1.
The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Arnold Schwarzenneger has a big one. Michael J. Fox's is quite small. What is it?

A last name.

2.
What starts with an E, ends with an E but usually contains only one letter?

enevelope.

3.
Which word doesn't belong:
football polo badminton baseball golf tennis cricket billiards rugby

Badminton. It's the only one of the listed sports that doesn't use a ball.

4.
Here's a multiplication problem using each number from 1 to 9 once. Where do they fit?

***
  3* x
----
****

186 x 39 = 7254.

5.
Cross out any unused letters to leave a meaningful sentence:

AAMNEYAUNNIUNSGEFDULLESTETNETRESNCE

 

Cross out "any unused letter" and what's left is "a meaningful sentence."

6.
They are three errers in this puzzle - what are they?

    1. errers [should be errors].
    2. They [should be There].
    3. There are only two errors.

7. Stumper:
What comes next in this sequence:

Iron Bromine Uranium Argon ==?==

Yttrium; from the atomic element's symbols which are spelling February: Fe + Br + U + Ar + Y.

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