1. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
2. Find a number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.
3. A bat and a ball cost £1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
4. What letter comes next in the following sequence? D R M F S L T_
5. How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
6. Can you think of a common word that contains double C, double S and double L?
7. What number comes next in the following sequence? 2 4 8 10 20 _
8. I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?
9. What is black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you have done with it?
10. It goes in dry; it comes out wet, the longer it is in, the stronger it gets. What is it?
11. I have no eyes, no legs, or ears, and I help move the earth. What am I?
12. A truck is stuck under a bridge and the driver cannot get it out. A man walks by and stops to help. He easily gets the truck unstuck. How did he do it?
13. How much dirt is there in a hole that is 3 feet deep, and 6 inches in diameter?
14. What makes more as you take them?
15. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

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Answers

1. Short
2. 45 (1/5 of 45 = 9, 9 + 45 = 54)
3. The ball costs 5p. One pound more than 5p is £1.05, the sum of which is £1.10.
4. D – each letter represents one note in the diatonic musical scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do
5. After that, you would be subtracting from 48.
6. Unsuccessfully.
7. 22 (the sequence alternates +2, x2)
8. A jigsaw puzzle piece
9. Charcoal
10. A teabag
11. An earthworm
12. He let the air out of the tyres.
13. None, because a hole and contains no dirt!
14. Footsteps
15. When you add two hours to eleven o’clock, you get one o’clock.