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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.
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How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?

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Not a single time.
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

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Footsteps
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A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

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

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Gloves.
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Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

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Name
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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

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The letter "M"
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Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

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Neither, they both weigh one pound.
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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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