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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.

I am in the beginning of sorrow and sadness. You will find me in happiness also. You will find me in sun and stars but not in moon. I am in summer and spring but not in fall or winter. Who am I?
The alphabet S.

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

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