Twenty Questions

Brain-teasers

Twenty Questions

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1. Pronounced as one letter but look and you’ll see that really it’s written with three. Read from both sides the same either way

Eye (10)

2. How many ready made words can you find inside the word GRANDMOTHER?

Grand, gran, ran, rand, an, and, mother, moth, other, he and her

(10)

3. Memory test

20 points

4. Fill in the missing letter in the following sequence

J_M A M J J A S O

(15 points)

5. Can a wife marry his brother’s wife’s mother in law?

No, you can’t marry your own mother

(5 points)

6. Translate the following

R|E|A|D

Read between the lines

(10 points)

7. Anagram worksheet (10 points)

8. Team wordsearch

20 points)

9. What are the fore mistake in this sentence (10 points)

Fore should be fourMistake should be mistakesNo question markThere are only three errors

10. Below you will find a number of words with only their endings remaining (15 points)

PencilBronzeCheeseDeluxeTattoo

Vacuum

11. Two boxers are in a boxing match. The match ends after six rounds after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. This is regular boxing but no man throws a punch. How is this possible? (15 points)

The boxers are female

12.What is the middle of nowhere?(5 points)

The letter H

13. In Oklahoma you cannot take a picture of a man with a sign. Why not? (10 points)

You can only take a picture of someone with a camera

14. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose three rooms. Room one is full of raging fires. Room two is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in three years. Which room is safest for him? (10 points)

Room three – the lions are dead

15. See paragraph (20 points)

There is no letter e in the piece of text

16.What five letter word can you add to the beginning or end of the words below to make a familiar word or phrase (10 points

Water

17.Work out this well known proverb.

It’s vastly preferable to remain unscathed than to be forced into apologising (20 points)

Better safe than sorry

18. Each pair of clues below relate to two words. One of the other words is the other one spelled backward?

(20 points)

Live/evilStraw/wartsReward/drawerGuns/snug

19. Add together each of the defined words to make a whole new word

A vehicle + an animal pal

The ocean + a father’s boy

Light brown colour+ to leave

Carpet, season and tango

20. What happened in 1961 and will not happen again until 6009? (10 points)

The year reads the same upside down