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  • Agatha’s mother has five different daughters. One’s name is Danielle, one’s name is Brittany, one’s name is Samantha, another is named Rebecca. What’s the name of the fifth daughter?
    Agatha
  • What has a head and a tail but no body?
    coin
  • What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
    future
  • What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
    short
  • 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 absolutely no exit. What am I?
    keyboard
  • I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
    key
  • People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
    money
  • If a plane crashed on the border of England and Scotland, where would they bury the survivors?
    You don’t bury survivors.
  • Do you know where you can find cities and countries, towns and shops, roads and lakes, but absolutely no people whatsoever?
    a map
  • What letters are easily found in every single day of the week?
    D-A-Y
  • What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
    clock
  • Do you know the name of the invention that lets you look instantly right through any wall you want?
    window
  • If you see an electric train headed east at 70 an hour but there is a wind blowing in from the west at 80 miles an hour, which way is the smoke from the train going to blow?
    An electric train doesn't have smoke.
  • If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side where’s the white house?
    Washington, DC
  • I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but if you water me, I’ll die. What am I?
    fire
  • What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
    towel
  • A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
    dozen
  • How many letters are there in: the English alphabet?
    18
  • A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How come?
    The man was bald.
  • What has to be broken before you can use it?
    egg
  • With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
    stapler
  • Can you think of something that’s as light as a feather but even the world’s strongest human couldn’t hold it for any longer than 4 minutes?
    breath
  • What is the end of everything?
    g
  • If there are three apples and  you took away two, how many do you have?
    two