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Mr. Jones and His Son Alfred Are Travelling Together When Their Aeroplane

The document contains 24 riddles or brain teasers with answers. Some examples include: 1. A man is looking at a photo of himself despite having no siblings. 2. A surgeon cannot operate on his own son Alfred in the emergency room, revealing the patient's mother. 3. A secret that is shared is no longer a secret. The riddles cover a variety of topics and puzzles involving logic, wordplay, and lateral thinking.

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Mr. Jones and His Son Alfred Are Travelling Together When Their Aeroplane

The document contains 24 riddles or brain teasers with answers. Some examples include: 1. A man is looking at a photo of himself despite having no siblings. 2. A surgeon cannot operate on his own son Alfred in the emergency room, revealing the patient's mother. 3. A secret that is shared is no longer a secret. The riddles cover a variety of topics and puzzles involving logic, wordplay, and lateral thinking.

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https://icebreakerideas.

com/brain-teasers/#Brain_Teasers_for_Kids

1. A man is looking at a photograph when someone asks him "Whose


picture is that?"The man replies "I have no brothers or sisters, but this
man's father is my father's son"Whose photo is the man looking at?
HIMSELF

2. Mr. Jones and his son Alfred are travelling together when their aeroplane
crashes. The father is killed, and Alfred is seriously injured. Arriving at the
hospital emergency room, the head surgeon cries "I cannot operate on this
patient, he's my son Alfred!"How can you explain this? MOTHER

3. When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do
share me, you do not have me. SECRET

4. A train leaves London for Edinburgh. an hour later another train leaves
Edinburgh for London. The two trains travel at exactly the same speed.
Which of the two will be closest to London when they meet? SAME TIME

5. What has a face and two hands but cannot clap? CLOCK

6. What belongs to you but yet is used more by others than yourself? NAME

7. Mike is a butcher. He is 5’10” tall. What does he weigh? MEAT

8. A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left? 9

9. In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many
months have 28 days? 12

10. Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She
named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is
the name of the fourth child? JIMMY

11. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in
the world? MT EVEREST

12. What word becomer shorter when you add two letters? SHORT

13. What is full of holes but can still hold water? SPONGE

14. A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every
day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th
floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the
afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the
stairs for the remaining five floors. Why? TOO SHORT

15. A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they
bury the survivors? NOWHERE
16. What is always coming but never arrives? TOMORROW

17. What gets wetter the more it dries? A TOWEL

18. What has to be broken before you can use it? AN EGG

19. I´m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for more
than 5 minutes? YOUR BREATH

20. What can be broken even without a touch? A PROMISE OR SILENCE

21. What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day? E

22. Who makes it doesn’t need it, who buys it doesn’t use it, who uses it
doesn’t know it. COFFIN

23. What invention allows you to walk through walls? DOOR

24. What can taste better than it can smell? TONGUE

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