in front, & 2/3 mile of it will be out in the back on collision. The other mile of it will be in the tunnel. The second train will have travelled 2 2/3 miles, so only 1/3 mile of it will still be in the tunnel, so 1 2/3 miles of it will be out of the tunnel.
124.
EQUEU Take letters 1,4 and 5 - QUEUE - take
Q,U,E
YMRRA Take letters 1,2 and 3 - MARRY - take M,A,R
IELAN Take letters 1,3 and 5 - ALIEN - take A,I,N
CBA Take letter 2 - CAB, take A
Letters Collected:
Q,U,E
M,A,R
A,I,N
A
Unscramble the above to get 'Aquamarine'.
Aquamarine is a fascinating gemstone, available in
varied shades of blue, from where it gets its name. The peaceful and serene look
of an aquamarine gemstone further encourages people to treat it as lucky for
women who want a happy and peaceful marriage! Many view it as an exotic and
lucky gemstone because of the association with water.
125.
Baking Soda.
It is used for a variety of cleaning.
It is a common ingredient in many baked foods.
It can react with vinegar to form an "explosion".
(Typically used in a "Baking Soda Volcano").
It can be purchased at many stores around the world.
Baking soda can be used to kill crab grass.
It can speed up the tenderizing process of meat in stew.
It is used to remove odor in fabrics.
It is also used as a fabric softener.
The typo in the title is on purpose. "NaHCO3" is the
chemical name for Baking Soda. Looks similar to "nacho", doesn't it?
126. 1.
Wreck.
2. Zeal.
3. Trunk.
4. Bias.
5. Dusk.
The letters taken from the above words using the
instructions form WRZELTNAIDS.
Switzerland is the country which can be formed from the
jumble.
For much of the 20th century, Switzerland was the
wealthiest country in Europe by a considerable margin.
127. A bottle of fine wine!
128. Absolutely nothing, as 80 minutes equals an hour and twenty minutes
129.
1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an
open fire...)
2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white
Christmas...)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed
reindeer, had a very shiny nose...)
4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run
over by a reindeer...)
5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without
you...)
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing
Santa Claus...)
7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of
Christmas, my true love gave to me...)
8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a
jolly, happy soul...)
9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on
Johnny's head, somebody snitched on me...)
10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle
bell rock...)
130.
Missing, Repeated, and Incorrect Letters:
H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N
Word: Halloween
Number: 31 (Halloween is the 31st of October)
131. "Keyboards". All the other words contain names from the 12 signs of the zodiac: bound-Aries, Cancer-ous, Libra-rian, Scorpio-ns, chame-Leo-n
132.
1. Postman
2. Forester
3. Minister
4. Policeman
5. Prosecutor
6. The dentist
7. The economist
8. A psychiatrist
9. The obstetrician
10. The caricaturists
11. Parish priest
12. Telegraph operators
13. Seamstress and tailor
133. The shepherd who had three loaves should get one coin and the shepherd who had five loaves should get seven coins. If there were eight loaves and three men, each man ate two and two-thirds loaves. So the first shepherd gave the hunter one-third of a loaf and the second shepherd gave the hunter two and one-third loaves. The shepherd who gave one-third of a loaf should get one coin and the one who gave seven-thirds of a loaf should get seven coins.
134. A golf ball
135. NOON! Here it is backwards: NOON! :)
136. Serial Killers
(Cereal Killers)
137. Three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, for a total of $1.19.
138. His own equal! We see our equals everyday, but since there is one God, he cannot see someone equal to himself.
139. They started with 158 seeds in the dish.
140. The tank with the one -two centimeter drain outlet has twice the area as two -one centimeter outlets and will therefore empty first
141.
1.(cat)cher
2.dupli(cat)e
3.medi(cat)ion
4.(cat)acomb
5.va(cat)ion
6.de(cat)hlon
7.(cat)astrophe
8.copy(cat)
9.(cat)tle
10.edu(cat)or
142. 1.
Lord Mayor
2. Portland Oregon
3. Aurora Borealis
4. George Orwell
5. Order Form
6. Morning Glory
7. North Korea
8. Corner Store
143. If
you take each corresponding letter from each word, the same words are formed
again:
What Hole Ales Test
wHat hOle aLes tEst
whAt hoLe alEs teSt
whaT holE aleS tesT
145.
The answer that you seek to find, in words, is now shown here,
To understand the clues read on, I'll try to make it
clear.
The twenty-first of letters is U in the alphabet,
Double it, W is the letter you would then get.
Now the twenty-second letter of the alphabet is V,
When written twice together a W it could be.
I hope I've explained the clues to give W as letter one,
Now let's move on, there's four more letters to be done.
The second and third letters are three from each other,
But to scour the alphabet to find them, you needn't
bother.
If you were looking carefully you'd have seen in the
third line,
The linking word, OR, fits this criteria just fine.
This makes the second O, and R would be the third,
Which gives us W, O and R as letters of this word.
The fourth letter in the alphabet is fourth in the
answer too,
Which makes the fourth one D, only one more left to do!
Finally the fifth lies between the first and second,
In the alphabet, S splits W and O, that's what I
reckoned.
