A plane crashes right at the US-Canada border line, which countries will the people bury the survivors?
If there are 3 apples (that aren't yours) and you took 2 away, how many would you have?
Some months have 31 days, how many months have 28 days?
There are 8 sailors, 57 passengers, 73 baggages, 15 waiters/waitress and 4 cooks in your ship. Do you know how old is the captain?
There are 10 people taking an elevator to the top floor (40th floor) of a building. When the elevator reaches up to the top floor (the doors of the elevator aren't opened, everyone is still in the elevator), the elevator wires break apart and the elevator goes down to the first floor immediately (with a BIG crash!). When the cops arrived, they found out that no one was injured. Why is that?
It usually takes Jamie 1 hour to walk from the head of a train to the end of it. But for some reason, today it took him a lot shorter! He walked with the same pace. The train isn't moving. Why is that?
Uncle Bill has 9 sons. Each sons have a younger sister. How many daughters do he have?
If it takes 10 minutes to boil 1 egg, how many minutes will it take to boil 3?
Can you find three
errors:
Their are three
errers in this paragraph. Study it carefully and see if you can find
them all.
There are 10 fishes in the pond and one of them died today. How many are left now?
A hunter saw 10 birds on a tree, and he shot one of the birds down. How many birds are left on the tree?
A frog is in a big box that is 3 metres high. The frog could jump 60cm high. How many times does the frog have to jump in order to get out of the 3-metre box?
One day Jamie goes to the park with his parent. When they arrived to the park, his parent lit up a cigarrette and starts smoking, and Jamie goes to the swings and starts playing. After a while, they start walking home, and then saw a friend. His friend want to say something but Jamie interupped, "This person's not my dad, I told you!" and Jamie did not lie. Why?
How can two oranges be shared among three boys equally?
Which clock is more accurate: a clock that is one minute faster than the real time or a clock that have stopped and why?
Why did the cuckoo called 13 times in a cuckoo clock when it was only 12 o'clock?
A movie in a cinema starts at 2:30pm and Jody got a ticket for it. Jody stared at her watch and it says 12:30pm, so that means she still have 2 hours left until the movie started. She called a friend and they both met at a restaurant for lunch for an hour. After she went shopping and after a while she checked the time again. It was 2:10pm. She knew she will have enough time but she thought, 'Oh well, I'll wait until the movie starts anyway!". She drove for 10 minutes and arrive at the cinema at exactly 2:25pm. But the movie has already started! Why is that?
2 fathers and 2 sons went hunting for hares in a forest. After one hour they each got one, but why did they only have 3 hares?
How many times can you take 5 from 25?
Each side of his house faces south. Where does he live?
How can you make eleven sticks ( | | | | | | | | | | | ) into nine without any math (no adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing, NO MATH)?
An old man lives on the 15/F of an apartment. When he goes out he goes to G/F, but when he comes back he goes to 10/F, and then take the stairs to 15/F. He takes the same elevator. How come?
A dog is tied to leash, or something like a rope, which is 5m long, but it is able to run to a bone lying 10m away. The leash does not break apart or streched. How come?
What livings thing has 4 legs when it is young, 2 legs when it is older, and 3 legs when it is old?
There is a lamp and a candle in the dark room. What should you light first?
You have just arrived from a small town and wanted to get a haircut. You asked a young boy where the barbershop(s) is/are located. The boy said, "There are only 2 barbershops in this small town, one is a block ahead and the other is near that museum over there." You went to the barbershop near the museum and saw a messy barber that hasn't shaved for a long time, and hair was all around the floor. You went to the other barbershop and peek through the window, seeing a cleanly shaved barber and the place was also very clean. Why did you go back to the other barbershop?
Put only one straight line to make this statement true (not changing the equal sign to an unequal sign): 5 + 5 + 5 = 550
Why are 1966 pennies worth almost twenty dollars?
A farmer ownes 4 pink pigs, 1 brown pigs and 4 black pigs. How many of the pigs can say that it is the same color as another pig in the farm?
Tommy and Casey found a long tube. It is big enough so that each kid can crawl in from one end to another. If both kids go into the tube from opposite ends, can they crawl the entire length of the tube and come out the other end?
A rope was cut once but after that cut, it is still 1 whole rope (which means only one piece, not 2 pieces). How come?
One person's face is facing north, and the other person is facing south. Without turning their heads, can they face each other?
An old man was walking down the sidewalks. Then suddenly it started raining. That old man didn't bring an umbrella, and he doesn't have a hat, and he didn't even bring his raincoat with him, and he didn't look for covers, but the rain didn't wet his hair. Why is that?
I don't have any siblings. That guy's father is my father's son. Who is that guy?
A man want to cross a bridge without paying to the guard who sleeps at the middle of the bridge. The guard wakes up every 3 minutes, and it is impossible to cross the bridge before he wakes up. If the guard sees people crossing the bridge without paying, he will send them back. How can the man cross the bridge without paying?
A little boy likes to fool around with people. One day he went to a pig butcher and said "I want something not fat, not lean, with no bones, and with no meat!" The butcher knows immediately what the little boy wants. Do you know what he wants?
There are two bridges: one is big and tall, the other one is short and small. The small bridge is flooded once, but the large bridge is flooded twice. Do you know why?
One cat can catch a mouse in 5 minutes. How many cats can catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
Mary weighs 39 pounds, and she has to bring two metal balls across a small bridge. Each metal ball weighs 1 pound. The bridge can only hold weight up to 40 pounds. How can Mary bring the two metal balls with her at the same time and cross the bridge without the bridge breaking apart?
Without bouncing a ball off anything, hit it with anything, or tie anything to it, can you throw it so it goes a distance, stops, reverses its motion and goes the opposite way?
How many circles/squares
are there? Which has more?
A question for ICQ
people:
Jacqueline always
plays on the ICQ. She has the ICQ for about 1 year. She went
on it almost daily. One day, when she went online, she saw ALL the
people in her list online!! Do you think it is possible to have everyone
in your list online??
A man was digging his backyard to see if there were ancient remains. He found a box, and inside the box there were few coins. They say 58 BC. He thought to himself, "Oh my gosh! These coins are ancient, and I'll be rich if I sell them to the museums!!" He showed them to a friend, but the friend knows immediately that they were fake. Do you know why?
How can penguins survive in the Arctic?
The sidewalks were very quiet; there were only few people on the sidewalks. There were no cars on the roads. The streetlights were all off and the moon is covered by the clouds. An old man was walking on the silent sidewalks, and then he dropped a coin on the ground. He knew exactly where the coin is. Why?
A man was killed in 1958 and buried in 1957. Why?
There are 5 passengers on the bus. At the first station, 2 passengers came off. At the second station, 3 passengers came on. At the third station, 4 passengers came on. How many people are in the bus up to this point?
There are 5 passengers on the bus. At the first station, 2 passengers came on, and then at the second station 3 passengers came off. How many people were in the bus?
One person knows it, two person doesn't know it, three person doesn't know it. What is it?
Use any operations (plus, minus, multiply, divide) so that eight 8's (88888888) equals 1000.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet. ET goes home and only 21 letters were left. Do you know why?
How can you drop an egg on a concrete floor without breaking it?
There is a hole on both of my socks I just bought today? Why?
A healthy wife married a healthy husband and gave birth to a baby that has only one left hand! Is the baby healthy?
A guard dog is in front of his master's mansion. Every time it sees someone walking past it, it will bark for 30 minutes. How many people (minimum) have to walk past it so it bark for 6 hours unstopped?
A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give him a ticket. Why not?
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