129 How Many Riddles - Riddles that ask the question "How Many?"

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1. Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?

Answer: There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy, and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.

Riddle:  Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
2. There are 30 cows in a field, and 28 chickens. How many didn't?

Answer: 10. Listen closely: 30 cows and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.

3. How many seconds are there in one year?

Answer: 12.  Every month has a 2nd.

4. How many sides does a circle have?

Answer: Two. The inside and the outside.

5. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

Answer: Once, because after you subtract 5 from 25 it becomes 20.

6. Some months have 30 days while other months have 31 days. How many have 28 days?

Answer: Every month has a 28th so they all have 28 days.

Riddle:  Some months have 30 days while other months have 31 days. How many have 28 days?
7. If there are four sheep, two dogs, and one herds-men, how many feet are there?

Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet.

8. There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?

Answer: Just four, in a square formation.

9. While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?

Answer: Just one, me.

10. Little Tommy Tittletat took two Ts, to tie two ups to two tall trees, to torment the terrible little tat. How many T's in all of that?

Answer: There are 2 T's in all of That.

11. If a boy blows 18 bubbles, Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He pops 5 and blows 1. How many are left?

Answer: 1.

Riddle:  If a boy blows 18 bubbles,  Then pops 6 eats 7 and then  He pops 5 and blows 1.  How many are left?
12. A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have?

Answer: Ten Cows. We can call the pigs cows but it doesn't make them cows.

13. All of Mrs. Smith's pets are dogs except one, and all her pets are cats except one. How many cats and dogs does she have?

Answer: Mrs. Smith has one cat and one dog.

14. How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?

Answer: None, it was Noah.

15. A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there?

Answer: 7. Each girl has the same brother.

16. In a certain city, 5% of all the people in town have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from that city's phone directory, how many people selected will have unlisted phone numbers?

Answer: None. If their names are in the phone directory, they do not have unlisted phone numbers!

Riddle:  In a certain city, 5% of all the people in town have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from that city's phone directory, how many people selected will have unlisted phone numbers?
17. If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?

Answer: Infinity! Technically you will never reach the door, as you can only move half the distance, no matter how small.

18. How many bricks does it take to complete a brick building?

Answer: One brick.

19. You have 6 eggs. You break 2, cook 2 and you eat 2 eggs. How many do you have left?

Answer: 4. The 2 you break are the ones you cook, which are the ones you eat.

20. You're sitting down for breakfast and realize you have 4 bagels left. You know you'll run out in four days so you cut them in half. How many bagels do you have now?

Answer: 4 Bagels.

21. How many hairs are in a bunny rabbit's tail?

Answer: None. They are all outside.

22. A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

Answer: Nine Years.

23. There are 10 dogs in a yard. 3 go out, 4 run behind a tree, and 2 jump in the hole. How many are left?

Answer: 10. Because none of them left the yard.

24. John has 10 siblings 4 boys and 6 girls he has a mother and father. How many people are in the family?

Answer: 13 people are in the family John+his 10 siblings+his mom and dad.

25. If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

Answer: None. The rest of the crows flew away when they heard the gunshot.

26. If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

Answer: Two. The two you took.

27. How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: There are 11 letters in "THE ALPHABET." Did you say 26?

28. If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

Answer: 64. The space that comes after the 64th spoke, would be just before the first spoke.

29. There are ten birds sitting on a fence. You shoot one. How many are left?

Answer: None are left. All the others are scared away because of the gunshot.

30. In a stable there are men and horses. In all, there are 22 heads and 72 feet. How many men and how many horses are in the stable?

Answer: 14 horses and 8 men. 14x4 plus 8x2 = 72 feet.

31. How many gold coins can a leprechaun throw in an empty pot?

Answer: One. After that, it’s no longer empty.

32. As I was going to the fair, I saw a man with golden hair. He had 3 sons each with another one. How many people were going to the fair?

Answer: One. Just me because I met the others on the way to the fair.

33. 10 copycats were sitting in a car. One came out. How many are left?

Answer: None, as they were copycats they copied each other.

34. If two peacocks lay two eggs in two days how many eggs does one peacock lay in four days?

Answer: Peacocks don't lay eggs.

35. How many months have 28 days?

Answer: All of them.

36. How many bananas can you eat on an empty stomach?

Answer: One. Then its not empty anymore.

37. If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?

Answer: The same three cats would do. Since these three cats are averaging one mouse per minute, given 100 minutes, the cats could catch 100 mice.

38. 10 fish are in a tank. 10 drown. How many died?

