Brain Teasers for 5th grade Room 8

Question 1

There is 5 apples and you take 3. How many do you have?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 2

There are 14 fish and 8 drown. How many fish are there?

Accepted Answer

14 fish

Question 3

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

Age

Question 4

Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?

Accepted Answer

Stop imagining!

Question 5

What gets broken without being held?

Accepted Answer

A promise, Silence

Question 6

If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become?

Accepted Answer

Wet

Question 7

If you take off my skin I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

Accepted Answer

An onion

Question 8

Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Accepted Answer

Mt Everest but not discovered yet

Question 9

How many months have 28 days?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 10

What is always coming but never comes?

Accepted Answer

Tomorrow, The Future

Question 11

What is heavier: 100kg of gold or 100kg of feathers?

Accepted Answer

They are the same

Question 12

There are 10 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?

Accepted Answer

All 10

Question 13

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

Towel

Question 14

A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Accepted Answer

Meat

Question 15

A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?

Accepted Answer

When did roosters lay eggs?

Question 16

How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?

Accepted Answer

None. How is there dirt in a hole?...

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