Riddles & Brain Teasers

[MrKaplansGlasses]

Does anyone know any good ones? DH and I live an exciting life and have been trying some brainteasers out on each other. I appear to have run out now but I want some really tricky ones to get him with tomorrow if anyone can help!

The feathers were ethically sourced from vegan pigeons who work for a charity that reclaims bricks to build hospices for refugee children.

This runs fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore on the other. What is it?

With the masses one, I prefer a pound of gold and a pound of feathers.

Just because if somebody gets it right you can be very impressed, otherwise you get to be smug

But Polka, you need to tell us where the gold and the feathers are.

With the masses one, I prefer a pound of gold and a pound of feathers.
The feathers still weigh more, so I'm still right.
(One pound of gold = 373g; one pound of feathers = 454g)

A man and his wife raced through the streets. They stopped and the husband got out of the car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car.

Should have added: "Explain."

OK, but going back to my kilogram of bricks and kilograms of feathers, the bricks weigh more, but can you explain why?

Monger are they playing mario kart or another computer game?
I don't get the kg question. are the feathers attached to anything? Are the birds in flight? I would still dispute the answer though....

are they playing mario kart or another computer game?
No

OK, but going back to my kilogram of bricks and kilograms of feathers, the bricks weigh more, but can you explain why?

Is it to do with mass and weight not being the same thing?

oh! were they racing to get to the hospital because the woman was in labour? the stranger was the new born baby?

Yes
The woman died in childbirth.

Monger - yes, I reckon the feathers will be a taller pile so centre of mass slightly further from the Earth's centre, hence having a lower weight. Although the difference is going to be tiny (order of 0.00001%).

Ohhhhhh.....

Dad ok, i'll accept that answer

Hans and Fritz are Nazi German spies during World War II. They try to enter the United States, posing as returning American citizens. Hans is immediately arrested.
Why was Hans caught?

hmm.... they would be US citizens not American citizens?
or was he arrested for being AWOL?

(your ones are tough !)

Neither of those.

hmm.... in the meantime, what travels around the world but stays in the corner?

A postage stamp

Was Fritz arrested as well? Is it something to do with their dates of birth?

No and yes

(I mean that Fritz wasn't arrested, and it is something to do with their dates of birth.)

Hans was drinking?