Answer: None, cause fish can't drown.

39. I went to city OZ on the way I saw four women, with four bags, who had four kittens. Each woman had two children with her. How many people went to the city OZ? (count correctly)

Answer: One because I went to city OZ on the way I saw...

40. If it takes 3 people to dig 1 hole how many people does it takes for 1/2 an hole?

Answer: You can't dig 1/2 an hole because once you begin to dig it is an hole.

41. There are 10 bombs on the ground, 1 bomb explodes. How many bombs are there left?

Answer: None. Because when that 1 bomb exploded, it caused the rest of the Bombs to explode too.

42. You are sitting at a table eating lunch and there are ten flies on the table. With a quick swat, you are able to kill three flies. How many flies are left on the table?

Answer: You killed three flies which remain on the table.  The others flew off when you swatted.

43. A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left alive?

Answer: 9. All but nine die.

44. A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed. Mark was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Mark have to paint the number nine?

Answer: The answer is 20! 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99.

45. If you have 10 peaches and take 7 peaches away, how many do you have?

Answer: 7, you took 7 peaches away with you.  Duhhhhh

46. How many Easter eggs can you put into an empty basket?

Answer: Only one, because after that it is no longer empty.

47. If you have nine fish in a fish bowl and 3 drown how many fish do you have left?

Answer: Nine because fish don't drown.

48. I have 10 books and I label them with their number. I take seven out to read. How many books are left?

Answer: 9! You have token the book with the label seven!

49. There are two moms and two daughters. One mom is the daughters mom. The other mom is the mom's mom. One daughter is the mom for the little daughter. One daughter is the little daughter. How many people are all together?

Answer: 3.

50. John was very tired after a long day of work. He went to bed at 10 p.m., wound his alarm clock, and set it for noon the next day. Since John fell asleep almost immediately, how many hours of sleep did he get before the alarm woke him?

Answer: Two hours. Wind-up clocks can't be set more than 12 hours in advance.

51. If a rooster laid 11 eggs and the farmer took 5 of them and another rooster laid 14 eggs and 5 of them were rotten. How many eggs were left?

Answer: 0, Roosters don't lay eggs.

52. If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?  

Answer: Twenty one. Most people would think there were 42 handshakes. The first person shakes the hand of 6 others, the second person shakes the hand of 5 remaining people, the third person shakes the hand of 4 remaining people, the fourth person shakes the hand of 3 remaining people, the 5th person shakes the hand of 2 remaining people and the sixth person shakes the hand of 1 remaining person. 6+5+4+3+2+1=21

53. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

Answer: One. He Combined them into one.

54. How many birth days does the average person have?

Answer: One!

55. You have 10 fish. 5 of your fish drowned. 3 came back to life. How many fish do you have left?

Answer: Fish can't drown. (LOL I know, still easy)

56. There were seven fish in the sea. Two drowned and three swam away. How many are left?

Answer: Four because fish can't drown.. ... ;) ;] ♡♡♡

57. You walk into a room that has a bed. On the bed, there are five pigs, four chickens, and three dogs. How many legs are on the floor?

Answer: There are six legs on the floor—your own two legs and the bed's four legs.

58. How many words are in a dictionary?

Answer: 2, 'a dictionary'.

59. There is an old abandoned house, there are six fish and three die. How many are left?

Answer: Six no one cleaned the tank out. You probably said three.

60. There are twelve people in a room, 4 are alive, 6 are dead. How many people are there?

Answer: 12.

61. Tommy tackled Tilly to take his tank and tickle her tummy. How many T's are in that sentence.

Answer: 3- I asked how many T's were in 'that sentence'.

62. A professional fisherman caught 30 fish during a 5-day tournament. Each day, he caught three more fish than the day before. How many fish did the fisherman catch on the first day?

Answer: He didn't catch any fish the first day, but he caught 3 on the second day, 6 on the third day, 9 on the fourth day and 12 on the fifth day.

63. How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: None. It's a hardware problem.

64. There once was an abandoned hotel with a fish bowl on the third floor. In the fish bowl, there were 3 big fish and 5 little fish. 2 of the big fish died and 3 little fish died. How many fish are left in the bowl?

Answer: 8 fish (3 big fish 5 small fish) because it is an ABANDONED hotel which means there are no cleaners to clean the fish out of the bowl so all of the fish are still in the fish bowl.

65. There are 10 people standing near a large swimming pool. Three of them think about jumping into the pool. How many people are standing by the pool now?

