Listen
       What is everyone listening so carefully?   [Answer]

Murder
       What is the motto of Murder, Inc?   [Answer]

Wyatt Earp
       What did Wyatt Earp invent to make wagon wheels seem quieter?   [Answer]

Parrot (Contributed by Eric Rubin)
       When his parrot became chief of a Scottish clan, how did MacBeth break the news?   [Answer]

Shrimp Boats
       In what units do shrimp boats measure their catch?   [Answer]

Restaurant
       What kind of restaurant serves omelets after dark?   [Answer]

The Horse's Mouth
       What kind of story did the hippie jockey tell?   [Answer]

Cruise
       The Recreation Director on a small cruise ship wanted to stage Our Town. She was told the actors were seasick, and they wanted more money. What did she need?   [Answer]

Horses
       What do pampered thoroughbreds eat?   [Answer]

Fish
       What do you call deep ocean fish?   [Answer]

Trail
       What trail has fruit and poultry?   [Answer]

Cyclops
       What did the cyclops groom say to his cyclops bride?   [Answer]

Cosmologist
       What is the difference between a cosmologist and a cosmetologist?   [Answer]

Piano
       How do you say "the red piano" in German?   [Answer]

Fat
       What international organization is dedicated to helping fat people get fatter?   [Answer]

Gloomy
       What is the opposite of a Gloomy Gus?   [Answer]

Washington
       Why is Washington State twice as good as Australia?   [Answer]

Astronomers
       Among early astronomers, whose books contained the most misprints?   [Answer]

Hair
       What is the most popular hairstyle in Abu Dhabi?   [Answer]

Paint
       Why is it dangerous to smoke while you paint?   [Answer]

Baseball
       Which baseball official is entirely on the move?   [Answer]

Louisiana
       The state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes. Which one of them has the most hotels?   [Answer]

Linen
       What did Ebenezer Scrooge say when he saw his linens hanging on the clothesline covered in soot?   [Answer]

Sting
       What is the German term for a stinging rejoinder?   [Answer]

Comedian
       Why was the comedian arrested for vagrancy?   [Answer]

Tan
       What is tan and brown?   [Answer]

Nimitz
       What did Chester Nimitz say to Grace Murray Hopper when she became the first woman admiral in US history?   [Answer]

Annapolis
       Use the word ANNAPOLIS in a sentence.   [Answer]

Fleab
       What do you call the people who live in Fleab?   [Answer]

Guard
       Who always keeps a watchful guard over the anthill?   [Answer]

Midnight
       What Rock 'n' Roll legend always had his show sometime around midnight?   [Answer]

Orthodontist
       What is the favorite window treatment among orthodontists?   [Answer]

Raconteur
       Why is it easy to poison a raconteur?   [Answer]

Wealthy
       What is it called when your father is wealthy?   [Answer]

Lone Ranger
       In which state does the Lone Ranger buy his jewelry?   [Answer]

Resort
       Which Latin American resort has a great ocean view, and employees eager to wish you goodbye?   [Answer]

Wine
       What is the most outrageous Italian wine?   [Answer]

Hens
       What is a stratagem to get the hens to lay faster?   [Answer]

Japan
       Which structure in the mouth is specifically adapted for eating Japanese food?   [Answer]

Gun
       What is the best way to lubricate a gun?   [Answer]

Mole
       What is the newest design trend for molehills?   [Answer]

Jewelry
       What military tactic is a form of jewelry?   [Answer]

Spray
       What is the leading nasal spray for dogs?   [Answer]

Turban
       What do you say when a skinny Athenian hunts for a well-dressed man in a turban?   [Answer]

William
       Where did William Tell take his trash?   [Answer]

Police
       What do the Canadian Police call their annual pie-eating contest?   [Answer]

Puny
       What is a puny Belgian insect?   [Answer]

Ships
       What grows on the outsides of ships and farm buildings?   [Answer]

Santa
       Which of Santa's helpers delivers the toys to Saigon?   [Answer]

Cowboys
       What pet does a cowboy recommend?   [Answer]

Martial
       What do you call morons who practice martial arts?   [Answer]

Sexton
       What advice do you give to a new sexton?   [Answer]

Mid East (Contributed by Suzanne Turrisi)
       What would you call a merger between Israel and Syria?   [Answer]

Gene Pool
       What happens when you leave the gene pool?   [Answer]

Cats
       In the jungles of India, what are the 3 degrees of cat?   [Answer]

Tight Shoes
       Why did the man hate his tight shoes?   [Answer]

Fish Jokes
       What fish tells the cleverest jokes?   [Answer]

Hot and Cold
       What dish, served cold in Santiago, is still very hot?   [Answer]

Fishermen
       What is the motto of the New England Fishermen's Union?   [Answer]

Prisoner
       What did the prisoner say when his hanging was postponed?   [Answer]

Ribs
       Who are those people eating ribs and waiting for a haircut?   [Answer]

Bureaucracy
       What bureaucracy causes traffic accidents?   [Answer]

Veggie
       What vegetable is like charcoal?   [Answer]

Oriental
       What dietary supplement prevents orientals from becoming too Westernized?   [Answer]

Pachy
       What is the most common type of cosmetic surgery for pachyderms?   [Answer]

Spice
       What spice describes the tragedy of Gone With the Wind?   [Answer]

Anchor
       What does Superman say when he hoists anchor?   [Answer]

Sailors
       What do Chinese sailors eat?   [Answer]

Swineherd
       What do you call a swineherd philanthropist?   [Answer]

Stone Slabs
       What kind of mint is often made from big stone slabs?   [Answer]

Commissioner
       What do you call the Election Commissioner of Bulgaria?   [Answer]

