1. What starts with an E, ends with an E and usually contains only one letter? 2. Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right? 3. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you? 4. What kind of cheese is made backwards? 5. Can you find a five letter word, which, when typed in upperPcase, reads the same upside down? 6. What happens only in the middle of each month, in all of the seasons, except summer and happens only in the night, never in the day? 7. If there are forty cups on the table and one cup breaks, how many tea cups are left? 8. “This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it In fact, nothing is wrong with it It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out Try to do so without any coaching ” 9. In which sport do winners move backwards and losers move forwards? 10. What common word has 4 vowels, one after the other? 11. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? 12. Why are 1998 dollar coins worth more than 1997 dollar coins? 13. Kevin's mother has three children. The first was called Alpha, the second was called Beta. What was the name of the third? 14. What word is the same backwards and upside down? 15. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? 16. There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it? 17. What has roads but no cars, rivers but no water and hills but no trees? 18. I have a large money box, 10 inches square and 12 inches tall. Roughly how many coins can I place in my empty money box? |
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