Brain teasers to keep you busy

The following brain teasers were compiled by David Koutsoukis. They will definitely keep you busy for a while. The answers will be published next week. Enjoy! 2.

Questions:

1. You are running in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? If you overtake the last person, what position are you in?

3. Take 1 000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1 000. Now add 30. Add another 1 000. Now add 20. Now add another

1 000. Now add 10. What is the total? 4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

5. A woman has seven children. Half of them

are boys. How can this be possible?

6. A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?

7. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth, where a man said to him, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me R50, but if I cannot, I will pay you R50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the man writes, he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy paid the man R50. How did the man win the bet?

8. The word CANDY can be spelled using just

two letters. Can you figure out how? 9.

A man was born in 1955. He's alive and well today at age 33. How is this possible? Bill bets Craig R100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Craig agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Craig lose the bet?

Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?

What do you put in a toaster?

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 green house made from?

At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?

15. 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?

16. An electrician and a plumber were waiting in line for admission to the Home Show. One of them was the father of the other's son. How could this be possible?

17. In which sport are the shoes made entirely

of metal?

18. What is so fragile that when you say its

name you break it?

19. How would you rearrange the letters in the

words "new door" to make one word? 10. 11.

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