Answers to Kid Teasers

1. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
2. A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left?
3. A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
4. A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
5. A railroad crossing, look for the cars; Can you spell all that without any R's?
6. A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
7. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
8. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
9. Before the days of motor cars, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Friday, spent three days in town and left on Friday. How is that possible?
10. Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup. Even a river can't fill it up. What is it?
11. Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?
12. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
13. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?
14. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
15. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
16. How are a jeweler and a jailer alike?
17. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
18. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
19. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
20. How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
21. I have a head like a cat. I have feet like at cat. But I am not a cat. What am I?
22. I know a word of letters three, Add two and fewer there will be.
23. I'm not an airplane, but I can fly through the sky. I'm not a river, but I'm full of water. What am I?
24. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
25. If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?
26. If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
27. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
28. If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first?
29. If you were locked in a concrete room, with no windows and no doors, and all you had inside the room was a bed and a calendar, how would you eat and drink?
30. If you were locked in a concrete room, with no windows and no doors, and all you had inside the room was a table and a mirror, how would you get out?
31. If you were standing directly on Antarctica’s South Pole facing north, which direction would you travel if you took one step backward?
32. If you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?
33. In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?

Answers:

1. Holes.
2. Nine.
3. A girl or daughter.
4. White: the house is built directly on the North Pole.
5. All that.
6. A potato.
7. There are MORE THAN TWO babies.
8. Mount Everest.
9. Hint: Can you guess the horse's name?
10. A kitchen strainer.
11. No, because he's dead.
12. She lives in the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed.
13. Penguins are native to Antarctica.
14. A ton.
15. A priest.
16. The jeweler sells watches and the jailer watches cells.
17. Only one - the "last" one.
18. Hint: Who?
19. Once. After the first calculation, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 5 from 15, and so on.
20. There is no dirt in a hole.
21. A kitten.
22. Few.
23. A cloud.
24. None. Roosters don't lay eggs!
25. None. The rest of the crows flew away when they heard the gunshot.
26. Nine.
27. A secret.
28. The match.
29. Get "dates" from the calendar and water from the (bed) "springs."
30. Look in the mirror, see what you saw, take the saw, cut the table in half; two halves make a "whole", then climb out the "hole."
31. North; from the South Pole, all directions are north.
32. Two, what you take is what you have.
33. A bullet.