> 1. There is one word in the English language that is
> always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
>
> 2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was
> given 15 cents. What time is it?
>
> 3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung
> is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from
> the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15
> minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the
> tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
>
> 4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces
> south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks
> by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
>
> 5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
>
> 6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There
> is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor.
> You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy?
> How did Sloppy die?
>
> 7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6
> feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
>
> 8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
> bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped
> another ball of the same weight, mass,and size in a
> bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time,
> which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?
> Same question, but the location is in Canada?
>
> 9. What is the significance of the following: The year is
> 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
>
> 10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down
> a chimney up? (hint... chim chimminy)
>
> 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4
> haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks
> would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
>
> 12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does
> not move?
>
>
> "Answers To Brain Teasers"
>
> 1. The word "incorrectly." {Almost cracked your
brain,
> didn't you?}
>
> 2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He
> divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave
> a quarter to two.
>
> 3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.
>
> 4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at
> the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
>
> 5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either,
> but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation,
> division is performed before addition. So... half of two
> is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
>
> 6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in,
> which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it
> broke, killing him. {Poor Sloppy.}
>
> 7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole:
> the absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36
> cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would
> have needed the length measurement too. So you
> don't even know how much air is in the hole.)
>
> 8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket
> of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last.
> Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is
> frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about
> that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no
> water (or ice) to slow the ball down...
>
> 9. The time and month/date/year American style
> calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
>
> 10. An umbrella.
>
> 11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all
> become one big stack.
>
> 12. The temperature.