Brain Teasers

1. You’re in a race and you overtake third place. What position are you in?

7. There are thirty-nine letters in this sentence.

5. The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Saturday. What day is it today?

6. People climb me, cut me and burn me. My rings aren’t made  of gold but do tell my age. What am I?

9. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many live sheep does he have left?

3. Which one of these five is least like the other four?

2. If you re-arrange the letters CIFAIPC you will get the name of a kind of what?

8. The letters in the word ABOUT are in alphabetical order.

10. Which word does not belong?

4. Complete the sequence:  A, Z, B, Y, C, X, D, W, E . . .?