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| Rank | Answers Correct | User |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Phesh ❤️ |
| 2 | 2 | Raphael Krull |
| 3 | 1 | Cillan |
| 3 | 1 | Mr Mulaudzi |
| 3 | 1 | Tshepzen |
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Q: It's shorter than the rest, but when you're happy, you raise it up like it's the best. What is it?
A: Your thumb
Q: I have two legs, but they only touch the ground while I'm at rest. What am I?
A: A wheelbarrow
Q: Has a tongue, but never talks. Has no legs, but sometimes walks.
A: A shoe
Q: I am rarely touched but often held, and if you are smart you'll use me well. What am I?
A: A tongue
Q: I am always in front of you, but you will never see me. What am I?
A: The future
Q: I go around and in the house, but never touches the house. What am I?
A: The sun
Q: When it comes to me, you go on red and stops on green. What am I?
A: A watermelon
Q: What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?
A: Your temper
Q: What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?
A: Tomorrow
Q: What is harder to catch the faster you run?
A: Your breath
Q: What do pandas have that no other animal has?
A: Baby pandas
Q: I twist and turn and leaves a loop. What am I?
A: A shoelace
Q: What do people make that you can't see?
A: A noise
Q: I can never be stolen from you. I am owned by everyone. Some have more, some have less. What am I?
A: Knowledge
Q: What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter?
A: A hole
Q: I am where the sky is orange, I am where the glass is red, I am the land of violet bananas and the home to blue oranges.
A: A negative
Q: The most beautiful and useless of human acts.
A: Art
Q: What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
A: A job
Q: What can be heard and caught but never seen?
A: A remark
Q: When I live I cry, If you don't kill me I'll die.
A: A candle
Q: In the ground I am nothing, but give me time and I'll be something. What am I?
A: Seed
Q: When I'm born I fly. When I'm alive I lay. When I'm dead I run.
A: A snow flake
Q: I have one eye. See near and far. I hold the moments you treasure and the things that make you weep. What am I?
A: A camera
Q: I crumble, I break... but you like the way I taste. What am I?
A: A cookie
Q: Which is the only way a leopard can change his spots?
A: By moving from one spot to the next
Q: They are dark and always on the run. Without the sun, it would be none.
A: Shadows
Q: Which side of the chicken has the most feathers?
A: The outside
Q: Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; has two eyes, can't see a thing. What is it?
A: A button
Q: I have one eye. See near and far. I hold the moments you treasure and the things that make you weep. What am I?
A: A camera
Q: What always ends everything?
A: The letter G
Q: What do an island and the letter T have in common?
A: They both in the middle of water
Q: What gets bigger the more you take away?
A: a hole
Q: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
A: The letter C
Q: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
A: Teapot
Q: What is the last thing you take off before bed?
A: Your feet off the floor
Q: If you threw a White stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?
A: Wet
Q: You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
A: Second place
Q: What has a bottom at the top?
A: Your legs
Q: What color is the wind?
A: Blew
Q: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first?
A: No one. It's a coconut tree.
Q: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there?
A: Two. Sheep have hooves, dogs have paws and only people have feet.
Q: What do 194 different countries have in common?
A: People
Q: What is green in spring, yellow in summer, and red in autumn?
A: Leaves on trees
Q: What question can you never answer yes to?
A: Are you asleep yet?
Q: What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
A: A chalkboard
Q: What can’t be put in a saucepan?
A: Its lid
Q: What has keys but can’t open locks?
A: A piano.
Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
A: The letter "M".
Q: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
A: Silence.
Q: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
A: Light.
Q: What has many teeth, but cannot bite?
A: A comb.
Q: What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
A: A stamp.
Q: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?A: An artichoke.
Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
A: Footsteps.
Q: What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age.
Q: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
A: An echo.
Q: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
A: Your name
Q: What is put on a table and cut, but is never eaten?
A: A pack of cards
Q: What kinds of stones are never found in the ocean?
A: Dry ones
Q: I never ask questions, but always answered. What am I?
A: a doorbell
Q: I am full of keys, but I cannot open any door. What am I?
A: A piano
Q: Many times, you need me. The more and more you take me further, the more and more you leave me behind. What am I?
A: Footsteps
Q: What water can you eat and chew?
A: Watermelon
Q: I can be liquid or solid, sometimes I bubble and you can find me in every home. What am I?
A: Soap
Q: I have branches yet I have no leaves, no trunk and no fruit. What am I?
A: A bank
Q: What bee can you pass around that doesn’t sting? A:
A fris-bee
Q: How many seconds are there in January?
A: Only 1: 2nd January
Q: What can you hold without ever touching it?
A: A conversation
Q: A pink girl with a pink dress, a pink cat, a pink hat and pink walls lives in a pink bungalow. What color are her stairs?
A: There are no stair in a bungalow
Q: You can sleep on it, brush your teeth with it and sit on it, what is it?
