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Here are the answers to the latest set of brain teasers:
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| 1. | Mudah, the Prince of Shaliza, was recently killed in Bombay. He was staying in a highly protected hut, with no chimney. He had people guarding the doors and windows. But somehow, he died. His murderous nemesis, Hudry, and his bodyguards were not charged. How is this possible?
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| 2. | There are 17 fish in a tank. They live in the same house but the owner does not live with them. How? The daughter is keeping them at her grandmother's house.
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| 3. | What is not manmade yet made by man? A baby.
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| 4. | One night, a candle stick maker, a butcher and a blacksmith walk into an abandoned building. The next morning, four people walk out. Who are the four people? A knight, a candle stick maker, a butcher and a blacksmith.
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| 5. | If you're stuck in a room with no windows, and no doors, and all you have is a saw and a table, but the walls are too thick to cut through, how do you get out? You cut the table in half, and two halves make a whole (hole) to get out.
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| 6. | Cross out six letters to get an american word. You might have to use a sheet of paper. How many letters did you cross out and what is the american word? bsanainxlaetsters You cross out 10 letters and you get bananas.
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| 7. | If a cowboy rides to town on Friday and stays in town for 3 days and rides off on Friday how can he do this? His horse's name is Friday.
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| 8. | What is black when you buy it, red when you use it and grey when you throw it away? Charcoal.
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| 9. | How many birthday does an average person have? One. You are only born one time.
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| 10. | Two construction workers are working on a house.They get paid $20 an hour each and work from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.They come out with only $60. How is this possible? One construction worker gets sick and can't come to work.
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| 11. | It is round and no matter how much water you put in it will never fill up. What is it? A sieve.
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| 12. | How far can a dog run into the woods? To the middle of the woods (the halfway point). After that he's running out of the woods.
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| 13. | A woman gets pregnant 5 times and gives birth 5 times, but the children are not hers. How is this possible? She had children for women who could not have children.
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| 14. | An orphan is separated by a brick wall from his parents. If he can't go over it, under it, around it, or through it, how does he get to his parents? Orphans don't have parents.
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| 15. | What has four legs at first, followed by two, and ending with three? A human.
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| 16. | As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven cats, each cat had seven kittens, each kitten had seven mittens. How many were going to St. Ives? 1.Only I was going to St. Ives.
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| 17. | How many eights in eighty? 10, right? So how many times can you take 10 from 100? Once, because after that you would be taking from 90.
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| 18. | How much dirt is in a hole 2 feet by 2 feet? None.
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| 19. | If a plane crashed exactly on the border of France and Italy, where would the survivors be buried? It's against the law to burry the living.
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| 20. | How can you use the letters in NEW DOOR to make one word? One word.
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| 21. | When can you steal and not get in trouble? Baseball.
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| 22. | What name is spelled the same backward and forward? Hannah.
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| 23. | What does this mean? It means doctor on call.
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| 24. | What does this mean? Fox in the hen house.
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| 25. | If a rooster lays an egg on top of a house, which way will it roll? Neither! Roosters can't lay eggs!
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| 26. | Sophie's mum had four children, one was called April, one was called May and the other was called June. What was the other child called? Sophie.
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| 27. | A sundial is said to be the timepiece with the least moving parts. What is the timepiece with the most moving parts? An hourglass (All the grains of sand!)
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| 28. | You have a match and are in a dark room with three items. Which one are you going to light first: the stove, candle or fire place? The match.
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| 29. | I have four fingers and a thumb but I am not alive. What am I? A glove.
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| 30. | There are 50 marbles. 2 are taken away. 30 are added back. 60 are taken away. How many are left? 18 marbles.
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| 31. | There was one ship with blue paint in it and one with red. If they crash together, what colour would they be? Maroon.
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| 32. | What letter is next in this sequence? N-for nine.
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| 33. | What year comes next in this sequence? 1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999. 2003: They are prime years.
