743 lines
27 KiB
JavaScript
743 lines
27 KiB
JavaScript
module.exports = [
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{
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question: "I have cities, but no houses live there. I have mountains, but no trees grow there. I have water, but no fish swim there. I have roads, but no cars drive there. What am I?",
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answers: ["map", "a map"],
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hint: "You use me to navigate and find your way around."
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},
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{
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question: "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?",
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answers: ["footsteps", "steps", "footprints", "footprint"],
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hint: "Think about what you leave on the ground when you walk."
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},
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{
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question: "What has hands but cannot clap?",
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answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch"],
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hint: "It tells you something important every day."
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},
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{
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question: "What has to be broken before you can use it?",
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answers: ["egg", "an egg"],
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hint: "You might have it scrambled or sunny-side up for breakfast."
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},
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{
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question: "I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?",
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answers: ["echo", "an echo"],
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hint: "Shout in a canyon or large empty room and you will meet me."
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},
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{
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question: "What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?",
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answers: ["stamp", "a stamp", "postage stamp"],
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hint: "You stick me on an envelope before mailing it."
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},
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{
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question: "What has one eye but cannot see?",
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answers: ["needle", "a needle", "sewing needle"],
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hint: "Thread passes through my eye."
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},
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{
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question: "What gets wetter as it dries?",
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answers: ["towel", "a towel"],
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hint: "You use me after a shower or bath."
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},
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{
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question: "I have a head and a tail, but no body. What am I?",
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answers: ["coin", "a coin"],
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hint: "You might flip me to make a decision."
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},
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{
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question: "What has legs but cannot walk?",
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answers: ["table", "a table", "chair", "a chair", "desk", "a desk"],
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hint: "You eat your meals at one of these."
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},
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{
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question: "I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold me for more than five minutes. What am I?",
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answers: ["breath", "your breath", "breathing", "air"],
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hint: "You need me to survive every second of every day."
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},
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{
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question: "What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?",
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answers: ["piano", "a piano", "keyboard", "a keyboard"],
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hint: "You press my keys to make music."
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},
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{
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question: "What goes up but never comes down?",
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answers: ["age", "your age"],
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hint: "Everyone has it, and it only ever increases."
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},
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{
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question: "I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?",
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answers: ["future", "the future"],
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hint: "It is what has not happened yet."
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},
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{
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question: "What has teeth but cannot bite?",
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answers: ["comb", "a comb", "saw", "a saw", "zipper", "a zipper", "gear", "a gear"],
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hint: "You drag me through your hair to style it."
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},
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{
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question: "What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?",
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answers: ["river", "a river"],
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hint: "Water flows through me toward the sea."
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},
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{
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question: "What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?",
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answers: ["m", "the letter m", "letter m"],
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hint: "Look very carefully at the letters in the words of this riddle."
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},
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{
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question: "What building has the most stories?",
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answers: ["library", "a library"],
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hint: "You borrow books for free from here."
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},
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{
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question: "What word is always spelled incorrectly?",
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answers: ["incorrectly"],
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hint: "The answer is hiding inside the riddle itself."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?",
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answers: ["left hand", "your left hand", "left elbow", "your left elbow"],
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hint: "Think physically — what is literally impossible to hold in your right hand?"
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},
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{
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question: "I can fly without wings. I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?",
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answers: ["cloud", "a cloud", "rain cloud"],
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hint: "Look up at the sky on a stormy day."
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},
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{
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question: "What is full of holes but still holds water?",
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answers: ["sponge", "a sponge"],
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hint: "You might use me to wash dishes or a car."
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},
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{
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question: "What has words but never speaks?",
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answers: ["book", "a book"],
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hint: "You read me for stories, knowledge, or entertainment."
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},
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{
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question: "If you drop me I am sure to crack, but smile at me and I will always smile back. What am I?",
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answers: ["mirror", "a mirror"],
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hint: "You look at your reflection in me."
