I look like a horse, but I'm wearing black and white stripes all over. What am I?
Answer
A zebra
Zebras are related to horses and have black-and-white stripes.
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What kind of music do mummies love?
Hint: Think about what mummies are wearing.
Answer
Wrap music
It's a pun: mummies are wrapped up, so they like "wrap" (rap) music.
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What do reindeer hang on their Christmas trees?
Hint: Look at a reindeer's head.
Answer
Horn-aments
It's a pun on "ornaments," since reindeer have antlers.
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I take an hour, I fix nothing, and when I'm over everyone agrees I could have been an email. What am I?
Hint: Check your work calendar.
Answer
A meeting
Plenty of meetings end with everyone wishing it had just been an email.
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I have no beginning, no middle and no end, yet I can be as small as a ring or as big as the equator. What am I?
Hint: Draw me without lifting your pencil.
Answer
A circle
A circle is one continuous line with no start or finish, at any size.
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What wakes up the exact second you finally sit down?
Hint: New parents know this one.
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A baby
Babies have a famous talent for waking up the moment their parents relax.
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A red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of?
Hint: Plants need sunlight.
Answer
Glass
A greenhouse is a glass building for growing plants.
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I'm a two-digit number. My digits add up to 9, and if you swap them, I get 27 bigger. What number am I?
Hint: Try numbers in the 30s.
Answer
36
3 + 6 = 9, and swapping the digits gives 63, which is 27 more than 36.
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I spin your food in circles, I beep when I'm done, and I stop the second you open my door. What am I?
Hint: Don't put metal in me.
Answer
A microwave
Microwaves rotate food, beep when finished and stop when the door opens.
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I have lots of keys, but I can't open a single door. What am I?
Answer
A piano
Pianos have black and white keys for playing music, not locks.
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I spin all night, I catch flies for dinner, and I'm hanging on every haunted house porch. What am I?
Answer
A spider
Spiders spin webs to catch insects and are a Halloween decoration staple.
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I'm wrapped around your house, I go up the week after Thanksgiving, and half of me never works. What am I?
Hint: Untangling me is a family tradition.
Answer
Christmas lights
Holiday lights go up after Thanksgiving, and there's always a strand that won't light.
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