A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9's are used in these numbers?

I live in a bowl. I can swim. I have a tail. I also have fins and big eyes. What am I?

Three ants are going up a hill, one behind the other. The last ant then says to the other ants, 'There is an ant behind me!'' How come?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

If you say my name, I will no longer exist. What am I?

He digs out tiny caves and stores gold and silver in them. He also built bridges of silver and made crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs his help, yet many people are afraid to let him help them. Who is he?

What is the Surname of Barbie Doll?

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary, you'd think nothing was wrong with it. Actually, nothing IS wrong with it. But it is not as ordinary as you might think. If you think about it for a bit, you will find out why it is truly so unusual. So what is it? What is so unordinary about this paragraph?

A new Engineering building containing 100 offices had just been completed. John was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will John have to paint the number nine (9)?