Riddles and Brain Teasers

A Black Dog Sleeping

A black dog is sleeping in the middle of a black road that has no streetlights and there is no moon. A car coming down the road with its lights off steers around the dog. How did the driver know the dog was there?

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It was daytime.

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Two Handsome Racers

Two handsome racers are having a race.
One keeps lapping the other and the race never ends.

What am I?

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A clock.

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PK II Rebus

What does this represent?

PK
II
PD
ES

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Pipe down kids.

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Too Much For One

I am too much for one, enough for two, but nothing to three. What am I?

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A secret.

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Presidents and Parents

How could the 22nd and the 24th U.S. Presidents have the same parents, but not be brothers?

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The 22nd and 24th U.S. presidents were both the same person – Grover Cleveland.

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Many and One

They are many and one,
They wave and they drum,
Used to cover a stare,
They go with you everywhere.

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Your hands.

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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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