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| 34. | Below are three clues to three words. When arranged in the correct order, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed. Aspirin, sprain, Paris, rasp, asp, as, a.
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| 35. | Daniel, my son, is exactly one fifth of my age. In 21 years time, I will be exactly twice his age. My wife is exactly seven times older than my daughter, Jessica. In 8 years time, my wife will be three times older then Jessica. How old are Daniel and Jessica now? Daniel is 7 years old and Jessica is 4 years old.
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| 36. | What is black when clean and white when dirty? A chalkboard.
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| 37. | Tom and his younger sister 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? Tom's mother slid a newspaper under a door, each sibling standing on each side.
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| 38. | Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it? Time.
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| 39. | Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunnelling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan? They piled the dirt dug out of the tunnel and climbed out the window from the top of the pile.
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| 40. | Which word in the English language becomes shorter when lengthened? Short.
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| 41. | What never gets hurt when it falls? Rain.
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| 42. | I do not turn or burn The star on a phone.
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| 43. | What is so fragile that when you say it's name it is broken? Silence.
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| 44. | There are 3 doors: Blue, Red and Yellow. Each door leads to a planet: Mars, Pluto and Saturn. To survive you go to the planet with more stuff. By the way, the blue door goes to Mars, the red door goes to Pluto and the last with the last. Which planet do you go to? Saturn because it has more letters then the others!
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| 45. | Pretend that you are a bus driver. You drive to a bus stop and pick up 15 people and 4 get off. Next bus stop, you pick up 7 people and 2 get off. Next bus stop, 10 get on. How many people are in the bus? What colour are the bus driver's eyes? 15+4=11+7=18-2=16 Answer=16. The driver's eyes are whatever colour eyes you have because you are the driver.
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| 46. | I run but don't walk and I tell you something but don't talk. What am I? A clock.
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| 47. | There are five people in a race, including you. You overtake the person in 5th place. What spot are you in now? You cannot overtake the person in last place.
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| 48. | There is a monkey, a giraffe, and a lion passing by a tall, tall coconut tree. They race up to see who can get a banana off the coconut tree first. Who do you think got a banana off the coconut tree first? There are no bananas on a coconut tree.
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| 49. | What does this say: Peek-a-boo.
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| 50. | Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I? A ton.
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| 51. | If a miracle happens and a huge cat has 188 kittens and 24 of them are sold, how many are left? 164.
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| 52. | Alive without breath A fish.
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| 53. | 1/2 times X/5 equals 3/10. What does x equal? 10, 6, 5 or 3? 3.
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| 54. | When you take away a whole you still have some left over. Explain. The word you started with was 'wholesome.'
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| 55. | What year did Queen Victoria die? 1901.
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| 56. | A giraffe, an elephant, a camel, a bear, a pig, a frog, two mice and a snake are all sheltered under one umbrella. How many got wet? None, it wasn't raining.
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| 57. | What does this say? habooknd Book in hand.
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| 58. | Denise died at sea while Harry died on land. People were pleased that Denise had died and even more pleased that Harry had died. Why? When a hurricane comes people name them, so Denise and Harry were just 2 names of hurricanes!
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| 59. | If your neighbour had a peacock and it laid an egg in your garden, who would the egg belong to? Peacocks don't lay eggs, peahens lay eggs.
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| 60. | A window washer was washing a window on the 23rd floor of a hotel he saw a dirty window. He was so mad he jumped through the window and fell to the ground with no padding and nothing stopping him. How did he live? He was on the outside looking in, and he jumped through the window, and fell into an apartment room; so really he actually only fell about 3 feet.
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| 61. | You see 3 teenagers at the mall: William, Susana, and Rose. William has 2 eyes, but Susana and Rose have no eyes. How can this be? There are two I's in William's name, but in the names Susana and Rose, there are no I's.
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| 62. | Where can you find Thursday before Wednesday? In the dictionary.
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| 63. | What does this say? nafish Tuna fish.
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| 64. | What is the next number in line? 312211
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