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08-05-2007, 09:55 PM
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Answers tomorrow at 10. Don't lose any sleep over them.
1. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
2. A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
3. Tom's mom had four kids: Nickel, Dime, Quarter and what is the fourth?
4. What is a five letter word which becomes shorter with two letters added onto it?
5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
6. What English word starting with 'B' has three consecutive double letters?
7. What is the next letter: W I T N .. ?
8. What is the only common four letter word in the English language which ends in -eny?
9. What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
10. What is 1 + 1? |    
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08-05-2007, 10:17 PM
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1. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Teapot
2. A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
Dozens
3. Tom's mom had four kids: Nickel, Dime, Quarter and what is the fourth?
Tom
4. What is a five letter word which becomes shorter with two letters added onto it?
Short
5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
IOU's
6. What English word starting with 'B' has three consecutive double letters?
7. What is the next letter: W I T N .. ?
8. What is the only common four letter word in the English language which ends in -eny?
Deny
9. What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Computer keyboard
10. What is 1 + 1?
An addition problem.
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08-05-2007, 10:23 PM
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5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
6. What English word starting with 'B' has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper |
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08-05-2007, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Elisa  5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
6. What English word starting with 'B' has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper | DARN! Good thinking, Elisa.
(Although technically, you don't leave footsteps behind, you leave footprints. Once you take a footstep, it's gone.)
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08-05-2007, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Spider DARN! Good thinking, Elisa.
(Although technically, you don't leave footsteps behind, you leave footprints. Once you take a footstep, it's gone.) | Ah, but you place the footstep down in front and when you pick it back up, it's now behind you and....gone. |
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08-05-2007, 10:41 PM
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7. What is the next letter: W I T N .. ?
"L" |
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08-05-2007, 10:42 PM
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Not if you walk in snow! Haha |
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08-05-2007, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by pm01 7. What is the next letter: W I T N .. ?
"L" | YES!
I bow to my superiors.
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08-05-2007, 10:57 PM
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1. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Spider got 1 of the 2 possible answers
10. What is 1 + 1?
Still waiting for the correct answer. |
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08-05-2007, 11:00 PM
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1. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
The alphabet?
10. What is 1 + 1?
Um, 2?
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