Question: I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one
bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too
many.
How many cages and canaries do I have?
bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too
many.
How many cages and canaries do I have?
Answer: I have 3 cages and 4 canaries.
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Question: A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his nearest hardware shop. But when he went to collect the rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of this, the rope was only 30 percent of the length that the man wanted. What length did he want and what length did he get?
Answer: The man ordered 9 feet 2 inches of rope, and got 2 feet 9 inches.
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Question: Lauren and Alice are talking long distance on the phone. Lauren is in an East-Coast US state which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and Alice is in a West-Coast state which borders the Pacific Ocean. Lauren asks Alice: "What time is it?" Alice replies and Lauren says: "That's really odd. It's the same time here!"
How can this be?
How can this be?
Answer: Alice is in Eastern Oregon (in Mountain time) and Lauren is in Western Florida (in Central time). It is the night that daylight-savings time changes back to standard time any time after 1:00 and before 2:00 AM.
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Question: If you divide thirty by 1/2 and add 10 what would you have?
Answer: 30 / .5 = 60 + 10 = 70
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Question: A man was just about to put his key in the door when he heard his wife scream "No Charlie, don't do it!" The man walked in his house to find his wife dead on the floor next to a doctor, a lawyer and a police officer. None of them had name tags and the man did not know who any of them were. The only thing the man knew is that the police officer did it.
How did he know?
How did he know?
Answer: His wife yelled, "No Charlie." The doctor and lawyer were both women, so the police officer had to be Charlie.
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Question: I've got ten or more daughters. I've got less than ten daughters.
I've got at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is
true, how many daughters have I got?
I've got at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is
true, how many daughters have I got?
Answer: If I have any daughters, there will always be two statements which are true. Therefore, I have no daughters.
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Question: Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?
Answer: There is no word in the English language that rhymes with them.
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Question: I can trap many different things and colors,
Ever changing, not boring.
Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap.
What am I?
Ever changing, not boring.
Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap.
What am I?
Answer: A mirror, or a pool of water.
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Question: When I left, I didn't know where I was going; when I got there, I didn't know where I was; when I returned, I didn't know where I had been. Who was I?
Answer: Christopher Columbus - when he found the Americas.
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Question: I can flutter and take your breath away.
I can take a beating, but do not bruise.
If I stopped you would be sure to lose.
Everyday I am with you.
What am I?
I can take a beating, but do not bruise.
If I stopped you would be sure to lose.
Everyday I am with you.
What am I?
Answer: Your heart.
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