Brain Teasers

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Meat

Question 2

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 3

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

Age

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

14 fish

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Wasn't it Noah?

Question 6

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

Towel

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

When did roosters lay eggs?

Question 8

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Accepted Answer

Candle

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

3

Question 10

Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?

Accepted Answer

Ton

Question 11

What gets broken without being held?

Accepted Answer

A promise, Silence

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

None.

Question 13

How many months have 28 days?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

They are the same

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

An onion

Question 16

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?

Accepted Answer

Nothing

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Stop imagining!

Question 18

What is always coming but never comes?

Accepted Answer

Tomorrow

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Mt Everest but not discovered yet

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Wet

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