Brain Teasers

1. Why are so many painters Dutch?
2. EVEN LE IX I ONE : The same letter is missing five times from this series of letters. What letter is missing?
3. Take away 2 from 222. How many different answers can you come up with?
4. What has a big mouth which is forever open yet cannot utter one word?
5. A prisoner survived ten weeks in a cell without water and with a 20 cm thick steel door between him and a fresh water well in the next cell. How?
6. You are walking along a field in early spring and find two lumps of coal and a carrot. How did they get there?
7. Bob has just bought a new car. On his way home from work he is so excited at the prospect of showing it to his girlfriend that he is not concentrating. He goes past a red light without stopping, bumps into someone in front of him and then turns into a "No Entry" road. A police officer observes his actions, but makes no attempt to arrest him. Why?

Ok that's it. I'll post answers another day.