Combine the five, see that they've been used here a lot?
And in the seventh line, sixth word, the answer even got
a spot!
So now you know the answer and those clues are less
absurd,
It's amazing what you can do with a word, oops, I mean
WORDS!
146. Unhappy without you
147. Music
148. 1.. Infiniti
(infinity)
2. Saturn
3. Lincoln
4. Saab (sob)
5. Toyota (toy Yoda, HA-HA)
6. Land Rover
7. Jaguar
8. Mercury
9. Dodge
10. MINI
150. The number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 on a US keyboard when you hold the shift button down.
152. Many people who ride horses carry whips. They crack the whip while they ride the horse. When a whip is cracked, the tip travels faster than the speed of sound, which makes the loud snap. It actually creates a miniature sonic boom of sorts. The whip breaks the sound barrier, thus, it was broken on horseback.
153. NOW (winnow, nowhere)
US (discus, usage)
DON (tendon, donor)
HEM (anthem, hemlock)
KING (sinking, kingship)
154. 1. Walrus (wal rus)
2. Igloo (ig loo)
3. Hopeful (hope ful)
4. Realize (re al ize)
5. Errand (er rand)
6. Imagine (im ag ine)
7. Saga (sa ga)
156.
Each word can be prefixed with a vowel. Each
grouping can be prefixed with the same vowel.
a) lien (alien), steroid (asteroid), venue (avenue)
e) astern (eastern), bony (ebony), land (eland)
i) con (icon), deal (ideal), slander (islander)
o) pinion (opinion), range (orange), vary (ovary)
u) nit (unit), pending (upending), tile (utile)
157. The Center of Attention
158. Alice & Tom,
Sally & Bob,
Gertrude & Bill,
Betty & Jim
160.
1. Mussel (Muscle)
2. Mare (Mayor)
3. Horse (Hoarse)
4. Coral (Choral)
5. Robin (Robbin')
6. Ant (Aunt)
7. Geese (Geas)
8. Ewe (You)
9. Hare (Hair)
10. Bee (Be)
162. A lion, king of the jungle! (the head of a Lamb, the middle of a pIg, the hind of a buffalO and the tail of a dragoN)
164. 1. The cut on his HEEL won't
HEAL in time for the race, so HE'LL have to drop out.
2. The man was so upset about being BALD that he
regularly BALLED himself up on the bed and BAWLED his eyes out.
3. I couldn't SENSE any of the SCENTS in the flower
shop, because for some strange reason I had 50 CENTS crammed up my nose.
4. A bloodthirsty pirate will wander the SEAS and
essentially SEIZE everything he SEES.
165. Doc
Happy
Smelly
Sneezy
Stumpy
Sleepy
Grumpy
Dopey
Droopy
Bashful
169.
1) Nobody would LISTEN to the old pirate any
more, because his TALES were far too TAME.
2) The fans were SILENT as the opposition managed to
STEAL the game from the home TEAM.
3) When he decided to ENLIST, he did not expect STALE
bread with his MEAT every meal.
4) On many of the lake's INLETS in the Spring, TEALS
will be out looking for a MATE.
6 Letters: LISTEN, SILENT, ENLIST, INLETS.
5 Letters: TALES, STEAL, STALE, TEALS.
4 Letters: TAME, TEAM, MEAT, MATE.
170. A Chair.
If you chop off the first letter, you are left with
"hair".
If you chop off the last letter, you are left with "chai".
178.
Pea
Heap
Shape
Phrase/seraph
Sharpen
Shrapnel
179.
I am Y.
When Y is added to a noun, it often makes it an
adjective; i.e. Hair+y=hairy, Smell+y=Smelly, etc.
When you put two horizontals line through a Y, it makes
the Yen symbol, found in Japan.
In the Spanish language, Y is the translation for "and",
which is a conjunction. If you watch School House Rock, they do a whole skit on
Conjunction Junction.
He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painfull in love, One painfull in
everyday matter. Do you know what 2 words I must be?
180. 1.
Factory Worker
2. Corn Liquor
3. Horse Doctor
4. Bjorn Borg
5. World Record
6. Fort Worth
7. Organ Donor
8. Short Story
181. Positive feedback
183.
Barfly
Bitten
Boxcar
Lowboy
Sunday
Hidden
Dimwit
Winnow
Peanut
Pantry
185. Step 6!
186. The third son went over and blew out the candle after Death left because the son said "till the candle wick burns out", not "till the candle burns out".
193.
1. Stop, Look, and Listen
2. Win, Place, and Show
3. First, Second, and Third
4. Beg, Borrow, and Steal
5. Tall, Dark, and Handsome
6. Small, Medium, and Large
7. Snap, Crackle, and Pop
194. Season's Greetings.
195. 1. Starlight
2. Boneless
3. Knowing
4. Paladin
5. Haddock
6. Scathed
7. Revenue
8. Heighten
9. Witching
196. The PEACEmaker
ON Golden Pond
Battlefield EARTH
Thelma AND Louise
GOOD WILL Hunting
The Road TO Perdition
The Sum of ALL Fears
MEN in Black
And the phrase is:
PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN. (Merry
Christmas everyone)
197. By looking at the standard
US-style keyboard, you see the answer is the number 8.
