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(A) Use two digits to make the smallest possible positive integer. (B) Five 3s can express 37: 37=33+3+3/3 Find another way to do it. (C) Use six identical digits to make 100. (Several solutions are possible.) (D) Use five 4s to make 55. (E) Use four 9s to make 20.
A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel. How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?
A beacon from home to guide your way. It can be a lifesaver on a stormy day. What is it?
A blind man enters a maze, and the entrance closes behind him. His only way out is to solve the maze. A long time passes, and he exits the maze through the correct exit. How did he solve the maze?
A building where people and stories are on stage
A camel travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the camel's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true. Since the camel is normal, how is this situation possible?
A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
A caribbean shape that makes ships disappear
A certain wizard resided in a city made from this gemstone.
A circle of stones, never in rows. Stacked one on the other, mystery it sows. What is it?
A device for finding furniture in the dark.
A doctor might remove one from the neck of a Dracula victim.
A dragon's tooth in a mortal's hand, I kill, I maim, I divide the land.
A great mysterious place that the bold have been known to journey into.
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations.
A hill full, a hole full; yet you cannot catch a bowl full. What is it?
A hole leading in, a hole leading out, we connect to a cavern that is slimy all throughout. What are we?
A home of wood in a wooded place, but built not by hand. High above the earthen ground, it holds its pale blue gems. What is it?
A house full, a yard full, a chimney full, no one can get a spoonful.
A house has 6 stories, each the same height. How many times as long is the ascent to the sixth floor as the ascent to the third?
A house of wood in a hidden place. Built without nails or glue. High above the earthen ground It holds pale gems of blue.
A hunter met two shepherds, one of whom had three loaves and the other, five loaves. All the loaves were the same size. The three men agreed to share the eight loaves equally between them. After they had eaten, the hunter gave the shepherds eight bronze coins as payment for his meal. How should the two shepherds fairly divide this money?
A kind of weather that comes your way, but add a "D" and it will run away
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
A man bumps into his mathematician friend on the street that he hasn't seen in 5 years. The man asks the mathematician how old his children are. The mathematician, who always replies in riddles said, "I now have three children. The sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows on the building in front of you and the product of their ages equals 36." The friend then says "I need one more piece of information." The mathematician then replies "My youngest child has blue eyes." What are the ages of the mathematicians three children?
A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
A man had a bar of lead that weighed 40 lbs., and he divided it into four pieces in such a way as to allow him to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty. What are the weights of the four pieces?
A man has nine children, born at regular intervals. The sum of their squares of their ages is equal to the square of his own age. What are the ages of the children?
A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
A man parks his car outside of a hotel and immediately realises he is bankrupt. How did it happen?
A man phoned his daughter to ask her to buy a few things he needed for a trip. He told her she would find enough dollar bills for the purchase in an envolope on his desk. She found the note with 98 written on it. In the store she bought $90 dollars worth of things, but when it was time to pay she not only did have $8 left over but she was short. By how much and why?
A man shot two arrows at its center and missed both times, but using a sword swung once at its center and hit it twice.
A man told his son that he would give him $1000 if he could accomplish the following task. The father gave his son ten envelopes and a thousand dollars, all in one dollar bills. He told his son, "Place the money in the envelopes in such a manner that no matter what number of dollars I ask for, you can give me one or more of the envelopes, containing the exact amount I asked for without having to open any of the envelopes. If you can do this, you will keep the $1000." When the father asked for a sum of money, the son was able to give him envelopes containing the exact amount of money asked for. How did the son distribute the money among the ten envelopes?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
A mighty weapon in the war against winged household pests.
A morbidly-named body of water
A mother had five boys Marco, Tucker, Webster and Thomas. Was the fifth boys name Frank, Evan or Alex?
A precious fluid, thicker than water.
A precious stone, as clear as diamond. Seek it out while the sun's near the horizon. Though you can walk on water with its power, try to keep it, and it'll vanish in an hour.
A precious stone, as clear as diamond. Seek it out whilst the sun's near the horizon. Though you can walk on water with its power, Try to keep it, and it'll vanish within an hour.
A reaction to being spooked that takes its name from waterfowl
A serpent swam in a silver urn, A golden bird did in its mouth abide, The serpent drank the water, this in turn, Killed the serpent. Then the gold bird died.
A shimmering field that reaches far. Yet it has no tracks, And is crossed without paths.
