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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?

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If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.
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I am very fragile. I crack easily. If you cry in front of me, I too start crying. If you smile at me, then I too smile back. Who am I?

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Mirror
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What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?

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Yesterday
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A tunnel is 650m long. How far can a horse run into the tunnel if the horse is running at a speed of 10km/hr?

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325m Explanation: After that the horse is running out of the tunnel.
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If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?

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5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?
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If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

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Secret.
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Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?

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67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.
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Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?

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Peppers.
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Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth

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Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).
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I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

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A shoe
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