Riddles and Brain Teasers

Long or Short, Grown or Bought

I can be long or short. I can be grown or bought. I can be painted or left bare. My tip can be round or square. What am I?

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Fingernails.

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Twice Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Twice four and twenty blackbirds sitting in the rain.
I shot and killed a quarter of them. How many do remain?

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After shooting a quarter of the birds, the rest would fly off, so the remaining birds, brutally shot by you, would be:

(2 × (4 + 20)) / 4 = 12

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Cops Close Cellar Corpse

Replace the letters with numbers to make this a valid mathematical equation.

    COPS
   CLOSE
  CELLAR
  CORPSE
    CASE
+ COLLAR
--------
  RECTOR

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Celebrate, Hide Their Shame or Commit Crime

Some use me to celebrate,
Others use me to hide their shame,
Others use me to commit crime.

What am I?

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Alcohol. People have a drink to celebrate, but also drink to hide their shame. Lastly, drunk driving is a crime.A mask is also a valid answer. They can be used to celebrate Halloween or at dress-up parties, a mask can hide your shame and masks are used by thieves.Update: This one has more valid answers than I thought. Money, drugs and night also work.

Alcohol. People have a drink to celebrate, but also drink to hide their shame. Lastly, drunk driving is a crime.

A mask is also a valid answer. They can be used to celebrate Halloween or at dress-up parties, a mask can hide your shame and masks are used by thieves.

Update: This one has more valid answers than I thought. Money, drugs and night also work.

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A Ton of Fun

Use each clue to identify a famous person who last name ends in the letters T-O-N, like George Washington.

1. Friends star
2. Cotton Club bandleader
3. Batman and Beetlejuice lead
4. Blonde, buxom country music legend

Halfway there!

5. Steamboat developer
6. Author of The Age of Innocence
7. Found of a Kmart rival and a Club
8. She lead a news website called The (her last name) Post

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1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Duke Ellington
3. Michael Keaton
4. Dolly PartonDid you do well so far?5. Robert Fulton
6. Edith Wharton
7. Sam Walton
8. Arianna Huffington