BRAIN TEASERS
Pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used to make me. I'm double, I'm single I'm black, blue, and gray. I'm read from both ends and the same either way.
ANSWER: eye
What do you do with dead elements ?
ANSWER; barium
Where do fish keep their money?
ANSWER: riverbank
What do you get when you cross an automobile with a household animal?
ANSWER: carpet
Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is is the 4th child's name?
ANSWER: Mary
From what heavy seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left? ANSWER: freight or weights
What three numbers have the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
ANSWER: 1, 2, 3
What bone has a sense of humor?
ANSWER: humorous
What did the leg bone say to the foot?
ANSWER: stick with me and you'll go places.
What did the rib cage say to the heart?
ANSWER: got ya covered
What force and strength
can not get through,
I with a gentle touch can do,
and many in the streets would stand,
were I not as a friend in hand.
ANSWER; key
What walks all day on its head?
ANSWER: nail in a horseshoe
What is round as a dishpan and no matter the size, all the water in the ocean can't fill it up?
ANSWER: sieve
I have many eyes but cannot see.
I have no mouth or nose, but always smell.
Do not eat my tree or you will be,
a very rare FATALITY!
ANSWER: potato
The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
ANSWER: footsteps
What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot?
ANSWER: shoe
What is black and white and read all over?
ANSWER: newspaper
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
ANSWER: lunch and dinner.
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
ANSWER: mushroom
What kind of nut has no shell?
ANSWER: doughnut
What is the center of gravity?
ANSWER: V
What is in the middle of nowhere?
ANSWER: H
What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
ANSWER: a yardstick
What goes up and down without moving?
ANSWER: stairs.
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
ANSWER: anchor.
What do you serve that you cannot eat?
ANSWER: tennis ball.
What can you catch but not throw?
ANSWER: a cold
What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
ANSWER: wind
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
ANSWER: umbrella.
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?
ANSWER: salt
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
ANSWER: water
What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now nearly everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?
ANSWER: telephone book.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
ANSWER; footsteps.
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
ANSWER: darkness.
Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, what am I?
ANSWER: onion
If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
ANSWER: secret
If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
ANSWER: nine
I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the word?
ANSWER: few
How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
ANSWER: none
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
ANSWER: ton
A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
ANSWER: potato
What is the tallest building in town?
ANSWER: library; it has a lot of stories
You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on?
ANSWER: you are probably playing monopoly!
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, the seven sacks had seven cats, the seven cats had seven kittens; kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
ANSWER: one
What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
ANSWER: water
The one who made it, didn't want it.
The one who bought it, didn't need it.
The one who used it, never saw it. What is it?
ANSWER: coffin
ANSWER: eye
What do you do with dead elements ?
ANSWER; barium
Where do fish keep their money?
ANSWER: riverbank
What do you get when you cross an automobile with a household animal?
ANSWER: carpet
Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is is the 4th child's name?
ANSWER: Mary
From what heavy seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left? ANSWER: freight or weights
What three numbers have the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
ANSWER: 1, 2, 3
What bone has a sense of humor?
ANSWER: humorous
What did the leg bone say to the foot?
ANSWER: stick with me and you'll go places.
What did the rib cage say to the heart?
ANSWER: got ya covered
What force and strength
can not get through,
I with a gentle touch can do,
and many in the streets would stand,
were I not as a friend in hand.
ANSWER; key
What walks all day on its head?
ANSWER: nail in a horseshoe
What is round as a dishpan and no matter the size, all the water in the ocean can't fill it up?
ANSWER: sieve
I have many eyes but cannot see.
I have no mouth or nose, but always smell.
Do not eat my tree or you will be,
a very rare FATALITY!
ANSWER: potato
The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
ANSWER: footsteps
What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot?
ANSWER: shoe
What is black and white and read all over?
ANSWER: newspaper
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
ANSWER: lunch and dinner.
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
ANSWER: mushroom
What kind of nut has no shell?
ANSWER: doughnut
What is the center of gravity?
ANSWER: V
What is in the middle of nowhere?
ANSWER: H
What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
ANSWER: a yardstick
What goes up and down without moving?
ANSWER: stairs.
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
ANSWER: anchor.
What do you serve that you cannot eat?
ANSWER: tennis ball.
What can you catch but not throw?
ANSWER: a cold
What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
ANSWER: wind
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
ANSWER: umbrella.
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?
ANSWER: salt
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
ANSWER: water
What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now nearly everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?
ANSWER: telephone book.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
ANSWER; footsteps.
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
ANSWER: darkness.
Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, what am I?
ANSWER: onion
If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
ANSWER: secret
If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
ANSWER: nine
I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the word?
ANSWER: few
How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
ANSWER: none
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
ANSWER: ton
A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
ANSWER: potato
What is the tallest building in town?
ANSWER: library; it has a lot of stories
You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on?
ANSWER: you are probably playing monopoly!
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, the seven sacks had seven cats, the seven cats had seven kittens; kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
ANSWER: one
What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
ANSWER: water
The one who made it, didn't want it.
The one who bought it, didn't need it.
The one who used it, never saw it. What is it?