The 8 is below the asterisk, though on the same button.
It is above the letters U & I.
Underneath those is the letter J.
Skip a row down and you see the space bar.
Above the 8 are the F6 and F7 function keys.
To the left is the seven, which has the & symbol.
To the right is the number nine.
198. A
billiard (pool) table.
They have four sturdy legs and a green, fuzzy playing
surface (snooker tables are sometimes red). Privately owned tables are often
kept in the den (family room), and the cues are usually stored in a wall rack.
Private tables simply have pouches beneath the pockets to catch the balls;
coin-operated tables store the balls inside the table. To play again, you need
to insert more coins.
Note the use of "cue" and "chalk"; two essential
billiard elements!
199, LINE (bowline, lineage)
TIC (genetic, ticking)
SCAPE (landscape, scapegoat)
IT (digit, itself)
ROT (parrot, rotate) or DON (pardon, donate)
201. Monthly Bills!
202. Three for one pair, and twelve to ensure one pair of each color
203. 1) fat beaver & bat fever
2) sea floor & flea sore
3) frying pan & prying fan
4) man of the times & tan of the mimes
204. I'm a butterfly.
205.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles, towers and Keeps
were run clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When
the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their
right hand, which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing
the stairs, giving clear advantage to the defenders. Many of the orders of
clergy had military training in order to defend monasteries and Abbeys during
the middle ages.
Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except
left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they
were descendants of the devil.
206.
1. Hang
2. Home
3. Make
4. Long
5. Half
6. Head
7. High
8. Foot
9. Fire
207.
Ice, of course!
My first letter, 'I', is the second letter in the word,
'LINE'.
In daylight, ice seems to glitter. =)
209. Pheasant, ant, toad, adder, rat, turtle, leech, char, hare, eel, lion, newt, tiger.
210.
1. Barking up the wrong tree.
2. Burn the candles at both ends.
3. Kill two birds with one stone.
4. Casting pearls before swine.
211. The time and date may be written as 12:34 5 6 78
215.
The Four Suits in a Deck of Standard Playing Cards
The Spade is a gardener's tool.
The Diamond is the hardest gem to break. "Little Girl
and Queen" is a Mother Goose rhyme, in which the Queen gave the girl a large
diamond for picking the Queen some roses.
The Heart bonds with the mind to form "love." "Absence
makes the heart grow fonder."
The Club, or Clover, is three dots connected around a
stem.
216. A fruit loving cousin:
Man-Gogh
The grandfather from Yugoslavia: U-Gogh
The cousin from Illinois: Chica-Gogh
His Mexican cousin: Amee-Gogh
His Great Grandfather who drove a stage coach: Wellsfar-Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt: Tan-Gogh
The bird lover uncle: Flamin-Gogh
A sister who loved disco: Go-Gogh
And his niece who travels the country in a van: Winnie
Bay-Gogh
217.
1. Putting the cart before the horse.
2. It takes two to tango.
3. Get hot under the collar.
4. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
218. David must give Robert another 20 water balloons, giving them each 60. Robert started with 30 water balloons and David with 90.
219. None. In total darkness it is impossible to see anything
220,
1) Don't stop me now.
by Queen.
2) Clocks.
by Coldplay.
3) Brown sugar.
by Rolling stones.
4) Sweet child o' mine.
by Guns 'n' roses.
5) Don't stand so close to me.
by Sting.
221. Scent, cent and sent.
222. Take the string and soak it in the water. Let the string rest across the ice cube. Reach across the table and get the salt that you used on your eggs; pour the salt over the string and the ice cube. The salt causes the ice to melt. However, when you stop pouring the salt, the water that formed on the top of the cube will refreeze with the string embedded in it. Now you can lift the ice cube with the string.
223.
The word you need is STONE.
KEYSTONE
STONEWALL
GEMSTONE
STONEWASHED
224. Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside
225. The successful suitor simply asked the Princess to walk over to where he stood and touch "his hand!"
226. Coal
227. TANK
EDICT
DIAPER
HEINOUS
228. 1.
Carrot (Care-rut)
2. Turnip (Turn-nip)
3. Romaine (Roe-mane)
4. Lettuce (Let-us)
5. Spinach (Spin-itch)
6. Cabbage (Cab-budge)
7. Zucchini (Zoo-key-knee)
8. Cucumber (Cue-cumber)
9. Radish (Rad-dish)
10. Pepper (Pep-per)
Bonus:
-Celery (Cell-lurry)
-Garlic (Gar-lick)
-Onion (Un-eon)
229. 12DC / The Twelve Days Of
Christmas
12=DD = 12 drummers drumming
11=PP = 11 pipers piping
10=LL = 10 lords 'a' leapin'
9=LD = 9 ladies dancing
8=MM = 8 maids 'a' milkin'
7=SS = 7 swans 'a' swimmin'
6=GL = 6 geese 'a' layin'
5=GR = 5 golden rings
4=CB = 4 calling birds
3=FH = 3 french hens
2=TD = 2 turtle doves
1=PPT = partridge in a pear tree
The following puzzle consists of a proverb with all its
vowels removed. The remaining letters have been broken into groups of four. Put
back the vowels to find the proverb.
