MICHAEL JHORDAN CARINGAL HUMSS 12-CALLISTO

BRAIN TEASER

• People make me, save me, change me, raise me. Who am
I?

• How many seconds do you have in a year?

• If five peacocks lay ten eggs in 2 days, how many

peacocks will lay 100 eggs in 24 days?

• How many oranges can you put in an empty container?

• When you add two letters, the five-letter word

becomes shorter. What is that?

• You are running in a 5000-meter marathon, and you

have beaten the person in second place. Where are you?

• I know a word. It has six letters, if you remove one

letter, you’ll be left with 12. What is it?

• many letters are there in the English alphabet?

• We break yet never fall, and what falls yet never

breaks?
• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

• The more you take, the more you leave behind. What
are they?

• What’s black, white and blue?

• What’s left when you take an ant out of a plantain?

• Which five-letter word gets shorter when two letters

are added to it?

• What is the reason it is considered illegal to bury a

man living in North America in South America?

• If five men take about 3 hours to dig three holes,

how long will it take two men to dig half a hole?

• Two girls have played and completed five games of

chess. Each of them won the same number of fun, and
there was no tie in any game. How did it happen?

• A farmer had 20 cows. Due to a contagious disease,

all cows except 11 died suddenly. How many cows does he
have now?
• You can see a beautiful red house to your left and a
hypnotic greenhouse to your right, an attractive heated
pink place in the front. So, where is the White House?

• I exist when there is light, but direct l light kills

me. Who am I?

• A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the

same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus
driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a
week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

• What is at the end of a rainbow?

• What has hands but can’t clap?

• What goes around the wood but never goes into the
wood?

• You will buy me to eat but never eat me. Who am I?

• They come out at bedtime without being called and are

lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

• What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s

strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
• What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never
talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never
sleeps?

• Sam turned left, right, whirled around 360°, stood on

his head, and then walked backwards before taking a
photograph of the sunset. What direction was he
pointing?

• I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of

water. Who am I?

• What is at the end of a rainbow?

• What begins with the letter “t”, is filled with “t”

and ends with “t”?

• A girl is sitting in a house at night with no light.

There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she reads.
How? ‘Or’ What?

• How far can a dog run in the woods?

• If there are three apples and you take 2, how many do

you have?

• If the red house is on the right side and the blue

house is on the left side, where’s the white house?

• There was a pink one-story house in a sheltered

neighborhood. Everything in it was pink – the carpets,
the walls, the furniture and the cat too. What color
were the stairs?

• What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name?

• If there are three apples and Shirley took away two,

how many apples does Shirley have?

• Phil went out in the rain without a raincoat or an

umbrella. However, not a single hair on his head got
wet. How is it?

• Jilly’s mother has five daughters. They’re called

Diana, Ariana, Fiona and Tiana. What’s the fifth
daughter called?

• Do you know the name of the invention that lets you

look directly right through any wall you want?

• I am filled with keys but have no locks. I have space,

but there are no extra rooms. Sure, you can enter, but
there is no exit. Who am I?
• Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara,
and the other is Sara. What is the name of the third
daughter?

• I am tall when I am young, and I am short when I am

old. What am I?

• In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a

pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a
pink table, a pink phone, a pink shower – everything
was pink! What color were the stairs?

• What has hands but can’t clap?

• A train is leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for

Vancouver, British Columbia, at 120 km / h. Three hours
later, a train left Vancouver for Halifax at 180 km / h.
Suppose there are precisely 6,000 kilometers between
Vancouver and Halifax. When they meet, which train is
closest to Halifax?

• Claire leaves New York by eight in the morning,

driving 35 mph. Nina starts driving to New York at a
speed of 50 mph. When they meet, which one will be
furthest away from New York?

• If you counted up all of the country’s ears and then

divided that number by two, what would you know for
sure?
• How long did the Hundred Years War last?

• People make me, save me, change me, raise me. Who am
I?

• I know a word. It has six letters, if you remove one

letter, you’ll be left with 12. What is it?

• many letters are there in the English alphabet?

• What goes around the wood but never goes into the
wood?

• Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat,

everyone ate a burger, but only three burgers were
eaten. How is it possible?

• A cowboy arrives in town on Friday, stays for three

days, and then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?

• You cross a bridge and see a boat full of people, but

there is no single person on board. How is it possible?

