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Brain Power???

Answer these riddles:

1. My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick ,Fat, I am slow, Wind is my foe.

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

3. What's white when it’s dirty?

4. Which is faster, hot or cold?

5. When is your mind like a rumpled bed?

6. What is it that everybody does at the same time?

7. Take away my first letter; take away my second letter; take away all my letters, and I would remain the same. What am I?

8. A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. But the boy's father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can it be?

9. What seven letters did Old Mother Hubbard say when she opened her cupboard?

10. How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?

11. The more you take the more you leave behind.

12. A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.

Update:

13. What turns everything around, but does not move?

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

15. What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?

16. Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. Who is that man?

17. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

18. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

19. Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?

A. blast, paper, box, bank

B. juice, bag, cradle, carpet

20. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.

Update 2:

please answer some, if not all...anyways, one who answers the most correctly wins...

4 Answers

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    1. Candle

    2. A grandmother, her daughter and the woman's granddaughter

    3. Chalkboard

    4. Hot. You can always catch a cold.

    5. When it's not made up

    6. Get older

    7. Mailman

    8. The doctor is the woman and the nurse is the man.

    9. O I C U R M T

    10. Friday is his horse

    11. Footsteps

    12. Dozens

    13. Mirror

    14. Everyone was married to another person

    15. Mother

    16. My son

    17. SWIMS

    18. When you're dealing with time. 2 hours to 11:00 equals 1:00.

    19. Bag since all the words in group A can begin with the word "sand"

    20. Fake money or a coffin?

  • 1 decade ago

    1. A candle

    2. the mother, daughter and grandma

    3. Blackboard

    4. hot..you can always catch a cold

    5. when its not fixed or made up

    6. getting old with time

    7. mailman/postman

    8. the boys father is the nurse and the doctor is his mother

    9. O-I-C-U-R-M-T

    10. Friday is the name of the cowboy's horse

    11. footsteps

    12. Dozens: Dozens - "s" = Dozen = 12

    13. mirror

    14. They were all a couple....or married

    15. My mother

    16. My son

    17. SWIMS

    18. In terms of time 11:00 + 2hrs = 1:00

    19. bag

    20. Definitely a COFFIN!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1.Candle.

    2.A girl, her mother and her grand mother.

    3.A Black board

    4Hot, because you can catch a cold.

    5First thing in the morning.

    6Breathe.

    7Post Box

    8

    9

    10“Friday’ was the name of his horse.

    11 Footsteps.

    12A Dozen.

    Edit: Oh, My God! I did not read nos: 13 to 20!!!

  • cats
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Ha Ha! Funny! 10!

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