Brain Teasers

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I ?

• A candle

• A child

• A tree

Which is heavier, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?

• bricks

• feathers

• the same

What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?

• feather

• your breath

• water

A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?

• None

• 8

• 9

• 17

The more you take, the more you leave behind

• money
• wisdom
• footprints
• shadows

Beth's mother has three daughters.  One is called Laura, and one is called Sarah.  What's the name of the third daughter?

• Sarah
• No one knows
• Gwen
• Beth

Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?

• none

• 1

• 11

• 12

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

• a teacher

• a parent

• a rhetorical question

• a cell phone

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

• trash

• a toy

• an anchor

• a credit card

Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?

• a witch

• a ghost

• fire

• water