Natty
       Who is a natty Arab ruler?   [Answer]

Murder
       How are murder mysteries measured?   [Answer]

Egypt
       What do you call an Egyptian osteopath?   [Answer]

Bonaparte's Entertainment
       What do you call the intersection where the exiled Napoleon goes to hear the fish sing?   [Answer]

Cookie
       What kind of distant cookie describes the pleasure of driving a Volkswagen?   [Answer]

Deer (Contributed by Philip Varughese)
       What is the difference between a deer fleeing a poacher and an undersized witch?   [Answer]

Spain
       Why are all the Iberian monarchs so homely?   [Answer]

Flautist
       What does a flautist use to weed a cucumber patch?   [Answer]

Two Dogs
       What part of a castle could have two dogs?   [Answer]

Sheep
       Where do they keep sheep in a castle?   [Answer]

Intruder
       What is a Swiss computer intruder?   [Answer]

French
       Which French woman's name sounds like some ears?   [Answer]

BRX
       What are BRX HICKS and BRXTN HKS?   [Answer]

Kirk
       What did Captain Kirk** say to the Enterprise when its engines would not fire up after a collision?

** If you were born after 1960, Captain Picard. If you were born after 1980, Captain Janeway. If you were born after 1990, Captain Archer.

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Underwater
       What are the regulations controlling the design of submarines?   [Answer]

CIA
       Which branch of the CIA is concerned with drainage?   [Answer]

Hyena
       Why didn't the airline stewardess serve the hyena both dead rats?   [Answer]

Jailbreak
       What do you call a haughty prisoner escaping down a rope?   [Answer]

Surgeons
       What do you call two surgeons who defy logic?   [Answer]

Max at Mt. McKinley
       When everyone else hiked up Mt. McKinley, why did Max stay behind?   [Answer]

Heron
       Why did the heron eat salamanders in April or June, but not in May or July?   [Answer]

Firefighters
       Where do the firefighters' forensic detectives hold their annual convention?   [Answer]

Can Do
       What does the farm family do with their thousand acres of peas?   [Answer]

The Guru's Tooth
       What did the guru say when the dentist offered Novocaine?   [Answer]

Odorless
       What would you call odorless perfumes?   [Answer]

Good Seasons
       How did the septuplets and their parents avoid food poisoning when the chef changed the spices in the recipe?   [Answer]

King Neptune
       Why is it so hard for King Neptune's choir to sing on key?   [Answer]

Cowpunchers
       Where do ranch hands record births and deaths among the herds, and shop by mail?   [Answer]

Ram Boat
       How does a ram on a boat call his family on the ranch?   [Answer]

Grape
       What happens when you step on a sensitive grape?   [Answer]

Horse Patrol
       What is an on-duty police officer riding a preening dandyish horned horse?   [Answer]

Downtown
       Who flips flapjacks and sings "Downtown"?   [Answer]

Mermer
       What is mermermer?   [Answer]

Dallas
       What is the sliced raw vegetable dish served at the start of a meal in Dallas?   [Answer]

Hot Sauce
       On what street in the Deep South do they make the hot sauce?   [Answer]

Motto
       What is the motto of the people who shovel and plow driveways in winter?   [Answer]

LLLAMA
       A one-L lama is a monk. A two-L llama is a pack animal. What is a three-L lllama?   [Answer]

Semper Fi
       Semper Fidelis is the motto of what lizard?   [Answer]

Hawaii
       How do big burly Hawaiian men laugh?   [Answer]

Monster
       How does a mathematician tell a monster to wait its turn on line?   [Answer]

Vichyssoise
       What does a French mother ask her boy when the vichyssoise is ready?   [Answer]

Single Cell
       What single-celled organism used to be an organelle of a bacterium?   [Answer]

Swedish
       What Swedish surname indicates extremely small stature?   [Answer]

Toes
       What is the yucky stuff that accumulates between your toes?   [Answer]

Skates
       Which member of the ray and skate family of fishes practices Buddhism? Which member alternately rises and sinks?   [Answer]

Basic Pleasure
       What is the basic pleasure of displaying your treasures above your fireplace?   [Answer]

Deliver
       How do they deliver hot chocolate to a French restaurant?   [Answer]

Bush
       What grows on an anheuser bush?   [Answer]

Difference
       What is the difference between a girder, a fishhook, a bikini, a hunter, and a rotisserie chef?   [Answer]

Sunday
       If Billy Sunday eats sundaes on Sunday, and Joe Friday eats fried eggs on Friday, what does Tuesday Weld eat?   [Answer]

Bank
       Who is the bank officer who decides how much you can borrow?   [Answer]

Reading Test
       Quickly read the following list aloud: MacHenry, MacHugh, MacHines, MacHale, MacHewitt.   [Answer]

Food

«» What food do salamanders prefer?   [Answer:   Salamander]
«» What food do wildebeests prefer?   [Answer:   Wildebeest]
«» What food do anchorpersons prefer?   [Answer:   Anchor]
«» What food do squirrels prefer?   [Answer:   Squirrel]
«» What food is best eaten at 12 o'clock?   [Answer:   12 O'Clock]
«» What food do kayakers prefer?   [Answer:   Kayak]
«» What food do beer drinkers prefer?   [Answer:   Beer]
«» What food do dolphins prefer?   [Answer:   Dolphin]

In and Out
       There were two young skunks named In and Out. Although they were twins, they never played together. Whenever In was in Out was out, and whenever Out was in In was out. So they did not know each other's favorite in spots and hideouts. One day when Out was in and In was out Papa Skunk told Out to go out and find her brother In, who was out, and bring him in. So Out went out to get In in. It took her less than a minute.
       How did she find him so fast?   [Answer]

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