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1. You’re in a race and you pass
Second Place.
the person in second place.
What place are you in now?
2. An Grab driver is going the
opposite way down a one-way
The Grab driver is
walking.
street. He passes five policemen
along the way, none of which
stops him. Why not?
3. A man shaves many times
during the day, but at the end of
The man is a
barber.
the day, he still has a beard.
How is this possible?
4. While a cat was outside, it
The cat is skinless.
started to downpour. The cat
couldn’t find any shelter and got
completely soaked by the rain,
yet not a single hair was wet.
How could this be?
5. You are in a dark room with a
box of matches. Nearby are
three things: a candle, an oil
lamp and a log of firewood.
Which do you light first?
The match.
6. If there are three apples and you Two.
take two, how many do you
have?
7. I call the trees my home, yet I
Leaves.
never go inside, and if I ever fall
off the tree I will surely be dead.
8. It has four fingers and a thumb
Gloves
but isn’t alive. What is it?
9. I am an odd number. Take away
Number Seven
a letter and I become even. What
number am I?
10.
There is an electric train
None (Electric
which is headed towards the
Train doesn’t
east. So, where does the smoke
produce smoke)
go?
11.
I am a ball that rolls but
Eyeball
can’t bounce or be thrown.
12.
I am the only organ that
Brain
named myself. What am I?
13.
A girl buys a dozen eggs
and, on the way home, all but
seven break. How many eggs
are left unbroken?
Seven
14.
You see it once in June,
The letter E
three times in September and
never in May. What is it?
15.
I’m taller when I’m young,
A candle
shorter when I’m old. What am I?
16.
A man looks at a painting
His son.
and says, “Brothers and sisters I
have none, but that man’s father
is my father’s son.” Who is in the
painting?
17.
Bob’s mother has three
Bob
children. Their names are Huey,
Dewey, and … ?
18.
If you feed me, I grow, but if Fire
you give me water, I die. What
am I?
19.
Mary has four daughters,
Five, each
and each of her daughters has a
daughter has the
brother—how many children
same brother.
does Mary have?
20.
Light as a feather, there’s
nothing in it, but the strongest
Breath
man can’t hold it for much more
than a minute.
21.
I have no doors but I have
A keyboard
keys, I have no rooms but I do
have a space, you can enter but
you can never leave. What am I?
22.
I am green on the outside,
Watermelon
red on the inside, and when you
eat me you spit out something
black. What am I?
23.
If you have me, you want to Secret
share me. If you share me, you
haven’t got me. What am I?
24.
If you have me, you want to School
share me. If you share me, you
haven’t got me. What am I?
25.
I have hands, yet I cannot
Clock
shake your hand, cannot give
you five and have no fingers.
What am I?
26.
Name three days
consecutively where none of the
seven days of the week appear.
Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow
27.
They come out at night
Stars
without being called, and are lost
in the day without being stolen.
What are they?
28.
You can drop me from the
A paper
tallest building and I’ll be fine, but
if you drop me in water I die.
What am I?
29.
Paul’s height is six feet,
Meat
he’s an assistant at a butcher’s
shop, and wears size 9 shoes.
What does he weigh?
30.
What can you put between
A decimal
a 7 and an 8 so that the result is
greater than a 7, but less than an
8?
31.
Derek has a really big
family. He has 10 aunts, 10
uncles, and 30 cousins. Each
cousin has 1 aunt who is not
Derek's aunt. How is this
possible?
Their aunt is
Derek's mother.
32.
When Josh was 8, his
10 years old
brother was half his age. Now
that Josh is 14, how old is his
brother?
33.
There’s a 1-story house
There aren’t any
where everything is yellow. The
stairs — it’s a 1-
walls are yellow, the doors are
story house.
yellow, all the couches and beds
are yellow. What color are the
stairs?
34.
A man sits on his blue
couch in his brown house in the
White because it's
a polar bear.
North Pole sees a bear from his
window. What color is the bear?
35.
I follow you all the time and
Your shadow
copy your every move, but you
can’t touch me or catch me.
What am I?
36.
Three doctors said that Bill
was their brother. Bill says he
has no brothers. How many
brothers does Bill actually have?
None. He has
three sisters.
37.
I am the beginning of
Also the letter “e”
everything, the end of
everywhere. I'm the beginning of
eternity, the end of time and
space. What am I?
38.
If you drop me I’m sure to
A mirror
crack, but give me a smile and I’ll
always smile back. What am I?
