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What
is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
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What
can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
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Who
is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from
under his own roof?
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My
voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to
play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have
nothing to say. What am I?
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I
was born in the 18th century, yet still live on today. Appearing
on TV when I have something to say. Called everything from
"honest" to a dirty rotten "crook", I used
to wear a wig, but have had several looks. I've always had a
party, but never disturb the neighbors. I've been shot at many
times - major stories for the papers. What am I?
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What
is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
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What
do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
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It
is in a rock but not in a stone, it is in marrow but not in a
bone. It is in a bolster but not in a bed, it is not living, nor
is it dead. What is it?
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Only one
color, but not one size; stuck to the ground, yet easily flies. Present in sun,
but not in rain; doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
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Some try to
hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet.
Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll know, when you I do claim.
Who am I?
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Be you ever
so quick, with vision keen, by your eyes, we are never seen. Unless perchance it
should come to pass, you see our reflection in a looking glass.
What are we?
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Inside
a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it
quickly, before the fire's too much to take!
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You
use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the
thinner it grows.
What is it?
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What
can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us
young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
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First you see
me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly
away. What am I?
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Hands she has
but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are
cold, eyes she has but without sight. Who is she
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I make you
weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your
hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold.
What am I?
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This runs
fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore on the other.
What is it?
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What book was once
owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it?
You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?
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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?
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Where
will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and
cities without houses?
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What
lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red.
The plumper it gets, the better the old woman likes it?
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An
openended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the
flesh, and the flesh is alive! What am I?
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I
have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in
the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I
have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and
hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I
cannot tell you more. What am I?
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A
father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
Who am I.
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Violet,
indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the
colors you have seen after the storm has fled.
What am I?
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In
spring I am gay in handsome array;
in summer more clothing I wear;
when colder it grows I fling off my clothes;
and in winter quite naked appear.
What am I?
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It goes up, but at the
same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's
present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you.
What is it?
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I was carried into a
dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off.
What am I?
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A very pretty thing am
I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky.
Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing.
What am I?
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Old
Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let
fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail
she left in a trap.
What is she?
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What
does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
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This
old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs
nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
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Mountains
will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its
endless call.
What is it?
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What
can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
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I
pass before the sun, yet make no shadow.
What am I?
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No
sooner spoken than broken.
What is it?
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Who
killed one-fourth of mankind?
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When
they are caught, they are thrown away.
When they escape, you itch all day.
What are they?
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You
can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without
moving.
What is it?
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Which
word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
A. BLAST, PAPER, BOX, BANK
B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET
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Often
talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for it's visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Tho' they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.
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Three
mountain climbers paid a lot of money to be the first to scale a
mountain. After several days of climbing they finally reached
the pinnacle, and to their dismay, found a cabin and three
frozen bodies. Since the mountain climbers were the first to
ever climb
the summit, how could this be possible?
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If
you screw a light bulb 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?
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Why
is a manhole cover round and not square?
Can you think of two reasons?
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If someone says to you,
"I'll bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I will give you $3 in
return", would this be a good bet for you to accept?
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A farmer in California
own a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery
store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is
available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has
24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has
exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many
plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
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Never resting, never
still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What is it?
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If
you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take
one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at
the same time?
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A
tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum
height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take
for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
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What
is so unusual about the sentence below? (Other than it doesn't
make any sense?)
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."
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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?
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Why can't you take a
picture of a man with a wooden leg?
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Bubba invited Beavis
and Butthead to his house for a barbeque. Since Bubba's barbeque is only
capable of handling two hamburgers at once, he wonders how he can cook
three hamburgers at once, he wonders how he can cook three hamburgers in
the shortest amount of time. It takes five minutes fro each side of a
burger to cook. Therefore, in ten minutes two will be cooked, and
another ten minutes will be needed to cook the third burger. Butthead
says all three can be cooked i just 15 minutes. How?
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Why
are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
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How
can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a
widow, or otherwise legally separated, legally marry 10 men?
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Clara
Clatter was born on December 27, on a hot summers day. How is
that possible?
