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bring to your attention ... funny questions for which answers are funny):

B1. In what battle was killed Napoleon?


B2. Where was the signing of the Declaration of Independence?

B3. What is the main reason for divorce?

B4. What do you never eat for breakfast?

B5. What looks like half apple?

B6. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will be?

B7. How can a man go eight days without sleep?


That's funny answers to them):

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I think I read these in a chain email once.

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Not to burst your bubble, but Napoleon didn't die in battle. He died on St. Helena, a solitary island in the Atlantic Ocean.

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I've had lunch for breakfast, pretty sure dinner too...

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Me likee.

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1. Do you participate in contests and a runner ahead of the second-
stance. What is the position you now occupy?



2. You are ahead of last runner, what position are you now?



Do not write on or
Use a calculator, and remember - you have to answer quickly.
Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30.
Another 1,000.
Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?



Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Chacha 2. Cheche 3. Chichi Chocho 4.
Q: What is the name the fifth daughter?

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As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks.
Every sack had seven cats.
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St Ives?



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That one has always annoyed me. People don't all move at perfectly uniform speeds.. what has 'meeting someone' got to do with the direction they were going?

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Indeed! Although still better than the "riddle" in which people ask something like "what is 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2*0" and then insist it's 0 and act all smug because they somehow got out of middle school without learning order of operations.

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1. How many birthdays for the average man?

2. What can be lowered and raised, and at the same time does not move from their seats?

3. Should the house in which four walls. Each wall faces south. One of the windows walking bear. What color?

4. Sash windows in the room open inward. There on the floor - pieces of broken glass. There is bottled water. You found a dead Sloppi lying on the floor. Who is this Sloppi? Why did she die?

5.Two boys were playing checkers. Each of them has played five games and each won the same number of games. How could this happen?

6.Eight. Divide 30 by half, add 10. What happened?

7. If you take two apples from three that you have left?

8. What animal Moses took on his ark?

9.If you have only one match and you entered the room in which there is a kerosene lamp, candle and wood-burning stove, you need to ignite in the first place?
10. If your doctor has prescribed three pills and told to take them every half hour, how long the procedure?

11. The farmer had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many sheep farmers have left?

12. How many nines in the range from 1 to 100?

13. The seven candles lit, the three went out. How many candles remain?

14. One brick weighs 1 kg and a half-brick. How much does a brick weigh?

15. Archaeologist says he found a coin dated '35 BC Could this actually be?

16. How many times must be cut to divide the stick into 12 parts?

17. The boy went to bed at 8 o'clock in the evening, and his favorite mechanical alarm clock set for 9:00 am. How many hours sleep would be a boy?

18. In the hands of 10 fingers. How many fingers on ten hands?

19. Is there on November 7 in Australia?

20. Some months end on the 30 th and 31 th of. In what month is the 28th number?

21. Father and son fell into a catastrophe. His father died, the son was in the hospital. To him in the house of a surgeon, and said: "This is my son." Could this actually be?

Answers:

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These riddles (or jokes, or whatever they are) are decades old. The only thing that improves them here is that when translated from English into Russian and back into English, they become little surreal koans instead.

Vladilav wrote:
2. What can be lowered and raised, and at the same time does not move from their seats?
Answer: Low

This one is really priceless.

7. If you take two apples from three that you have left?
Answer: two apples

The original here is "if you take two apples from three apples, how many do you have?" It relies on the fact that if you take apples, you're in possession of them, so you have them; if you translate it as "have left", it doesn't work at all.

19. Is there on November 7 in Australia?
Answer: There is also the 8th and 9th...

I was going to explain what went wrong here, but really, it's much funnier this way.

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I'm so used to going to Russian and back, these all made perfect sense. As in, I didn't even try to analyze that there might be something off about the phrasing here. Hoo, boy...

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