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Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

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?
Peppers.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

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.

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

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