39.
I turn once, what is out will
A key
not get in. I turn again, what is in
will not get out. What am I?
40.
I have wings, I am able to
An Airplane
fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high
in the sky. What am I?
41.
There were two ducks in
Three
front of a duck, two ducks behind
a duck, and one duck in the
middle. How many ducks were
there in total?
42.
A man was driving a black
It was a bright,
truck. His lights were not on. The sunny day.
moon was not out. A lady was
crossing the street. How did the
man see her?
43.
The blue house is made
Glass, because
with blue bricks and the red
greenhouses are
house with red bricks. What did
always made of
they use to build the greenhouse glass.
with?
44.
A new clothing store has a
unique method of pricing items.
$25. The pricing
method charges $5
A vest costs $20, a tie costs $15, for each letter
a blouse costs $30, and
needed to spell the
underwear costs $45. How much item.
would pants cost?
45.
It’s raining at midnight, but
No, it won’t be
the forecast for tomorrow and the sunny because it
next day is clear. Will there be
will be dark out. In
sunny weather in 48 hours?
48 hours, it will be
midnight again.
46.
Mirabel has a very big
family, she has 25 uncles, 25
aunts and 40 cousins. Each of
her cousins has an uncle who is
He’s her dad.
not Mirabel’s uncle. How is this
possible?
47.
A man who was outside in
He was bald.
the rain without an umbrella or
hat didn’t get a single hair on his
head wet. Why?
48.
There is a rooster sitting on
top of a barn. If it laid an egg,
Roosters don’t lay
eggs.
which way would it roll?
49.
A boy and his father get into The doctor is his
a car accident. When they arrive
mother.
at the hospital, the doctor sees
the boy and exclaims “that’s my
son!” How can this be?
50.
What can you hear, but not
see or touch, even though you
control it?
Your voice.
51.
Mr. Red and Ms. Red live in The President!
the red house, Mr. Purple and
Ms. Purple live in the purple
house. Who lives in the white
house?
52.
Mary's father has 4 children; Mary
three are named Nana, Nene,
and Nini. So, what is the 4th
child's name?
53.
What three numbers have
1, 2, 3
the same answer when added
together and multiplied together?
54.
What force and strength
A key
cannot get through, I with a
gentle touch can do, and many in
the streets would stand, were I
not as a friend in hand.
55.
I have a little house in
which I live all alone. My house
has no doors or windows, and if
A chicken in an
egg.
I want to go out I must break
through the wall. What am I?
56.
While walking across a
They are all
bridge I saw a boat full of people. married.
Yet on the boat there wasn't a
single person. Why?
57.
Have you heard the saying
Your age
what goes up must come down?
Well, what goes up and never
goes down?
58.
You are in a room with 3
monkeys. One has a banana,
You, Human are
also primate.
one has a stick, one has
nothing. Which primate in the
room is the smartest?
59.
If a father bull drinks 4
gallons of water a day and a
None. Bulls are
male not female.
baby bull drink 2 gallons of water,
how many gallons of water does
a mother bull drink a day?
60.
Three people are standing
under an umbrella looking at a
None. It isn’t
raining.
hole in the center of it. Which
one(s) is getting wet?
61.
There was an accident on
the border between Canada and
None, They won’t
burry a survivor.
the US. Where would they bury
the survivors?
62.
My first letter is in chocolate A cat
but not in ham. My second is in
cake and jam. My third is in tea
but not in coffee. My whole is a
friend who likes to sleep. Who
am I?
63.
You are alone at home and
Your eyes
sleeping when your friends ring
the doorbell. They have come for
breakfast. You have cornflakes,
bread, jam, a carton of milk, and
a bottle of juice. What will you
open first?
64.
I look like you, but I am not
A
you. You can blow me up or find
photograph/picture
me in a wallet. Share me or
of you
frame me, both are nice.
65.
I run, but I don’t walk. I drip
Water
and drop, but I can’t pick myself
up. You have to consume me
and sometimes I surround you.
What am I?
66.
It belongs to you, but your
Your name
friends use it more. What is it?
67.
It’s the only place in the
A dictionary
world where today comes before
yesterday. Where is it?
68.
There’s only one word in
the dictionary that’s spelled
The word “wrong”.
W-R-O-N-G
wrong. What is it?
69.
What happens once in a
The letter “M”
lifetime, twice in a moment, but
never in one hundred years?
70.
