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Brain Teasers

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Friday 15th May 2020

Right, it’s time to get our brains working today.

How many of these brain teasers can you figure out? (Tune in for the answers tomorrow)

  1. When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look?
  2. A cowboy rode into town on Friday.  He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday.  How was that possible?
  3.  One night, a king and a queen went into a castle.  There was nobody in the castle, and no one came out of the castle.  In the morning, three people came out of the castle.  Who were they?
  4. What has to be broken before you can use it?
  5. It starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows.  What is it?
  6. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
  7. What goes up and never comes down?
  8. How can a man go 8 days without sleep?
  9.  A man found an old coin and declared that the date on it was 150 B.C.  This could not be true.  Why?
  10. Timmy’s mother had three children.  The first was named April, the next was named May.  What was the name of the third child?
  11. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
  12. If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? 

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