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},
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{
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question: "What invention lets you look right through a wall?",
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answers: ["window", "a window"],
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hint: "Homes and buildings have me in every room."
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},
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{
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question: "I am tall when I am young, and short when I am old. What am I?",
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answers: ["candle", "a candle"],
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hint: "I melt as I give off light and warmth."
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},
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{
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question: "What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?",
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answers: ["silence"],
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hint: "It is the complete absence of sound."
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},
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{
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question: "The more there is, the less you see. What am I?",
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answers: ["darkness", "dark", "fog"],
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hint: "It appears when light disappears."
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},
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{
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question: "I have no life, but I can die. What am I?",
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answers: ["battery", "a battery"],
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hint: "You recharge me or replace me in your phone or remote."
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},
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{
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question: "What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?",
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answers: ["road", "a road", "street", "a street"],
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hint: "Cars and trucks drive on me every day."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a neck but no head?",
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answers: ["bottle", "a bottle"],
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hint: "You pour liquids into and out of me."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you catch but cannot throw?",
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answers: ["cold", "a cold", "the flu", "flu"],
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hint: "You might get me from someone who sneezes near you."
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},
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{
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question: "What has 13 hearts but no other organs?",
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answers: ["deck of cards", "a deck of cards", "deck", "cards"],
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hint: "You play poker and solitaire with me."
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},
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{
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question: "I have cities, mountains, and water, but no living things. You can hold the entire world in your hands with me. What am I?",
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answers: ["globe", "a globe"],
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hint: "I am a round model of the Earth."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a ring but no finger?",
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answers: ["telephone", "a telephone", "phone", "a phone"],
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hint: "You pick me up and answer when someone calls."
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},
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{
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question: "I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?",
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answers: ["bank", "a bank"],
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hint: "You deposit and withdraw money here."
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},
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{
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question: "What can fill a room but takes up no space?",
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answers: ["light", "sunlight"],
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hint: "It comes from the sun and lets you see."
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},
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{
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question: "The more you feed me, the more I grow, but give me water and I will die. What am I?",
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answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"],
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hint: "I produce heat and light and consume fuel."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a bottom at the top?",
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answers: ["leg", "a leg", "legs"],
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hint: "You have two of these below your hips."
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},
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{
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question: "I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. I do not have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?",
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answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame"],
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hint: "A bucket of water is my worst enemy."
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},
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{
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question: "What has four wheels and flies?",
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answers: ["garbage truck", "a garbage truck", "rubbish truck"],
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hint: "It comes by your house weekly to collect trash."
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},
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{
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question: "I go around all the places but always stay in the corner. What am I?",
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answers: ["stamp", "a stamp", "postage stamp"],
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hint: "You lick me and stick me on an envelope."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?",
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answers: ["promise", "a promise", "silence"],
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hint: "It is something you give your word about."
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},
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{
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question: "What is always coming but never arrives?",
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answers: ["tomorrow", "the future"],
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hint: "It is the day after today, forever."
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},
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{
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question: "What has an eye in the center but cannot see?",
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answers: ["hurricane", "a hurricane", "tornado", "a tornado", "storm"],
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hint: "It is a powerful spinning weather system."
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},
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{
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question: "I can be cracked, I can be made, I can be told, I can be played. What am I?",
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answers: ["joke", "a joke"],
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hint: "You tell one when you want to make someone laugh."
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},
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{
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question: "What gets bigger when you take more away from it?",
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answers: ["hole", "a hole"],
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hint: "Dig in the ground and you will make one."
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},
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{
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question: "What has two hands, a round face, always runs but stays in place?",
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answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch"],
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hint: "It hangs on the wall or sits on a shelf."
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},
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{
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question: "I have no wings, but I can fly. I have no eyes, but I can cry. What am I?",
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answers: ["cloud", "a cloud"],
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hint: "Look up in the sky and you will see me."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you keep after giving it to someone?",
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answers: ["word", "your word", "promise", "knowledge"],
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hint: "Think about something intangible you give in conversation."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a face but no eyes, nose, or mouth?",
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answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch", "coin", "a coin"],
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hint: "You check it to know what time it is."
