3 grain silos have the following capacity:
A: 8 kilos
B: 5 kilos
C: 3 kilos
A is full, B and C are empty. Can you put 4 kilos in silo A and 4 kilos in silo B and leave silo C empty, without weighing any?

A B C
8 0 0
5 0 3
5 3 0
2 3 3
2 5 1
7 0 1
7 1 0
4 1 3
4 4 0

Yes, I love
Rome in the
the springtime.
What is incorrect about the above
sentence?

‘the’ is repeated twice

How far can you walk into the woods?

Half way, then you are walking out of the woods.

When a friend came to stay recently, I knocked on her door one morning and asked her a question. She said 'Yes', so I knew she was lying. What was my question?

‘Are you asleep?’ 

What is the capital of Australia?

A

Gina was out in her garden trying to move a 5kg watering can that was filled with water. She put something in the container and then it weighed 4kg less. What did she put in the can?

A hole

What is black and white and read all over?

A newspaper

A man is walking in a forest. He walks down a path and sees a dead scuba diver. The forest is also burnt. How did the scuba diver get there? How did he die? Clue: 1) He did not walk there. 2) The
fire did not burn him in any way. 3) There is a lake nearby. 4) The man that found the dead body has nothing to do with the death.

An airplane scooped up water to fight the forest fire and accidentally scooped up the scuba diver as well.

What one-syllable word can be transformed into a three-syllable word by adding only one letter?

Are. By adding an "a" it becomes area, a three-syllable word.

What insect can be spelt with just one letter?

Bee

Gina and Michael are found lying on the floor, dead, in a puddle of water and broken glass. What happened?

Gina & Michael were goldfish and their bowl was knocked to the floor.

You are visiting a  new town and need a haircut. There are only two barbers in town.You visit
each shop. One is disorganized and messy and the barber has a horrible haircut. The other one is neat and tidy and the barber has a wonderful haircut. Which barber would you choose and why?

Go to the barber with the disorganized shop. He probably gave the neat barber his beautiful haircut!

A truck approaches  a low railroad trestle and stops. The driver sees that his truck is about 2cm higher
than the height of the underpass. This is the only road going to his destination.What can he do
to get through the underpass?

He can let out enough air from his tyres to allow him to pass through the underpass. Then on the other side of the underpass he can add air back into the tires.

A man kisses his wife goodbye and leaves his house, heading for work. About 20 minutes from home
he sees a car crash and knows that his wife is dead. How can he be so sure?

He is the ambulance driver.

A man falls 50 metres without a parachute. He flips upside down six times and lands safely on the ground. How does he do this?

He was riding on a roller coaster.

Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?

Quit Imagining! 

A man rides to town on Saturday, stays two nights, and then rides home on Wednesday. How does this happen? (And yes, he definitely stays two nights!!)

It took two nights to actually ride into town.

An executive went on a business trip. Before he left he asked his secretary to forward his mail. But
he forgot to give her his mailbox key. When he realized this, he mailed the key to his office so the secretary could send his mail to him. But she never did. The executive got angry and phoned
his office. However, the secretary was able to explain why she had not sent his mail. What was
the explanation?

She reminded him that his key was safely locked inside the mailbox that it unlocks. After all, he did mail it there. 

How much dirt is in a hole that is 30 cm. wide and 3 m. deep?

none it’s a hole

A taxi driver went down a one-way street the wrong way in front of a police department without getting a ticket. How did she do this?

She was walking.

I have on a piece of paper the winning numbers in next week's Lotto jackpot. I am an avid
gambler, yet I feel I have very little chance of winning. Why?

One has to choose six numbers from 60 for the lotto jackpot. My piece of paper contains all 60 numbers, so it must contain the winning numbers. 

A policeman was standing  Outside a bar when he heard someone scream from inside, 'No Frank, don't do it'. Then there was a gunshot. The policeman ran inside the bar, saw a dead body on the floor, a gun on the floor, and a lawyer, a doctor, and a mailman standing around. The policeman immediately arrested the mailman. How did he know who did it?

The lawyer and the doctor were both women. So when he walked in he remember someone scream `No Frank don’t do it`and Frank is a guys name. The MailMAN was the only guy there.

A woman went into a café, took a seat and ordered a fruit salad and cappuccino. "Ah," said the waiter, "You must be a policewoman." How did he know?

She was wearing a uniform.

What 5-letter English word does not change in pronunciation even when you take away 4 of its letters?

Queue

A boxer left the ring after winning the world championship. His trainer took all the money and
the boxer never got a cent. Why not?

The boxer was a dog that had just won the championship at a dog show.

Think of words ending in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word?

The answer is `language`.

A farmer has to get a sack of corn, a chicken, and a fox across a river. The farmer is only able
to bring one of the items along with him at a time. The only problem is if he leaves the fox alone with
the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken, and if he leaves the chicken with the corn, the chicken will
eat the corn. How does the farmer get all 3 items across safely?

