A man died and arrived at the Pearly Gates of Heaven.

He
himself in a long corridor with two doors, and he knew
found _______
that one led to Heaven and one led to Hell. ________,
However he
_____
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to
didnt know which was which! ______
these
the corridor, were two men: the
two doors, at either end of ____
truthful man and the liar. The liar was not deceitful ,
asked
because he couldnt help but lie when _____(ask)
a question.
what the truthful man
However, the man could always rely on ______
said. But they looked identical and he couldnt tell
which one was the liar and which one the truthful man.
To find (find) out which was the door to Heaven, he could ask
_______
either the man on the left ____
or the man on the right just one
question. How did he ask the question?
Answer He asked either man, Which door would HE
(pointing to the other man) say leads to Heaven? and then
he took the opposite door.

 Two

students are sitting on opposite side of the

same desk. There is nothing in between them but the
desk. Why cant they see each other?
Answer :
The two students have their backs to each other.
If you put a coin in an empty bottle and insert a cork into the
neck of the bottle, how could you remove the coin without
taking the cork out or breaking the bottle?

Answer :
Push the cork into the bottle and shake the coin out.

an honest child to
Once upon a time, a wise king wanted ____
his place on the throne. He gave _____
each of his three
take ____
and told _____
them that the one
sons a pack of flower seeds _____
most beautiful flowers from these seeds
who grew the _____
would have his throne. Six months passed and the king
checked the flowers. The first two had beautiful flowers
but weeds and
while the last child had nothing in his plot _____
no flowers.However
_______, the king chose
_____(choose) this child
to have (have) the throne? Why?
______
Answer :
The third son was the only one that didnt cheat.
The king had baked the seeds so they wouldnt grow,
which means the first two didnt use the seeds from
the packet he gave them.

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Jo was telling Mo about a blackout they had at school that day.

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a
butjust
the lights
went out. Some people got scared, _____ most people
possibility
started talking about the __________(possible)
of going home early.
The principals voice came over the loud speaker and ______(tell)
us not told
to panic, and ______ the electricity wouldthat
come back _____
in
no time.
After about 45 minutes, the lights came back on. The teacher
immediately
___________(immediate)
went back to her lesson about hot water
She took some steaming hot tap water ______
and
and cold water. _____
freezing cold water and added some dye to them
lying
Mo interrupted Jo. Wait a minute! You are ______(lie)!
How did
she know?

Answer :
The principal would not be able to use the loud speaker
without electricity. Also, it would take a while for the
water to become steaming hot.

 Georges

mother had three children: one named April,

one named May, and one named what?

George

On

a hunting trip, two fathers and two sons each shot

and killed a duck, nobody shot the same duck. Yet no more
than three ducks fell down. How can it be?
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one
of his three sons, but he didnt know which one he should
it to. He gave each of them ____
a few coins and
give ____
to buy (buy) something ____
that would be able
told them _______
to
fill (fill) their room. The first son bought straw
____
,but
_____ there was not enough to fill the room. The
second
they still did not
______(two) bought some sticks, but _____
fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled
What were
the room, so he obtained his fathers fortune. _____
the two things that the son bought?
Answer:
The wise son bought a candle and a box of matches. After
lighting the candle, the light filled the entire room.

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The city of Thebes was afflicted by the plague. A Sphinx

_____ a with
womans head and breasts, a birds wings and a lions
body crouched on a rock at the entrance to the city and
to enter
accosted all who were about ______ (enter), asking
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The riddle was ____
the morning, two at noon, and three at night?
freeing
Oedipus eventually solved the riddle, _______(free)
the
and becoming king
city from the Sphinx and terrible plague ______
of Thebes. What was his answer?
Answer The answer is man. First a baby crawling; then an
adult, walking tall; and then old, walking with a stick.

A magician had a water glass that was filled to the top.

Holding the glass above his head, he let it drop to the
carpet without spilling a single drop of water. How
could he manage to drop the glass from a height of
six feet and not spill any water?

The glass was filled, but not with water.

Four members of a band are walking to a night concert.

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to cross (cross) the bridge and
They only have 17 minutes ________
still get to the concert on time. What order should they cross
to get everyone across and get to the concert?

Amy drove her car west for a quarter mile, without turning.
When she stopped, the car was facing east. Why ?
She drove the car backward.
Tissue dropped in with his friend, Vamp, to find him
sleeping on the bed with the TV turned on. He saw
fresh blood on the ceiling above his head, and checked
with Vap (after waking him) to make sure everything
was OK. Everything was, indeed, fine. Why was Vaps
blood on the ceiling, but nowhere else?
Vap had swatted a
mosquito that had
bitten him
before he attempte
d to get some slee
p.

Amir tied two sacks of salt to the back of his

for the market ________(sell)
to sell
donkey and headed ____
the salt.
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days, but the donkey always ruined the salt. Finally,
Amir decided to teach the donkey ____
a lesson. He
once again set out with the donkey and the two sacks.
differently
What did Amir do __________(different)
this
after that day the donkey stopped
time so that ______
taking
________(take)
a swim?

Jake was standing on one side of the river, and his

dog Scruffy was standing on the other side. Come
on Scruffy, come, boy! shouted Jake. Scruffy
crossed the river, ran to Jake, and got a treat for
being a good dog. The amazing thing was that
Scruffy didnt even get wet! How did Scruffy do
that?
There are three possible answers:
The river was frozen.
There was a bridge over the river.

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harvest in my orchard, so I fetched my rifle
and took a shot at them. Of course, I didnt
hit any, but half of them flew away.
However, ten crows soon came back.
Later that day I took another shot at them,
and once more half flew away and later
ten crows came back. That evening I took
yet another shot at them, and again half
flew away and ten came back. When I
counted the crows I discovered--much to
my horrorthat there were as many as
there were to start with. How many crows
were there?