BRAIN TEASERS

1. What is the easiest way to throw a ball,

have it stop, and
completely reverse direction after traveling
a short distance?
2. What is at the beginning of eternity, the
end of time, the
beginning of every end, and the end of
every place?
3. When things go wrong, what can you
always count on?
4. What is always behind you but you can
never touch it?
5. I am never the first to speak but I am
always the last to be
heard. Who am I?
6. We were born of the same mother, on
the same day, at the same
hour and in the same year. Yet we are not
twins. How do you explain this?
7. Two fathers and two sons were seated
round a table. There were
four apples on the table. Each of them took
one apple and ate it entirely
yet there was still one apple left on the
table. How was this possible?
8. Before Mount Everest was discovered
which was the highest
mountain in the world?
9. Here everything is not always in order.
For example, Friday comes
before Thursday, the cart comes before the
horse, the driver comes before
the employer. Where are we?
10. When I am alive I stay put where I am.
It is only when I am dead
that I move about here and there. Who am
I?
11. How can you be behind a person when
that person is also behind you?

Answers below
1. Throw the ball straight up
2. 'e'
3. Your fingers
4. The past
5. An echo.
6. They are triplets.
7. There were only three persons at the
table comprising a
grandfather, his son and his grandson.
8. Mount Everest, of course. It was always
there!
9. In a dictionary.
10. A leaf.
11. Put yourself back to back of each other