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[one] I am taken
from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never
released, and yet I am used by almost all children.
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| [two] What goes
round the house and in the house but never touches the house?
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| [three]What is it
that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
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| [four]What walks
all day on its head? Answer |
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[five]What gets
wet when it's drying? Answer |
| [six]What appears
once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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[seven] What is
round as a frying pan, deep as a bathtub, and still all the oceans in the world couldn't
fill it up? Answer |
| [eight]There were
five men going to church and it started to rain. The four men who ran
got wet and the one that remained still stayed dry.
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[nine]The more
you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
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| [ten]He who has
it doesn't tell about it. He who takes it doesn't know about it. He who knows about it
doesn't want it. What is it? Answer |
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[eleven]Brothers
and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son.
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| [twelve]Who spends
the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at
night? Answer |
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[thirteen]I fasten it
and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. Answer |
| [fourteen]What goes
round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?
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[fifteen]I went to
the city and I stopped there. I never worked there, and then I came back
again. Answer |
| [sixteen]I have a
little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows,
and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.
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[seventeen]Almost immediately after
the father came into this world, the son was seen dancing on
the roof. Answer |
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[eighteen]There are
four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first
runs and never gets tired. The second eats and is never full. The third
drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never
finished. Answer |
| [nineteen]A cloud was
my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my
daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my
final resting place, and I can be a nuisance to people.
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| [twenty]Poke your
fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Cloth, leather,
cardboard or paper, I greedily devour them all.
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Pencil lead back
My son back
The bark of a tree back
The sun back
Water, fire, earth back
Your word back
Rain back
The letter M back
A fly back
Counterfeit (fake) money back
A watch back
Scissors
back to Number 20
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A nail in a horseshoe back
Fire (father) and smoke (son) back
Dead body in coffin carried by four pall-bearers back
A towel back
A sandal back
Footsteps back
A sieve back
A chick in an egg back