FLND-HSMN-YRSN-PRTD.
A Fool and his money are soon parted.
230. 1.
DEER, E
2. BEAVERS, V
3. SHREWS, W
4. BISON, O
5. MOOSE, S
6. ANTELOPE, L
EVWOSL unscrambles to become WOLVES. Wolves have been
known to hunt deer, beavers, shrews, bison, moose, and antelope, among other
things. Although a pack of wolves generally likes bigger game like bison, a
single wolf will eat smaller things like shrews. They will even eat earthworms
and fruits if they must.
231. He came in 7th.
235. You would screw the socket to the right. Which hand you use is irrelevant
236. 1. PONDER, YONDER
2. DANGER, RANGER
3. TOWEL, VOWEL
237. 1. Kisses
2. Payday
3. Butterfingers
4. 3 Musketeers
5. Starbursts
238. Tie the scissors to one of the ropes and make it move like a pendulum. Then take the other end of the rope and grab the scissors as they come toward you. Then tie the knot.
239.
Person 1 is a Mikko.
Person 2 is a Zikko.
Person 3 is a Kikko.
Thanks for helping!
240. Just 5.
241. 1.
Courtney Cox
2. Ashton Kutcher
3. Kate Winslet
4. Simon Cowell
5. Meryl Streep
6. Demi Moore
7. Cameron Diaz
8. Renee Zellweger
242. A riddle!
243. 1.
The time is 2:12.
2. The time is 9:48.
The hour hand is exactly on a line every 12 minutes, so
we only need to look at times ending in 00, 12, 24, 36, and 48.
The hands exactly overlap at 12:00. They are 5 lines
apart at 11:00 and 1:00, and farther apart at other hours.
At times ending in 12, the hands are closest at 2:12,
where they are 1 line apart.
At times ending in 24, the hands are closest at 4:24,
where they are 2 lines apart.
At times ending in 36, the hands are closest at 7:36,
where they are 2 lines apart.
At times ending in 48, the hands are closest at 9:48,
where they are 1 line apart.
244.
1. Hoover does not belong as it's the only
one which is not a car manufacturer. Dodge does not belong as it's the only one
which is not the last name of a President of USA.
2. Bishop does not belong as it's the only one which is
not a class of nobility. Earl does not belong as it's the only one which is not
a Chess piece.
3. Dead does not belong as it's the only one which is
not a color. Green does not belong as it's the only one which is not the name of
a sea.
246. A candle!
247.
1.)Beehive State
2.)Belmont Stakes
3.)Bee Sting
4.)Bering Strait
5.)Ben Stiller
6.)Bethlehem Steel
248. The old one was : Out of date
The new one is: Different
He said: My password is "Out of date." And the boss told
him the new one when he said: "The password is different."
256. If there is not enough light to READ, JUST READJUST the lamp.
257.
1. as (becAuSe)
2. stun (aSToUNd)
3. city (muniCIpaliTY)
4. charm (CHARisMa)
5. dame (DAMsEl)
6. male / man (MAscuLinE / MAsculiNe)
258. A Hot Air balloon.
259. A)
The short piece will weigh more!
This is due to the torque needed to hold the long piece
up. It is the same reason a heavy kid has to sit closer in on a see-saw when he
is on it with a lighter friend.
Oh yeah, D) may also be correct depending on your
mother's temperament.
260. Many inju(red) animals are invited t(o live) at the 'Toront(o Range)'. Sto(p in k)angaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures with(in. Dig o)ver the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't (yell! Ow)ls can be found swooping fo(r ed)ible rodents, earwigs or perhaps (blue)bottles in the undergrowth. The (brown) bear, Ro(b, lack)s grace and may look like an o(gre, en)ter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultra(violet) torch.
261. A bar of soap.
262. A blind cat
268.
1) = cat (catfight, catwalk, catfish, catnap)
2) = cut (cutback, cutthroat, cutlass, cutlet)
3) = nut (nutcase, nutcracker, nuthouse, nutshell)
4) = out (outside, outcome, outmatch, outsize)
269. Dreams
270. Particles!
271. 1. profile (pro file)
2. pronoun (pro noun)
3. promoter (pro mo ter)
4. protector (pro tec tor)
5. procrastinate (pro cras ti nate)
6. proposition (pro po si tion)
7. professionally (pro fes sion al ly)
272. Group A- a tongue
Group B- a bill
Group C- a mouth
273.
Place 1 white marble in one bowl, and place the rest of
the marbles in the other bowl (49 whites, and 50 blacks).
This way you begin with a 50/50 chance of choosing the
bowl with just one white marble, therefore life! BUT even if you choose the
other bowl, you still have ALMOST a 50/50 chance at picking one of the 49 white
marbles.
274.
1. Kenny Chesney
2. Beyonce Knowles
3. Gretchen Wilson
4. Justin Timberlake
5. Gwen Stefani
6. Madonna
7. Toby Keith
8. Mariah Carey
9. Reba McEntire
10. Ozzy Osbourne
275. First, the waiter stuck the
match into the lemon wedge, so that it would stand straight. Then he lit the
match, and put it in the middle of the plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the
glass upside-down over the match. As the flame used up the oxygen in the glass,
it created a small vacuum, which sucked in the water through the space between
the glass and the plate. Thus, the waiter got the water into the glass without
touching or moving the plate.
