Brainteasers 50
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Minor but really irritating little headache-producers, the kind that cause you to kick yourself, or your nearest co-worker...

1.
What runs fore to aft, or as we landlubbers say, front to back, on one side of a ship, and aft to fore (back to front) on the other side?

The ship's name.

2.
Quickie job application test for a Las Vegas cashier: How can you give a player $63 using six bills, without using one dollar bills?

One 50, one 5, and six 2's.

3.
In the Gofigure family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters are in the family?

4 daughters and 3 sons.

4.
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth?

Mount Everest. (How's your headache?)

5.
I was born on December 27th, yet my birthday is always in the summer. How can this be?

I live in Australia.

6.
If you divide 30 by half and add ten, the result is...?

70.

7.
I am a man. If Jack's son is my son's father, what relationship am I to Jack?

I'm Jack's son.

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