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You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.

Two handsome racers are having a race. One keeps lapping the other and the race never ends. What am I?

How can you express the number 100 using the same digit six times?

What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

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Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

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PORT

There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many pigeons remain?

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None. Explanation: They all fly away at the sound of the gunshot.

A slice of cake costs $3 if it is cut into two pieces. How much will it cost if it is cut into seven pieces?

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$3. As the entire slice costs $3, it doesn't matter how many pieces it is cut into.

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?

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Fingernails.

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

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Gloves.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?

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2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

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Incorrectly.

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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A tree.

The diameter of a hole is 4ft 5in. How much dirt does it contain?

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A hole has no dirt in it. It contains only air.

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?

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