#29

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right
down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Answer:

The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

#25

Can you name a word that uses the vowels A, E, I, O, U in order?

Answer:

Facetious

#18

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Answer:

NOON

#15

Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick! What is it?

Answer:

It contains all of the letters in the alphabet!

#8

You are in a room with no windows or doors. The only things in the room are a mirror and a round table, and yet you get out. How do you get out?

Answer:

You look in the mirror, you see what you saw. You take the saw, you cut the table in half, two halves make a whole. You climb out the whole(hole).

#7

Jumbled words:

0. LAWN SAND JEALOUS (place) Answer: Los Angeles

1. SHOCK CUSSED TOE (~a person~)
2. SAND TACKLE LAWS (~a fictional character~)
3. MY GULCH HOARD UN (~a person~)
4. MOW BEAD HICK (~a book~)
5. TALL MISCHIEF HER SUN (~a person~)
6. CHICK HE TUB AN AN US (~a product~)
7. THOUGH TIGHT AN HICK (~a thing~)
8. AISLE OH VIEW (~a phrase~)
9. TUB RAID HEAP HUNCH (~a old TV show~)
10. CARESS TROUGHER CLUMP US (~a person~)
11. DOCKED HEARSE WHOSE (~a person~)
12. THUMB ILL KEY WAKE OWL LICKS HE (~a place~)
13. AGE ANT HUB BLOWS HEAVEN (~a fictional character~)
14. THESE HOUND DOVE MOO SICK (~a movie~)
15. BUCK SPUN HE (~a fictional character~)
16. KNICK HOLA GENE CARTER (~a person~)
17. USTOODWERNJ (~a phrase~)

Answer:

1. Jacques Cousteau
2. Santa Claus
3. Michael Jordan
4. Moby Dick
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Chiquita Banana
7. The Titanic
8. I love you
9. The Brady Bunch
10. Christopher Columbus
11. Doctor Seuss
12. The Milky Way Galaxy
13. Agent 007
14. The Sound of Music
15. Bugs Bunny
16. Nickolas Gene Carter
17. Just One Word

#1

What starts with an 'e', ends with an 'e' and usually contains only one letter?

Answer:

envelope