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A man was found dead next to a 13 story building. The police say it was a suicide, but you say it was a homicide (someone killed him). To prove this, you go to each floor on the building, open the window, and toss a penny out. You do this to each floor until you reach the 13th floor, open the window, and toss a penny out. How does this prove it wasn't a suicide?
We hurt without moving.
And poison without touching.
We bear truth and lies,
But are not judged by size.
What are we?
It is in the rock, but not in the stone; It is in the marrow, but not in the bone;
It is in the bolster, but not in the bed; It is not in the living, nor yet in the dead.
I drift forever with the current down these long canals they’ve made,
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker, colder, sometimes, rougher, true
But though I might make living easy, I’m good at killing people too.
There are two doors and there is one guard for each door. One door leads to life and the other leads to death. You have only one question to ask and you can only ask one guard. One of the guards always tells the truth and the other always lies. What question would you ask to find out which door is the door to life?
A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly?
I'm so fast you can't see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?
What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?
A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?