I am a wonderful help to women,
What am I?
An onion. Onions help add flavor to meals, they make the person who cuts them cry and they grow hair downtown.
An onion. Onions help add flavor to meals, they make the person who cuts them cry and they grow hair downtown.
What turns everything around but doesn’t move?
A mirror.
What letter comes next letter in this series?
A E F H I ___
K. It’s the series of capital letters without curves in alphabetical order.
K. It’s the series of capital letters without curves in alphabetical order.
If you were to spell out the numbers, how far would you have to go before encountering the letter A?
One thousa nd (or one hundred a nd one, depending on how you pronounce it ).
One thousa nd (or one hundred a nd one, depending on how you pronounce it ).
A NA A SA A A
What comes next in the series?
E. Each item is the first letter(s) of one of the seven continents:
1. Asia
E. Each item is the first letter(s) of one of the seven continents:
1. Asia
I am whole but incomplete. I have no eyes, yet I see. You can see, and see right through me. My largest part is one fourth of what I once was.
What am I?
A skeleton.
A merchant has 21 sacks of grain: 7 full, 7 half-full and 7 empty. He wants to divide them equally among his three sons. How can he do this, without transferring any grain between sacks, so each son has the same quantity of grain and number of sacks?
We know each son must end up with 7 sacks and 3.5 sacks of grain, since (7 sacks + 7 half sacks) / 3 = 3.5 sacks each.
Solution 1
Solution 2
We know each son must end up with 7 sacks and 3.5 sacks of grain, since (7 sacks + 7 half sacks) / 3 = 3.5 sacks each.
Solution 1
Solution 2
What is the smallest number of queens required on a chess board to attack all squares?
5. To see where they need to be placed, check out the diagram on Wolfram’s Queens Problem page.
You see me quite often,
I can’t speak or see,
What am I?
A mirror.
Using each of the letters in this phrase only once, rearrange the letters to make the names of exactly three different animals.
Tall elephant or ape man.
1. Panther
1. Panther