Answer: 10. Those three people simply "thought about jumping into the pool"; they didn't actually jump in.

66. Farmer Egbert has a cow, two horses, and a cat. The farmer drives up to the farm accompanied by his dog Fluffball. How many feet are there on the farm?

Answer: The task was to count the number of FEET, so the correct answer is just two. Cows and horses have HOOVES; dogs and cats have PAWS; only Egbert, a human, has FEET.

67. Wyatt has six sons, and each son has a sister. How many children does Wyatt have?

Answer: Wyatt has seven children. All of the sons have the same sister.

68. If John has 60 chocolates and he eats two-thirds of them, what does he have now?

Answer: John has diabetes! The question was, "What does he have now?", NOT, "How many chocolates does he have now?".

69. There are eight lemons in a bowl. You take three of them. How many lemons do you have now?

Answer: You have three lemons–the ones you took.

70. How many days are there in 4 years?

Answer: 1461, because one of the years is a leap year. 365 x 4= 1460 + 1= 1461

71. Lauren has a lemon tree. The number of lemons on the tree doubles every week. In 28 weeks, Lauren should expect the tree to be completely covered with fruit. How many weeks will it take for the tree to be half-covered with apples?

Answer: Zero. If I asked you about lemons, the answer would be 27 weeks because the number of lemons on Lauren's tree doubles every week. However, I asked you about APPLES, and they don't grow on lemon trees; therefore, the answer is zero.

72. Steve woke up after a good night's sleep. He wanted to make a big breakfast for himself. He has a dozen eggs in a carton. He breaks two eggs, fries two, and eats two. How many eggs are there in the carton afterward?

Answer: Afterwards, there are 10 eggs in the carton. Steve broke, fried, and ate the same two eggs. This is because: 1) cooking the egg while it is still in its shell would be considered boiling the egg, not frying it; after all, you would need to break the egg into a pan before frying it, and; 2) you cannot eat a raw egg while it is still in the shell because of the risk of foodborne illnesses.

73. Imagine that you have three eggs. Now, I give you four eggs. And your rooster lays two more eggs. How many eggs do you have now?

Answer: You have four eggs–the ones I gave you. Those three eggs from the start don't count because they're imaginary (IMAGINE that you have three eggs). And those two eggs your rooster lays don't count either because roosters don't lay eggs.

74. There are two species of citizens on a foreign planet: Hamburgs and Helphands. There are 10,000 Hamburgs, and Helphands make up 50% of the population. How many Helphands are on the foreign planet?

Answer: There are 10,000 Helphands on the foreign planet. If there are only two species of citizens on the planet, and Helphands make up 50% of the population, then Hamburgs must make up the other 50% of the population, with 10,000 of them. If there are 10,000 Hamburgs, then there are also 10,000 Helphands.

75. You walk into a room and see a bed. On the bed, there are two dogs, four cats, a giraffe, five cows, and a duck. There are also three chickens flying above the bed. How many legs are on the floor?

Answer: There are six legs on the floor. All of the animals are on the bed and no other furniture is mentioned in the room. Four legs from the bed and your two legs because you are standing in the room.

76. There are 10 fish in my fish tank. Suddenly, two of them drown, three of them swim away, and four of them die. How many fish are left in the tank?

Answer: There are still 10 fish left. For one thing, fish can't drown. Plus, none of the fish could have swam away because they're still in the tank.

77. 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?

Answer: I have 3 cages and 4 canaries

78. Farmer Fresco has 25 cows. During a bad storm, all but 10 of the cows run away. How many cows does Farmer Fresco have now?

Answer: Farmer Fresco has 10 cows. The phrase "all but 10 of the cows run away" means that those 10 cows did not run away; they stayed with the farmer.

79. There are 11 candles in front of you, all of them with burning wicks. Your friend blows out six of these wicks. How many candles will remain?

Answer: The six candles that had their wicks blown out will remain. After all, one, the other five candles will eventually burn down, and two, I asked you how many candles will remain, NOT, how many flames will remain.

80. In front of two planes, there is one. In behind two planes, there is one. In between two planes, there is one. How many planes are there?

Answer: 3 planes. If there are three planes in a row, in front of two, there is one, in behind two, there is one, and in between two, there is one.

81. A pen is only half-filled with ink. How many words can it write?

Answer: Zero. Pens can't write by themselves; it's the person holding the pen who writes.

