Sprain your brain
Back this week from a 6 day cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. What to do on chilly days at sea? Win first prize in the big-brain (and name-that-tune) contest! The prize? the coveted ship-on-a-stick!
The contest - if you like riddles:
- What natural occurrence can speak in any language?
- A barrel of water weighs 100 lbs. What can you add to make it weigh 50 lbs?
- What was the tallest point on earth before Mt. Everest was discovered?
- What word starts with "e", ends with "e", and contains one letter?
- What is heavy forward, and backward is NOT?
- A man legally marries 3 women in one day? How is this possible?
- How many bricks does it take to complete a 10-story brick building?
- How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark?
- How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
- If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
- Why can't you take a picture of a man in Utah with a wooden leg?
- The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
- The person that makes it doesn't want it.
The person who buys it doesn't use it.
The person who uses it, never sees it.
What is it? - What can go up a chimney DOWN, but not down a chimney UP?
- What crime is punishable if attempted, but not if committed?
- A man leaves home and takes 3 left turns. When he returns home, he finds two masked men. Who are the masked men?
- What is the center of GRAVITY?
- You have two coins totaling $0.55, one of which is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
- You can keep it only after giving it away to someone else. What is it?
16 out of 20 was the winning score. Can you beat it (without cheating)?
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