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Which word can you add to each of these words (either at the start or end) to make 4 new words?

ONE
ACT
KIND
SPA

Answer

RED.

There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle.
How many ducks are there?

Answer

Three ducks.

What is black and white but also a bear?

Answer

Panda bear

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
What did you eat?

Answer

An ear of corn.

If some persons can do a piece of work in 80 days. In how many days two times the number of such persons will do the half of that work?

Answer

20 days.

f the persons can do the work in 80 days, means the work requires the input of 80 man-days. If 2 such mens are engaged they will do the same work in 80 man-days/2 men = 40 days. If half the work needs to be completed it will be done in 40/2 = 20 days.

If "M" means "-", "N" means "/", "O" means "+", and "P" means "*"; then find the value of the following:

21 N 7 O 9 P 10 M 13

Answer

80
(21 / 7) + (9 * 10) - 13 = 3 + 90 - 13 = 80

The total cost of a pen and a pencil is Rs. 11. The pen costs Rs.10 more than the pencil.
What are the costs of pen and pencil individually?

Answer

The pencil cost 0.50 and the pen cost 10.50, giving the total cost of 11 and the pen cost 10 more than the pencil.

If you give me, i can be divided.
If you pay me, i can be stolen.
But if you intrigue me, i remain undivided.
What am I?

Answer

Attention.

Shot two arrows at its center and missed both times, swung a sword once at its center and hit twice.
What is it?

Answer

Any object with a hole in the center, including a doughnut, a bagel, a ring, or a tire.

Since these have holes in the center, shooting arrows at the center would hit nothing, but swinging a sword would hit it twice.

I am a solitary word.
If I lose my first letter, I remain the same.
If I lose my first letter again, I still remain the same.
What am I?

Answer

Alone.

Tread on the living, they utter not a mumble.
Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
What are they?

Answer

Leaves

When you step on them, they are silent if they’re alive but noisy if they’re dead.

You are driving your niece to a birthday party, and she is bringing a floating balloon filled with helium. When you make a sharp left turn, you both shift to the right. If we assume the windows are closed,
which way does the balloon shift?

Answer

The balloon sways to the left, unlike you and your niece. This is because:

Inertia causes everything in the car to move to the right (relative to the car) when the car turns left.
The helium-filled balloon is lighter than the air around it, so the air has greater inertia. So the all the air shifts to the right and displaces the balloon to the left.