The farmer brings the chicken across. Goes back and brings the fox across, and brings the chicken back with him to the other side of the river and drops off the chicken, then he goes and brings the corn sack across, and finally he goes back for the chicken and brings it across.

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

The letter ‘m’

A man is lying dead with a backpack on, face down in the desert. What happened?

The man jumped out of a plane over a desert, but his parachute failed to open. 

A man dies of thirst in his own home. How is This possible?

The man lives in a house boat, and is in the middle of the ocean with no fresh water around.

A man decides to quit his job, so he turns off the lights, and walks out of the room, and 200 people die. Why do 200 people die?

The man worked at a lighthouse, and when he turned off the lights, an on coming ship with 200 passengers couldn’t see so they crashed and died.

An art expert went to a sale and bought a picture he knew to be worthless.  Why?

The picture was worthless but the frame was worth a lot.

A horse is tied to a 15 metre rope and there is a bale of hay 25 metres away from him. Yet the horse is able to eat from the bale of hay. How is this possible?

The rope isn’t tied to anything.

King hunting with his two sons decides to have some fun. He tells them to race back to the castle. The
one whose horse is last to reach the castle will inherit it all. However, if they do not arrive back by nightfall, he will keep the kingdom another year. The sons agree, but soon find themselves
wandering aimlessly, and realize they will never make it back in time. Suddenly one of the sons has an idea and they both race back to the castle as fast as they can. The idea was?

The son who has the idea says” if we change horses, then we will make it back in time” (by changing horses they are going to race as fast as they can, so the horse that loses will be the winner – therefore the rider that gets back first will have won.)

There was a train with exactly 87 people on board (including the conductor and driver). The train crashed and no one died, but on the police list, it said two dead. How is this so?

The two dead are not humans, they are animals.

Two high-speed trains are charging at a speed of 250 kph, on the same track, coming from opposite directions. They leave at the same time and continue at the same speed. The two trains never touch...how is that possible?

The two trains begin back-to-back and charge the track away from each other.

A man throws a baseball about twenty metres when it turns around and returns to the man. The man catches it easily. How is this possible?

Then man throws the ball straight up into the air and then catches it when it falls back down. 

Count the number of 'F's in the following text: Finished files are the result of years of scientific study
combined with the experience of years.

There are 6. The brain cannot process ‘of’. Anyone who counted 6 on the first go are a genius- 3 is normal, 4 is rare.

Lord Fulajunk recounted a hunting trip to some friends. `I was deep in a jungle in
Congo. The air was thick, sweat dripped from my brow and my fellow hunters had
decided to return to camp. But I was determined to continue. Suddenly, I heard a
noise behind me. As I reeled around, I shot a huge tiger dead as it leapt to devour me!
That is how I got that fine trophy you see on my wall. 'Nonsense!' cried Baron Knowital, 'Your story is a
lie!' How did Baron Knowital know this?

There are no tigers in Congo, which is in Africa. Tigers are from India.

How many peas in a pod?

There is 1 “p” in “pod”

An electric train is travelling at 100 kmph. The wind is blowing in an easterly direction at 25 kmph.
Which way is the smoke from the train blowing? 

There is no smoke. It is an electric train.

There was a murder in my front yard. The neighbours saw it but the police weren't called. The best detectives in the world wouldn't find a body. What happened?

There were ravens on the front yard. A group of ravens are called a Murder

Two men were found dead in a cabin on the top of a hill. How did they die?

They were in a plane cabin and the plane crashed.

Two men, David and John, fought a duel with guns. Each shot their opponent in the head, but neither John nor David died. How is this possible?

They were not dueling with each other

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

We don’t even know the answer to this one!

A cat had three kittens, Mopsy, Flopsy and Spot. What was the mother's name?

What

Tom parked his taxi in front of the man that had flagged him down. Russell c Tom, "I'll be having the time of my life at 362 Ocean Drive," replied a cheery Russell. Tom said nothing as he drove to 362 Ocean Drive. "I'll tell you what", said Russell, "I won't be too long, you can swing by in a couple of hours to pick me up". At that point Tom pulled out a gun and shot Russell, dead. What was Tom's motive?

Two men are sitting opposite each other in a railway carriage and they are the only passengers in the carriage. The window is open and the train travels through a tunnel. When it emerges from the tunnel, one of the men has a very dirty face and the other has not. The man with the clean face however is the only one who goes for a wash. Why is this?

When the train emerges from the tunnel the man with the dirty face does not notice a change. The man with the clean face sees the other passenger has a dirty face assumes his must be dirty as well and goes for a wash.

A woman was sitting in her hotel room when there was a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said, "Oh I'm sorry. I have made a mistake.I thought this was my room." He then went off down the corridor to the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security to have the man apprehended. What made the woman so suspicious of the man?

She reasoned that if really thought that it was his room, he would have used his key instead of knocking on the door. In fact, he knocked in order to check whether anyone was in the room before using a pass key to enter and burgle the rooms.