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1. What starts with E and ends with E and has a letter inside?

2. It takes twelve one-cent stamps to make a dozen. How many four-cent stamps does it take to make a dozen???

3. "We were born on the same day of the same year," said Mini. "And we have the same mother and father," said Tini. "But we’re not twins," said Mini. Can you explain?

4. Two fathers and Two sons went for a movie, there was only 3 tickets available in the theater. Even though they all saw the movie.. How ?

5. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

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1. What starts with E and ends with E and has a letter inside?

Envelope

2. It takes twelve one-cent stamps to make a dozen. How many four-cent stamps does it take to make a dozen???

12

3. "We were born on the same day of the same year," said Mini. "And we have the same mother and father," said Tini. "But we’re not twins," said Mini. Can you explain?

SUNDAY january 1980, SUNDAY december 1980 :)

4. Two fathers and Two sons went for a movie, there was only 3 tickets available in the theater. Even though they all saw the movie.. How ?

SOn, father, Grandfather....

5. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

no idea :)

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:previous:

first, second and fourth are correct..

third one is wrong, they born on the same month..

Edited by savramesh

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third one is correct and logical..

whats fifth one??

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3. they born on same day, same month, same year, but not twins.. ofcourse born for same parents..

5. anyone else ??

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they are not twins since they are from triplets

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5. The word "Wholesome"

correct..

they are not twins since they are from triplets

correct..

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6. What 11 letter word in the English language ends with the same three letters that it begins with?

7. There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter. from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

9. Foreward it is heavy, backward it is not. What is it?

9. What vehicle is spelled the same backwards and forwards?

10. there are 51 students in my class including me. yesterday was my birthday and i took so many chocolates to my class... i planned to distribute chocolates to all friends in a different way - give and take policy.. whatever number of chocos i give to each friend i will take back 50%(half) from them. like this i gave some chocos and take back 50% from each and every student. i started giving chocos to first friend and took half (50%) from him and then gave some to second and took half from him. at last i had only 1 (one) chocolate balance with me. so now tell me how many chocolates i took to class, how much i gave to each student and how much i took back from them?

Edited by savramesh

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9. Foreward it is heavy, backward it is not. What is it?

TON

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6. What 11 letter word in the English language ends with the same three letters that it begins with?

UNDERGROUND

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9.

1. racecar

2. A Toyota

3. I was sad - no Hondas saw I.

4. Yes, Syd, Owen saved Eva's new Odyssey.

5. A Toyota - race fast, safe car - a Toyota.

6. A Toyota's a Toyota.

7. He won a Toyota now, eh?

8. Was it a car or a cat I saw?

9. Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.

10. "No cab, eh, Ted?" I sat up. I put aside the bacon.

11. Sat in a taxi; left Felix at Anita's.

Apart from the above,

CIVIC

KAYAK

Courtesy: answers.yahoo.com

Edited by KumaarShah

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7.

STARTLING

starting remove L

staring remove second T

string remove A

sting remove R

sing remove T

sin remove G

in remove S

I remove N

Courtesy: answers.yahoo.com

Sorry about the above, savramesh More results here

Edited by KumaarShah

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10. no one answered

11. If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

12. This is as light as a feather, yet no one can hold it for long. What is it?

13. How many letters are in the alphabets?

14. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?

15. What goes around the world, but stays in the corner?

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5. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

I thought medu vada (take away the hole, and still the vada remains!)

10. there are 51 students in my class including me. yesterday was my birthday and i took so many chocolates to my class... i planned to distribute chocolates to all friends in a different way - give and take policy.. whatever number of chocos i give to each friend i will take back 50%(half) from them. like this i gave some chocos and take back 50% from each and every student. i started giving chocos to first friend and took half (50%) from him and then gave some to second and took half from him. at last i had only 1 (one) chocolate balance with me. so now tell me how many chocolates i took to class, how much i gave to each student and how much i took back from them?

51 chocolets. Gave 2 to first kid, took one back, remaining 50. Gave 2 to second one, took one back, remaining 49. For 50th kid, 2 chocs were given, and one was taken back :)

10. no one answered I did!

11. If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

12. This is as light as a feather, yet no one can hold it for long. What is it?

13. How many letters are in the alphabets?

14. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?

15. What goes around the world, but stays in the corner?

12. Wind in the body (breath). No one can hold it for long, from neither north nor south exit :D

13. 12 letters in 'the alphabets'.

14. 'm'

Great thread, fun to see the answers! Keep them rolling!

Edited by ani_meher

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I thought medu vada (take away the hole, and still the vada remains!)

:rofl_200::rofl_200:

51 chocolets. Gave 2 to first kid, took one back, remaining 50. Gave 2 to second one, took one back, remaining 49. For 50th kid, 2 chocs were given, and one was taken back :)

12. Wind in the body (breath). No one can hold it for long, from neither north nor south exit :D

13. 12 letters in 'the alphabets'.

14. 'm'

all are correct..

11 and 15 unanswered...

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15.

Not too sure, is it rumour? :Equivocado:

11.

I will still have 3 oranges because I cannot take away anything from myself, Hope I am right. This time both answers are my own, no cheating from answers.yahoo.com. Hope I get marks for this.... :P

@ani,

the medu vada funda was hilarious!!!!

Edited by KumaarShah

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:previous:

Dear Kumaar Shah, your answers for 11 and 15 are wrong.

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14. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?

the letter 'm'

I am sorry, I did not see Ani-Meher answer the above one. Anyway I thought and answered it

Edited by pasumark

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16. What goes up and down but doesnot move?

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:previous:

16. Ans: 'steps'

It seems correct, what I had in mind is Temperature

Anyway good work

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11. unanswered

15. unanswered

17. Find the colur of the following -

Acerola

Babaco

Caper

Eggfruit

Makrut

Sapote

Ugli fruit

18. A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to swallow one pill every hour, how long would it take for you to complete the course?

19. What is the smallest integer, which, when multiplied by 7 gives a number consisting of only 6's?

20. What should never be eaten after its served?

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