82. I went to the zoo today and I saw four parrots, three flamingoes, and six tigers. How many birds did I see in total?

Answer: I saw seven birds: the four parrots and the three flamingoes. Tigers are not birds, so you're not supposed to count them.

83. Three hens lay three eggs in three days. How many eggs do 15 hens lay in 15 days?

Answer: If three hens lay three eggs in three days, then one hen lays one egg in three days. In 15 days, one hen will lay five eggs. Therefore, 15 hens will lay 75 eggs in 15 days.

84. If you counted 20 houses going to school, and then 20 houses on the left, going home. How many houses have you counted?

Answer: 20. They're the same houses going back.

85. How many black beans will make five white ones?

Answer: Five when peeled.

86. You take 6 cubes of ice from the freezer. Remove 2 and add 1. You wait half an hour and put them back in the freezer. How many ice cubes are left?

Answer: 1, because you have 1 ice cube as they will have melted and refrozen as 1

87. If a peacock lays and egg every day and there are two peacocks how many eggs will there be in a week?

Answer: None- peacocks don't lay eggs, peahens lay eggs.

88. You were in the garden. There are 34 people in the yard. You killed 30. How many people are in the garden?

Answer: Only 1, the killer.  If he killed 30 the other 4 would have run away so the killer would be the only one left.

89. A man had 12 sheep. All but 9 died. How many sheep did he have left?

Answer: Nine.

90. If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?

Answer: Two dozen. If you increase both the number of hens and the amount of time available four-fold, the number of eggs increases 16 times. 16 x 1.5 = 24.

91. There are 55 marbles and 100 bags. You need to put every marble in a way that the 1st bag has 1 marbles, the 2nd bag has 2 marbles and so on. How many bags will you need to use 55 marbles?

Answer: 55 bags. Put a marble in the first bag then the bag goes in the second bag with 1 marble, making the second have 2 marbles. Repeat this until use 55 marbles, in total,the 55th bag has 55 marbles.

92. How many letters are in Christmas?

Answer: Billions. Santa must be going stir crazy!

93. Your shirt has two holes in it. How many holes are there?

Answer: There are six holes because it has already has four holes in it.

94. At a children's party, 10 kids had juice, 8 kids had cake, and 6 kids had juice and cake. How many kids were there at the party?

Answer: Tweleve kids. Six kids had juice and cake, leaving two out of the cake eaters that didn't have juice. As there were ten juicers, there must be twelve kids in total.

95. How many different types of gnus are there?

Answer: Two.  Good gnus and bad gnus.

96. You looked at the clock at 3:15. How many degrees are in the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (Hint: It's not 0)

Answer: 7.5 degrees. Ask anyone this. No one will get it. You'll stump them!

97. There is 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour, how many seconds are in a race?

Answer: 1. In a race, only 1 person can get second place.

98. There is 10 birds on a branch, a man shot 5 of them. How many were left?

Answer: Zero, because when birds see someone coming or hear something they fly away.

99. A boy has as many sisters as brothers, but each sister has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?

Answer: Four brothers and three sisters.

100. An old fashioned bike wheel has 21 spokes. How many spaces are between the spokes - 20, 21, or 22?

Answer: 21

101. A frog fell into a 12-foot-deep well. He could jump 3 feet, but every time he jumped 3 feet, he fell back 2 feet. How many times did he have to jump to get out of the well?

Answer: 10. On the tenth jump he cleared the edge of the well and thus did not fall back two feet.

102. You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair?

Answer: Four. You will have a pair of one color or another.

103. There is a creature which could double its size every day. So, if the creature is put in a tank then it will fill the tank in 10 days. How many days would it take for the creature to fill 1/2 and 1/4 of the tank?

Answer: 9 days to fill 1/2 and 8 days to fill 1/4 of the tank.  If the creature fills the tank in 10 days and it doubles every day, on the ninth day it would fill 1/2 the tank. Thus on the 8th day it will fill 1/4 of tank.

104. If it takes four rat catchers four minutes to kill fourrats, how many rat catchers would be needed to catch 50 rats in 50 minutes?

Answer: The same number of rat catchers- Four.

105. Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?

Answer: Three melons!

106. I have 10 red socks and 10 blue socks in a drawer. How many socks must I take out to ensure that I have at least one matching pair? One how many to ensure I have at least a pair of red and a pair of blue?

Answer: Three for one pair, and twelve to ensure one pair of each color.

107. How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987,654,321 to get a total of 99, and where?

Answer: (6) 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 43 + 21= 99 (7) 9 + 8 + 7 + 65 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1= 99  

108. A hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk, who undertakes to pick them up, and place them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone?

