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If an earthquake is 1 point higher on the Richter Scale than another earthquake which is actually 10 times stronger, how much stronger would an earthquake be if it was just half a point higher on the Richter scale?




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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?

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A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?

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Can you find the odd number in the following five choices?

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2) 259807
3) 865195
4) 104739
5) 391744

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What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?

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A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

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A detective visits his friend John just to discover that John's neighbour Dr Jacob was murdered. Dr Jacob, who is a mathematician wrote the murderer's name in a code word "Hcqtfz". There were five suspects
1. Ajit
2. Pankaj
3. Ganpat
4. Deenu
5. Hariya

The Detective was instantly able to find the murderer.
Can you?

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There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.

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A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

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There is so small cabin inside a deep forest.
All the forest burned out to worst possible but the inside of the cabin is still the same.
However all the person inside the cabin die.

How come ?

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A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

Who am I?

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