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  1. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain on Earth?New
  2. What time comes next?New
  3. Which has more neck bones: a giraffe or a mouse?New
  4. What is the largest desert on Earth?New
  5. What starts with E, ends with E, and contains only one letter?New
  6. How many diagonals does a hexagon have?New
  7. What's the only US state whose name is one syllable?New
  8. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?New
  9. What is the capital of New Zealand?New
  10. Can lightning strike the same place twice?New
  11. A woman falls off a 20-foot ladder onto concrete but isn't hurt at all. How?New
  12. If APPLE adds up to 50 (A=1, B=2…), what does LEMON add up to?New
  13. Unscramble RAPETEKA. What is it?New
  14. Using the 7 continents (Australia, not Oceania), how many start and end with the same letter?New
  15. What comes next: 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, …?New
  16. If 20% of a number is 12, what is 35% of it?New
  17. Which is bigger: 2¹⁰ or 10³?New
  18. A man is out in the pouring rain with no hat or umbrella, but not one hair on his head gets wet. How?New
  19. What letter comes next: T, F, S, E, T, …?New
  20. What do you get if you multiply together every number on a phone's dial pad?New
  21. What's the angle between a clock's hour and minute hands at exactly 3:15?New
  22. $100 earns 10% interest, compounded once a year. How much do you have after 2 years?New
  23. 3 cards: one red on both sides, one white on both sides, one red/white. You draw one and see red. Chance the other side is red?New
  24. What comes next: 100, 99, 96, 91, 84, …?New
  25. Which of these is a prime number?New
  26. You shuffle a deck of 52 cards well. Has that exact order ever existed before?New
  27. Flip a coin 6 times. Which exact sequence is more likely: HHHHHH or HTHTTH?New
  28. I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?New
  29. Which one doesn't belong: violin, cello, harp, flute?New
  30. What is the capital of Canada?New
  31. All bloops are razzies, and all razzies are lazzies. Are all bloops definitely lazzies?New
  32. How much dirt is in a hole that is 3 ft wide, 3 ft long, and 3 ft deep?New
  33. You roll two dice. Which total is most likely?New
  34. What comes next: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, …?New
  35. Spell it out: silk, silk, silk. What do cows drink?New
  36. A drawer has 10 black and 10 white socks. In the dark, how many must you grab to guarantee a matching pair?New
  37. Which US state is closest to Africa?New
  38. What can you catch but never throw?New
  39. Two guards: one always lies, one always tells the truth. One door leads out. With one question, what do you ask?New
  40. A father is 4 times as old as his son. In 20 years he'll be twice as old. How old is the son now?New
  41. What is the next leap year after 2096?New
  42. What is the largest country lying entirely within Europe?New
  43. Linda is 31, outspoken, and was a philosophy major who protested for social justice. Which is more likely?New
  44. A kilogram of steel or a pound of feathers — which is heavier?New
  45. What letter comes next: A, C, F, J, O, …?New
  46. Some doctors are golfers. Some golfers are left-handed. Are some doctors definitely left-handed?New
  47. What is always coming but never arrives?New
  48. What letter comes next: R, O, Y, G, B, I, …?New
  49. In a vacuum, you drop a bowling ball and a feather at the same time. Which lands first?New
  50. A price rises 20%, then falls 20%. Compared to the original, it's now…New
  51. A disease affects 1 in 1,000 people. A test is 99% accurate. You test positive. Roughly what's the chance you have it?New
  52. Which one doesn't belong: Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico?New
  53. What is Utah's official state snack?New
  54. Do goldfish really have a 3-second memory?New
  55. Which is wider: Australia or the Moon?New
  56. What comes next: 7, 10, 8, 11, 9, 12, …?New
  57. A woman points to a man: "His mother is the only daughter of my mother." How is she related to him?New
  58. Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann?New
  59. A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater for 5 minutes, then hangs him. Later they go out to dinner. How?New
  60. Which is larger: 25% of 88 or 88% of 25?New

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