• A boy was taken to the hospital emergency room. The

emergency room doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot
operate on this boy. He is my son. But the doctor was
not the boy’s father. How could it be?

• We break yet never fall, and what falls yet never

breaks?

• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

• The more you take, the more you leave behind. What
are they?

• What’s black, white and blue?

• What’s left when you take an ant out of a plantain?

• A house has four walls. All the walls face south, and
a bear surrounds the house. What color is the bear?

• Who weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of

bricks?

• How many months have 28 days?

• Name four days of the week that begin with the letter
“t”?
• Two mothers and two daughters had a picnic consisting
of ham, potato salad, and beans. Each person ate only
one dish. How is it possible that no one is hungry?

• You enter a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a

candle, and a fireplace. Which do you turn on first?

• What gets more and more humid as it dries?

• You draw a line. Without touching it, how to lengthen

the line?

• A man was outside taking a walk when it started to

rain. The man did not have an umbrella, and he was not
wearing a hat. Her clothes were soaked, but not a
single hair on her head got wet. How could this happen?

• What can run but cannot walk?

• Which five-letter word gets shorter when two letters

are added to it?

• I exist when there is light, but direct light kills

me. Who am I?

• Who travels across the world but stays in the same

corner?
• Why did Mickey Mouse go to Outer Space?
• What do you call a fairy, who hasn’t showered in days?

• You will buy me to eat but never eat me. Who am I?

• How do oceans greet each other?

• What goes up and down but never moves?

• What starts with a P, ends with an E and has

thousands of letters?

• A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no

lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing.
Yet she is reading. How?

• How is Europe like a frying pan?

• They come out at bedtime without being called and are

lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

• What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s

strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?

• What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never
talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never
sleeps?

• If Sally’s daughter is my daughter’s mother, what

should I do to Sally?

• I am an odd number. Take away a letter, and I become

the same. What number am I?

• The more you take, the more you leave. What are they?

• What are the two keys that cannot open any door?

• What invention allows you to look through a wall?

• What is full of holes but still holds water?

• There are four houses in a row. The Wallaces live

next to the Clarks but not next to the Randalls. If the
Randalls do not live next to the Lodens, who are the
Lodens’ immediate neighbors?

• How many years are there between 5 and 5.

• How can you throw a ball as hard as you can so that

it only comes back to you if it doesn’t bounce?
• My name is Ruger; I live on a farm. There are four
other dogs on the farm with me. Their names are Snowy,
Flash, Speedy, and Brownie. What do you think the fifth
dog is called?

• Sam turned left, right, whirled around 360°, stood on

his head, and then walked backwards before taking a
photograph of the sunset. What direction was he
pointing?

• I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of

water. Who am I?

• If the red house is on the right side and the blue

house is on the left side, where’s the white house?

• There was a pink one-story house in a sheltered

neighborhood. Everything in it was pink – the carpets,
the walls, the furniture and the cat too. What color
were the stairs?

• If an electric train is heading east at 60 mph and

there is a strong westerly wind, which way is the smoke
from the train drifting?

• Saying Racecar backwards.

• How are dog hunters paid?
• What never asks questions but is often answered?

• What is yours that other people use more than you?

• What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name?

• If there are three apples and Shirley took away two,

how many apples does Shirley have?

• Phil went out in the rain without a raincoat or an

umbrella. However, not a single hair on his head got
wet. How is it?

• Jilly’s mother has five daughters. They’re called

Diana, Ariana, Fiona and Tiana. What’s the fifth
daughter called?

• Do you know the name of the invention that lets you

look directly right through any wall you want?

• What does that mean? I RIGHT I

• A boy fell from a 30-meter ladder without being

injured. Why not?
• Adding only, how do you add eight 8’s and get the
number 1000?

• I have a giant piggy bank, 48 centimeters square and

42 centimeters high. Approximately how many coins can I
put in my empty piggy bank?

• Who travels faster? Hot or cold?

• What has a mouth but cannot eat, what moves but has
no legs, and what has a bank but cannot put money in it?

• Which five-letter word becomes shorter when you add

two letters?

• Imagine you are in a room full of water. There are no

windows or doors. How do you get out?

• What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?

• What word has the same meaning backward and backward?

• I am filled with keys but have no locks. I have space,

but there are no extra rooms. Sure, you can enter, but
there is no exit. Who am I?

