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BRAINTEASERS!
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There is one word in the English language
that is always pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?
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Answer: The word “incorrectly” {Almost cracked your brain,
didn’t you?}
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A man gave one son 10 cents and another
son was given 15 cents. What time is
it?
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Answer: 1:45. The man gave away a
total of 25 cents. He divided it between
two people. Therefore, he gave a
quarter to two.
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A boat has a ladder with six rungs, each rung being one foot apart. The bottom
rung is one foot from the water. The tide
rises 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour.
When the tide is at its highest, how many
rungs are underwater?
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Answer: None. The boat rises with the
tide. Duh!
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There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is
a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows.
What color is the bear?
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Answer: White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North Pole and the bear, therefore, is a
polar bear.
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Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
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Answer: Three. Well, it seems it could
almost be either, but if you follow the
mathematical order of operations, division is
performed before addition. So…half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer
is three.
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There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor.
There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy
dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How
did Sloppy die?
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Answer: Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind
blew the shutters in, which knocked his
goldfish bowl off the table, breaking it, and
killing him. {Poor Sloppy!}
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How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet
deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug
with a square edged shovel?
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Answer: None. No matter how big a hole is, it’s still a hole: the
absence of dirt.
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If I were in Hawaii and dropped a
bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a
bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question but the location is in
Canada?
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Answer: Both questions, same
answer: the ball in the bucket of 45
degrees F water hits the bottom of the
bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The
question said nothing about that bucket
having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow
the ball down…
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What is the significance of the
following: The year is 1978, thirty-four
minutes past noon on May 6th.
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Answer: The time and month/date/year American style
calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
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What can go up a chimney down, but
can’t go down a chimney up? (Hint…
chim-chimminy
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Answer: an umbrella
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If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field
and 4 haystacks in the other field, how
many haystacks would he have if he
combined them all in the center field?
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Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all
become one big stack.
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What is it that goes up and goes down but
does not move?
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Answer: The temperature.