You can try this experiment at home with appropriate
supervision.
276. F. Railroad Station
The first letter of each place he went to spells out the
word "teaser."
Theater
Er Hospital
Art Center
Supermarket
Energy Plantation
Railroad Station
277. 1. Joy to the World
2. Little Drummer Boy
3. I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
4. Deck the Halls
5. Winter Wonderland
6. Oh Christmas Tree
7. 12 Days of Christmas
8. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
9. Away in a Manger
278.
1. Parka (par ka)
2. Pardon (par don)
3. Party (par ty)
4. Paragraph (par a graph)
5. Parallel (par al lel)
6. Parakeet (par a keet)
7. Partially (par tial ly)
8. Parentheses (par en the ses)
9. Paramedic (par a med ic)
279. Your imagination.
280. The letter 'n'.
wiNdow - widow
door - doNor
281. EVANGELISTS
FUNERAL
VIOLENCE
ASTRONOMERS
282.
Old age.
No American has died of old age since 1951. Old age was
"cured" at a Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. All state and
federal agencies were ordered to adopt a standard list of 130 contributing and
underlying causes of death. In 1951, the list deleted "old age" as a cause of
death.
There is still some debate over whether old age is an
appropriate cause of death. If someone dies peacefully in their sleep at age 95,
one or several organs may have shut down, but isn't the underlying cause old
age?
283. 1.
Balloon
Clue: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...
The first balloon was invented in 1709. Now, balloons
are used as an airship design, in celebrations, and even in medicine! Military
use of the balloon first occurred in the American Civil War in map-making and in
signaling armies. Now, hot air balloons can be seen and ridden during parades
and festivals.
2. Tattoo
Clue: Body Modification
Tattooing is a form of body modification. Many cultures
all over the world practice tattooing. The first tattoos were found on ancient
Egyptian mummies and on "Otzi the Iceman," who was found frozen in the Italian
Alps!
3. Committee
Clue: A group of people.
Committees are often formed when a group of people need
to make a decision. They can range in size from just a few people to a very
large group of people. The most well-known examples of committees are in
government where committees are delegated to decide on legislation.
4. Keenness
Clue: Acuteness or acumen.
Keenness is a synonym for acuteness, acumen, brilliance,
cleverness, and other similar words. The word 'keen' comes from an Old English
word that means brave.
5. Cooee
Clue: Kangaroos, dingos, and kookaburras!
Cooee is a chant used in the Australian Outback. It is
usually shouted to attract attention, indicate one's location, or find missing
people. Sherlock Holmes used his knowledge of this word to solve "The Boscombe
Valley Mystery." (Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
284.
All Swaff has to do in order to be the winner
is use hot water.
Geemiee, being less cool than Swaff, didn't know that
water with a hot average temperature freezes faster than water that is at room
temperature. The phenomenon that hot water may freeze faster than cold is often
called the Mpemba effect.
285.
1. Bassoon
Clue: A woodwind instrument that dates back to the mid
16th century.
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument that finds its
origins in the dulcian, a Renaissance era woodwind instrument. The bassoon is
commonly used to play bass and tenor-range music. Composers often write music
for the bassoon. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven all wrote pieces that
feature the bassoon prominently.
2. Toffee
Clue: A sweet treat that is sometimes made with nuts or
raisins.
Toffee is a candy that is made by boiling molasses with
butter. Common toffee flavors are rum & butter, chocolate, vanilla, chocolate,
rum & raisin, and honeycomb.
3. Keelless
Clue: A term that can be used to describe boats and
ships.
A keel is a structural element of a ship that is called
the "spine of the ship." It is a long beam in the center of the ship that the
hull is built around. Keel is an interesting word because some scholars believe
it to be the first English language word ever recorded in writing.
4. Appellee
Clue: A character in a courtroom.
An appeal, in law jargon, is the request to change a
ruling made by one court. Often appeals are filed in higher courts that have the
ability to reverse rulings made by lower courts. The party that files the appeal
is appellant. The appellant wants the first ruling changed. The other party is
the appellee. The appellee won the case in the lower court and wants the ruling
to stay unchanged.
5. Walloon
Clue: A Belgian language.
Walloon is a Romance language heard in Wallonia,
Belgium. It sounds most like the French language. However, it is not a French
dialect. People who speak the Walloon language are called Walloons.
6. Bookkeeper
Clue: This word has 3 consecutive double letters!
This is a fun word that can be used to stump your
friends. It is one of only a few words in the English language that has 3
consecutive double letters. If you consider hyphenated words, sweet-toothed also
has 3 consecutive double letters.
286.
Mishap is the misfit.
The other six words, and the three in the title, all
contain the 'sh' sound - which is spelled in nine different ways!
Ironically, the word which does contain -sh- is not
pronounced 'sh'!
'Schedule' would count as another spelling of the same
sound, depending on which side of the Atlantic you studied!
287.
Fear.
