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  • Mary’s father has five daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter’s name?
    If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It is Mary!
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  • What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
    A palm
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  • What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .
    The letter “D.” The sequence contains the first letter of each month.
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  • What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water?
    A sponge
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  • A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the operating room and the doctor said, “I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.” How is that possible?
    The doctor is his mom!
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  • A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
    The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes.
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  • I have two coins, one is marked George I and one is marked George IV. One is genuine but one is a forgery. Which is the forgery?
    George I. A coin would not be marked Goerge I because at the time it was produced it would not have been known that there was going to be a George II.
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  • Charlotte is 13 years old. Her father Montague is 40 years old. How many years ago was Charlotte's father four times as old as Charlotte?
    Four years ago.
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  • A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
    His son
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  • A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
    The river was frozen.
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  • In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
    The person was born in 2005 BC.
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  • A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
    The man was bald.
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