In the grocery store, Sal met his only daughter?s only husband?s mother-in-law?s only mother-in-law. Who was she?

What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?

What didn’t Adam and Eve have that everyone else has?

Five women each purchase a household item for use in a different room.
1. Mrs. Simpson does not keep her item in the bedroom.
2. Amy has a television; Mrs. Griggs has a hi-fi.
3. Kylie does not keep her item in the bedroom.
4. Clara does not have a telephone.
5. Mrs. Williams does not keep her item [...]

I can be created by humans,
But they cannot control me.
I suck on wood, paper and flesh alike.
I can be more of a hindrance than help at times.
To my creators, I seem to be everywhere at once.
What am I?

What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.
What am I?

Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?

We’re 5 little items of an everyday sort, you’ll find us all in A Tennis Court.
What are we?

A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?

Which of the following statements are true, and which are false?
1. Only one of the statements is false
2. Exactly two of the statements are false.
3. Only three of the statements are false.
4. Exactly four of the statements are false.
5. All five of these statements are false.

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.

Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 a.m.
What was it?

Ten pears hanging high,
Ten men come passing by,
Each took a pear and left nine hanging there.
How could that be?

Pronounced as one letter,
But look and you’ll see,
That really I’m written with three.
I’m read from both ends,
The same either way.
What am I?

Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters “he” in that order. There are two possible answers.

At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep.
What am I?

When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago.” How old is she?

Joe bets Tony $100 that he can predict the score of the football game before it starts. Tony agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Tony lose the bet?

All the electricity was out in town and none of the street lights or traffic signals had power. A dark limousine was cruising down the newly paved blacktop, with its headlights off. A young boy dressed totally in black (with no reflectors) stepped out to cross the street. The moon wasn?t out and the boy [...]

Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight.
“No Fair” cried Robert, “You have 3 times as many as I do!”
David said “Fine!” and gave Robert 10 more balloons.
“Still not fair!” argued Robert, “You still have twice as many as I do.”
How many more balloons must David give Robert for them to [...]

The more there is the less you see.
What is it?

Lazy Larry agreed to work on a job for his brother-in-law for thirty hours at eight dollars an hour, on the condition that he would forfeit ten dollars per hour for every hour that he idled. At the end of the thirty hours Larry wasn’t owed any money and didn’t owe his brother-in-law any money [...]

What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?