The anagram of wolf is fowl. The homonym of fowl is
foul. The antonym of foul is fair. The homonym of fair is fare. The anagram of
fare is fear, which is the emotion
288. The answers are:
1. Mustard
2. Plum
3. Green (The color of the birthstones of May and
August).
4. Peacock
5. Scarlet
6. White
All these words are the last names of the characters in
the game of Clue (Cluedo).
1. Colonel Mustard
2. Professor Plum
3. Mr. Green
4. Mrs. Peacock
5. Miss Scarlet
6. Mrs. White
289. 1)
Long Wave Radio
2) Short Wave Radio
3) Broadband Radio
4) Digital (Digit All / All Digit) Radio
5) Pirate Radio
6) Local (Low Cal) Radio
7) Transistor (Trans Sister) Radio
290.
1. Scorpio (scor pi o)
2. Saturn (sat urn)
3. Elephant (el e phant)
4. Ornament (or na ment)
5. Manor (man or)
6. Novel (nov el)
7. Rodent (ro dent)
8. Comforter (com fort er)
9. Thesaurus (the sau rus)
10. Conjunction (con junc tion)
291. 1. Midday - Noon
2. A young dog - Pup
3. Flat - Level
4. Word for addressing a lady - Madam
5. An Eskimo canoe - Kayak
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc. - Radar
7. An action - Deed
8. Pieces of music for one person - Solos
9. Grass that grows on the seashore - Marram
10. In music, half a semibreve - Minim
11. Doctrine - Tenet
12. Restorer - Reviver
292. The cobbler and his wife gave each of his nine children a pair of shoes. That left one pair in the box. They then gave this tenth child the box with the shoes in it.
293. 1. Dog
2. Gnu
3. Monkey
4. Beaver
5. Bear
6. Lion
7. Camel
8. Cat
294. There are 7 “Y” in the first text.
There are 6 “F” in the second text (got them?)
There are 38 “E” in the third text.
295.
Noon.
(However, if you answered that it's time to get a new
clock, you're right, too.)
296. First word: Does
Second word: Doze
Third word: Does
297. When you put on a GLOVE, you'll be warm. Take off the letter G, and LOVE is left.
298. Missing in action
299. A black hole.
Scientists theorize that black holes and wormholes might
lead to other dimensions or different parts of the universe and so on. Thus a
"gateway to places unspoken."
Man cannot (as yet) enter a black hole. The end is
self-explanatory.
As for the hint, black holes have an event horizon, and
if something is to pass it, there is no way of escaping. (At least none that we
know of.)
300.
5*4*3*2*1=120.
They are Frenchmen, and can all speak French. Therefore,
any order is OK.
301.
1. plain chain
2. glad lad
3. stale tale
4. faint paint
5. shy fly
6. drab crab
7. large barge
302. 1. Chris Rock Hudson
2. Chris Isaac Asimov
3. Boy George Harrison Ford
4. Elton John Wayne Newton
5. Curious George Michael Jackson Browne
303. The one word was "AMEN", thus making the Boss believe he was praying rather than sleeping.
304. You look in the mirror you see what you saw, you take the saw and you cut the table in half, two halfs make a whole, and you climb out the hole. :)
305. 1.
Crust -> Rust
2. Cheat -> Heat
3. Chill -> Hill
4. Climb -> Limb
5. Cable -> Able
6. Caged -> Aged
7. Cease -> Ease
8. Clean -> Lean
306. A code of conduct
307.
A Match made in Heaven!
A match (wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip,
which are the components of matches) is being made in HEAVEN
308. and drew = Andrew
309.
1. Erode -> Rode
2. Elate -> Late
3. Every -> Very
4. Event -> Vent
5. Estate -> State
6. Emerge -> Merge
7. Emotion -> Motion
8. Equality -> Quality
310. the letter "e"
311. A Watermelon
312. The word "big". It only has 3 letters and is therefore shorter in length than the words "tiny", "small", "minuscule", and "microscopic".
313.
If you thought those clues lead to a cat then
happily you're right,
For bad luck is yours when a black cat should come
across your sight.
And when you reveal a secret, even though you said you
wouldn't,
You've let the cat out of the bag by telling what you
shouldn't.
Nosiness, prying, snooping and inquisitiveness, oh drat!
They make up curiosity, which, we all know, killed the
cat!
314. They
are all someone's best friend.
Dogs:Man, Diamonds:Girls, Double Plays:Baseball Pitchers
315. 120 times.
316. I'm a snake.
317. Dashing through the snow.
318.
The odd word out is INEFFICIENCIES
In all the other words, each of the letters in the word
appears twice.
319.
1. RA = FRAGRANT
2. IN = PAINTING
3. NE = NECKLINE
4. AN = BANDSTAND
5. LE = LEAFLET
320.
The note said, "It was my wife!"
The detective looked at the keypad on his phone and saw
the letters next to the numbers.
2,1 would be A
2,2 would be B
9,4 would be Z
322. At $5 a letter you'd be charged $45 for underwear
323. Milk.
324. The letter "Z"
325.
There once was a musical, CATS
It was performed in three ACTS
When it was through,
The audience flew
And all of the CAST went SCAT.
