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BRAIN TEASER FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST:

Whomever gets the most correct will win

1.     What kind of room has no windows or doors?

2.     I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

3.     I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?

4.     The more you take the more you leave behind.

5.     Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.

6.     As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.

7.     What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

8.     I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.

9.     What can fill a room but takes up no space?

10. It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter?


 


  

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 The answers to last month's riddle was: 

Question: 

Whomever gets the most correct will win

1.     What goes up and down stairs without moving? Carpet (Hand railing)

2.     Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. Fire

3.     What can you catch but not throw? a Cold

4.     I run, yet I have no legs. What am I? a Nose (motor, refrigerator, clock, water)

5.     Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. Match

6.     Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside. Corn

7.     What goes around the world and stays in a corner? a Stamp

8.     What gets wetter the more it dries? Towel (ice)

9.     The more there is, the less you see. Darkness (fog)

10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. Stars

 

 
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