If you throw me from the window,
I will leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but in the door, and
You’ll see someone giving life!

What am I?

Hint: The first room would be better deemed a small chamber, ca. 25 sq ft in size…
The second room would be better deemed a hallway, perhaps a foyer…
The door slides shut, rather than swings shut…
The people about to enter the chamber are irrelevant to the solution…

A man walks into a room, briefly looks around, then turns around to see the door close, trapping him in the room’s confines. He stands there, frozen for a moment or two, until the door opens again as two people wearing white coats prepare to enter the room. The man seizes this opportunity to escape, and darts out of the room before the newcomers even have the chance to look up from the reports on their clipboards.

The man looks around and finds himself in a different room than where he started from.

How is this possible?

Suzie’s birthday is at the end of the year, on December 31; today is the beginning of a new year, January 1.

Accordingly:
The day before yesterday was December 30; Suzie was 9.
Yesterday was Suzie’s birthday, December 31; Suzie turned 10.
Today is January 1, a new year. Suzie will turn 11 on December 31 of this year.
Next year, when December 31 comes around again, Suzie will turn 12.

The day before yesterday, Suzie was 9 years old.
Next year, she will be 12 years old.

How is this possible?

Hint: grab a and determine Suzie’s birthdate…and today’s date…

The knight draws the slip of paper and immediately renders it unreadable (spills ink on it, shreds it, eats it, burns it, or such).

The knight then tells the king that it read “marriage”; the only way to prove/disprove this proclamation is to see what the remaining slip says…“death”.

The knight then states that, via process of elimination, the unreadable slip could only have read “marriage”.

In order to not let his own deceit be known, the king has no choice but to allow the marriage.

A poor, young knight and a princess fall in love and want to get married, but the king doesn’t approve.

In an attempt to appear fair, however, the king offers the knight the following solution: the king shall place inside of a golden urn two slips of paper. Upon one slip shall be written “marriage” and upon the other “death”. The knight shall draw one slip out of the urn, and both the king and knight must honor it.

The princess discovers that both slips of paper actually say “death” and is able to whisper this to the knight.

The knight considers this news for a few moments, then draws a slip.

Being a man of his word, the king reluctantly allows the couple to wed.

How does the knight accomplish this?

At Duke University, four friends were taking Organic Chemistry. They had done so well on all the quizzes, midterms, labs, etc., that each had a solid “A” for the semester.

They were feeling so confident, that, the weekend before finals, they decided to go up to the University of Virginia to party with some friends, instead of studying. They had a great time; however, after all the partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn’t make it back to Duke until early Monday.

Rather than take the final on Monday morning, they decided to find their professor after the exam and let him know why they had missed it. They explained that they had gone to UVA for the weekend with the plan to come back to study, but, unfortunately, they had had a flat tire on the way back, hadn’t brought a spare, and hadn’t been able to get help for a long time.

As a result, they had missed the exam.

The Professor thought it over and then agreed that they could make up the final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved. They studied hard that night and went in the next day at the appointed time.

The professor placed the four friends in separate rooms, handed each of them a test booklet, and told them to begin.

They looked at the first problem, worth 5 points: it was something simple about free radical formation.

“Cool,” thought all four simultaneously, each one in his separate room, “this is going to be easy.” Each finished the problem and then turned the page.

On the second page was written: “For 95 points, answer this question: _______.”

By their answers, the professor confirmed that the students had been less than honest about the reason for missing the original exam.

What was the question?

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Mr. Smith has 4 daughters.
Each of his daughters has a brother.
How many children does Mr. Smith have?