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1. You are very tired, having spent the entire day shopping at Macy's Department Store. You decide to go to bed at 8 o'clock at night, intending to get up at 9:15 the next morning. To be sure you don't oversleep, you set your antique alarm clock for 9:15. If you fall asleep at 8:00 p.m. and sleep straight through until the alarm awakens you, how many hours of sleep would you get?
2. Do they have a fourth of July in England?
3. How many birthdays does the average man have?
4. Why can't a man living in Winston-Salem (NC), be buried west of the Mississippi River?
5. You are in an old English Tudor-style house and you walk into a darkened room from a well-lit hallway. If you have only one match and entered a room where you barely can make out a fireplace with kindling wood, an oil lamp, and a candle which are all across the room. In order to locate a book you are searching for, what would you light first?
6. Some months have thirty days, some have thirty-one, how many have twenty-eight days?
7. If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last you?
8. A pretty Cape Cod-style house is bright red with pink shutters. It has white curtains in the windows and a white picket fence all around the yard. The house is square and all the windows of the house face south. Each side has a southern exposure. There is a large statue of Peter Pan in the back yard. A large bear comes walking past the house. What color is the bear?
9. How far can a dog run into the woods?
10. What four words appear on every United States coin?
11. How many men on a Major baseball team? How many outs in an inning?
12. I have in my hand two U.S. coins which total 55 cents. One of the coins is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
13. A farmer had seventeen sheep. All but nine died. How many did he have left?
14. Divide 30 by 1/2. Add ten. What is the answer?
15. Two men are playing checkers. They play five games each and each man wins the same number of games. How do you figure that out? There was no tie games.
16. Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?
17. The archaeologist who said be found gold marked 46B.C. was either lying or kidding. Why?
18. How many animals of each species did Moses have aboard the ark with him?
19. A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
20. Is it legal in North Carolina for a man to marry his widow's sister?
21. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
22. Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?
23. Rearrange the letters in the words new door to make one word.
24. At 7:53 EDT on October 18, 1986, a Drake 747 airline carrying an American crew and a Canadian nationals as passengers took off from Utopia, Utah, heading for Vancouver, British Columbia. Enroute the airliner developed trouble in the left wing stabilizers and crashed on the border between Montana, U.S.A., and Alberta, Canada. Where would the survivors be buried?
25. Your 12-meter racing yacht is moored to a dock in Newport, Rhode Island, and has a rope ladder over the side. The bottom run of the ladder is exactly at water level. Each rung of the ladder is 14 inches wide and one foot apart from the adjacent rungs. If it is dead low tide and the tide raises the level of the water at the rate of two feet per hour, how many rungs above the bottom rung will the water be in four hours?
26. A yellow school bus is carrying seven passengers to the Chocolate Chip Hall of Fame in Nowhere, Alabama. The passengers are making the trip from Bangor, Maine, and have been on the bus for 48 hours. On the way, one of the passengers gets off. Later on, one third of the remaining passengers decides to take a train and get off. How many are on the bus when it reaches Nowhere?

     

27. Where can anybody but you sit?
28. Why would a cleaning person prefer to wash a mirror than a windows of the same size, assuming both are easily accessible?
29. How can you throw a ball so it will reverse direction and return to you without the ball bouncing against or touching any solid object?
30. Your bed and a light switch are a5 feet apart. Without using any object or mechanical device--no pole, no remote switch--how can you turn off the light and get into bed before the room is dark?
31. What common mechanized transports in New York City (120,000 of them) carry three times as many passengers daily as all the city's subways, trains, buses, cars, and taxis combined?
32. Why didn't William Howard Taft run for a third term as President?
33. Can you rearrange these letters into one long word: doornonegwl?
34. If Betsy Ross were living today, what would she be most noted for?
35. A murderer is condemned to death.  He has to choose between two rooms.  The first is full of raging fires and the second is full of lions that haven't eaten in three years.  Which room is safest for him?
36. A woman shoots her husband.  Then she holds him under water for over five minutes.  Finally, she hangs him.  But five minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.  How can this be?
37. There are two plastic jugs filled with water.  How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?
38. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away.
39. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday?
40. This is an unusual paragraph.  I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it!  In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd.  But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
41. You are participating in a race.  You overtake the second person.  What position are you in?
42. If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
43. [Very tricky question--This must be done in your head only.  DO NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator.  Try it.
    • Take 1000 and add 40 to it.  Now add another 1000.  Now add 30.  Add another 1000. Now add 20.  Now add another 1000. Now add 10.  What is the total?
44. Mary's father has five daughters:  1. Nana, 2.Nene, 3.Nini, 4.Nono.  What is the name of the fifth daughter?
45. There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score, no the leader, until the contest ends.  What is it?
46. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
47. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own several growing seasons.  All other vegetables must be replanted every year.  What are the only two perennial vegetables?
48. Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?
49. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
50. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle.  The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way.  How did the pear get inside the bottle?
51. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw".  They are all common.  Name two of them.
52. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.  Can you name half of them?
53. Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?
54. There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit.  Taking a base on balls -- a walk-- is one way.  Name the other six.
55. It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any other form but fresh.  What is it?
56. Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet that begin the with the letter "s".
57. What do you put in a toaster?
58. Say "silk" five times.  Now spell "silk".  What do cows drink?
59. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
60. If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60 of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?
61. Without using a calculator--You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus.  In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on.  In Swindon, two people get off and four get on.  In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get in.  In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people off and three get on.  You then arrive at Milford Haven.  What was the name of the bus driver?