Brain teasers

1. What is special about the following sequence of numbers?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0

 

The numbers are in alphabetical order.
(eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two, zero)

 

2. A rooster lays an egg at the very top of a slanted roof. Which side is the egg going to roll off on?

 

Roosters don't lay eggs.

 

3. What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

 

Postbox

 

4. If you had a ton of feathers and a ton of stones which would be heavier?

 

They both weigh a ton.

 

5. Johny's mother has three children. One is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

 

Johny

6. Two women apply for a job. They are identical and have the same mother, father and birthday. The interviewer asks, "Are you twins?" to which they honestly reply, "No".
How is this possible?

 

They are triplets.

 

7. A man and his son had a terrible car accident and were rushed to the hospital. The man died on the way, but the son was still barely alive. When they arrived, an old gray surgeon was called in to operate. Upon seeing the young boy, the surgeon said, "I can't operate - this is my son."
How is this possible?

 

The surgeon was his mother.

 

8. A man was killed on Sunday morning. His wife found the body and called the police. The police arrived and questioned the chef, maid, butler, and gardener. Their alibis were:
Chef - making breakfast
Maid - getting mail
Butler - setting table
Gardener - watering plants
The police immediately arrested the criminal. Who was it and how did they know?

 

The maid. Mail isn't delivered on Sunday

 

9. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

 

The third room, since the lions would be dead.

 

10. Two fathers and two sons go fishing together in the same boat. They all catch a fish but the total catch for the day is 3 fish. How is this possible?

 

There are three men: A grandfather, a father (the grandfather's son) and the father's son.

 

11. There is a room with no doors, no widows, nothing and a man is hung from the ceiling and a puddle of water is on the floor. How did he die?

 

He was standing on a block of ice and it melted

 

12. The maker doesn't need it, the owner doesn't want it, the user doesn't know he's using it what is it?

 

A Coffin

 

13. Three fat ladies stood under an umbrella but none of them got wet. Why didn't any of them get wet?

 

It was not raining

14. Imagine you are in a room, no doors windows or anything, how do you get out?

Stop imagining

 

15. A boy and a doctor was fishing. The boy is the doctor's son but the doctor is not the boy's father. who is the doctor?

 

His mother

 

16. What happens only in the middle of each month, in all of the seasons, except summer and happens only in the night, never in the day? 

 

Letter “N”

 

17. When James was nine years old he hammered a nail into a tree to mark his height. Ten years later, James returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by four inches each year, how much higher would the nail be?

 

The nail would be the same height as the tree grows at the top

 

18. A cowboy was going to London on his horse. It took 2 days to get there, he stayed for a day and it took him 1 day to get back! he went on Friday and came back on Friday! How?

 

His horse was named Friday

 

19. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

 

Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.

 

20. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

 

2^nd place