Mrs. Bieschke's Middle School Brain Teasers

Question 1

What can you break without touching it?

Accepted Answer

A promise

Question 2

What do you have to give before you can keep it?

Accepted Answer

Your word

Question 3

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

Towel

Question 4

What goes up, but never goes down?

Accepted Answer

Your age, The year

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

3

Question 6

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Accepted Answer

Footsteps

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

They are the same

Question 8

You have a match. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire?

Accepted Answer

The match

Question 9

What is always coming but never comes?

Accepted Answer

The Future, Tomorrow

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

An onion

Question 11

What's always coming but yet never arrives?

Accepted Answer

Tomorrow

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Stop imagining!

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Meat

Question 14

How many months have 28 days?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

10

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?...

Question 17

Three ladies stood under an umbrella but none of them got wet. Why didn't they get wet?

Accepted Answer

It wasn't raining

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Wet

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

When did roosters lay eggs?

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Mt Everest but not discovered yet

Question 21

When I was born I was big but the older I get the smaller I am. What am I?

Accepted Answer

A candle

Question 22

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

Age

Question 23

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

Accepted Answer

Wasn't it Noah?

Question 24

What gets broken without being held?

Accepted Answer

Silence, A promise

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

14 fish

Mrs. Bieschke's Middle School Brain Teasers

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Mrs. Bieschke's Middle School Brain Teasers

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