Answer: In solving this question it is clear that to pick up the first stone and put it into the basket, the person must walk two yards, one in going for the stone and another in returning with it; that for the second stone he must walk four yards, and so on increasing by two as far as the hundredth, when he must walk two hundred yards, so that the sum total will be the product of 202 multiplied by 50, or 10,100 yards. If any one does not see why we multiply 202 by 50 in getting the answer, we refer him to his arithmetic.

109. A house has 6 stories, each the same height. How many times as long is the ascent to the sixth floor as the ascent to the third?

Answer: 2 1/2 times (5/2, not 6/3).

110. How many three cent stamps are in a dozen?

Answer: A dozen, although you probably said four.

111. There is a certain family with both girl and boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?

Answer: Four boys and three girls.

112. If 6 doubloons are worth 1 1/2 ducats, how many ducats are 27 doubloons worth?

Answer: 6 3/4 ducats (27/6=4 1/2. 4 1/2 x 1 1/2= 6 3/4)

113. Charlotte is 13 years old. Her father Montague is 40 years old. How many years ago was Charlotte's father four times as old as Charlotte?

Answer: Four years ago. When Charlotte was 9 her father was 36, 4 times her age.

114. Out of 100 ladies attending the gala,85 had a white hand bag;75 had black shoes;60 carried an umbrella;90 wore a ring; How many ladies must have had all four items?

Answer: 10 Divide by 3. All the ladies had three items. The remainder shows the number of ladies who had 4. 85756090______310 / 3 = 100 + 10 remainder

115. A queen bee was buzzing, a worker bee was buzzing, a honey bee was buzzing, and a killer bee was buzzing. How many bees were in buzzing?

Answer: One. There is only one b in the word buzzing

116. A rubber ball is tossed off the top of a 90 foot building. Every time it bounces, it goes back up half way. How many bounces will the ball take before it stops?

Answer: The answer is infinite, in a gravity free world. But of course gravity will eventually stop it.

117. How many times does the long hand of the clock pass the short hand between midnight one day and midnight the following day? As both hands are together at the starting time of midnight this does not count as a pass.

Answer: 21.

118. In the back yard, there is a hollow stump, that contains six ears of corn. If a healthy squirrel carries out only three ears each day, how many days will it take to empty the stump?

Answer: Six. Each day the squirrel will carry out the two ears on his head plus one ear of corn.

119. If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

Answer: the answer is 2 two you take 2.... (you have 2)

120. Dreaming of apples on a wall. And dreaming often, dear. I dreamed that, if I counted all, How many would appear? How many?

Answer: And dreaming of ten, dear.

121. If seven cats kill seven rats in 7 minutes, how many would be needed to kill one hundred rats in 50 minutes?

Answer: 14.

122. A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?

Answer: 11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds.

123. I have ten or more daughters. I have less than ten daughters. I have at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is true, how many daughters do I have?

Answer: If I have any daughters, there will always be two statements which are true. Therefore, I have no daughters.

124. An alarm clock runs 4 minutes slow every hour. It was set right 3 1/2 hours ago. Now another clock which is correct shows noon. In how many minutes, to the nearest minutes, to the nearest minute, will the alarm clock show noon?

Answer: In 3 1/2 hours the alarm clock has become 14 minutes slow. At noon the alarm clock will fall behind approximently an additional minute. Its hands will show noon in 15 minutes.  

125. How many cats are in a small room if in each of the four corners a cat is sitting, and opposite each cat there sit three cats, and a each cat's tail another is sitting?

Answer: Four cats, each near a tail of a cat in an adjacent corner.

126. A great banquet was prepared for a Roman emperor and his courtiers. 22 Dormice, 40 Larks' Tongues, 30 Flamingos and 40 Roast Parrots were served. How many portions of Boiled Ostrich were served?

Answer: 42. Each vowel is worth 2 and each consonant 4, so Dormice gives 22, ect.

127. An item is made from lead blanks in a lathe shop. Each blank suffices for 1 item. Lead shavings accumulated for making 6 items can be melted and made into a blank. How many items can be made from 36 blanks?

Answer: From 36 blanks there are 36 items made. The lead shavings are enough to make 6 blanks. Which make 6 more items. But don't stop here. The new shavings are good for 1 more item. Total: 43.

128. Jenna wrote all the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper. How many times did she write the digit 3?

Answer: Jenna wrote it 120 times.

129. In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team?

Answer: Five, not ten!

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