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},
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{
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question: "I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?",
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answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"],
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hint: "I am hot and dangerous to touch."
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},
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{
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question: "What goes up when rain comes down?",
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answers: ["umbrella", "an umbrella"],
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hint: "You carry me to stay dry in a storm."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a spine but no bones?",
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answers: ["book", "a book"],
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hint: "You read stories and information inside me."
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},
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{
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question: "What two things can you never eat for breakfast?",
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answers: ["lunch and dinner", "lunch or dinner"],
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hint: "Think about meals you eat later in the day."
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},
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{
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question: "What is cut on the table but is never eaten?",
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answers: ["deck of cards", "a deck of cards", "cards"],
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hint: "You shuffle and deal me in a card game."
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},
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{
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question: "What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?",
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answers: ["kangaroo", "a kangaroo"],
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hint: "This Australian animal carries its young in a pouch."
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},
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{
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question: "I am a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What am I?",
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answers: ["few", "the word few"],
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hint: "The answer is about a small number."
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},
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{
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question: "What can be seen in the middle of March and April but not at the beginning or end of either month?",
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answers: ["r", "the letter r"],
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hint: "Look very carefully at the letters in the month names."
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},
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{
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question: "What flies without wings?",
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answers: ["time", "money"],
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hint: "It passes whether you want it to or not."
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},
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{
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question: "What has one head, one foot, and four legs?",
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answers: ["bed", "a bed"],
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hint: "You sleep on this every night."
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},
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{
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question: "I have streets but no pavement, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?",
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answers: ["map", "a map"],
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hint: "You use me to find your way somewhere."
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},
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{
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question: "What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?",
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answers: ["future", "the future", "air"],
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hint: "It has not happened yet."
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},
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{
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question: "What runs around the whole yard without moving?",
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answers: ["fence", "a fence"],
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hint: "It borders and encloses outdoor spaces."
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},
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{
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question: "What can be touched but cannot be seen?",
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answers: ["air", "wind", "heart", "feelings"],
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hint: "You breathe it in with every breath."
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},
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{
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question: "What kind of band never plays music?",
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answers: ["rubber band", "a rubber band"],
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hint: "You stretch me around a stack of papers."
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},
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{
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question: "What has one clap but no hands?",
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answers: ["thunder", "thunderclap"],
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hint: "It booms loudly during a storm."
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},
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{
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question: "I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?",
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answers: ["feather", "a feather"],
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hint: "I float gently when you drop me."
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},
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{
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question: "What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you do not want to use it?",
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answers: ["anchor", "an anchor"],
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hint: "Ships drop me to stay in place."
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},
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{
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question: "What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?",
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answers: ["post office", "the post office"],
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hint: "You mail packages and letters from here."
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},
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{
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question: "What question can you never answer yes to?",
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answers: ["are you asleep", "are you asleep yet", "are you dead"],
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hint: "If you could answer it, the answer would contradict itself."
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},
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{
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question: "What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?",
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answers: ["glove", "a glove"],
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hint: "You wear me on your hand in cold weather."
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},
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{
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question: "What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?",
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answers: ["blackboard", "a blackboard", "chalkboard", "a chalkboard"],
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hint: "Teachers write lessons on me in classrooms."
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},
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{
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question: "I start with E and end with E, but I only have one letter. What am I?",
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answers: ["envelope", "an envelope"],
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hint: "You seal a letter inside me before mailing it."
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},
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{
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question: "What has ears but cannot hear?",
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answers: ["corn", "cornfield", "a field of corn"],
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hint: "It is a tall yellow crop grown on farms."
