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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?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

What can you catch but not throw?

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

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?
Nothing.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

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

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