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Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?

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The dates are in BC (Before Christ).
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What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?

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Nothing.
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If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.

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10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.
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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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What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?

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His breath.
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Which number can you put to fill in the sequence? 23 1 3 25 16 20 6 9 20 ?

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19 Explanation: Position of first letter of the words in the question in alphabets.
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What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

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The letter m.
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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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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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