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Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 9hrs 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What goes up but never goes down?
a)
Ruler
b)
Stairs
c)
Your height
d)
Your age
2.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
a)
The letter M
b)
The letter P
c)
The letter T
d)
The letter P
3.
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
a)
A secret 
b)
A whisper 
c)
A secr5t
d)
A paper
4.
What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
a)
A feather 
b)
A breath 
c)
A piece of paper
d)
A plastic bag
5.
Your in a race. You bypass the person in 2nd place. What place are you in?
a)
1st
b)
2nd
c)
3rd
d)
4th
6.
You're a bus driver and you pick up and drop kids off after school. The driver drops off Sally, Ted, Alan, and Nate. What is the bus driver's name? 
a)
Ted
b)
STAN
c)
your name
d)
Alan
7.
How do you make the number one disappear?
a)
Add G
b)
Add R
c)
Add L
d)
Subtract One 
8.
What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
a)
Your Word
b)
Your Love
c)
Your thoughts
d)
Your opinion 
9.
What gets wet while it dries?
a)
Towel
b)
Pool
c)
Broom
d)
Shirt
10.
Why is the worlds longest nose only 11 inches long?
a)
Because then it would be to long.
b)
Because if it were 12 inches it would be a foot.
c)
Because it's impossible to grow a nose that long.
d)
Because then it would be 12 inches.
11.
If it took twelve men eighteen hours to build a wall, how long would it take nine men to build it?
a)
No time at all it is already built
b)
4 hours
c)
2 hours
d)
1 hours
12.
What two things can you never eat for breakfast
a)
Lunch and Dinner
b)
Dirt and Soil
c)
Nothing
d)
Yourself
13.
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
a)
The Sun
b)
The Stars
c)
The Moon
d)
Your Life
14.
What am I?  When you know what I am, then I am nothing.  When you do not know what I am, then I am something?
a)
A riddle
b)
A story
c)
Hope
d)
I don't know this riddle
15.
Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter's name?
a)
Nunu
b)
Dazlyn
c)
Mary
d)
Janet
16.
There are 3 apples on an apple tree. You take 2. How many do you have?
a)
2
b)
1
c)
3
d)
Bieber
17.
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
a)
Your name
b)
Your toys
c)
Your life
d)
Your phone
18.
How can you add eight 8's to make 1000?
a)
88 + 8888 + 1000
b)
8888 + 8 + 88 + 88 = 1000
c)
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
d)
8 + 8 + 888 + 888 = 1000
19.
Why did Adele cross the road?
a)
To say hello from the other side
b)
To roll in the deep
c)
To find someone like you
d)
HEELLO
20.
Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?
a)
none
b)
1
c)
11
d)
12
21.
Do they have a 4th of July in England?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
Only in the USA
d)
Only in England
22.
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?
a)
None
b)
8
c)
9
d)
17
23.
Paul is 6'9" and is an assistant at a vegetable shop. What does he weigh?
a)
over 100 lbs
b)
vegetable
c)
meat
d)
fish
24.
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
a)
Deadpool
b)
Superman
c)
x-ray
d)
window
25.
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
a)
feathers
b)
bricks
c)
they weigh the same
d)
depends on which falls on your foot
26.
A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do you bury the survivors?
a)
the U.S.
b)
Canada
c)
exactly on the border
d)
nowhere
27.
You are in a dark room with one match,oil lamp, wood stove, and fireplace. What do you light 1st?
a)
match
b)
oil lamp
c)
wood stove
d)
fireplace
28.
What is the minimum number of 6 packs one would need to put 99 bottles of "pop" on the wall?
a)
15
b)
17
c)
19
d)
21
29.
What disappears the moment you say its name?
a)
A Word
b)
Ghosts
c)
Silence
d)
Nothing 
30.
Mr Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughter has a brother. How many children does Mr Smith have?
a)
4
b)
5
c)
6
d)
8
31.
What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mums day?
a)
A dandelion flower
b)
The sun 
c)
Her children
d)
The school bus
32.
You may enter, but you may not come in, I have space, but no room, I have keys, but open no lock. What am I?
a)
A computer
b)
A door
c)
A phone
d)
A room
33.
A green man lives in a green house. A purple man lives in a purple house. A blue man lives in a blue house. Who lives in a white house
a)
White man
b)
Purple man
c)
Trick question none
d)
The President
34.
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
a)
A movie
b)
A snake
c)
A coin
d)
A book
35.
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
a)
classroom
b)
bedroom
c)
bathroom
d)
mushroom
36.
A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
a)
The monkey, obviously!
b)
The squirrel, of course!
c)
The bird - it's got wings!
d)
You can't get a banana from a coconut tree!