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},
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{
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question: "I shrink smaller every time I do my job. What am I?",
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answers: ["pencil", "a pencil", "eraser", "an eraser", "soap", "bar of soap"],
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hint: "You write with me and I get shorter."
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},
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{
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question: "What runs all day but has no legs?",
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answers: ["water", "river", "faucet", "tap", "clock"],
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hint: "It comes out of your tap when you turn it on."
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},
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{
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question: "I am as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest person cannot hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?",
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answers: ["breath", "your breath"],
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hint: "You do it constantly without thinking about it."
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},
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{
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question: "What is orange and sounds like a parrot?",
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answers: ["carrot", "a carrot"],
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hint: "Bugs Bunny loves to munch on this vegetable."
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},
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{
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question: "What word contains all 26 letters?",
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answers: ["alphabet", "the alphabet"],
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hint: "It is a set of all the letters used in a language."
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},
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{
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question: "What has one horn and gives milk?",
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answers: ["milk truck", "a milk truck", "dairy truck"],
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hint: "It is a vehicle that delivers dairy products."
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},
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{
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question: "I can be long or short. I can be grown or bought. I can be painted or left bare. I can be round or square. What am I?",
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answers: ["nail", "a nail", "fingernail", "toenail"],
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hint: "They grow on the tips of your fingers and toes."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but is not a cat?",
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answers: ["kitten", "a kitten"],
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hint: "It is a baby cat."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you make but not see, feel but not touch?",
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answers: ["noise", "sound", "music", "decision"],
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hint: "Clap your hands and you create one."
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},
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{
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question: "What do you bury when it is alive and dig up when it is dead?",
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answers: ["plant", "a plant", "seed", "a seed"],
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hint: "It starts underground and grows upward."
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},
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{
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question: "I have a golden head and a golden tail, but no golden body. What am I?",
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answers: ["coin", "a coin", "gold coin"],
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hint: "You flip me to decide between two choices."
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},
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{
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question: "What room has no doors, no windows, no floors, and no roof?",
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answers: ["mushroom", "a mushroom"],
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hint: "It is a type of fungus you might put on pizza."
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},
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{
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question: "What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?",
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answers: ["teapot", "a teapot", "teapot"],
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hint: "You boil water and brew a warm drink in me."
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},
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{
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question: "I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?",
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answers: ["e", "the letter e"],
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hint: "I am a single letter of the alphabet."
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},
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{
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question: "What is seen in the middle of a river that is also in the middle of Paris?",
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answers: ["r", "the letter r"],
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hint: "Look at the letters in each of those words."
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},
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{
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question: "What is brown and sticky?",
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answers: ["stick", "a stick"],
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hint: "It falls from a tree and you might throw it for a dog."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you hold without ever touching it?",
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answers: ["conversation", "a conversation", "breath", "your breath"],
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hint: "Two people exchange it using their voices."
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},
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{
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question: "What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?",
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answers: ["coat of paint", "a coat of paint", "paint"],
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hint: "You apply it to a wall with a brush or roller."
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},
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{
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question: "What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?",
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answers: ["human", "a human", "man", "a man", "person"],
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hint: "Think about the stages of a human life."
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},
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{
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question: "I am lighter than air but a hundred people cannot lift me. What am I?",
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answers: ["bubble", "a bubble"],
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hint: "You blow me from soapy liquid."
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},
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{
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question: "What belongs to you but is used more by others?",
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answers: ["name", "your name"],
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hint: "Your parents gave it to you when you were born."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?",
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answers: ["glove", "a glove", "mitten"],
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hint: "You wear me on your hand to keep it warm."
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},
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{
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question: "What gets sharper the more you use it?",
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answers: ["brain", "your brain", "mind", "pencil", "knife"],
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hint: "It sits inside your skull and controls everything you do."
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},
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{
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question: "What can travel around the world in an instant but fits in a corner?",
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answers: ["stamp", "a stamp"],
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hint: "You put me on an envelope before posting it."
