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#1 2020-06-12 00:49:47

Jai Ganesh
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Tricky Questions and Answers - 5

Q: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
A: Seven (take away the ‘s’ and it becomes ‘even’).
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Q: I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest girl can hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
A: Breath.
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Q: Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one slice of pizza, yet only three slices were eaten. How’s that possible?
A: The group included a grandmother, her daughter and her daughter’s daughter.
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Q: What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short.
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Q: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
A: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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Q: What gets sharper the more you use it?
A: Your brain.
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Q: A man was outside taking a walk when it started to rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella and he wasn’t wearing a hat or a hood. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this be?
A: The man was bald.
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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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