Question: If you like pretty gems that sparkle and shine,
I invite you to dig in my virtual mine.
My first is purple, fit for a king,
My second is green where Dorothy did her thing.
My third is red, July's birthstone as well,
My fourth is seen in strings and is found inside a shell.
My fifth is hard, pure Carbon and expensive to buy,
My sixth is Crocodolite, striped like the big cat's eye.
Seventh is two words, a man-made fake of April's stone,
Eighth is very dark and found at Lightning Ridge alone.
Now take from each gem, one letter in its turn,
And you will find the stuff for which even the god's yearn.

Question: What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

Question: Imagine John, a party magician, is carrying three pieces of gold each piece weighing one kilogram. While taking a walk he comes to a bridge which has a sign posted saying the bridge could hold only a maximum of 80 kilograms. John weighs 78 kilograms and the gold weighs three kilograms. John reads the sign and still safely crossed the bridge with all the gold. How did he manage this?

Question: A man is planing a trip from New York to Atlanta. To save gas he plans on taking a horse. The day that he leaves is a Friday but he a arrives on the same Friday. How could that be?

Question: What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house

Question: What can hold water even though it has holes

Question: I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow.
What am I?

Question: At the sound of me
men may dream
At the sound of me
they stamp their feet
At the sound of me,
women smile
but sometimes weep

Question: I am never quite what I appear to be. Straight-forward I seem, but it's only skin deep, for mystery most often lies beneath my simple speech. Sharpen your wits, open your eyes, look beyond my exteriors, read me backwards, forwards, upside down. Think critically and answer the question. What am I?

Question: have you wondered how to say what on the other side in cow language?