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1. When do dogs have 16 legs? WHEN THERE ARE 4 2. Why isn't your nose twelve inches long? THEN IT WOULD BE A FOOT 3. In what month do women talk the least? FEBRUARY 4. What do mice have that no other animal has? BABY MICE 5. How many men were born last year? ONLY BABIES WERE BORN 6. What word is always pronounced wrong? WRONG 7. Why do birds fly south in the winter? ITS TOO FAR TO WALK 8. If a woman marries a king, what would she be? HIS WIFE 9. What follows a horse wherever he goes? HIS TAIL 10. What nail should you never hit with a hammer? YOUR FINGERNAIL

back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you. THROW THE BALL STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR.
12. A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them

among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket? 4 KIDS GET AN APPLE EACH. THE 5TH KID EATS THE APPLE WHILE SITTING IN THE BASKET. 13. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be? THEYRE PART OF A SET OF TRIPLETS. 14. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? A TOWEL 15. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? AN EGG 16. What goes up and down the stairs without moving? A CARPET 11. How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come 17. What can you catch but not throw? A COLD

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18. What's black and white and read all over? A NEWSPAPER 19. What goes around the world but stays in a corner? A STAMP 20. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? A SPONGE 21. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? FIRE 22. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I? A SHOE 23. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? A RIVER 24. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I? AN ONION 25. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I? A HOLE

26. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I? BREATH
27. Pronounced as one letter,

And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I? AN EYE 28. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they? STARS
29. Lighter than what I'm made of,

More of me is hidden than is seen. What am I? ICE 30. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three

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in the evening? A HUMAN BEING 31. What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains? WHOLESOME

40. Light, hot, check SPOT 41. Light, hot, back FLASH 42. Wood, liquor, luck HARD

32. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands? A KANGAROO 33. Punctuate the following so it makes sense: "That that is is that that is not is not is not that it it is." "THAT THAT IS, IS; THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS NOT THAT IT? IT IS."
46. Read, child, proof PROOF 34. Back, short, watch STOP 47. Blue, lands, roots GRASS 35. Blue, cake cottage CHEESE 48. Butter, maid, run MILK 36. Stool, powder, ball FOOT 49. Off, crow, tactics SCARE 37. Big, soil, table TOP 50. Dog, frog, fighter BULL 38. Made, cuff, left HAND 51. Weight, fly, sand PAPER 39. Motion, poke, down, SLOW 52. Watch, house, gone DOG 43. Corn, winner, sweet BREAD 44. Top, inner, test TUBE 45. Back, crawl, work SPACE

RIDDLES AND BRAINTEASERS 53. Salt, melon, white WATER 54. Theme, trailer, ball PARK 62. How far will a blind dog walk into a forest? HALFWAY. AFTER

HE GETS HALFWAY, HE'S WALKING OUT OF THE FOREST. 63. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has "T" in it? TEAPOT
55. Video, board, waiting GAME

64. Say my name and I disappear. What am I? SILENCE

56. Rocket, night, lark SKY

65. A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. 57. 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? A WATERMELON 58. What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days? THE LETTER N 59. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? DARKNESS 60. What has a head, a tail, and has no legs? A COIN
69. What does this represent? 66. What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands? A SHIRT

What is it? AN EGG

(OR SWEATER, JACKET ETC) 67. Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS
68. A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and

leaves on Friday. How did he do it? THE HORSE'S NAME IS FRIDAY

61. What English word has three consecutive double letters? BOOKKEEPER

Standing

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World STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD

70. What does this represent?

WATER. 77. People need me but they always give me away. What am I? MONEY 78. What are two things people never eat before breakfast? LUNCH AND SUPPER. 79. Why did the man throw a bucket of water out the window? HE WANTED TO SEE THE WATERFALL. 80. Why did the man throw the butter out the window? HE WANTED TO SEE THE BUTTERFLY. 81. Why did the man put the clock in the safe? HE WANTED TO SAVE TIME.

Wear Black BLACK UNDERWEAR 71. I'm white, I'm round, but not always around. Sometimes you see me, sometimes you don't. What am I? THE MOON 72. What asks no questions but receives lots of answers? A PHONE 73. What goes up but never comes down? YOUR AGE
74. Tall in the morning, short at noon, gone at night but I'll be back

soon. What am I? A SHADOW 75. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not once in a thousand years? THE LETTER M.
76. How is the letter T like an island? IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF

82. What has a neck, but no head? A BOTTLE. 83. Where is the ocean the deepest? ON THE BOTTOM. 84. Why did the man throw his watch out of the window? HE WANTED TO SEE TIME FLY.

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85. What do tigers have that no other animals have? BABY TIGERS. 86. Which letter is not me? U 87. "What letter of the alphabet has got lots of water?" "THE C" 88. What letter of the alphabet is always waiting in order? THE Q. (QUEUE) 89. What is as big as a horse but doesn't weigh anything? THE HORSE'S SHADOW 90. What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it? A TEAPOT 91. Which room has no doors, no windows. A MUSHROOM 92. A father and his son were in a car accident. The father died. The son was taken to the hospital. The doctor came in and said: I can't do surgery on him, because he's my son. Who was the doctor? THE DOCTOR WAS HIS MOTHER.

(WEEK) DAYS. 94. Which is faster, heat or cold? HEAT, BECAUSE YOU CAN CATCH A COLD. 95. What do you call a witch at the beach? SANDWICH 96. What's a minimum? A VERY SMALL MOTHER! 97. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? SHORTER 98. What has four wheels and flies? A GARBAGE TRUCK 99. Why don't sharks eat clowns? BECAUSE THEY TASTE FUNNY 100. How many months have 29 days? ALL OF THEM 101. What begins with P, ends with E, and has 1000 letters? A POST OFFICE 102. What are two things never eaten before breakfast? LUNCH

93. What are the two strongest days of the week? THEY ARE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. ALL THE OTHERS ARE WEAK

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103. You man enter but may not come in. I have space but no room. I have keys but no lock. COMPUTER KEYBOARD
104.

I right I right between the eyes

105. XLR8 accelerate 106. TOkeepOUCH keep in touch 107. Esgg ggse segg scrambled eggs 108. MEREPEAT repeat after me 109. PotOOOOOOOO potatoes 110. GIVEGIVEGIVEGIVE forgive 111. H2O waterfall