1] What has to be broken before you can use it?
2] What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
3] If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
4] You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?
5] They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
6] What gets wetter as it dries?
7] What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
8] How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
9] How many letters are there in the alphabet?
10] Bobby throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
11] It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
12] If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
13] How many months of the year have 28 days?
14] What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?
15] Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?
16] I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
17] I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?
18] If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
19] What goes away as soon as you talk about it?
20] What can jump higher than a building?
Answers:
1] An egg
2] The letter M
3] There is no smoke; it is an electric train!
4] You draw a shorter line next to it, and then it becomes the longer line.
5] Stars
6] A towel
7] Short
8] There are 18: 3 in the, 7 in English, and 8 in alphabet.
9] Eleven – T-h-e A-l-p-h-a-b-e-t
10] He throws it straight up.
11] Your name.
12] A promise.
13] All of them! Every month has *at least* 28 days.
14] A clock.
15] Kate! It’s Kate’s mother, after all.
16] Popcorn.
17] Light.
18] A secret.
19] Silence.
20] Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump.