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1. What can travel all around the world while it stays in one corner?

   Antwort

   A stamp

2. The more of these you take, the more of them you leave behind. What are they?

   Antwort

   Footsteps

3. If you share me, you do not have me anymore. What am I?

   Antwort

   A secret

4. Say my name, and I am gone. What am I?

   Antwort

   Silence

5. The more you take out of me, the bigger I get. What am I?

   Antwort

   A hole

6. The more there is of me, the less you can see. What am I?

   Antwort

   Darkness

7. What can you break without touching it?

   Antwort

   A promise

8. Which word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

   Antwort

   Short

9. Which word starts with E, ends with E, and holds only one letter?

   Antwort

   An envelope

10. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

    Antwort

    The letter M

11. I weigh nothing, but even the strongest person cannot hold me for long. What am I?

    Antwort

    Your breath

12. Feed me and I grow. Give me a drink and I die out. What am I?

    Antwort

    Fire

13. Where does Thursday come before Wednesday?

    Antwort

    In the dictionary

14. Rich people need it, poor people have it, and if you eat it, you starve. What is it?

    Antwort

    Nothing

15. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

    Antwort

    A teapot

16. What disappears as soon as you stand up?

    Antwort

    Your lap

17. Which word is spelled with one letter, and the next four letters are silent?

    Antwort

    Queue

18. Which word is always spelled wrong in the dictionary?

    Antwort

    Wrong

19. What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?

    Antwort

    A road

20. What has four wheels and flies?

    Antwort

    A garbage truck

21. What gets sharper the more you use it?

    Antwort

    Your brain

22. What can fill a whole room but takes up no space?

    Antwort

    Light

23. I am an odd number. Take one letter away and I become even. What number am I?

    Antwort

    Seven

24. Which three numbers give the same answer when you add them and when you multiply them?

    Antwort

    1, 2 and 3

25. I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?

    Antwort

    194

26. When Maya was 6, her brother was half her age. Maya is 40 now. How old is her brother?

    Antwort

    37

27. What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?

    Antwort

    A hole

28. How far can you walk into a forest?

    Antwort

    Halfway

29. What has 13 hearts but nothing else inside?

    Antwort

    A deck of cards

30. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

    Antwort

    Ton

31. Which word holds every one of the 26 letters?

    Antwort

    Alphabet

32. I am black when you buy me, red when you use me, and gray when you throw me away. What am I?

    Antwort

    Charcoal

33. What has its bottom at the top?

    Antwort

    Your legs

34. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?

    Antwort

    A bed

35. What runs all around a yard but never moves?

    Antwort

    A fence

36. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?

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    A post office

37. What is always in front of you, but you can never see it?

    Antwort

    The future

38. What can you hold in your left hand, but never in your right?

    Antwort

    Your right hand

39. What do people cut on a table but never eat?

    Antwort

    A deck of cards

40. I have branches, but no leaves, no trunk, and no fruit. What am I?

    Antwort

    A bank

41. What has a spine but no bones?

    Antwort

    A book

42. What tastes things better than it smells them?

    Antwort

    Your tongue

43. What can you keep after you give it to someone?

    Antwort

    Your word

44. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

    Antwort

    Trouble

45. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?

    Antwort

    A person

46. What has a heart that never beats?

    Antwort

    An artichoke

47. Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each one catches a fish, but they catch only 3 fish. How?

    Antwort

    There are only 3 people: grandfather, father and son

48. I have keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but never go inside. What am I?

    Antwort

    A keyboard

49. What four-letter word reads the same forward, backward, and upside down?

    Antwort

    NOON

50. Which English word has three double letters in a row?

    Antwort

    Bookkeeper

51. What is at the end of a rainbow?

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    The letter W

52. What is in the center of gravity?

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    The letter V

53. Which word of three letters becomes fewer when you add two letters?

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    Few

54. You throw me out when you want to use me, and you take me in when you are done. What am I?

    Antwort

    An anchor

55. Which bus crossed the ocean?

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    Columbus

56. Which kind of coat goes on wet?

    Antwort

    A coat of paint

57. What becomes dirtier the whiter it gets?

    Antwort

    A chalkboard

58. What is harder to catch the faster you run?

    Antwort

    Your breath

59. How do you make the number one disappear?

    Antwort

    Add a G to make gone

60. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?

    Antwort

    Chicago

61. I am the only number with as many letters in my name as my value. Which number am I?

    Antwort

    4

62. How many times can you take 5 away from 25?

    Antwort

    Once

63. I have six faces and 21 eyes, but I cannot see. What am I?

    Antwort

    A die

64. When can you add 5 to 9 and get 2?

    Antwort

    On a clock

65. What is the end of everything?

    Antwort

    The letter G

66. Before Mount Everest was found, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

    Antwort

    Mount Everest

67. A rider came to town on Friday, stayed three days, and left on Friday. How?

    Antwort

    The horse is named Friday

68. Which tire does not move when a car turns right?

    Antwort

    The spare tire

69. What is red and bad for your teeth?

    Antwort

    A brick

70. Which is faster, hot or cold?

    Antwort

    Hot

71. What has four eyes but cannot see?

    Antwort

    Mississippi

72. What breaks at dawn, and what falls at dusk without a scratch?

    Antwort

    Day and night

73. What appears once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?

    Antwort

    The letter E

74. Lay me on my side and I go on forever. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

    Antwort

    8

75. What is something you will never see again?

    Antwort

    Yesterday

76. What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 have in common?

    Antwort

    They read the same upside down

77. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

    Antwort

    A joke

78. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

    Antwort

    A battery

79. I fly without wings and cry without eyes. Where I go, darkness follows. What am I?

    Antwort

    A cloud

80. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?

    Antwort

    A barber

81. What can be stolen, mixed up, or changed, but never leaves you all your life?

    Antwort

    Your identity

82. I am an instrument that you can hear but never see or touch. What am I?

    Antwort

    Your voice

83. I can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or bare. What am I?

    Antwort

    Fingernails

84. Which month do soldiers dislike?

    Antwort

    March

85. Why should you never trust an atom?

    Antwort

    They make up everything

86. What do you get when you cross a vampire with a snowman?

    Antwort

    Frostbite

87. What can you hold without ever touching it?

    Antwort

    Your breath

88. Which seven-letter word becomes longer when you take away its third letter?

    Antwort

    Lounger

89. Which word starts with IN, ends with AND, and has KST in the middle?

    Antwort

    Inkstand

90. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

    Antwort

    Smiles

91. Which ship has two mates but no captain?

    Antwort

    A friendship

92. Why do plants hate math?

    Antwort

    It gives them square roots

93. What do you get when you divide the distance around a pumpkin by its width?

    Antwort

    Pumpkin pi

94. What has six legs but walks on four?

    Antwort

    A horse with a rider

95. The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?

    Antwort

    Friday

96. What comes next: O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, ?

    Antwort

    N

97. What comes next: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ?

    Antwort

    13

98. A doctor gives you 3 pills and says to take one every half hour. How long do the pills last?

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    One hour

99. How many letters are in the alphabet?

    Antwort

    11

100. Which word looks the same upside down and backward when you write it in capitals?

     Antwort

     SWIMS

101. Where can you find a dog with no legs?

     Antwort

     Right where you left it

102. What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

     Antwort

     A horse

103. I have six letters. Take one away, and twelve is left. What am I?

     Antwort

     Dozens

104. I am a word of three letters, and I am also a small green seed. Take away my last two letters, and I still sound the same. What am I?

     Antwort

     Pea