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What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

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