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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?
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.

I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

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

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

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