326. 1. Silent Night
2. Let it Snow
3. O Holy Night
4. I saw Three Ships
5. Do you hear what I hear?
6. Go tell it on the Mountain
Bonus: The Nutcracker Suite
327. A Spider.
328. Ice Cream Man!
333. I
have what's called the photic sneeze reflex.
A few people have this quality which makes them sneeze
when they are subjected to bright light, like the sun... especially if they are
just coming from a darker room or place. About 20-25% of people have the photic
sneeze reflex. The funny thing is it's difficult to monitor who has it and who
doesn't... because all people who have this reflex tend to assume that all
people have it and those who don't have it don't recognize this as a
possibility!
You have no idea how many times I've been nailed when I
try to explain this one ;-)
334.
2. Matt
3. Jim
4. Dick
5. Chris
6. Sally
7. Dinah
8. Justin
335. Statue of Liberty
336. My
name, in case you still don't know.
Is simply one word, Geronimo.
Geronimo was quoted to have said, "Where I was born,
there were no enclosures".
Autobiographers have stated it took more than 5000
soldiers and 500 scouts to capture Geronimo the last time and often referred to
him as "the terror of the country".
In 1883, Geronimo surrendered to General George Crook.
367. 8 3 1 9 4 2 7 0 5 6
368.
1. Lettuce
2. Cabbage
3. Cucumber
4. Tomato
5. Watermelon
Explanation of each answer:
1. The words "let us" point to lettuce.
2. Cab is another name for a taxi, and the rings in a
tree tell its age. When we combine cab and age, cabbage is the result.
3. A pool stick is called a cue stick. Burnt umber is a
brownish color. When we combine cue, c, and umber, cucumber is the result.
4. Mating socks is an expression for pairing socks. When
mating socks at the toes, tomato is the result.
5. Water is a drink. When we combine water, me, and "lon",
watermelon is the result.
369.
Aibohphobia is not a real, documented phobia; it is actually a joke started on
the Internet. It has not appeared in any documented psychology journal. The
joke, of course, is that the word Aibohphobia is a palindrome.
The title is part of a quote on fear from the book Dune,
by Frank Herbert.
370. Lisa is married to George, and their 10 year old plays with Nintendo. They like to eat at Burger King. The associations are: Child age 4, mother Regina, Father Larry, trains, KFC Child age 6, mother Julie, Father Steve, Pokeman, McDonalds Child age 8, mother Marie, Father Mike, Barbie, Taco Bell Child age 10, mother Lisa, Father George, Nintendo, Burger King Child age 12, mother Carol, Father Bill, GI Joe, Dairy Queen To solve, draw a grid with five rows and five columns. Across the top, above the columns, write Age, Mother, Father, Toy and Food. Figure out the known ages and write them in order in the first column. One child's age is unknown at first. However, once the youngest child is discovered (the one who plays with trains) it is then known that the oldest child is the child with the unknown age. Through additional clues, it is possible to determine that the oldest child is age 12. Take the clue, Lisa’s child is 10. In the mother column corresponding to the age 10, you would write LISA (Maybe circle it, because it is the correct answer.) In the mother column for every other age, write "not Lisa". Do this for each clue. If you know the answer because of a clue, write it in the appropriate column, and then be sure to write "not such and such" in all the other rows for that clue. For example, "The youngest child plays with trains", would result in "not trains" for any child you can tell isn’t the youngest, but you can’t write "trains" for any child, because you don’t know which child is the youngest at first. Eventually, you may find that "mother not Marie" is on every line except one, and then you would know that Marie is the mother on the empty line.
371. Boxing.
372. I am your shadow.
373. She had already put sugar in it and when she tasted the new tea it was
already sweet!
374. Get out and walk, the boat is one-mile inland!
375.
1. an = anchorman
2. en = enjoyment
3. et = etiquette
4. sh = shipshape
5. in = insincere
6. ha = haphazard
376.
According to scientific research, after an
initial period of about 2 weeks, where the hair is dirty, smelly and greasy, it
actually starts to clean itself! It produces natural oils that clean the hair
from the roots, leaving you with lovely clean glossy hair; although, with some
people, it may take several more weeks to actually notice any difference.
I don't much fancy trying it myself though!
377. 1.) lose
2.) fibs
3.) a savage breast
378.
A waterfall.
Meanings:
Jump - fall from different heights.
Bottom - the water at the bottom.
Yours to take - you can take the water.
Don't jump with - it could be a long fall.
379. He should have said three, the number of letters in the number the guard said.
380.
1. Gazelle.
2. Elephant.
3. Buffalo.
4. Wombat.
5. Wolverine.
381. 1. Loaf
2. Union
3. Cone
4. Interest
5. Lot
6. Light
7. Elite
8. Block
9. Arm
10. League
11. Lean
Celebrity: Lucille Ball
382. Forget about the mummy. Add the wood pulp to the water and freeze the mixture. The resulting solid, called pykrete, will have incredibly useful properties. For example, several decades ago Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1894-1948) showed that the frozen mixture was extremely hard to break and very slow to melt. If a ship were made of pykrete, it would be unsinkable; torpedoes could hit it and do little damage. Pykrete has a crush resistance of greater that 3,000 pounds per square inch. A 1-inch column of pykrete can support an automobile. The wood pulp also makes the pykrete extremely stable at high temperatures. If a .303 caliber bullet is fired at the pykrete, it will penetrate only 6.5 inches. The United States and Canada were so impressed with the idea of assembling pykrete warships that a 60-foot-long, 1,000-ton pykrete ship was built in one month on a Canadian lake and never melted through the hot summer.