A: a bed, a tooth brush and a chair.
Q: In what glasses shouldn’t you pour apple juice?
A: full ones
Q: Why can't the T-rex clap?
A: Because its already extinct
Q: Who can smell without having a nose?
A: Cheese
Q: I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
A: a shadow
Q: What has an eye but cannot see?
A: A needle
Q: I repeat only the last word you say. The more I repeat it, the softer I get. I cannot be seen but can be heard. What am I?
A: an echo
Q: A seven letter word containing thousands of letters?
A : mailbox
Q: What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
A: charcoal
Q: I'm not clothes but I cover your body. The more I'm used, the thinner I grow. What am I?
A: A bar of soap
Q: What tastes better than it smells?
A: A tongue
Q: Slippery, wet and greasy, when it's in it's easy, when it's out it jumps about. What am I?
A fish
Q: What can't be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?
A:Ice
Q: The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?
A: Friday
Q: Why are grandma’s teeth like stars?
A: Because they only come out at night
Q: The more I appear, the less you see. What am I?
A: Darkness
Q: What two letters in the alphabet say goodbye?
A: CU
Q: I am black and I stalk people. What am I?
A: A shadow
Q: If I smile, it also smiles. If I cry, it also cries. If I shout, it does nothing. What is it?
A: A mirror
Q: What goes around and comes around?
A: A hoolahoop
Q: How high would you have to count before you use the letter 'A'?
A: One thousand
Q: You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?
A: Your word
Q: Take me out the box and scratch my head, what was once red is black instead. What am I?
A: A match
Q: You can have it and be at it, but it never lasts forever. What is it?
A: Peace
Q: Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
A: Silence
Q: Kids, elders and a monster love me, I’m mostly round and brown if you ask me. What am I?
A: A cookie
Q: What has a head and a tail, but no body?
A: A coin
Q: What can you make that no one, not even you can see?
A: Noise
Q: What stays where it is when it goes off?
A: An alarm clock
Q: What can an elephant make that no other animal can make?
A: A baby elephant.
Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown!
Q: What am I?
A: Time
Q: You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?
A: The match.
Q: What kind of dog never bites?
A: A hot dog
Q: What can you hold in your left hand, but not in your right hand?
A: Your right hand
Q: The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?
A: A coffin
Q: What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
A: Pride
Q: I'm a fruit. If you take away my first letter, I'm a crime. If you take away my first two letters, I'm an animal. If you take away my first and last letters, I'm a form of music. What am I?
A: GRAPE
Q: David's father has three sons; Snap, Crackle and _____?
A: David
Q: A lawyer, a plumber and a hat maker were walking down the street. Who had the biggest hat?
A: The one with the biggest head
Q: What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
A: The letter ‘r’
Q: How many apples grow on a tree?
A: All of them
Q: Which is correct "The yolk of the egg is white" or "The egg yolk is white?"
A: Neither. Egg yolk is yellow.
Q: Which side of a cat has the most fur?
A: The outside
Q: What happens when you throw a blue rock into the yellow sea?
A: It sinks
Q: I get whiter the dirtier I get. What am I?
A: A blackboard.
Q: If you drop me, I'm sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I'll always smile back. What am I?
A: A mirror.
Q: Die without me, never thank me. Walk right through me, never feel me. Always watching, never speaking. Always lurking, never seen. What am I?
A: Air
Q: You go in me for brushing, for flushing, for rushing; But please go in me one at a time or someone might be blushing. What am I?
A: A bathroom.
Q: I'm the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What am I?
A: Lettuce
Q: I must be broken before you can use me. What am I?
A: An Egg.
Q: I love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I?
A: A kite.
Q: What falls, but never breaks? What Breaks, but never falls?
A: Day & Night.
Q: What has four legs, but can't walk?
A: A table
Q: You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
A: A reflection
Q: What has 10 letters and starts with gas?
A: Automobile
Q: With three eyes and as black as night, I frequently knock down ten men with a single strike! What am I?
A: A bowling ball
Q: I am the only thing that place today before yesterday. What am I?
A: Dictionary
Q: I am a kind of coat that can only be put on when wet. What am I?
A: Paint
Q: I always have to work with something in my eye. What am I?
A: A needle
Q: I have cities with no people, forests with no trees, and oceans with no water. What am I?
A: A map
Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Lunch and Dinner
Q: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
A: A Carrot
Q: What spends all the time on the floor but never gets dirty?
A: Your Shadow
Q: What is red and smells like blue paint?
A: Red Paint
Q: Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead and they mutter and grumble. What are they?
A: Leaves
Q: What is the least spoken language?
A: Sign Language
Q: I sit above you without judging you and can protect you and keep you warm. What am I?
A: A hat
Q: What has fifteen diamonds but isn’t rich?
A: A deck of cards
Q: What gets dirty while washing?
A: Water
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