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Some Mental Exercises

1. What is the longest month?
2. Where do you find a no-legged dog?
3. What letter of the alphabet is usually left out in codes, but can still be used in the codes?
4. Who went into the lion’s den and came out alive?
5. How can you throw a ball a few feet and have it stop and come back to you?
6. Two sets of different footprints that were stepped in only once led to the edge of a very high sheer cliff and stopped. What could have happened to the two people since no bodies were found below?
7. How many seconds are there in a year?
8. I can wheel something in a wheelbarrow that you can’t wheel back—what is it?
9. What is the only day of the week that does not end in ‘y’?
10. Why are two little animals alone in a boat in the middle of the ocean?
11. Why has no one ever climbed the largest known extinct volcano?
12. What do you call a fly with no wings?
13. “I am” is the shortest sentence; what is the longest?
14. How many grooves are there on a standard 12 inch 33&1/3 record album? (approximately)
15. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?


Clues: 1. What is the longest day of the year? 6. They didn’t go over the cliff. 7. There are two answers. 9. It’s not yesterday. 10. It has to do with the ark. 11. It is not under the ocean. 13. There is another meaning to “sentence”.


(Also, I put a "Being" pyramid in one of the other forums. The challenge is to find it.)