Q21: Your mother's father is your grandfather.
Answer: True ✔
💡 Your mother's father is your maternal grandfather, just as your father's father is your paternal grandfather.
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Answer: True ✔
💡 Your mother's father is your maternal grandfather, just as your father's father is your paternal grandfather.
Answer: True ✔
💡 This is a logical conclusion: since all birds have feathers and the pigeon is one of them, it must have feathers.
Answer: True ✔
💡 A clock face shows only 12 hours, and a day has 24 hours, so the hour hand goes around twice: 2 × 12 = 24.
Answer: True ✔
💡 A week has 7 days, so 7 days after any day we come back to the same day.
Answer: A map
💡 A map is a drawing of the land that shows city names and river lines, but it has no real houses and no water.
Answer: A human
💡 This is a famous old riddle: morning is a person's childhood, when he crawls on his hands and knees; noon is his youth, when he walks on two legs; and evening is his old age, when he leans on a cane.
Answer: A road
💡 A road stretches between cities and villages and passes through them, but it stays fixed in place; what moves are the cars on it.
Answer: Air
💡 Air surrounds us everywhere and we can't see it, and we breathe it every moment, so we can't live without it.
Answer: A circle
💡 A circle is a closed curved line with no corners, so if you trace it with your finger, you won't find a first or last point.
Answer: 76
💡 Add what was subtracted to the result: 19 + 57 = 76; check: 76 - 57 = 19.
Answer: 112
💡 If half of the number is 56, the whole number is double that: 56 × 2 = 112.
Answer: 89
💡 Subtract what was added from the result: 103 - 14 = 89; check: 89 + 14 = 103.
Answer: Your right elbow
💡 Try it yourself: your left hand can reach your right elbow, but your right hand can't hold its own elbow.
Answer: Wednesday
💡 If yesterday was Sunday, today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, and the day after tomorrow is Wednesday.
Answer: Monday
💡 After Friday comes Saturday, then Sunday, then Monday, so in 3 days it will be Monday.
Answer: Soap
💡 A bar of soap dissolves a little in water each time we wash our hands with it, so it gets smaller over time.
Answer: A glove
💡 We wear a glove on our hand, and it has 5 fingers made of fabric or wool, but there is no flesh or bone in it.
Answer: A nail
💡 A nail is hammered on its head until it goes into the wood or the wall.
Answer: A plate
💡 We put food on a plate and eat from it, but the plate itself isn't eaten.
Answer: An airplane
💡 An airplane has two big wings that it flies with, without feathers, and it runs on fuel, not food and drink, while a balloon has no wings.