I ON RIDDLES WITH ANSWERS TO SOLVE - PUZZLES & BRAIN TEASERS

Your mother Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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First you divide the 25 horses into 5 groups of 5. You conduct the 5 races and take all of the fastest horses in those races and have a race with them, giving you the fastest horse. Then you take the remaining 24 horses (excluding the fastest) and remove the 4th and 5th horses in the first set of 5 races (since they definitely have 3 horses faster than them), leaving you with 14 horses. Next you can remove all of the horses that were beat in the preliminary race by the horses that got 4th and 5th in the championship race, leaving you with 8 horses. Finally, you can remove the horses that remain that lost to the 3rd place horse in the final race in the preliminary race and the horse that got 3rd in the preliminary to the horse that got 2nd in the championship race, leaving you with 5 horses.

You can then run a final race where the 1st and 2nd place horses are the 2nd and 3rd fastest. Then you know the 3 fastest horses. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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A bookkeeper Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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DAVID (Roman numerals) Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Cabbage Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Dr. Shirley Jackson Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Mary McLeod Bethune Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Sojourner Truth Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Malcolm X Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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The elevator. Invented by Alexander Miles Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Madam C. J. Walker Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Phil Brooks, the disposable needle Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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John Albert "L.A." Burr Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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The Golf Tee
Invented by George Franklin Grant Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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T. Marshall Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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