The Mentors Student Publication
Foundation University College Of
Education
Challenge
Your Mind
Ø When you have me, you feel like
sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
Answer: SECRET
Ø The person who makes it has no need
for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it
does not know he or she is. What is it?
Answer: Coffin
Ø You can hold it without using your
hands or arms. What is it?
Answer: Your BREATH
Ø Forward and forward I go, never
looking back. My limit no one knows, more of me do they lack. Like a river I do
flow and an eagle I fly. Now, can you guess what am I?
Answer: TIME
Ø An iron horse with a flaxen tail. The
faster the horse runs, the shorter his tail becomes. What is it?
Answer: NEEDLE and THREAD
Ø The Pope has it but he does not use
it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Arnold Schwarzenegger
has a big one, Michael J. Fox's is quite small. What is it?
Answer: SURNAME
Ø Can you name three consecutive days
without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Ø What loses a head in the morning, but
gains a head at night?
Answer: Pillow
Ø Though it appears to go away, it always
finds some place to stay, devouring colours on the way.
Answer: DARKNESS
Ø What common English verb becomes its own
past tense by rearranging its letters?
Eat~Ate
Ø I'm hiding in the air, I'm hiding
everywhere. Under your bed, in your cupboard, I'm hiding everywhere. What am I?
Answer: OXYGEN
(A compilation of brain teasers from the different sources.)
