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How
does an elephant get down from a tree?
He sits on a leaf and waits for the fall. |
How
long should a person's legs be?
Long enough to reach the ground. |
How
many legs does a mule have if you call its tail a leg?
Only four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. |
How
many months have 28 days?
All of them. |
If 5
cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat
to catch a mouse?
Five minutes. |
If you
count 20 houses on your right going to school, and 20 houses
on your left coming home, how many houses in all have you counted?
Twenty. You counted the same houses going and coming. |
If you
had a million dollars and gave away one quarter, and another
quarter, and then another quarter, how much would you have left?
A million dollars minus 75 cents. |
Name
five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday.
The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day
after tomorrow. |
On the
way to a water hole a zebra met 6 giraffes. Each giraffe had
3 monkeys hanging from its neck. Each monkey had 2 birds on
its tail. How many animals were going to the water hole?
Only the zebra. All the rest were coming back from the hole. |
Some
ducks were walking down a path. There was a duck in front of
two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks.
How many ducks were there in all?
Three ducks, waddling single file. |
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