Riddles and Brain Teasers

A Ship To Ride the Greatest Waves

I am a ship that can be made to ride the greatest waves. I am not built by objects, but built by minds. What am I?

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Friendship.

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AADFJJ

A A D F J J J M M N ?

What comes next in the series?

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O S. The series contains the first letter of each month in alphabetical order (April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November). O and S represent the remaining 2 months, October and September.

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Standing World

What does this represent?

Standing
World

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Standing on top of the world

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I Appear In The Morning But Am Always There

I appear in the morning but am always there.
You can never see me though I am everywhere.
By night I am gone, though I sometimes never was.
Nothing can defeat me but I am easily gone.

What am I?

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Sunlight.

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Weighty Wine

How much does a bottle of wine weigh if it is 1 kilogram plus half its own weight?

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2 kg.If we let half of the bottle’s weight be “n”, then we get the following equation: n/2 + 1kg = n (the bottle’s weight).Solve for n:
n/2 + 1 = n
1 = n/2
2 = n

2 kg.

If we let half of the bottle’s weight be “n”, then we get the following equation: n/2 + 1kg = n (the bottle’s weight).

Solve for n:
n/2 + 1 = n
1 = n/2
2 = n

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You’ll Have At Night

You’ll have this six-letter word at night and if you remove the first letter it denotes the top, such as on a train. What is the word?

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Supper (upper).

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Never Stolen, Owned By All

I can never be stolen from you.
I am owned by everyone.
Some have more, some have less.

What am I?

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Knowledge.

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$500 For Basketball

500 people attended a high school basketball game and raised $500 for the school.

The prices were as follows:
Mothers $3.00
Fathers: $2.00
Children $0.48

More mothers than fathers turned up. How many children were there?

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375 children (70 mothers and 55 fathers)

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The Bookworm

A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopedia to the last page in a straight line. The encyclopedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?

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__ __ B| | | |F A|1 |...........................|10|R C| | | |O K| | | |N |__| |__|T ------------------------------------- On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is on the “inside”, so the bookworm eats only through the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000 pages of Volumes 2 – 9, then through the cover to the 1st page of Vol 10 for a total of 8,000 pages.Note: The question asks how many pages, not how many sheets of paper.

        __                             __
      B|  |                           |  |F
      A|1 |...........................|10|R
      C|  |                           |  |O
      K|  |                           |  |N
       |__|                           |__|T
      -------------------------------------

On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is on the “inside”, so the bookworm eats only through the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000 pages of Volumes 2 – 9, then through the cover to the 1st page of Vol 10 for a total of 8,000 pages.

Note: The question asks how many pages, not how many sheets of paper.

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