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What do you do with dead elements ?

Where do fish keep their money?

What do you get when you cross an automobile with a household animal?

Marys father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is
is the 4th childs name? Ifyou said Nono you are wrong. If Marys father had 4
children, three are named Nana, Nene and Nini, then the fourth must be Mary.
From what heavy seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have
eight left?
What three numbers have the same answer when added together and
multiplied together?
What bone has a sense of humor?
What did the leg bone say to the foot?
What did the rib cage say to the heart?
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.

What walks all day on its head?

What is round as a dishpan and no matter the size, all the water in the ocean
can't fill it up?

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!

The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

He who has it doesn't tell about it. He who takes it doesn't know about it. He
who knows what it is doesn't want it. What is it?

It lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and is
born in air. What is it?

I fasten it and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. What is it?

What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?

I have a little house in which I live all alone. My house has no doors or
windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills,
or paper, I am greedy and devour them all. Who am I?

It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?

What is is that you will break every time you name it?

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express
happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet
never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never seen out of
darkness.

What is put on a table and cut, but never eaten?

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never
released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?

I am around long before dawn.

But by lunch I am usually gone.
You can see me summer, fall, and spring.
I like to get on everything.
But when winter winds start to blow;
Burr, then it's time for me to go!
What am I?

What's full of holes but still holds water?

What has four fingers and one thumb, but is not alive?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?

What flies without wings?

What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?

You can draw me, fire me or fill me in. What am I?

Name three keys that unlock no doors.

What turns everything around, but does not move?

While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there
wasn't a single person. Why?

What has four legs, a head, and leaves?

What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft)?

What happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea?
(Speaking of throwing things, take a minute now to learn more about how to Reduce, Reuse,
and Recycle)

What do you have when twenty rabbits step backwards?

What am I? I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything
that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. So tell me what I must be!

What happens twice in a week, and once in a year, but never in a day?

Where do you find roads without vehicles, forests without trees, and cities
without houses?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck

wood?

What are two things you cannot eat for supper?

What is half of 2+2?

How many seconds are there in a year?

When asked what he does all day, a man answered that he sits and makes
faces. What does he really mean?

What time is it when 12 cats chase a mouse?

What has a tongue, cannot walk, but gets around a lot?

What is black and white and read all over?

A man without eyes saw plums on a tree;

He neither took plums, nor left plums,

Now how can that be?

Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by.

Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there.
How can this be?

There's a one story house that's all blue inside. The floor was blue, the lamps
were blue,the walls were blue,everything was blue. So what color were the
interior stairs?

What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

He has dust in his eye and a fan for a wing,

a leg akimbo on which he can sing,
and dye in his mouth instead of a sting
what is he?
[Note: This is actually a Robert Frost poem entitled "One Guess"]

Have you heard the saying what goes up must come down? Well what goes up
and never goes down?

What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong

westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift.

What runs around a house but doesn't move?

What kind of fish chases a mouse?

What is a cat on Ice?

Do you know why orange juice is so smart?

This thing devours all,

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers,
Gnaws iron, bites steel,

Grinds hard stones to meal, Slays kings, ruins towns,

And beats high mountains down.
(by J. R. R. Tolkein)

Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each
female gets her own cat. How is this possible?

What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?

If one child has 6 2/3 sand piles and another has 3 1/3, and you combine them,
how many sand piles do you have?

While on Safari in the wild jungles of Africa, Professor Claudia woke one
morning and felt something in the pocket of her pajamas. It had a head and a
tail, but no legs. When Claudia got up she could feel it move inside of her
pocket. However, Claudia showed little concern and went about her morning
activities. Why wasn't she concerned?

I can sizzle like bacon,

I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?

You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, one has
nothing. Which primate in the room is the smartest?

What is gray,has a tail, and a trunk?

A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that
is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this?

Here on earth it is always true,

that a day follows a day.
But there is a place where yesterday
always follows today!
What am I ?

A boy goes and buys a fishing pole that is 6' 3" long. As he goes to get on the

bus, the bus driver tells him that he can't take anything on the bus longer than
6'. The boy goes back to town, buys one more thing, and the bus driver allows
him on the bus. What did he buy, and what did he do with it?
And visit our Swim with the Goldfish activity!
What weighs more -- a ton of feathers or a ton of gold?

Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other
side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they
need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground. Which side of a cat has
more hair?

A railroad crossing, look for the cars.

Can you spell all that without any R's?

Your mother's brother's only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is

asleep on your couch?

Why is it so easy to weigh fish?

Why can't a man living in Winston Salem, NC, be buried west of the
Mississippi?

Who can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard?

Which moves faster: heat or cold?

When young, I am sweet in the sun.

When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.
What am I?

What is the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?

What's the difference between here and there?

What's colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would

become lighter?

What's better than the best thing, and worst than the worst thing?

What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will
break if you place it in the ocean?

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

What runs but cannot walk?

What one word has the most letters in it?

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River?

What kind of room has no windows or doors?

