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  • How many seconds are there in a year?
    Twelve. Why?
  • A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?
    His __or__e is n__me__ __ri__ay
  • A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be?
    __h__ w__s __is __ __m.
  • What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
    __ __c__r__e__t__y
  • What is always coming but never arrives?
    __o__or__ow
  • What gets sharper the more you use it?
    Your   b__a__n
  • How many animals did Moses take into the ark?
    n__n__
  • If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll?
    __t wi__l not r__ll
  • What gets wetter the more it dries?
    a  t__w__l
  • If ten birds are sitting in a tree and a hunter shoots one, how many birds are left in the tree?
    __ __ne
  • What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half by hand?
    o__ __e
  • On a Sunday morning, the oldest girl in a family was murdered. The father was reading the paper, the mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and the girl’s brother was playing video games. Uncle George was visiting and was out getting
    ?
  • I start out tall, but the longer I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?
    a   ca__d__e
  • What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?
    an e__v__l__pe
  • Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
    a__l tw__lv__
  • What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
    a   c__oc__
  • What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?
    __u__ch and __in__er
  • What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
    The l__t__er __
  • What goes up but never ever comes down?
    yo__ r __ g__
  • How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?
    He __ic__ed __t in t__e a__r.
  • What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?
    The __ett__r __
  • A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car with no lights on comes around the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car’s driver know he was there?
    It was d__yti__e
  • What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
    Your __a__e
  • If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it. What is it?
    a __e__ret
  • What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?
    n__i__e
  • If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?
    n__n__