Fire in a Room

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?




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There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world. The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it. When everyone received the test paper it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: 'What is the risk?'.Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?

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What do you get if you add 2 to 100 four times?

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A man is shown a portrait painting. He looks closely, then tells, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son!” Who is the man in the portrait?

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A shepherd had 18 sheep, out of which, all but ten died.

Can you tell us how many sheep was he left with?

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People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

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Can you count the number of triangles in the picture below?

Count the Triangle

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Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

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What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

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What number when divided in half becomes zero?

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Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

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The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.