(1) How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unble to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper.
ANS:(1) Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to stand on the bit of newspaper on their side of the door.

(2) A rope ladder hangs over the side of a ship. The rungs are one foot apart and the ladder is 12 feet long. The tide is rising at four inches an hour. How long will it take before the first four rungs of the ladder are underwater?
(2) Actually, the ladder will rise with the ship!

(3) Aarthi has three piles of sand and Harish has four piles of sand. All together, how many do they have?
(3) When they put them all together, there will be only one pile.

(4) In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal?
(4) Horse racing.

(5) If the Vice-President of India should die, who would be President?
(5) The President (He is not dead!).

(6) How can you throw a golf ball with all your might and -- without hitting a wall or any other obstruction -- have the ball stop and come right back to you?
(6) Throw the ball straight up.

(7) Find the English word that can be formed from all these letters:
EEEELLNPSSSSS
(7) Sleeplessness.

(8) How many times can you subtract the numeral 2 from the numeral 9?
(8) Just once. Then you'd be subtracting 2 from the numeral 7, then 2 from the numeral 5, and so forth.

(9) If you take two apples from three apples, how many apples will you have?
(9) You will have two apples.

(10) If you are standing on a hard floor, how can you drop an egg three feet without breaking the egg?
(10) Hold the egg more than three feet above the ground when you drop it and then catch it.