What kind of nut has no shell?

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

What is the moon worth?

Want to see the current phase of the moon and learn more about space
science?
What is the longest word in the English language?

What is the center of gravity?

What has to be broken before it can be used?

What has no beginning, end or middle?

What is in the middle of nowhere?

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

What happened in the middle of the 20th Century that will not happen again for
4,000 years?

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

What grows up while growing down?

What goes up and down without moving?

What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't
want to use it?

What do you serve that you cannot eat?

What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?

What can you catch but not throw?

What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?

What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be eaten?

What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

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?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

The capital of Turkey is a long word. Can you spell it?

Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, what am I?

Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?

In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?

In Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a sign. Why not?

If you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?

If you were standing directly on Antarctica's South Pole facing north, which
direction would you travel if you took one step backward?

If you were locked in a concrete room with no windows or doors, and all you
have with you is a bed and a calendar, how would you eat and drink?

If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is
it?

If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would
hatch?

I know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the
word?

How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's
egg. Why not?

Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the
summer. How is this possible?

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am
I?

What is the tallest building in town?

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?

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?

What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?

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?

Pronounced as one letter but written with three, two different 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 is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

What is it that goes with an automobile and comes with it; is of no use to it,and
yet the automobile cannot move without it?

Voiceless it cries
wingless flutters
toothless bites
mouthless mutters

It cannot be seen,cannot be felt

cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
it lies behind stars and under hills
and empty holes it fills

Alive without breath,

as cold as death,
never thirsty,
ever drinking,
when tired, never winking.

Dies half its life

lives the rest
dances without music
breathes without breath

I live above a star, and yet I never burn,

I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q)are my initials, now tell me what I mean.

I am one simple word, but I mean different things

One of my meanings brings great forceful swings,
The other of me, may have curve, like the first...
But only one meaning can help quench a thirst.
One of my meanings will often bring cheers,
Either of them could hold a few beers.

As I watch I see the world pass me by.

All the good, the bad, in the twinkle of an eye.
I watch and wait, and patiently sit.
I never began, so I shall never quit.
My only presence is in my being.
It is hardly noticed, and not worth a thing.
I'm fast as light, thin as air.
Run if you can. Run if you dare.
To avoid me is the mark of a fool.
For all you're worth, your life is my tool.
Though concealed, I am not shy.
The question is: What am I?

Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are
empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full
glasses alternate?

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and
throw away the inside. What are you eating?
(speaking of throwing things away, don't miss our Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle tips!)

Rearrange the letters in the words "new door" to make one word.

What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but

never in the course of a lifetime?

What has no content, yet you can see it?

What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?

At night I come without being fetched. By day tho lost, I'm not really gone.
What am I?

Which word in the English language is most frequently spelled wrong?

Rearrange the letters in "OWONDER" to make one word.

My host thinks I'm an irritation, a bother, a pain.

But he can't evict me, so I stay, remain.
Then one day I'm taken and ranked among my peers.
Can you guess just what I am? Then you might call me dear.

I can make you lighter, or cause your death. Some are afraid of me, but I'm also
loved by many.

What falls but never breaks?

What breaks but never falls?

You are taking a vacation on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a
remote part of Maine and there has never been a bridge connecting the island
to the land. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island to
all the children. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you
ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by
boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island. Explain how`t(e tractor may have
gotten there?

By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found; yet I am undone when there's no light

around.

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

Only one color, but not one size,

Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.

Present in sun, but not in rain,

Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found; yet I am undone when there's no light

around.

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

Only one color, but not one size,

Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

It is in a rock but not in stone,

It is in marrow but not in bone.
It is in a bolster but not in bed.
It's not in the living, and not in the dead.

What is nothing, yet has a name? It is sometimes tall and sometimes short. It
joins our talks and joins our games, And plays in every sport.

I know a word of letters three. Add one letter to it and none there will be. What
is the word?

What is it that has four legs, one head and a foot?

I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are
away. I take you by night, by day take you back, None suffer to have me, but do
from my lack.

They have not flesh nor feathers, nor scales nor bone; but they do have
fingers and thumbs of their own.

Many things can create one. It can be of any shape or size. It is created for
various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?

The "Easy" Quiz!

1. How long did the Thirty Years War last?

2. How long did the Hundred Years War last?

3. Which country makes Panama hats?
4. From which animal do we get catgut?
5. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
6. What is a Camel hair brush made of?
7. The Canary Islands are named after what animals?
8. What was King George VI's first name?
9. What color is a purple finch?
10. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

What do you mean "you failed"?

Answers:
1. 30 yrs.
2. 116 yrs
3. Ecuador
4. Sheep & horses
5. November
6. Ox, goat, squirrel, pony or any variety of natural animal hair, Camel is the
name of the person who invented the Camel hair brushes.
7. Dogs (Canares is Latin for dogs)
8. Albert
9. Crimson
10. NZ, USA, Europe and Chile. It is a native of China but are commonly grown
in other countries. They are now commonly called kiwi fruits.