Head Scratchers 8

[Bumper]

1. What force and strength cannot get through,
I with a gentle touch can do.
And many in the street would stand,
Were I not a friend at hand.

What am I?

2. What is the dot over the letter "i" called?

3. What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds the same as the first word?

4. What is dry going in, wet going out and satisfies two people?

5. What do you have when twenty rabbits step backwards?

6. Two cars were involved in an accident in the center of town. The man who was driving a little green car, had overtaken a big black car. The driver had misjudged the distance between him and the on-coming traffic and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to swerve and crash into a shop window. When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. However, the driver of the green car was not charged with manslaughter, why was this so?

7. Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive;
one scratch from me and you will find your prospects take a dive.

What am I?

8. Two fathers and two sons were seated round a table. There were four apples on the table. Each of them took one apple and ate it entirely yet there was still one apple left on the table. How was this possible?

9. A man has Ten Horses and nine stables as shown here.
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The man wants to fit Ten Horses into nine stables. How can he fit Ten horses into nine stables?

10. Joe and Sally where sitting in their family room one night. While Joe was watching T.V, his wife Sally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Joe decided to go to bed, but Sally kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Sally kept on reading. How?

[MWC]

1. A key, but I had to look this one up. Cheat!

2. A tittle. Tee-hee!

3. Braking and breaking

4. What is dry going in, wet going out and satisfies two people?

I’m assuming I’m wrong – but a spent male member after unprotected sex?

5. What do you have when twenty rabbits step backwards?

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6. The big black car was a hearse; the “one dead man” was already dead before the accident.

7. Any number of venomous creatures one might try to photograph, ie shoot.

8. One of the fathers was also the son of the other father. So there are only three guys around the table.

9. Arrange the stables in a circular shape so that when they meet in the middle, it creates a space big enough for a tenth stall.

10. Sally is blind and was reading Braille.

[Kellyk]

5. A receeding hairline?

[Bumper]

The Official Answers

1. A key

2. A "tittle".

3. Braking becomes breaking

4. A tea bag (Gotcha!)

5. A receding hare line

6. The black car was a hearse and was on it's way to a funeral.

7. An eight ball

8. There were only three persons at the table: a grandfather, his son and his grandson.

9. One letter for each stable. [T][E][N] [H][O][R][S][E][S]

10. Sally was blind, she was reading a book in Braille.

[Jesus]

Also for 4. a public shower. Two people satisfied: the user gets wet and the owner gets paid.
In Mexico a tea bag is not shared.