1. 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.)
2. Electric trains don't have smoke
3. Roosters don't lay eggs
4. Potatoes grow underground
5. Yes
6. One
7. All of them (12)
8. The beggar is her sister.
9. He can't be buried if he isn't dead.
10. 6
11. No - because he is dead.
12. They aren't playing each other.
13. 70
14. White. The house is at the North Pole so it is a polar bear.
15. 2 (You are taking them)
16. 50 cent piece and a nickel. (The other one is a nickel)
17. The match.
18. Half way. Then he is running out of the woods.
19. 1 Hour
20. 9
21. None - Noah took them on the ark.
22. Meat
23. 12
24. Same as it is now.
25. Aptitude
26. Incorrectly.
27. None, the boat rises with the tide.
28. No. It was not known as B.C. back then. How would they know there was going to be a Christ years later?
29. 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.
30. Survivors aren't buried
31. 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...
32. The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
33. An umbrella.
34. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
35. The temperature. Alternate answers: stairs, television volume.
36. The years are in B.C., not A.D. as you probably assumed. Based on the system we use to number the years, the years counted down in B.C. (but they weren't counting backwards back then.)
37. A bed.
38. B-R-E-A-D. It is toast when it comes out.
39. House numbers. Each digit costs 15 cents.
40. It's impossible to dig a half of a hole. Either you have a hole, or you don't.
41. The letter E.
42. A coffin
43. The child was born before 1776
44. Mount Everest, it just hadn't been discovered!
45. Clara lives in the southern hemisphere.
46. World War I wasn't called "World War I" until World War II.
47. The word "and".
48. They fall in the same year every year.
49. The lady was a Justice of the Peace.
50. One thousand nine hundred and ninety dollar bills are worth one dollar more than one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollar bills.
51. Only once, then you are subtracting it from 20.
52. An hour and a half IS 90 minutes.
53. "one word"
54. Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow.
55. You have to take a picture of a man with a camera, not with a wooden leg.
56. They were husband and wife.
57. Before the game, the score is always 0-0.
58. Concrete floors are hard to crack
59. Envelope.
60. None. Pigs do not talk.
61. It wont run at all until you wind it the first time.
62. 9 family members total. 6 daughters, 1 brother, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith.
63. You overtook the second runner and took their place, therefore you're coming second.
64. It's obviously Marie!
65. Any animal. A house can't jump.
66. On the head.
67. The question says that you are the driver. Don't you know your own name?
68. Quit imagining.
69. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
70. The rope isn't tied to anything!
71. None. If their names are in the phone directory, they do not have unlisted phone numbers.
72. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
73. Edam cheese ("made" backwards).
74. The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
75. The farmer's load was heavier. His hired help only carried two sacks, both empty, while the farmer carries one sack, but his sack is a sack of grain.
76. He was born in the hospital with the room number 1955.
77. The outside of the Cat of course!
78. None. A pear tree does not bear plums.
79. He just has to open his mouth and ask.
80. If you only move half the distance, then you will always have half the distance remaining no matter how small the number.
81. Four. Four were killed and the noise of the gun scared the rest of them away.
82. 19 years.
83. Few. Add two letters, "er" and you get "fewer".
84. He was completely bald. (Alternate answer: He was walking on his hands.)
85. Absolutely zero. If three packages are correctly labeled, the fourth is also correctly labeled.
86. Ton.
87. Only 1...the "last brick" you put in will "complete it."
88. Four miles. They ran in opposite directions.
89. Friday is the name of his horse.
90. The queen is not elected.
91. One entered at 7AM the other at 7PM. Alternate answer: It is a set of toy trains, so one passes one after another. That shouldn't take over a minute.
92. 0. I bet you all got your calculator out for this one.
93. 1. After that, it is not empty anymore.
94. Sixth, sixes, or sixty.
95. Wet.
96. Mine.
97. When they meet, they are both at the same spot. Therefore, they are both the same distance from NYC.
98. He simply holds the egg higher than two feet and then releases the egg. The first two feet it will fall without breaking.
99. It is a one story house, so there are no stairs.
100. Hopefully, you are. Humans are primates, too.
101. The dictionary.
102. Heat. Anyone can catch a cold.
103. Nowhere.
104. He was walking.
105. The venetian blinds that were ordered for the windows.106.
He waits until night time and then goes through
the first
door. Alternate answers include waiting for the
dragon to fall asleep or using a fire
extinguisher on the dragon.
107. You can't shorten the process of egg-hatching
by
increasing the number of chickens. Therefore, 30 hens
will
also need 18 days to hatch their eggs.
109. It does not really matter. They all
speak French.
110. You spell IT with the letters I T.
111. If you said $1.00, you would be wrong, as
the total
would then be $11.00. The correct answer is fifty cents.
112.
A normal person would pull the drain plug.
113.
The third one. If he died on an earlier one, there would not have been
any more.
114. Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether you are doing simple things in a complicated way.
115. Wrong answer: Open the refrigerator,
put in the
elephant and close the refrigerator. Correct answer: Open
the refrigerator, take out of the giraffe, put in the
elephant
and close the door. This tests your prudence.
116. The elephant. It's still in the
refrigerator. This tests whether you have comprehensive thinking.
117. Simply swim through it. All the crocodiles
are attending the Animal Meeting.