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},
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{
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question: "I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. What am I?",
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answers: ["mirror", "a mirror"],
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hint: "You look at your reflection in me every morning."
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},
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{
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question: "What is as old as the earth but is made new every month?",
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answers: ["moon", "the moon"],
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hint: "It orbits the Earth and changes shape in the night sky."
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},
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{
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question: "What is the end of everything?",
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answers: ["g", "the letter g"],
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hint: "Look at the last letter of the word everything."
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},
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{
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question: "What is black and white and red all over?",
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answers: ["newspaper", "a newspaper"],
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hint: "You read the daily news in me."
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},
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{
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question: "What goes up and down stairs without moving?",
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answers: ["carpet", "a carpet", "rug", "a rug"],
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hint: "It covers your floor and you walk on it."
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},
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{
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question: "What can be swallowed but can also swallow you?",
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answers: ["pride", "water", "ocean", "fear"],
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hint: "Too much of it can drown you."
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},
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{
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question: "What has a tongue but cannot taste?",
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answers: ["shoe", "a shoe", "boot", "a boot"],
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hint: "You wear me on your foot."
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},
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{
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question: "What is made of water but dies if water touches it?",
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answers: ["snowflake", "a snowflake", "ice", "snow"],
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hint: "It falls from the sky in winter and is made of frozen water."
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},
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{
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question: "What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never cries?",
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answers: ["river", "a river"],
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hint: "It flows from mountains toward the sea."
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},
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{
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question: "What is the longest word in the dictionary?",
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answers: ["smiles", "smiles because there is a mile between the s's"],
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hint: "Think creatively — there is a unit of distance hidden in it."
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},
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{
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question: "You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?",
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answers: ["e", "the letter e"],
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hint: "I am a single letter hiding in those month names."
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},
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{
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question: "What gets dressed and undressed twice a day?",
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answers: ["bed", "a bed"],
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hint: "You make it in the morning and unmake it at night."
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},
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{
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question: "I am always in your body but you never see me until I come out. What am I?",
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answers: ["blood", "sweat", "tears", "breath"],
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hint: "When you get a cut, I appear."
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},
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{
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question: "What has six faces but does not wear makeup, and twenty-one eyes but cannot see?",
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answers: ["die", "a die", "dice"],
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hint: "You roll me in board games to get a number."
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},
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{
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question: "What starts with a C, ends with a T, is cold, full of meat, and shaped like a cone?",
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answers: ["corndog", "corn dog", "ice cream cone with meat"],
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hint: "Actually, think of a pointed winter accessory."
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},
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{
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question: "What has many rings but no fingers?",
|
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answers: ["tree", "a tree"],
|
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hint: "Count my rings to know how old I am."
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},
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{
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question: "What can you catch but not throw?",
|
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answers: ["cold", "a cold", "illness", "disease"],
|
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hint: "You might get it from someone who is sick."
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},
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{
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question: "What do you find at the end of a rainbow?",
|
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answers: ["w", "the letter w"],
|
|
hint: "Look at the last letter of the word rainbow."
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},
|
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{
|
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question: "What is harder to catch the faster you run?",
|
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answers: ["breath", "your breath"],
|
|
hint: "After a sprint, you are out of it."
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|
},
|
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{
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question: "What has keys but cannot open locks, space but no room, and you can enter but you cannot go inside?",
|
|
answers: ["keyboard", "a keyboard", "computer keyboard"],
|
|
hint: "You type on me to write words on a screen."
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|
},
|
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{
|
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question: "What is orange, wears a green hat, and is very popular on Halloween?",
|
|
answers: ["pumpkin", "a pumpkin", "jack o lantern"],
|
|
hint: "People carve faces into me in October."
