You're running a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Hint: You took their spot, not first place.
Answer
Second place
Passing the runner in second puts you in second. First place is still ahead of you.
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How many months of the year have 28 days?
Hint: Read the question again.
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All twelve
Every month has at least 28 days. February is just the only one that sometimes stops there.
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A rooster lays an egg right on the peak of a barn roof. Which side does it roll down?
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Neither side. Roosters don't lay eggs.
Only hens lay eggs, so there's no egg to roll.
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A man pushes his car up to a hotel and tells the owner he's bankrupt. Why?
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He's playing Monopoly
In Monopoly, landing on a hotel you can't afford can bankrupt you, and one of the tokens is a car.
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I have a neck but no head, shoulders but no arms, and a body you can often see right through. In some states, you get a nickel back just for returning me empty. What am I?
Hint: You might find me in the recycling.
Answer
A bottle
Bottles have necks and shoulders, are often clear, and several states run bottle-deposit programs that refund five cents.
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Forward I'm heavy, but backward I'm not. What am I?
Answer
A ton
A ton is heavy, and "ton" spelled backward is "not."
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I'm broken more often than I'm kept. An old saying calls me golden, a library begs you for me, and the moment anyone says my name, I'm gone. What am I?
Answer
Silence
Silence is 'broken,' the saying goes 'silence is golden,' libraries ask for it, and speaking the word itself ends it.
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I'm lighter than a feather, yet even the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?
Hint: You're doing it right now.
Answer
Your breath
Breath weighs almost nothing, but nobody can hold theirs for very long.
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I can fill a whole room, but I take up no space at all. What am I?
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Light
Light fills a room completely without taking up any physical space.
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The more of me you take, the more of me you leave behind. What am I?
Answer
Footsteps
Every step you take leaves another footprint behind you.
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I hold mountains you'll never climb and oceans you'll never swim, yet I fold up small enough for a glove box. I can tell you exactly where you are, but only if you can find yourself on me. What am I?
Hint: Travelers used to fold me up.
Answer
A map
A map shows mountains and oceans on paper, folds into a car's glove box and only helps once you locate yourself on it.
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I can travel around the world while staying in one corner. What am I?
Hint: Look at the top right of an envelope.
Answer
A stamp
A postage stamp stays in the corner of an envelope while it travels anywhere in the world.
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