Click on the down arrow to reveal the answer! 1. If you were to step into a sealed room filled with 100% methane gas and strike a match, what would happen? 2. How many three cent stamps in a dozen? 3. There is a town in California where 5% of all the people have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from the town's phone book, on average, how many of these people selected would have an unlisted phone number? 4. What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but never in the course of a lifetime? 5. I can make you lighter, or cause your death. Some are afraid of me, but I'm also loved by many. 6. Is there a fourth of July in London? 7. How much dirt is in a hole 7 ft. by 6 ft. b7 1ft.? 8. What is better than the best, more evil than demons, the poor have it and the rich need it, and if you eat it, you will die? 9. Pronounced as one letter but written with three, two different 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. 10.What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over? 11. You are a bus driver. At the first stop, 4 people get on. At the second stop, 8 people get on. At the third stop, 2 people get off, and at the last stop, everyone gets off. The question is: What is the bus drivers name? 12. You and a group of your friends are in the library. One friend says there is a $100 dollar bill hidden between pages 75 and 76 of a book in the library. But you decide not to go and look for it. Why? 13. I got it in a forest but didn't want it. Once I had it, I couldn't see it. The more I searched for it, the less I liked it. I took it home in my hand because I could not find it. What was it? 14. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? 15. Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by. Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. How can this be? 16. There's a one story house that's all blue inside. The floor was blue, the lamps were blue, the walls were blue, everything was blue. So what color were the interior stairs? 17. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly? 18. 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. 19. What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with? 20. A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this? 21. You have a barrel full of sand. what do you put in it to make it lighter? 22. If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it? 23. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not? 24. The one who made it, didn't want it. The one who bought it, didn't need it. The one who used it, never saw it. What is it? 25. The more you take the more you leave behind. 26. What can fill a room and take up no space? 27. Forward I am heavy, backwards I am not. 28. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have? 29. Tommy’s mother has 3 kids Snap Crackle and ______. 30. Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? 31. A farmer had 15 sheep, and all but 8 died. How many are left? 32. How many months have 28 days? 33. A man tells his town he will walk on a grass lake (meaning a lake with grass sticking out of it)with no protection on his feet and he won't sink. The next day he does just that! How could he not sink into the water? 34. A guy was born in 1968 and died in 2000 at age 12.How is this possible? 35. What never asks a question but you still have to answer it? 36. What belongs to you but is mostly used by others? 37. What has four legs, a head, and leaves? 38. What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft? 39. What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea? 40. If you have 17 blocks, and you take away 8, how many do you have? 41. What sits in a corner while traveling all around the world? 42. A man turned out all the lights and went to bed. He woke up, saw something on the news and became very upset with himself. Why? 43. What unusual property do the words FLOUR, TERN, and THIRSTY have in common? |
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