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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:

  1. What natural occurrence can speak in any language?
  2. A barrel of water weighs 100 lbs. What can you add to make it weigh 50 lbs?
  3. What was the tallest point on earth before Mt. Everest was discovered?
  4. What word starts with "e", ends with "e", and contains one letter?
  5. What is heavy forward, and backward is NOT?
  6. A man legally marries 3 women in one day? How is this possible?
  7. How many bricks does it take to complete a 10-story brick building?
  8. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark?
  9. How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
  10. If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
  11. Why can't you take a picture of a man in Utah with a wooden leg?
  12. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
  13. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
  14. 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?
  15. What can go up a chimney DOWN, but not down a chimney UP?
  16. What crime is punishable if attempted, but not if committed?
  17. A man leaves home and takes 3 left turns. When he returns home, he finds two masked men. Who are the masked men?
  18. What is the center of GRAVITY?
  19. You have two coins totaling $0.55, one of which is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
  20. 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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