How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
Begin with a word, five letters to my name, Remove the first and last but I am the same Take out my middle and still, I remain. What word am I?
How many letters are in the alphabet?
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)?
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
A man and a dog were going down the street. The man rode, yet walked. What was the dog’s name?
A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9's are used in these numbers?
How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
They came out at night, without being called. They lost at day, without being stolen. Who are they?
They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.
I get hot but I never sweat, I cook food but I am not a chef, I have a door but you can't enter me, I have a light but I am not a lamp. Who am I?
In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.