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| 1. No sooner spoken than broken 2. Clara Clatter was born on Dec. 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? 3. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. 4. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. 5. What can you catch but not throw? 6. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside. 7. What goes around the world but stays in a corner? 8. What gets wet the more it dries? 9. The more there is, the less you see. 10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. 11. What kind of room has no doors or windows? 12. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right hand, you raise your left. What is this object? 13. The more you take, the more you leave behind. 14. Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much longer than a minute. 15. What can fill a room but takes up no space? 16. It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter. 17. He has married many women but never married. Who is he? 18. I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I? 19. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch? 20. What goes up and never comes down? 21. What must be broken before it can be used? 22. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet? 23. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I? 24. What is put on a table and cut, but never eaten? 25. What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use? 26. What happens once in a year, twice in a week but never in a day? 27. What won't break if you throw it off the highest building but will break if you throw it in the ocean? 28. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets? 29. What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 have in common? 30. What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in an hour? |
| 1. Silence 2. She lives in the Southern Hemisphere 3. Fire 4. a match 5. a cold 6. corn 7. a stamp 8. a towel 9. Darkness 10. Stars |
| Answers are at the bottom of the page |
| 11. Mushrooms 12. a mirror 13. Footsteps 14. Breath 15. Light or Air 16. a hole 17. a priest 18. a sponge 19. Roosters don't lay eggs 20. your age |
| 21. an egg 22. a coat of paint 23. a telephone 24. a deck of cards 25. a pencil or a crayon or soap... etc. 26. the letter E 27. a tissue 28. a blackboard 29. they stay the same when written upside down. 30. the letter M |