Q: Im tall when Im young and Im short when Im old. What am I?

A: A candle.
Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink
computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower everything was
pink! What color were the stairs?
A: There werent any stairs, it was a one storey house.

Q: What has hands but can not clap?

A: A clock.
Q: A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and a bear is circling the house.
What color is the bear?
A: The house is on the north pole, so the bear is white.
Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter W.
Q: What starts with the letter t, is filled with t and ends in t?
A: A teapot
Q: A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no
candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
A: The woman is blind and is reading braille.
Q: You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace.
Which do you light first?
A: The match.
Q: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A: A Towel.
Q: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?
A: You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.
Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
A: Neither, they both weigh one pound.
Q: How many months have 28 days?
A: All 12 months.
Q: Name four days of the week that start with the letter t?
A: Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
Q: A train leaves from Halifax, Nova Scotia heading towards Vancouver, British
Columbia at 120 km/h. Three hours later, a train leaves Vancouver heading towards
Halifax at 180 km/h. Assume theres exactly 6000 kilometers between Vancouver and
Halifax. When they meet, which train is closer to Halifax?

A: Both trains would be at the same spot when they meet therefore they are both equally
close to Halifax.
Q: What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?
A: The bark on a tree.
Q: Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only
three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?
A: They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.
Q: A man was outside taking a walk, when it started to rain. The man didnt have an
umbrella and he wasnt wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on
his head got wet. How could this happen?
A: The man was bald.
Q: A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How
did he do it?
A: His horses name was Friday.
Q: You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isnt a single
person on board. How is that possible?
A: All the people on the boat are married.
Q: A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and
said, I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son. But the doctor was not the boys
father. How could that be?
A: The doctor was his mom.
Q: What can run but cant walk?
A: A drop of water.
Q: How far can a dog run into the woods?
A: The dog can run into the woods only to the half of the wood than it would run out of the
woods.
Q: If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
A: If you take 2 apples, than you have of course 2.
Q: Beths mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is
the name of the third daughter?
A: Beth.
Q: You have a 5 gallon bucket and a 3 gallon bucket with as much water as you need,
but no other measuring devices. Fill the 5 gallon bucket with exactly 4 gallons of water.
A: Fill the 5 gallon bucket all the way up. Pour it into the 3 gallon bucket until it is full.
Empty the 3 gallon bucket. Pour the remaining 2 gallons into the 3 gallon bucket. Fill the 5
gallon bucket all the way up. Finish filling the 3 gallon bucket.

Q: Whats full of holes but still holds water?

A: A sponge.
Q: If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly
wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift?
A: There is no smoke coming from electric trains.
Q: Say Racecar backwards.
A: Racecar backwards
Q: What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
A: The read the same right side up and upside down.
Q: How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even
if it doesnt bounce off anything?
A: Throw the ball straight up in the air.
Q: My name is Ruger, I live on a farm. There are four other dogs on the farm with me.
Their names are Snowy, Flash, Speedy and Brownie. What do you think the fifth dogs
name is?
A: Ruger.
Q: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
A: Seven (take away the s and it becomes even).
Q: What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
A: SWIMS.
Q: A boy fell off a 30 meter ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?
A: He fell off the bottom step.
Q: Using only addition, how do you add eight 8s and get the number 1000?
A: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
Q: How do dog catchers get paid?
A: By the pound.
Q: What never asks questions but is often answered?
A: A doorbell.
Q: What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
A: Your name.
Q: I have a large money box, 48 centemeters square and 42 centemeters tall. Roughly
how many coins can I place in my empty money box?
A: Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.

Q: What does this mean? I RIGHT I

A: Right between the eyes.
Q: What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short.
Q: Imagine youre in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors.
How do you get out?
A: Stop imagining.
Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
A: Footprints.
Q: What two keys cant open any door?
A: A monkey and a donkey.
Q: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A: A window.

1. What goes up and down stairs without moving?

2. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
3. What can you catch but not throw?
4. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
5. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
6. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
7. What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
9. The more there is, the less you see.
10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
11. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
12. I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I
have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
13. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?
14. It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.
What is this object?
15. The more you take the more you leave behind.
16. Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more
than a minute.
17. As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it
was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
18. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never
weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
19. I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me
because I couldn't find it.
20. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
21. It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel
lighter?

22. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

23. Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
24. Four jolly men sat down to play, And played all night till the break of day. They
played for cash and not for fun, With a separate score for every one. When it came
time to square accounts, They all had made quite fair amounts. Now, not one has lost
and all have gained, Tell me, now, this can you explain?
25. Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of
water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
26. Why don't lobsters share?
27. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12
pounds?
28. Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can't fill it up. What is it?
29. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer.
How is this possible?
30. He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
31. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
32. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
33. You can't keep this until you have given it.
34. Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
35. 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 the library.
36. What can go up and come down without moving?
37. What do you fill with empty hands?
38. What do you serve that you can't eat?
39. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to
use it?
40. What goes up and never comes down?
41. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
42. What has to be broken before it can be used?

43. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

44. What question can you never answer "yes" to?
45. What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
46. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white?" or "The yolk of the egg is
white?"
47. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
1. Carpet

21. A hole

2. Fire

22. Silence

3. A cold

23. Railroad

4. A nose

24. Four men in a dance band

5. A match

25. Jack and Jill are goldfish.

6. Corn

26. They're shellfish.

7. A stamp

27. Holes

8. Towel

28. A kitchen strainer

9. Darkness

29. She lives in the Southern

Hemisphere.

10. Stars
30. A priest
11. A mushroom
31. None. Roosters don't lay eggs.
12. A sponge
32. A secret
13. A mirror
33. A promise
14. A ring
34. An onion
15. Footsteps
35. A telephone book
16. Breath
36. The temperature
17. Glove
37. Gloves
18. River
38. A tennis ball
19. Splinter
39. An anchor
20. Light

40. Your age

44. "Are you asleep?"

41. A yardstick

45. To hold cows together

42. An egg

46. Neither, the yolks are yellow.

43. A coat of paint

47. A telephone