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Brain
Density Quiz!
So, you think you're smart???? Take this quiz, if you dare! Most
answers are numeric, that is 3, 12, 35, etc. Do each one as fast
as you can.
Scoring is as follows:
Correct Answers Rating
11 Either you're brilliant or you cheated :)
9-10 Above Normal
7-8 Normal
4-6 Duh!
1-3 Idiot
0 You should not be on a computer right now.
1. Do they have a fourth of July in England? Yes No
2. How many birth days does the average man have?
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
4. In baseball, how many outs are there in an inning?
5. Can a California man legally marry his widow's sister? Yes No
6. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
7. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you
have?
8. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every
half hour.
How many minutes would the pills last?
9. A farmer has 17 sheep standing in a field and all but 9 drop
down and die.
How many sheep are left standing?
10. How many members of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
11. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he
weigh?
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Which
is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?
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If
five thousand, five hundred five dollars is written as $5,505,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be
written?
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You
are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter
rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five
hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water
assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide
began to rise?
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How
can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one
dollar bills?
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There are
four girls, and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple, yet
one apple
remains in the basket? How is this possible?
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There is
an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that
allows people to see through walls. What is it?
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What can
run but never walks, Has a mouth but never talks, Has a bed but never
sleeps?
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The maker
does not need it. The buyer does not use it. And the user does not know
it.
What is it?
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Sally and
her younger brother were fighting. Their mother was tired of the
fighting, and
decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of
newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she
accomplish this?
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If it
takes Alicia 3 hours to paint a fence, and it takes Mark 6 hours to
complete the same job. How long would it take both of them working
together at their normal paces to complete the same job?
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Different
lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.
What am I?
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What
goes around the world and stays in a corner?
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If you
divide thirty by a half and then add ten , what would your answer be?
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The 22nd
and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the
same father, but were not brothers. How can this be possible?
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Take one
out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
What am I?
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What gets
wetter the more it dries?
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There is
a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted
phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone
directory, on average, how
many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
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A man
takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It
now weighs less than 20 pounds.
What did he put in the barrel?
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How many of
each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
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What was the
biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?
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I am the
fountain from which no one can drink.
For many I am considered a necessary link.
Like gold to all I am sought for,
But my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.
What am I?
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Two men
were playing tennis. They played five sets and each man won three sets.
How can this be possible?
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Some will
use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have
forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the
ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can
you unravel my rhyme?
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The more
there is the less you see.
What is it?
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A wealthy man
named Richard Ellis had been counting his money.When he finished, he
accidentally left a $100.00 bill on his desk. But when he returned for it a
short while later, it was gone. Only two other persons could have seen the bill.
One was the maid; the other was the butler.
The maid told him that she had hidden it for safekeeping under a green book that
was on the desk. But when they looked the bill was not there.
The butler said he had found the bill where the maid had left it. He had placed
it inside the book, where he thought there was less chance that somebody would
find it. He had written down the page numbers so that he would not forget them.
The bill was between pages 35 and 36, he said. But when they looked, there was
no money in the book.
After Mr. Ellis had talked to the maid and the butler, he called the police. He
was sure he knew who had taken the money. Who was it, and how did he know?
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What demands an answer,
but asks no question?
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A
quick test of intelligence. Don't cheat! Because if you do, the test
will be no fun.
There are no Tricks to the test. Read this sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Now count aloud the F's in that sentence. Important, count them ONLY
ONCE: do not go
back and count them again
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There are 2 cops parked
along a one-way street looking for traffic violations.
They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do
nothing.
Why?
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When asked
how old she was, Suzie replied, "In two years I will be twice as
old as I was five years ago." How old is she?
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What runs around all day then
lies under the bed with its tongue hanging out?
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Dark with white markings,
And smooth like a rock.
Where learning occurs,
I help convey thought.
What am I?
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What is the easiest way to
throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after
traveling a short distance?
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I am the
shortest complete sentence in the English language.
What am I?
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To what
question can you never answer "yes"?
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