SERIOUS QUESTIONS (SET - 6)

Below are some mind boggling questions that can be fun to answer. These are serious questions and have serious answers unlike my other "Riddles" where you may have to think of a non-serious answer. Some of these are very easy while some of them are really tough but once you know the answer everything is easy. Remember these questions to impress someone or may be to win yourself in a gathering. please me the questions and I would include it here with your (the author's) name and contact address. Now enjoy, test your brain and have fun. Don't feel bad if you cannot answer any question as no one can the first time.

2 boys on bicycles, 20 miles apart, began racing toward each other. The instant they started, a fly on the handle bar of one of the bikes started flying toward the other bike's handle bar. As soon as it reached, it turned around and went to the other bike and so on until the bikes met. If each bike had a constant speed of 10 mph, and the fly was traveling 15 mph constantly. How far did the fly travel?
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Let's break it down simply. If the boys are 20 miles apart and are going to meet in the middle, then they will each go 10 miles. Since they are traveling at 10 mph, it will take them 1 hour. That means that the fly is flying for 1 hour at the rate of 15 mph and therefore will go 15 miles.
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I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and canaries do I have?
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I have 3 cages and 4 canaries.
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How many times do the hour and minute hand cross each other in a twelve hour period??? (Start at 12:00 noon and count that as once)
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They will cross each other eleven times as indicated at the times below:
1. 12:00
2. 1:05
3. 2:10
4. 3:16
5. 4:21
6. 5:27
7. 6:32
8. 7:38
9. 8:43
10. 9:49
11. 10:54
You cannot count 12:00 twice. If you consider several twelve hour periods in a row, the twelve o'clock coincidence occurs only once in each cycle. Therefore it is counted initially or at the end.
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What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
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The word "WHOLESOME"
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An egg salesman was asked how many eggs he had sold that day. He replied, "My first customer said, 'I'll buy half your eggs and half an egg more'. My second and third said the same thing. When I had filled all three orders, I sold out of eggs without having to break a single egg the whole day." How many eggs were sold in all? Explain this!
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"SEVEN".
He sold 4 eggs to the first customer (half of seven is 3 1/2 plus the other half = 4 eggs)
2 to the second person (half of the remaining 3 egges = 1 1/2, plus the other half = 2)
and 1 to the third (half of the remaining egg, plus the other half = 1).
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A professional bass fisherman caught 30 bass during a 5-day tournament. Each day, he caught three more fish than the day before. How many fish did the fisherman catch on the first day?
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He didn't catch any fish the first day, but he caught 3 on the second day, 6 on the third day, 9 on the fourth day and 12 on the fifth day.
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We are little creatures; all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
one of us you'll find in jet.
Another you may see in tin,
and the fourth is boxed within .
If the fifth you should pursue,
it can never fly from you.
What are we? ?
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The vowels. A, E, I, O and U.
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The Following is called a "Magic Square" it uses the digits 1 through nine only once and each row, column and diagonal add up to the same number.
8 1 6
3 5 7
4 9 2
Can you complete a 4x4 Magic Square using the digits 1 through 16?
*hint* the sum of each row, column and diagonal should be 34
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01 15 14 04
12 06 07 09
08 10 11 05
13 03 02 16
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What happens three times in sixty seconds but never in a minute. Also, happens 2 times in sixty minutes but never in an hour? -- Contributed by Nathan
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The Letter "S"
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What does noon and the letter A have in common? -- Contributed by Nathan
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they are both in the middle of day!
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