Brain Teasers

These brain teasers will either make you feel really, really smart or really, really dumb.
When you're done, click the button at the bottom to see the answers.

• I have forests but no trees.
  I have lakes but no water.
  I have roads but no cars.
  What am I?


• When I’m first said, I’m quite mysterious,
  But when I’m explained, I’m nothing serious.
  What am I?


• I have keys without key locks.
  I have space without rooms.
  You can enter but you cannot go outside.
  What am I?


• Which seven-letter word contains dozens of letters?


• Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one.
  Michael J. Fox has a small one.
  The Pope has one but does not use it.
  Clinton uses his all the time.
  What is it?


• I have six faces and twenty-one eyes, yet I can not see.
  What am I?


• What is orange and sounds like a parrot?


• You use a knife to slice my head,
  And weep beside me when I’m dead.
  What am I?


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


• What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?


• Every night I’m told what to do,
  and each morning I do what I’m told.
  But I still don’t escape your scold.
  What am I?


• The person who makes it sells it.
  The person who buys it doesn’t use it.
  The person who uses it doesn’t know he is using it.
  What is it?


• What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?


• When you need me,
  You throw me away.
  But when you are done with me,
  You bring me back.
  What am I?


• I turn my head, and you may go where you want.
  I turn it again, and you’ll stay till you rot.
  I have no face, but I live or die.
  By my crooked teeth,
  Who am I?


• What gets wetter as it dries?


• When you have me, you want to share me.
  When you share me, you no longer have me.
  What am I?


• What can run, but never walks,
  Has a mouth, but never talks,
  a head, but never weeps,
  Has a bed, but never sleeps?


• Holes in the bottom, the left and the right.
  Yet it still holds water, with all its might.
  What is it?

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