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Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

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