ANSWER: coffin
ANSWERS;1. two heads are better than one
2. look before you leap
3. red herring
4. Washington ate here
5. purple haze
6. for the common defense
7. rose colored glasses
8. an inside man
9. woman on the side
10. lounging around the house
11. ready for the big time
12. backhanded
13. easy as pie
14. off on a tangent
15. star crossed lovers
16. separated at birth
17. paradise
18. Erie Canal
19. mashed potatoes
20. foreign film
21. divided highway
22. alarm clock
23. all of the above
24. fair and square
25. ship on the high seas
26. vanishing point
27. four degrees below zero
28. White Russian
29. crowded intersection
30. all for one and one for all
31. one foot in front of the other
32. downtown sidewalk
33. running on empty
34. mercury rising
35. three ball in the corner pocket
36. blue bayou
37. circle of friends
38. a walk around the block
39. aren't you ready yet?
2. look before you leap
3. red herring
4. Washington ate here
5. purple haze
6. for the common defense
7. rose colored glasses
8. an inside man
9. woman on the side
10. lounging around the house
11. ready for the big time
12. backhanded
13. easy as pie
14. off on a tangent
15. star crossed lovers
16. separated at birth
17. paradise
18. Erie Canal
19. mashed potatoes
20. foreign film
21. divided highway
22. alarm clock
23. all of the above
24. fair and square
25. ship on the high seas
26. vanishing point
27. four degrees below zero
28. White Russian
29. crowded intersection
30. all for one and one for all
31. one foot in front of the other
32. downtown sidewalk
33. running on empty
34. mercury rising
35. three ball in the corner pocket
36. blue bayou
37. circle of friends
38. a walk around the block
39. aren't you ready yet?
ANSWERS (top to bottom):
bigger and better
top secret
small print
red herring
for instance
too funny for words
back to square one
once in a blue moon
tickled pink
small talk
half hearted
third world
jack-in-a-box
fall asleep
FROM fun-with-words
bigger and better
top secret
small print
red herring
for instance
too funny for words
back to square one
once in a blue moon
tickled pink
small talk
half hearted
third world
jack-in-a-box
fall asleep
FROM fun-with-words
ANSWER: forgotten hero
A. DAYDAYOUT
B. 1.
2. BLAME
3. BLAME
C. MCE
MCE
MCE
D. GO IT IT IT IT
ANSWERS:
A. day in, day out
B. no one to blame
C. three blind mice
D. go for it
B. 1.
2. BLAME
3. BLAME
C. MCE
MCE
MCE
D. GO IT IT IT IT
ANSWERS:
A. day in, day out
B. no one to blame
C. three blind mice
D. go for it
If you say my name, I'll no loner exist. What am I?
ANSWER: silence
ANSWER: silence
ANSWERS:
1. seven seas
2. split level
3. forgive and forget
4. missing you (u)
5. downtown
6. lucky break
7. he's beside himself
8. see through blouse
9. first aid
10.west indies
11. 6 feet underground
12.backward glance
13.tri cycle
14.reading between the lines
15.crossroads
16. three degrees below zero
17. neon lights
18. just between you and me
19.one in a million
20.broken promise
21. you dropped out of touch
22.life after 40
23. jack in the box
24. growing economy
25.up before 8
26. just around the corner
27. apple pie
28. making up for lost time
29. standing ovation
30. I understand you undertake to undermine my undertaking
From barnmice
1. seven seas
2. split level
3. forgive and forget
4. missing you (u)
5. downtown
6. lucky break
7. he's beside himself
8. see through blouse
9. first aid
10.west indies
11. 6 feet underground
12.backward glance
13.tri cycle
14.reading between the lines
15.crossroads
16. three degrees below zero
17. neon lights
18. just between you and me
19.one in a million
20.broken promise
21. you dropped out of touch
22.life after 40
23. jack in the box
24. growing economy
25.up before 8
26. just around the corner
27. apple pie
28. making up for lost time
29. standing ovation
30. I understand you undertake to undermine my undertaking
From barnmice
ANSWERS:
1. one cut above the rest
2. forgive and forget
3. tongue and cheek
4. crossroads
5. painless operation
6. glance back
From barnmice
I'm in a zoo
But not in a jungle
I rarely come in pairs
But I'm in every puzzle
Some think I'm in a xylophone
But, I most certainly am not
You don't see me with a loan
But very strangely in a zealot
I'm in the magical prison of Azkaban
Well, can't you see?
I'm in the buzz of a fan
But, my oh my what could I be?
ANSWER: the letter 'Z'
from braingle
But not in a jungle
I rarely come in pairs
But I'm in every puzzle
Some think I'm in a xylophone
But, I most certainly am not
You don't see me with a loan
But very strangely in a zealot
I'm in the magical prison of Azkaban
Well, can't you see?
I'm in the buzz of a fan
But, my oh my what could I be?
ANSWER: the letter 'Z'
from braingle
Inside I have a golden sea
Surrounded by a border the eye can see.
I give birth, I give life
I give nourishment, not strife.
What am I?
ANSWER: an egg
from braingle
Surrounded by a border the eye can see.
I give birth, I give life
I give nourishment, not strife.
What am I?
ANSWER: an egg
from braingle