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

   Ответ

   A stamp

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

   Ответ

   Footsteps

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

   Ответ

   A secret

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

   Ответ

   Silence

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

   Ответ

   A hole

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

   Ответ

   Darkness

7. What can you break without touching it?

   Ответ

   A promise

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

   Ответ

   Short

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

   Ответ

   An envelope

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

    Ответ

    The letter M

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

    Ответ

    Your breath

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

    Ответ

    Fire

13. Where does Thursday come before Wednesday?

    Ответ

    In the dictionary

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

    Ответ

    Nothing

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

    Ответ

    A teapot

16. What disappears as soon as you stand up?

    Ответ

    Your lap

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

    Ответ

    Queue

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

    Ответ

    Wrong

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

    Ответ

    A road

20. What has four wheels and flies?

    Ответ

    A garbage truck

21. What gets sharper the more you use it?

    Ответ

    Your brain

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

    Ответ

    Light

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

    Ответ

    Seven

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

    Ответ

    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?

    Ответ

    194

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

    Ответ

    37

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

    Ответ

    A hole

28. How far can you walk into a forest?

    Ответ

    Halfway

29. What has 13 hearts but nothing else inside?

    Ответ

    A deck of cards

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

    Ответ

    Ton

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

    Ответ

    Alphabet

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

    Ответ

    Charcoal

33. What has its bottom at the top?

    Ответ

    Your legs

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

    Ответ

    A bed

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

    Ответ

    A fence

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

    Ответ

    A post office

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

    Ответ

    The future

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

    Ответ

    Your right hand

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

    Ответ

    A deck of cards

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

    Ответ

    A bank

41. What has a spine but no bones?

    Ответ

    A book

42. What tastes things better than it smells them?

    Ответ

    Your tongue

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

    Ответ

    Your word

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

    Ответ

    Trouble

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

    Ответ

    A person

46. What has a heart that never beats?

    Ответ

    An artichoke

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

    Ответ

    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?

    Ответ

    A keyboard

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

    Ответ

    NOON

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

    Ответ

    Bookkeeper

51. What is at the end of a rainbow?

    Ответ

    The letter W

52. What is in the center of gravity?

    Ответ

    The letter V

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

    Ответ

    Few

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

    Ответ

    An anchor

55. Which bus crossed the ocean?

    Ответ

    Columbus

56. Which kind of coat goes on wet?

    Ответ

    A coat of paint

57. What becomes dirtier the whiter it gets?

    Ответ

    A chalkboard

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

    Ответ

    Your breath

59. How do you make the number one disappear?

    Ответ

    Add a G to make gone

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

    Ответ

    Chicago

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

    Ответ

    4

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

    Ответ

    Once

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

    Ответ

    A die

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

    Ответ

    On a clock

65. What is the end of everything?

    Ответ

    The letter G

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

    Ответ

    Mount Everest

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

    Ответ

    The horse is named Friday

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

    Ответ

    The spare tire

69. What is red and bad for your teeth?

    Ответ

    A brick

70. Which is faster, hot or cold?

    Ответ

    Hot

71. What has four eyes but cannot see?

    Ответ

    Mississippi

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

    Ответ

    Day and night

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

    Ответ

    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?

    Ответ

    8

75. What is something you will never see again?

    Ответ

    Yesterday

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

    Ответ

    They read the same upside down

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

    Ответ

    A joke

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

    Ответ

    A battery

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

    Ответ

    A cloud

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

    Ответ

    A barber

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

    Ответ

    Your identity

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

    Ответ

    Your voice

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

    Ответ

    Fingernails

84. Which month do soldiers dislike?

    Ответ

    March

85. Why should you never trust an atom?

    Ответ

    They make up everything

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

    Ответ

    Frostbite

87. What can you hold without ever touching it?

    Ответ

    Your breath

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

    Ответ

    Lounger

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

    Ответ

    Inkstand

90. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

    Ответ

    Smiles

91. Which ship has two mates but no captain?

    Ответ

    A friendship

92. Why do plants hate math?

    Ответ

    It gives them square roots

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

    Ответ

    Pumpkin pi

94. What has six legs but walks on four?

    Ответ

    A horse with a rider

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

    Ответ

    Friday

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

    Ответ

    N

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

    Ответ

    13

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

    Ответ

    One hour

99. How many letters are in the alphabet?

    Ответ

    11

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

     Ответ

     SWIMS

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

     Ответ

     Right where you left it

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

     Ответ

     A horse

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

     Ответ

     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?

     Ответ

     Pea