Brain teasers

1. Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word. – underground

2. What number gives the same result when it is added to 1.5 as when it is multiplied by 1.5? -3

3. Unscramble the letters to find the name of a Island country. Madvisel MALDIVES

4. Find Anagram with a similar meaning of the given word: Angered - Enraged

5. Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 percent of the other. What are the 2 numbers? 44 & 66

6. The following number is the only one of its kind. Can you figure out what is so special about it? 8,549,176,320. It's the only number that contains all of the digits in alphabetical order.

7. There are 2 different colors of socks in a drawer. Without being able to see inside the drawer, how many socks must you remove from the drawer to ensure that you will have a pair that match? 3 socks. (the 1st sock you take could be blue or black, the 2nd sock you take could also be blue or black. This means you may have 1 of each color, but on the 3rd try you must make a pair match with either color.)

8. If a snail crawls halfway around a circle then turns around and crawls halfway back, is it now back where it started? No,( it crawls halfway around the circle, but halfway back is only 1/4 of the return trip ( half of a half ).)

9. A man and his son are driving home from a basketball game when they have a terrible accident. The man is taken to the emergency room for treatment and the boy is taken straight to the operating table. The surgeon comes over to the operating table, sees the boy and says " I can't operate on this patient, he's my son! How can this be? The surgeon is the boy's mother.

1 What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters removed and still retain it's original pronunciation? Queue

Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? Johnny

1 Rearrange the following letters to form a single word. MAN USES METER. Measurements

13. Combine the word pair to find an animal name as its anagram: Neat Help. Elephant

1 I am a struggle, a fight, and a contest. My first four letters are an everyday device used for hairstyle. (6 letters) combat

1 I am a family member, if you remove one of my words you’ll find it annoying. Bother(Brother)