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Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

How many pairs of animals did Moses take with him on his Ark to save the world's animals from the Great Flood?
It was not Moses, but Noah, who built an Ark to save the world's animals from the Great Flood.

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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