• Claire leaves New York by eight in the morning,

driving 35 mph. Nina starts driving to New York at a
speed of 50 mph. When they meet, which one will be
furthest away from New York?

• If you counted up all of the country’s ears and then

divided that number by two, what would you know for
sure?

• How long did the Hundred Years War last?

• Which country makes Panama hats?

• What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?

• Guess the following three letters in the series.

GTNTL …….

• A boy is walking on the road with a doctor. Although

the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not his
father. So who is the doctor?

• A death row inmate has the option of choosing one of

the three chambers mentioned. The first room is an oven
filled with feeding flames, and the second has men
armed with loaded guns, while the third has lions
hungry for years. Which one should a man choose?
• Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox
has a short one. Madonna doesn’t use hers. Bill Clinton
still uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is that?

• I first threw out the outside and cooked the inside,

then I ate the outside and threw the knowledge out;
what did I eat?

• In which month do Russians celebrate the October

Revolution?

• What is a camel’s hair brush made of?

• I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or

thrown. Who am I?

• I am a ball which can be served but cannot be eaten?

• We are a family of four. My mom is Mrs. Sixty Two, my

name is Thirty Two and my brother’s name is Twenty Two.
What’s my dad’s name?

• When you have me, you immediately want to share me.

But if you share me, you don’t have me.

• Joseph and Lena are found dead on the ground with

water. The windows are open, and a strong wind blows
the curtains. How did they die?
• A man stuck in a closed room with only two doors. One
leads to a fire-breathing dragon, while the other leads
to a room consisting of a magnifying glass. Whoever
dares to enter is charred before even realizing it. How
does he escape?

• What can you hold without ever touching or using your

hands?

• I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of illness.

You cannot express happiness without me, but I am in
the middle of the cross. I am always in danger but
never in danger. You can find me in the sun, but I
never come out of the darkness.

• A brother and sister were standing on opposite sides

of a river. When the brother called her, the sister
crossed the river to meet him. But she didn’t get wet.
How is this possible?

• Nero is very tall, over 6 ft actually and very broad.

He works in a butcher shop and wears size 10 shoes.
What does he weigh?

• You’re stuck in an escape room with three doors.

You’ll need to go through one of these doors to escape.
The first door is filled with poisonous snakes. The
second door has no floor and the third door has a tiger
that hasn’t eaten in 2 months. Which door would you
choose?

• There is a hanged man in a room and only a puddle on

the ground. There is nothing else around, no chair, no
table, nothing. How did he hang himself?

• A peasant woman has seven daughters. One day she will

pick apples, but she likes only 5. However, she manages
to share them equally between her seven daughters. Ow,
did she do it?

• For me:
Childbirth is before pregnancy.
Childhood is before birth.
Adolescence is before childhood.
Death is before life … Who am I?

• You’re stuck in a house with no electricity. It only

has a candle, a fireplace, a gas lamp and one match.
What should you light first to brighten the house?

• Can you add one mathematical symbol in between 55555

to equal 500?

• You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make

the line longer?
• Rey, the Rabbit, eats one carrot on Monday, two
carrots on Tuesday, four carrots on Wednesday, etc. How
many carrots does he eat every week?

• What two numbers make a one-digit number when you

multiply them but a two-digit number when you add them
together?

• Four friends are racing. Lina finishes four hours

ahead of Tina, with Phil finishing eight hours ahead of
Merlin. Merlin took six more hours than Lisa to finish
the race. What order do they cross the finish line in?

• A teacher says that there are less than 30 students

but more than 20 in a classroom. The kids can be
divided into groups of two, three, four, six, and eight
with no leftovers. How many students are there?

• Which two numbers come out the same whether you

multiply or add them together?

• 5 copycats were on a flight. One jumped out, so how

many are left?

• What makes the number 8,549,176,320 special?

• What do you get when you mix 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat,
and 2/4 goat?
• What letters are found every single day of the week?

• What is in the middle of America?

• What does the letter “T” and an island have in common?

• I’m in the middle of sighing and also in crushing,

but not in enjoying. You’ll find me in hills and
mountains, but never in valleys. I’m always the
beginning of happiness and end in death. Without me
there’s no happiness or health. What am I?

• I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case,

from which I am never released, and yet I am used by
almost everybody. What am I?

• I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance.

I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. What am I?

• My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often

invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow
or else I have nothing to say. What am I?

• What tastes better than it smells?