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Brain Teasers for Kids

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 41mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I ?

a)

A candle

b)

A child

c)

A tree

2.

Which is heavier, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?

a)

bricks

b)

feathers

c)

the same

3.

What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?

a)

feather

b)

your breath

c)

water

4.

A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?

a)

None

b)

8

c)

9

d)

17

5.
The more you take, the more you leave behind
a)
money
b)
wisdom
c)
footprints
d)
shadows
6.
Beth's mother has three daughters.  One is called Laura, and one is called Sarah.  What's the name of the third daughter?
a)
Sarah
b)
No one knows
c)
Gwen
d)
Beth
7.

Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?

a)

none

b)

1

c)

11

d)

12

8.

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

a)

a teacher

b)

a parent

c)

a rhetorical question

d)

a cell phone

9.

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

a)

trash

b)

a toy

c)

an anchor

d)

a credit card

10.

Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?

a)

a witch

b)

a ghost

c)

fire

d)

water

11.

What is Mr. Blackstock's favorite sport?

a)

baseball

b)

football

c)

curling

d)

badminton

12.

Which of the following has Mr. Blackstock done? (select 2)

a)

escaped from his preschool at the age of 5

b)

met the president

c)

walked into a pole and had to get stitches

d)

played in a polka band that toured the country

13.

There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many apples do you have?

a)

5

b)

3

c)

2

d)

0

14.

What is heavier 100kg of gold or 100 kg of feathers?

a)

Gold

b)

Feather

c)

They are both the same

d)

Who knows?

15.

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

a)

towel

b)

water

c)

wind

d)

rain

16.

There are 10 lit candles on a cake, you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?

a)

10

b)

7

c)

3

d)

13

17.

What is the car's parking spot number?

a)

89

b)

86

c)

87

d)

69

18.

If 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 the white house?

a)

The white man

b)

The black man

c)

The president

d)

No one

19.

Why do black holes emit no light?

a)

Dirt

b)

High Temperature

c)

Thick Crust

d)

High Gravity

20.

What is the hottest planet? (Do you know why?)

a)

Earth

b)

Mars

c)

Mercury

d)

Venus

21.

If I jump into the water, what job do I do?

a)

Waiter

b)

Waitress

c)

Sailor

d)

Mermaid

22.

What is it? The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who buys it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know he's using it.

a)

handcuff

b)

coffin

c)

crutches

d)

baton

23.

A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?

a)

north

b)

down

c)

when do roosters lay eggs?

d)

it didn't roll, it stayed on top

24.

How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide?

a)

one grain of dirt

b)

5kg

c)

roughly 10 kg

d)

none. How is there dirt in a hole?

25.

What is at the end of a rainbow ?

a)

The letter W

b)

a pot of gold

c)

leprechaun

26.

You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire? (1 minute)

a)

Match

b)

Newspaper

c)

Lamp

d)

Candle

e)

Fire

27.

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ (2 minutes) Clue, Months

a)

J, A, M

b)

N, O, D

c)

S, O, N

d)

O, N, D

28.

Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?

(10 seconds)

a)

Thursday

b)

Friday

c)

Jimmy

d)

Jim

e)

Bob

29.

You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. The second stop, three men get on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair? (20 seconds)

a)

Blond

b)

Brown

c)

Black

d)

Green

30.

When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do not have me. (20 seconds)

a)

Candy

b)

Secret

c)

Food

d)

Money

31.

When I was 6 years old, my sister was half my age. Now I am 50 years old.

How old is my sister now?

a)

25

b)

3

c)

47

32.

Let’s guess how many blocks in this tower?

a)

5

b)

7

c)

9

33.

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

a)

I

b)

B

c)

C

34.

Three people live in these three flats.

Flat 53 has a yellow door.

Ali lives at Flat 51.

Ali lives next door to Hassan.

Omar lives next door to the flat with the green door.

The doctor lives at the flat with blue door.

The student lives next door to the flat with the yellow door.


Who is the teacher?

a)

Ali

b)

Hassan

c)

Omar

d)

teacher

35.

Five men were eating apples.

A finished before B, but behind C.

D finished before E, but behind B.


What was the finishing order ?

a)

C A D B E

b)

A B C D E

c)

E D C B A

d)

A B D C E