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1. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
9.
2. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?
A secret.
3. A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he's bankrupt. Why?
He's playing Monopoly.
4. How many months have 28 days?
All 12.
5. Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter's name?
Mary.
6. You're running a race and pass the person in second place. What place are you in?
Second.
7. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Your left elbow.
8. What has cities but no people, roads but no cars, rivers but no water?
A map.
9. A rooster lays an egg on the peak of a barn roof. Which way does it roll?
Roosters don't lay eggs.
10. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
Two: the ones you took.
11. Two fathers and two sons go fishing and each catches one fish. They bring home three fish. How?
They are a grandfather, father and son.
12. What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
The future.
13. A doctor gives you three pills and says take one every half hour. How long until they're gone?
One hour (now, at 30 minutes and at 60 minutes).
14. Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither; both weigh a pound.
15. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven (remove the S: even).
16. A girl was 10 on her last birthday and will be 12 on her next birthday. How?
Today is her 11th birthday.
17. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
He sleeps at night.
18. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg.
19. What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo.
20. A boat has a ladder with 10 rungs over the side. The tide rises 1 rung an hour. How many rungs are underwater after 5 hours?
The same number as before; the boat rises with the tide.