WorksheetsBrain Teasers
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
I left my campsite and hiked south for 3 miles. Then I turned east and hiked for 3 miles. I then turned north and hiked for 3 miles, at which time I came upon a bear inside my tent eating my food! What color was the bear?
White; The only place you can hike those miles and end up back at your starting point is the North Pole
Brown; The food turned it brown
Blue; blue bears show up at lunchtime
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
His son
His cousin
His grandfather
His father
What is special about these words: job, polish, herb
They are 3, 4, and 5 letters
They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized.
They are all in the dictionary
Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
The catcher and the umpire
His mom and dad
His best friends
His coach and brother
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
The dog jumped
The man went to the dog
The river was frozen
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In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
They age backward
The person was born in 2005 BC
The person was magic
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A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
A clock
An hourglass
A person
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
Underwear
Makeup
Their surname
Their birth certificate
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Small
Tiny
Tall
Option not shown
Short
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
9
14
12
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A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
Option not shown
He had rain proof hair
His hair was gelled very well
Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?
19
16
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Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
167 lbs
57 lbs
shoes
meat
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
A coffin
Coffee
A coffee
Coffin
Andy is put in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window. The window is too high for him to reach. The only thing in the cell is a shovel. He won’t be able to get any food or water and only has two days to escape or he’ll die. Andy can’t dig a tunnel because it will take him much longer than two days to do it. How will Andy escape from the cell?
He use the shovel to create a pile of dirt under the window so he can climb up onto it and escape from the cell
He digs a tunnel anyway and tries to escape by digging a major escape tunnel
He dies.
