Puzzles for week of July 15 - July 22

Hello Readers: Just wanted to stop by and give you a little entertainment to break up the monotony of the week. I know it has been a few months since I posted my blog, hope that you enjoy and I will see you in about a week with the answers.

BRAIN TEASERS

1. A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn't know the password. Another man walks to the door and the doorman says 12, the man says 6, and is let in. Another man walks up and the doorman says 6, the man says 3, and is let in. Thinking he had heard enough, he walks up to the door and the doorman says 10, he says 5, and he isn't let in. What should he have said?
2. How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
3. What asks no questions but demands an answer?
4. What belongs to you, but it is used more by others?
5. Why is it impossible to send a telegram to Washington today?
6. A white horse jumps over a tower and lands on a priest, who immediately disappears from the landscape. Where did this take place?

WHAT OR WHO AM I?

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?

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?

SOME RANDOM FUN FACTS:

1. The unemployment rate of Liberia was estimated at 85% in 2003.
2. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
3. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
4. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
5. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
6. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
7. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
8. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
9. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
10. The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.

Hope you enjoyed these, have a great week!

Hope you have had a great week and enjoyed the riddles. Now time to include the answers for the curious ones.

ANSWERS:

1. Three. He should have said how many letters were in the number he said.
2. Moses didn't take anything on the ark. Noah did.
3. A doorbell / A telephone
4. Your name
5. Because he is dead
6. On a chessboard

Say What You See Answer: Cancelled Check

Who Am I?
A Dentist.

Common Word Answer: STARTLING

No answers for random facts, but hope you enjoyed them.

Have a great weekend and I will see you next time!