1.) If two’s company and three’s a
crowd, what are four and five?
2.) A man takes a barrel that weighs 20
kilograms, and then puts something in
it.It now weighs less then 20 kilograms.
What did he put in the barrel?
3.) If you had only one match and
entered a room on a very cold day in
which there was a kerosene lamp, a fire
place and a wood-burning stove, which
would you light first?
4.) What can you catch but not throw?
5.) What word, when written in capital
letters,
is the same forwards, backwards and
upside down?
6.) There is a dead man in the center of
a field. He carried with him an unopened
package. As he neared the center of the
field, he knew he was going to die. How
did he know he was going to die?
7.) My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
8.) A beggar’s brother died, but the man
who died had no brother. How could this be?
9.) I am weightless, but you can see me.
Put me in a bucket, and I’ll make it
lighter. What am I?
10.) My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter’s true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I???
11.) A father’s child, a mother’s child,
yet no one’s son. Who am I?
12.) What belongs to you but others use
it more than you do?
13.) The man who invented it, doesn’t
want it. The man who bought it, doesn’t
need it. The man who needs it, doesn’t
know it.
14.) What do you throw out when you want
to use it,
but take in when you don’t want to use it?
15.) Often talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for its visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Tho’ they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.
16.) Which is correct to say, ‘The yolk
of the egg are white’ or,’The yolk of
the egg is white’?
17.) What won’t break if you throw it
off the highest building in the world,
but will break if you place it in the ocean?
18.) Give me food, and I will live; give
me water, and I will die.
What am I?
19.) I occur once in every minute, twice
in every moment, but never in a thousand
years.
20.) What gets harder to catch the
faster you run?
21.) One of us falls, but never breaks.
One of us breaks, but never falls.
What are we?
22.) The more you take, the more you
leave behind.
23.) I make you weak at the worst of all
times.
I keep you safe, I keep you fine.
I make your hands sweat, and your heart
grow cold,
I visit the weak, but seldom the bold.
What am I?