2. How could a person take five from one?
3. What weighs more, a ton of steel or a ton of cotton?
4. How many feet are there in a field containing a farmer, fifty sheep, four cows, nine horses, two cats, three dogs, seven pigs, and eight mice?
5. What has a tail that never wags?
6. What type of ring is always square?
7. What can be broken with a single word?
8. How could a person divide four potatoes among five people?
9. What could a person give away, but still keep?
10. How is a fire like thirst?
11. What could a person hold in their right hand that they couldn't hold in their left hand?
12. When the living are walked on, they barely make a sound, but when the dead are walked on, they raise quite a racket. What might they be?
13. How is a tadpole like a penny?
14. What grows bigger and bigger the more people take away from it?
15. Why couldn't it rain for two days in a row?
16. Which food stays hot for the longest time in the refrigerator?
17. They aren't your brother or sister, but are still your parents' child. Who might they be?
18. It has two hands, but no fingers, and stands still, but runs. What might it be?
19. How is the letter T like an island?
20. Which question can never be answered, "Yes"?
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1. A hole.
2. By either taking their five toes from one sock, or their five fingers from one glove.
3. Both weigh the same.
4. Only two. The rest have hooves, trotters, or paws.
5. A shirt.
6. A boxing ring.
7. Silence.
8. By either mashing them or making French fries.
9. A cold.
10. A little water will end them both.
11. Their left elbow.
12. Leaves.
13. It has a head on one end and a tail on the other.
14. A hole in the ground.
15. Because there is a night in between.
16. The chili powder.
17. You.
18. A watch.
19. Because it's always in the middle of water.
20. "Are you asleep?"
