Cipheria Hard Level

What question can you never answer "yes" to?

"Are you asleep?"

What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they're added together or multiplied?

1, 2, 3

A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are in the family?

3 brothers and 4 sisters

Mary has four daughters and each daughter has a brother. How many children does Mary have?

5 - each daughter has the same brother

If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?

9

The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

A coffin

What has many teeth but can't bite?

A comb

What has four wheels and flies?

A garbage truck

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?

A glove

I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?

A key

What is it that no one wants to have but no one wants to lose?

A lawsuit

Where is 61>100?

A microwave - 61 seconds is longer than 1:00 minute

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

A palm

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

A piano

Break it and it gets better; set it and it's harder to break. What is it?

A record

It has no top or bottom but can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is it?

A ring

I like to twirl my body but keep my head up high. After I go in, everything becomes tight. What am I?

A screw

What can travel around the world without leaving its corner?

A stamp

With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force, I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?

A stapler

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Bookkeeper

When you purchase me, I'm black. When you use me, I'm red. When you toss me away, I'm gray. What am I?

Charcoal

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

Chicago

The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?

Dec 31st - today is Jan 1st

I am always hungry and will die if not fed but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

Fire

What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire word signifies a great woman. What is the word?

Heroine

Remove two letters from five to make four

IV - the Roman numeral for 4

I am a word that begins with the letter "i." If you add the letter "a" to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

Isle - add "a" to make "aisle"

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

Queue

I'm an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Seven

When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

The horizon

Take me out of a window and I leave a grieving wife. But stick me in a door and I can save somebody's life. What am I?

The letter "n"

Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest people can't hold it for much more than a minute. What is this?

Your breath