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1. When do dogs have 16 legs? WHEN THERE ARE 4 2. Why isn't your nose twelve inches long? THEN IT WOULD BE A FOOT 3. In what month do women talk the least? FEBRUARY 4. What do mice have that no other animal has? BABY MICE 5. How many men were born last year? ONLY BABIES WERE BORN 6. What word is always pronounced wrong? WRONG 7. Why do birds fly south in the winter? ITS TOO FAR TO WALK 8. If a woman marries a king, what would she be? HIS WIFE 9. What follows a horse wherever he goes? HIS TAIL 10. What nail should you never hit with a hammer? YOUR FINGERNAIL

back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you. THROW THE BALL STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR. 12. A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket? 4 KIDS GET AN APPLE EACH. THE 5 TH KID EATS THE APPLE WHILE SITTING IN THE BASKET. 13. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be? THEYRE PART OF A SET OF TRIPLETS. 14. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? A TOWEL 15. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? AN EGG 16. What goes up and down the stairs without moving? A CARPET

11. How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come 17. What can you catch but not throw? A COLD

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18. What's black and white and read all over? A NEWSPAPER 19. What goes around the world but stays in a corner? A STAMP 20. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? A SPONGE 21. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? FIRE 22. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I? A SHOE 23. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? A RIVER 24. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I? AN ONION 25. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I? A HOLE

26. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I? BREATH 27. Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I? AN EYE 28. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they? STARS 29. Lighter than what I'm made of, More of me is hidden than is seen. What am I? ICE 30. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three

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in the evening? A HUMAN BEING 31. What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains? WHOLESOME

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Light, hot, check SPOT Light, hot, back FLASH Wood, liquor, luck HARD Corn, winner, sweet BREAD Top, inner, test TUBE Back, crawl, work SPACE Read, child, proof PROOF Blue, lands, roots GRASS Butter, maid, run MILK Off, crow, tactics SCARE Dog, frog, fighter BULL Weight, fly, sand PAPER

32. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands? A KANGAROO 33. Punctuate the following so it makes sense: "That that is is that that is not is not is not that it it is." "THAT THAT IS, IS; THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS NOT THAT IT? IT IS." 46. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Back, short, watch STOP 47. Blue, cake cottage CHEESE 48. Stool, powder, ball FOOT 49. Big, soil, table TOP 50. Made, cuff, left HAND 51. Motion, poke, down, SLOW 43. 44. 45.

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52. 53. 54. 55. 56.

Watch, house, gone DOG Salt, melon, white WATER

61. What English word has three consecutive double letters? BOOKKEEPER 62. How far will a blind dog walk into a forest? HALFWAY. AFTER

Theme, trailer, ball PARK Video, board, waiting GAME Rocket, night, lark SKY

HE GETS HALFWAY, HE'S WALKING OUT OF THE FOREST. 63. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has "T" in it? TEAPOT 64. Say my name and I disappear. What am I? SILENCE 65. A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it? AN EGG 66. What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands? A SHIRT

57. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? A WATERMELON

(OR SWEATER, JACKET ETC) 58. What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in 67. Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English decades, years or days? THE LETTER N word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS 59. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? 68. A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and DARKNESS leaves on Friday. How did he do it? THE HORSE'S NAME IS 60. What has a head, a tail, and has no legs? A COIN FRIDAY

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69. What does this represent? Standing World STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD 70. What does this represent? Wear Black BLACK UNDERWEAR 71. I'm white, I'm round, but not always around. Sometimes you see me, sometimes you don't. What am I? THE MOON 72. What asks no questions but receives lots of answers? A PHONE 73. What goes up but never comes down? YOUR AGE 74. Tall in the morning, short at noon, gone at night but I'll be back soon. What am I? A SHADOW 75. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not once in

a thousand years? THE LETTER M. 76. How is the letter T like an island? IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF WATER. 77. People need me but they always give me away. What am I? MONEY 78. What are two things people never eat before breakfast? LUNCH AND SUPPER. 79. Why did the man throw a bucket of water out the window? HE WANTED TO SEE THE WATERFALL. 80. Why did the man throw the butter out the window? HE WANTED TO SEE THE BUTTERFLY. 81. Why did the man put the clock in the safe? HE WANTED TO SAVE TIME. 82. What has a neck, but no head? A BOTTLE. 83. Where is the ocean the deepest? ON THE BOTTOM.

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84. Why did the man throw his watch out of the window? HE WANTED TO SEE TIME FLY. 85. What do tigers have that no other animals have? BABY TIGERS. 86. Which letter is not me? U 87. "What letter of the alphabet has got lots of water?" "THE C"

93. What are the two strongest days of the week? THEY ARE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. ALL THE OTHERS ARE WEAK (WEEK) DAYS. 94. Which is faster, heat or cold? HEAT, BECAUSE YOU CAN CATCH A COLD. 95. What do you call a witch at the beach? SANDWICH

88. What letter of the alphabet is always waiting in order? THE Q. (QUEUE) 89. What is as big as a horse but doesn't weigh anything? THE HORSE'S SHADOW 90. What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it? A TEAPOT 91. Which room has no doors, no windows. A MUSHROOM 92. A father and his son were in a car accident. The father died. The son was taken to the hospital. The doctor came in and said: I can't do surgery on him, because he's my son. Who was the doctor? THE DOCTOR WAS HIS MOTHER. 96. What's a minimum? A VERY SMALL MOTHER! 97. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? SHORTER 98. What has four wheels and flies? A GARBAGE TRUCK 99. Why don't sharks eat clowns? BECAUSE THEY TASTE FUNNY 100. How many months have 29 days? ALL OF THEM 101. What begins with P, ends with E, and has 1000 letters? A POST OFFICE 102. What are two things never eaten before breakfast? LUNCH

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AND DINNER 103. You man enter but may not come in. I have space but no room. I have keys but no lock. COMPUTER KEYBOARD 104. I right I right between the eyes 105. XLR8 accelerate 106. TOkeepOUCH keep in touch 107. Esgg ggse segg scrambled eggs 108. MEREPEAT repeat after me 109. PotOOOOOOOO potatoes 110. GIVEGIVEGIVEGIVE forgive 111. H2O waterfall

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