What is broken but right two times a day?

Lauren and Alice are talking long distance on the phone. Lauren is in an East-Coast US state which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and Alice is in a West-Coast state which borders the Pacific Ocean. Lauren asks Alice: “What time is it?” Alice replies and Lauren says: “That’s really odd. It’s the same time here!”
How [...]

Would you rather have a tiger eat you or a lion?

What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before you’re done,
and the slower you work,
the sooner you’re finished?

I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold.
I’m the parent of numbers that cannot be told.
I’m a gift beyond measure, a matter of course,
And I’m yielded with pleasure- even taken by force.
What am I?

A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed. Mark was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Mark have to paint the number nine?

If boiling water is poured into a thick drinking glass as well as a very thin wine glass, of the two, which is more likely to crack?

NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?

My thunder rolls beneath me, my lightning flares above. I dust the crust, and when I bust, all I touch will I shove.
What am I?

I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?

What can you see in water, but never gets wet?

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.
Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

A little pool with two layers of wall around it.
One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?

How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy.
Mrs. Smith turned to her husband and said, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as [...]

If you’re 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door.
How many moves will it take to reach the door?

What is Medusa’s favorite cheese?

There are five acquaintances. One of them shot and killed one of the other five. Which man is the murderer?
1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
2. Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
3. Jeff is a top-notch computer consultant and wants to install [...]

You’re in a magical bathroom with no windows and the only way things can get in and out is by an open door.
You decide to have a bath so you turn on the tap,
you shut the door and the handle breaks so you can’t open it, you then turn off the tap and the knob [...]

A butcher has a 36 inch waist around, and he is 5 feet tall. What does he weigh?

My author’s uncertain yet my title’s the same,
I contain random text yet order’s my aim.
Read me one day and see my pages are totally bare.
Try again another day and the words will be there.
I’m not a book of magic although it may sound,
I can predict the future, and inside, your life can be found.
Move my [...]

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

Here on Earth it’s always true,
that a day follows a day.
But there is a place where yesterday
always follows today!

I am the ruler of shovels,
I have a double.
I am as thin as a knife,
I have a wife.
What am I?