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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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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.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

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Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

What has an eye but can not see?

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Needle

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).

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?

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They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.

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Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?

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She can be my son's grandmother.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

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LERABGA

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?

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Envelope

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?

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