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I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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A tree.
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I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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Water.
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I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?

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Blackboard
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Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?

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The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
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How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

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None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.
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Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.

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A matchstick.
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Fill in the sequence: ND, JF, MA, ?, ?, SO

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MJ and JA Explanation:: "ND" is for November & December, "JF" is for January & February, "MA" is for March & April and so on.
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Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?

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Peppers.
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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?

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If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.
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When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3

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In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock
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