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},
|
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{
|
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question: "What do you call a snowman in summer?",
|
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answers: ["puddle", "a puddle", "water"],
|
|
hint: "That is what happens when snow melts."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What grows up while it grows down?",
|
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answers: ["goose", "a goose", "duck", "a duck"],
|
|
hint: "Actually, think of something with feathers added as it matures."
|
|
},
|
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{
|
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question: "I am a fruit. Remove my first letter and I become a crime. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["grape", "a grape"],
|
|
hint: "It is a small round fruit that grows in clusters."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What has a bottom at the top of a mountain?",
|
|
answers: ["footprint", "a footprint"],
|
|
hint: "Think about someone who climbed to the summit."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?",
|
|
answers: ["short", "the word short"],
|
|
hint: "Add -er to the end of this word."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can fill a house but takes up no space?",
|
|
answers: ["light", "sunlight", "air"],
|
|
hint: "It floods every room when you open the curtains."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "I wave but have no hands. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["flag", "a flag"],
|
|
hint: "I represent a country and blow in the wind."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What is big and hairy on the outside and wet and juicy on the inside?",
|
|
answers: ["coconut", "a coconut"],
|
|
hint: "It is a tropical fruit with white flesh inside."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What do you see once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?",
|
|
answers: ["e", "the letter e"],
|
|
hint: "Examine the letters in each of those time words."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What is wet when drying?",
|
|
answers: ["towel", "a towel", "cloth"],
|
|
hint: "You pat yourself with this after a bath."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter?",
|
|
answers: ["hole", "a hole"],
|
|
hint: "It would let all the water out."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up up it goes, and yet never grows?",
|
|
answers: ["mountain", "a mountain"],
|
|
hint: "Snow caps its peak and climbers attempt to reach its summit."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?",
|
|
answers: ["shadow", "an elephant's shadow", "elephant's shadow"],
|
|
hint: "It follows you everywhere on a sunny day."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["ton", "a ton"],
|
|
hint: "It is a unit of weight, and its reverse spells a word too."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can be measured but has no length, width, or height?",
|
|
answers: ["temperature", "time", "speed"],
|
|
hint: "A thermometer measures it."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "I look flat but I am deep. Hidden depths are inside of me. The longer you look, the more you will find. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["eyes", "your eyes", "an eye"],
|
|
hint: "Look into them to see what someone is feeling."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?",
|
|
answers: ["name", "your name"],
|
|
hint: "They say it when they want to get your attention."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can point in every direction but cannot reach the destination by itself?",
|
|
answers: ["finger", "a finger"],
|
|
hint: "You use it to indicate a direction or object."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?",
|
|
answers: ["same", "they weigh the same", "equal", "neither"],
|
|
hint: "Both are exactly one pound."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What has a lake with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings?",
|
|
answers: ["map", "a map"],
|
|
hint: "It is a flat representation of the world."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can you hold in your hand that is still around your head?",
|
|
answers: ["hat", "a hat"],
|
|
hint: "You wear it on your head to keep the sun or rain off."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["chick", "a chick", "baby bird", "egg"],
|
|
hint: "I hatch from an egg."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What has no beginning, end, or middle?",
|
|
answers: ["doughnut", "a doughnut", "circle", "a circle", "ring", "a ring"],
|
|
hint: "It is a round baked good with a hole in the center."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?",
|
|
answers: ["palm", "a palm tree", "palm tree"],
|
|
hint: "It is also the flat inside part of your hand."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What can travel at the speed of light but still have a shadow?",
|
|
answers: ["light", "a beam of light"],
|
|
hint: "Something that moves at light speed and creates darkness when blocked."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "I have an eye but cannot see, I am stronger than steel but fear the sun. What am I?",
|
|
answers: ["needle", "a needle", "sewing needle"],
|
|
hint: "You thread me and use me to sew fabric."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What stinks when living and smells good when dead?",
|
|
answers: ["pig", "a pig", "bacon"],
|
|
hint: "Think about something that becomes a delicious food after cooking."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
question: "What has three letters and starts with gas?",
|
|
answers: ["car", "automobile"],
|
|
hint: "It has an engine and four wheels."
|
|
}
|
|
];
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