383. Footprints
384. 1.
mantel
2. lament
3. mental
4. mantle
385. The Letter E.
386.
1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, so the next number is 8.
5+8=13, so the 5th digit is 13
387. 1. Whale mail
2. Brook nook
3. Knight fight
4. Spare pair
5. Copper stopper
388.
1. China: This is the world's most populous
country.
2. Nigeria: The capital of this country is Abuja.
3. Japan: This is the only country to ever suffer an
attack with atomic weapons.
4. South Korea: The capital of this city is Seoul.
5. United Kingdom: This country is a great industrial
power despite the fact that it must import many resources.
6. South Africa: The capital of this country is
Pretoria.
7. Romania: Dracula's home, Transylvania, is in this
country.
390. The successful suitor simply asked the Princess to walk over to where he stood and touch "his hand!"
391. The reason that a cork drifts to the side of a glass is that it floats to the highest point. Since water "clings" to the glass, the highest point is around the edge of the water. To get the cork to float in the middle of the glass, all you have to do is fill the glass as much as possible. The water will form a convex shape above the glass, with the highest point at its center. This is where the cork will settle.
392. Four Score.
393. A Clock
394. I Am! (Official Answer)
For those of you who say "Go" is the shortest...I say "NO GO" :)
Here's an explanation sent in by Nikki:
Go (as is any other verb used as a command, like "eat!" or "sit!") is an
imperitive command.
A sentence by the linguisitic definition, must have a noun (I) and a verb (AM).
And besides, I AM is a great Molson Canadian ad campaign. Thanks Nikki!
395. 395. On Eva`s way out, Chuck had noticed a run in her stocking. When she went to the kitchen for coffee, he noticed that the run was on her right leg
396. 1. teacher, cheater
2. lessened, needless
3. Senator, treason
397. Hair
Straight hair is round in shape
Wavy or curly hair is flat in shape (the curlier the
hair the flatter)
Hair consists of 3 layers -
Cuticle (outer layer)
Cortex (second layer)
Medulla (center layer)
Chemically challenged - permed, tinted, bleached, etc.
398. A deck of cards
401.
1) key and parrot & pea and carrot
2) cold book & bold cook
3) sad ballad & bad salad
4) Swiss mine & Miss Swine
402.
Only time will tell.
lit. Only the herb Thyme (time) will tell who stole the
gold.
403. Duct Tape! (Official Stupid Answer :)
404.
Individual - duality
Dinner - nerve
Cancel - cellar
Brutal - tally
Lamp - amplitude
405.
Strauss is the one who killed Handel.
You need to take turns assuming someone is the killer;
that means everyone's second sentence is a lie. If Joplin was the killer,
Grieg's lie mixed with Strauss' counteracts the other. If Grieg was the killer,
Gershwin would need to be a killer too. If Gershwin was the killer, Grieg and
Strauss counter each other again, but with Strauss, everything would fit.
406. Only once. After the first calculation, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 5 from 15, and so on.
407. They are on opposite sides of
the river (nowhere does it say that they come to the river together!).
One simply uses the boat to cross the river and the
other person gets into the boat and takes it back to where it started.
408. River - versatile
Alarm - armoury
Mound - undergo
Unaware - arena
Apron - pronounce
Fellow - lowly
409. Failure is not an option.
410. 1.
Presbyterian
2. Punishment
3. Debit Card
4. Halley's Comet
5. Monica Lewinsky
411. It was daylight
412. Concrete floors are very hard to crack!
413. A Dandelion
414. Your Eyes
415. Chicago.
3/7 chicken= CHI
2/3 cat = CA
1/2 goat= GO
416. Perfume - merge
Barbed - editor
Against - stain
Stage - gesture
Giraffe - federal
Feature - remedy
417. The letter M.
418. Sam is visiting his lawyer, who had been arrested and jailed.
419.
1. The hunters set a TRAP for the hare. How
else were they to enjoy its succulent MEAT ?
2. They all listened in RAPT attention as their leader
spoke and motivated them to work as a TEAM.
3. There will always be a small PART of wildness in a
cat, though it is considered to be a TAME animal today.
Group I - TRAP, RAPT, PART
Group II - MEAT, TEAM, TAME
420. 1.
Charm -> Char
2. Warm -> War
3. Realm -> Real
4. Firm -> Fir
5. Skim -> Ski
6. Seam -> Sea
7. Hem -> He
8. Farm -> Far
421. A Coconut
422. The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops
423. Pee in the hole.
424 Sometimes these teasers can drive you silly.
425.
A television remote control.
Often used by a "couch potato".
Channels are most often changed between programs, which
end on the hour or half-hour.
If you lose the batteries, the only way to control the
TV is by hand.