What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper (or bookkeeping). An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a “double u”).
Bookkeeper (or bookkeeping). An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a “double u”).
What is deep within you, never dies or gets worn out, and only needs some fire from time to time?
Your soul. Your soul is deep inside of you, it never dies and at various points in our lives we all get fired up about something.
Your soul. Your soul is deep inside of you, it never dies and at various points in our lives we all get fired up about something.
A farmer dies leaving a will dividing his flock of nineteen sheep with the following ratios:
Half to his oldest son, a quarter to the middle son and one fifth to his youngest son.
Without cutting any sheep up, how did the executor of the will fulfill the farmer’s wishes?
The executor went to the neighbouring farm and asked to borrow a sheep for a few minutes. Then he returned to the sons and said, “Half of the (now) twenty sheep is 10. A quarter of the twenty sheep is 5. A fifth of the twenty sheep is 4. 10 + 5 + 4 = 19. Then the executor took the borrowed 20th sheep back to the neighbour.
Thanks to Annette for sending this in.
The executor went to the neighbouring farm and asked to borrow a sheep for a few minutes. Then he returned to the sons and said, “Half of the (now) twenty sheep is 10. A quarter of the twenty sheep is 5. A fifth of the twenty sheep is 4. 10 + 5 + 4 = 19. Then the executor took the borrowed 20th sheep back to the neighbour.
Thanks to Annette for sending this in.
What word can be added before or after these words to make a new word or phrase?
Bed, Evil, Identical
Twin. Twin bed, Evil twin, Identical twin.
Twin. Twin bed, Evil twin, Identical twin.
What other letter fits in the following series
B C D E I K O X ?
The letter H. It completes the list of letters that are vertically symmetrical. In other words, you can fold the top half of the letter over the bottom half and everything lines up.
The letter H. It completes the list of letters that are vertically symmetrical. In other words, you can fold the top half of the letter over the bottom half and everything lines up.
Take away my first letter and I remain the same. Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged. Remove all my letters and I’m still me.
What am I?
A mail carrier. Letters in this sense are envelopes rather than the letters of the alphabet.
A mail carrier. Letters in this sense are envelopes rather than the letters of the alphabet.
I am an animal of few letters,
What am I?
Frog. It only has four letters, removing the “r” leaves fog, which makes it hard to see. Changing the “r” to an “l” makes flog, a punishment I hope you’ve never experienced. Flog backwards is golf, a game some would call a punishment when you keep swinging away at the ball yet it remains perched on its little white tower of terror while the other golfers impatiently wait for you to tee off.
Frog. It only has four letters, removing the “r” leaves fog, which makes it hard to see. Changing the “r” to an “l” makes flog, a punishment I hope you’ve never experienced. Flog backwards is golf, a game some would call a punishment when you keep swinging away at the ball yet it remains perched on its little white tower of terror while the other golfers impatiently wait for you to tee off.
What hangs others yet can unintentionally hang itself?
A jury.
I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
A nose.
What animal can be created from the head of a lamb, the body of a pig, the hind quarters of a buffalo and the tail of a dragon?
A lion.
Head of a lamb = L
A lion.
Head of a lamb = L