UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (UTAR)

CENTRE FOR FOUNDATION STUDIES (FOUNDATION IN ARTS)

FHHM1012 CRITICAL THINKING

Brain Teasers (Part 1)

1. What goes up and down but does not move?

2. Where do you find an ocean with no water?
3. What can you catch but never throw?
4. What becomes smaller when you turn it upside down?
5. What has to be broken before you can use it?
6. What travels around the world but stays in a corner?
7. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
8. I am very easy to get into but very hard to get out of. What am I?
9. What is the largest ant in the world?
10. Which country is popular on Thanksgiving Day?
I have six faces but do not wear make-up. I have 21 eyes but cannot
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see.
I am always around you but often forgotten. I am pure and clean
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most of the time but occasionally rotten. What am I?
There are 10 fishes in a tank. 2 Drowned, 4 swam away and 3 died.
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How many fish (es) left?
I am sneaky and pesky. When I seek for truth, it often gets me in
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trouble. What am I?
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at
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the beginning or end of either month?
I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two
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and I still sound the same. What am I?
I get bigger the more you take away. I have no weight, but I am
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heavy enough to sink a ship
If a man carried my burden, he would break his back. I am not rich,
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but I leave silver in my track. What am I?
What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when
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you’re all through with it?
I never was but always will be. No one ever saw me but knows that I
20. exist. I give people the motivation to better themselves every day.
What am I?

Updated 202005
 UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (UTAR)
CENTRE FOR FOUNDATION STUDIES (FOUNDATION IN ARTS)

FHHM1012 CRITICAL THINKING

Brain Teasers (Part 2)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Updated 202005