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What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

✨ Time to get the clock fixed
L2 · joke
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What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?

What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?

✨ It's a kind of tree A palm tree of course
L3 · joke
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What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

✨ Lunch and dinner
L2 · joke
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What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

Hint: What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Ca…

✨ Australia was always the biggest island in the world, even before it was discovered
L3 · brain teaser
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What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Hint: What word can be written forward…

✨ NOON
L3 · brain teaser
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What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

✨ Alphabet
L2 · what am i
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What word doesn't belong in this group?

What word doesn’t belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?

Hint: What word doesn’t belong in this group…

✨ What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme
L2 · logic
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What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

Hint: The word itself is the answer.

✨ Incorrectly
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What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds

What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds the same as the first?

Hint: What word starting with BR…

✨ Braking becomes Breaking
L3 · brain teaser
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When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

✨ Look at a clock When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock
L3 · brain teaser
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When I am young I am tall

When I am young I am tall. When I am old I am short. What can I be?

✨ Fire A Candle
L1 · what am i
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When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark

When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I?

✨ A Light Switch
L2 · what am i
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When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height

When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?

Hint: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark hi…

✨ The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops
L3 · brain teaser
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When they are caught, they are thrown away

When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day. What are they?

Hint: When they are caught…

✨ Fleas
L1 · what am i
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When you stop and look, you can always see me

When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?

Hint: When you stop and look…

✨ I am the horizon
L2 · what am i
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Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

✨ The North Pole
L2 · logic
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Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Hint: Where will you find roads without cars…

✨ On a Map
L2 · what am i
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Which bird does not belong in this group?

Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?

Hint: Which bird does not belong in this group…

✨ The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly
L1 · logic
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Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can b

Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.

Hint: Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a…

✨ Peru: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil
L3 · brain teaser
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Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white,”or “The yolk of the egg is white?

Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white,”or “The yolk of the egg is white?“

Hint: Which is correct to say…

✨ Neither, because egg yolks are yellow
L2 · joke
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