When Tom was 10, his
His brother is 13.
brother was half his age. Now,
Tom is 18. How old is his
brother?
71.
You’ll find me in Mercury,
Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not
The letter ‘R’.
in Venus or Neptune. What am
I?
72.
Lily is a lilypad in a small
Day 19, it's not 10
pond. Lilly doubles her size each
because on day 20
day, On the 20th day she covers
she doubled from
the whole pond. On what day
day 19, so 19 must
was Lily half the size of the
be half the size of
pond?
the pond.
73.
A very pretty thing am I,
I am a Butterfly.
fluttering in the pale-blue sky.
Delicate, fragile on the wing,
indeed I am a pretty thing. What
am I?
74.
There is a clothing store in
$45. The pricing
Bartlesville. The owner has
method consists of
devised his own method of
charging $5 for
pricing items. A vest costs $20,
each letter
socks cost $25, a tie costs $15
required to spell
and a blouse costs $30. Using
the item.
the method, how much would a
pair of underwear cost?
75.
Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill. It
Sunshine.
does not walk, run or trot, All is
cool where it is not. What is it?
76.
I was carried into a dark
A Candle.
room, and set on fire. I wept, and
then my head was cut off. What
am I?
77.
A farmer has twenty sheep,
Ten Cows. We can
ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call
call the pigs cows
the pigs cows, how many cows
but it doesn't make
will he have?
them cows.
78.
I have hundreds of legs but
A Broom.
I can only lean; You make me
feel dirty so you feel clean. What
am I?
79.
If the day before yesterday
The 27th.
is the 23rd, then what is the day
after tomorrow?
80.
If a boy blows 18 bubbles,
One
Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He
pops 5 and blows 1. How many
are left?
81.
Two blondes were going to
disneyland and came to a fork in
Because they
thought that
the road. One way said highway
disneyland actually
93 right and the other said
left.
Disneyland left. Why did the
blondes go home?
82.
I can be long, or I can be
Your fingernails.
short. I can be grown, and I can
be bought. I can be painted, or
left bare. I can be round, or
square. What am I?
83.
If your uncle's sister is not
Your mother.
your aunt, what relation is she to
you?
84.
I come in many colors and I
Paper
am very thin, I am found in every
country, even in your home, I am
very important, you can be very
creative with me, I can even help
you learn. What am I?
85.
What day would yesterday
be if Thursday was four days
before the day after tommorow?
Friday
86.
If a chicken says, "All
Chickens cannot
chickens are liars". Is the chicken talk.
telling the truth?
87.
I have holes on the top and
I'm a Sponge.
bottom. I have holes on my left
and on my right. And I have
holes in the middle, yet I still hold
water. What am I?
88.
A mother has 6 girls and
Seven. Each girl
each of them has a brother. How
has the same
many children are there?
brother.
89.
A man in a car saw a
The car door.
Golden Door, Silver Door and a
Bronze Door. What door did he
open first?
90.
I’m flat when I’m new. I’m
A balloon.
fat when you use me, then flat
again when something sharp
touches me. What am I?
91.
A murderer is condemned
to death. He has to choose
between three rooms. The first is
The third. Lions
that haven't eaten
full of raging fires, the second is
in three years are
full of assassins with loaded
dead.
guns, and the third is full of lions
that haven't eaten in 3 years.
Which room is safest for him?
92.
If you are running in a 100-
The third place.
meter sprint and you surpass the
person in the third place, which
place are you in now?
93.
It might be worth wearing an Paint
apron
To keep your clothes nice and
smart
So your brush doesn’t splash this
on you
When making a piece of art
94.
If you dropped this on your
Iron
foot
You would find it really hurts
It’s usually heated up
And is used to flatten shirts
95.
I’m a piece of silverware
Although I am not a fork
Spoon
But if I’m combined with one
Then you end up with a spork
96.
I’m something that is often
Clock
round
But I’m not a pizza base
I have hands but don’t have
fingers
And have numbers on my face
97.
If you walk in a living room
Television
You might see a coffee table
You will also see this item
You can turn on and watch cable
98.
I’m something in your
Pillow
bedroom
You can find inside a case
I’m used by you every night
As it’s where you rest your face
99.
This is a household
appliance
But it doesn’t clean your shirt
You push it all over the floor
And it sucks up all the dirt
Vacuum cleaner
100.
If there’s something high
you need to get
But you can’t reach it as you’re
not tall
Then you might climb up the
rungs on this
After leaning it against a wall
Ladder