A soccer fan, upset by the defeat of his favorite team, slept restlessly. In his dream a goalkeeper was practicing in a large unfurnished room, tossing a soccer ball against the wall and then catching it. But the goalkeeper grew smaller and smaller and then changed into a ping-pong ball while the soccer ball was swelled up into a huge cast-iron ball. The iron ball circled round madly, trying to crush the ping-pong ball, how did the ping-pong find safety whithout leaving the floor?
A tree with 5 branches, no leaves and no fruits
A type of hammer that brings a room to order.
A watchmaker was telephoned urgently to make a house call to replace the broken hands on a clock. He was sik so he sent his apprentice. The apprentice was thorough. When he finished inspecting the clock it was dark. Assuming his work was done, he attached the new hands and set the clock by his pocket watch. It was sic o'clock, so he set the big hand at the 12 and the little hand at the 6. The apprectice returned, but soon the telephone rang. He picked up to his angry client: "You didn't do the job right. The clock shows the wrong time." Surprised he hurried back. He found the clock showing not much past eight. He handed is watch to the client and showed her that her clock was not even one second late. The client had to agree. Early the nect morning, the client telephoned to say the clock has apparently gone berserk, hands were moving around the clock at will. The apprentice again rushed over, the clock showed a little past seven. After checking his watch he yelled: "You are making fun of me! Your clock shows the right time!" Have you figured out whats going on?
A wealthy wise old woman feared that her daughter was lazy and as a result rather stupid. When the old woman died, her will stipulated that her assets were to be liquidated and a check was to be written for the full amount. The check was to be placed in one of three envelopes. The other two envelopes would contain a blank piece of paper. If the daughter could determine from the writing on the envelope which envelope contained the check, she would inherit her mother's fortune. Otherwise, the fortune would go to the old woman's favorite charity for animals. The daughter was not allowed to touch the envelopes. Her decision had to be made based on the writing on the envelopes. The daughter was told that only one envelope had a true statement and that the other two statements were false. The envelopes had the following writing: 1. This envelope does not have the check 2. This envelope has the check 3. The second envelope does not have the check Which envelope should the daughter pick?
A word of five letters, Upside down is the same, A shark does this, But it’s not to blame. What is the word?
Above all things have I been placed Thus have I, a man disgraced. I describe sunlight or lock But after all, I'm just a rock
According to the music industry, you can count on a midnight train and the devil to turn up here.
Add a T and I shoot through the sky. Then add an S and I multiply. What word is it?
All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard. Who am I?
Although I'm not an insect, some people found me very difficult to exterminate. They called me something like 'insane priest.' The first half of my name means the same as 'scrape,' & my last three letters are a metal. Who am I?
Although my cow is dead, I still beat her. What a racket she makes!
Always old, sometimes new. Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full. Never pushes, always pulls.
An alarm clock runs 4 minutes slow every hour. It was set right 3 1/2 hours ago. Now another clock which is correct shows noon. In how many minutes, to the nearest minutes, to the nearest minute, will the alarm clock show noon?
An eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face. "That eye is like to this eye," Said the first eye, "But in low place not in a high place." What is it?
An item is made from lead blanks in a lathe shop. Each blank suffices for 1 item. Lead shavings accumulated for making 6 items can be melted and made into a blank. How many items can be made from 36 blanks?
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
As I traveled up and down our great glorious country, I found myself in a place where the tempature goes up sharply in the day and down at night. This had an effect on my watch, I noticed it was 1/2 a minute faster at nightfall, but at dawn it had lost 1/3 minute, making it only 1/6 minute fast. One morning- May 1- my watch showed the right time. By what date was it 5 minutes faster?
As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.
At first I am a yellow weed in the lawn, and then the wind blows, and my white feathers are gone. What am I?
At first, I am nothing. Add something to negate. Add again to oppose. Add again to find the time to draw. Add once more to find nobody at all.
Autumn leaves and bad bowlers wreak havoc on this
Be sure to shout for its answers are weak, but there is no language it cannot speak.
Beautiful girls strut and sexy men 'do their little turn' on this.
Being able to interpret the letters on this screen proves that you have this quality.
Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, but even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
Blend a teapot shot so the pearlies won’t rot!
Bold are the first; true are the second; playful are the third; clever are the fourth; forceful are the fifth.
Both old people and owls are said to be possessing this trait
Both punishment and sweet reward, It will befall both fool and lord. It is a spiritual scoreboard, Your every deed it does record.
Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again
Brown I am and much admired; many horses have I tried; tire a horse and worry a man; tell me this riddle if you can.
Bury deep, Pile on stones, My mind will always Dig up them bones
By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found. Yet I am undone, if there's no light around
By the way, what never moves, wears shoes, sandals and boots, but has no feet?
Can you combine plus signs and five 2's to get 28? Can you combine plus signs and eight 8's to get 1,000?
Can you divide the watch face with 2 straight lines so that the sums of the sums of the numbers in each part are equal?
Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
Carl is trying to find solutions to a geometric puzzle. He has a square plot of land that he needs to reserve 1/4 for himself and divide the remaining 3/4 equally and in similar shape, among his 4 children. There are two possible solutions. Can you solve the puzzle?
Come up and let us go. Go down and here we stay
Covered in stone and sun. It's home to many but also none. What is it?
Craig died in Florida. Shortly after, Tracy died at sea. Nobody mourned, In fact, everyone was absolutely delighted. Why?
Crooked as a rainbow, and slick as a plate, Ten thousand horses can't pull it straight.
Describes a mysterious region and a stylish pair of shorts.
Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.
Dies half its life. Lives the rest. Dances without music. Breathes without breath.
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change. What am I?
Do what he says and you'll be fine, don't and you lose the game.
Do you know what you can hold without ever touching it?
Don't do this in the shallow end.
Draw four rectangles on a piece of paper. Put nine x's in the four rectangles so that there is an uneven number of x's in each rectangle.
During the 1800's these turned women into hourglasses and is becoming more popular again these days
Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome
Eight years ago, Bill was eight times the age of his son Bill Jr. Today, if you add their ages together, they add up to 52. How old are Bill and his son?
Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it?
Fatherless and motherless. Born without sin, roared when it came into the world. And never spoke again.
Find an English word that uses all of the following letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS
Find an English word which is singular, add an "s" and it becomes plural, and add another "s" it becomes singular again. What is it?
Find the four digit number in which the first digit is one fourth of the last digit, the second digit is 6 times the first digit, and the third digit is the second digit plus 3. What is it?
Five baby boomer couples each have one child. Each child is a different age than any of the other children. Each child has a favorite toy which is different from any of the other children's favorite toys. Each family eats at only one fast food restaurant. No two women have the same name and no two men have the same name. The children's names are not known. The child who plays with trains is the youngest. Bill's child plays with a GI Joe. Julie's child likes Pokeman. Mike's family eats at Taco Bell. The family of the 4 year old likes Kentucky Fried Chicken. The oldest child is four years older than Marie's child. The child who plays with Barbie is 8 years old. The child with the age is in the middle, has a mother named Marie. The child in the family that eats at McDonalds has a two year age difference with Larry's child. Carol is the mother in the family that eats at Dairy Queen. The child that plays Nintendo likes Burger King. Steve's child is two years apart in age from the child of the family that eats at Kentucky Fried Chicken. The child that plays with trains is two years apart from the 6 year old. The child that eats at McDonalds is two years older or younger than Regina's child. Lisa's child is 10. Who is married to George?
Five men were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; Has two eyes, can't see a thing. What is it?
Fuels backyard get-togethers
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Gets rid of bad ones, short and tall. Tightens when used, one size fits all.
Golden treasure I contain, Guarded by hundreds and thousands. Stored in a labyrinth where no man walks, Yet men come often to seize my gold. By smoke I am overcome and robbed, then left to build my treasure anew
Green arrows grow out of my sides. I go from yellow to white. My babies fly in the wind. What am I?
Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.
Hard to catch, easy to hold. Can't be seen, unless it's cold
Has feathers but can't fly. Rests on legs but can't walk.
Has no feet, but travels far. Is literate, but not a scholar. Has no mouth, yet clearly speaks.
He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
He's dead with a metal bar across his back. When a woman sees him, she is very pleased. This was all perfectly legal. What's going on?
Held firmly in the hands, like a sword it cuts deep. Bloodless strokes, all, then forward we leap.
Hickory-Dickory-Dock! The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one and down did come. Hickory-Dickory-Dock! What am I?
His big belly supposedly has the ability to dispense good fortune.
Hold these between your knees if you want to set a Cuban beat.
Hoofed frolicking.
How can this be true? Have a look at the picture. All the lines are straight, the shapes that make up the top picture are the same as the ones in the bottom picture so where does the gap come from?
How can you burn an apple, blueberry, rose and pumpkin without leaving any ashes but retaining the smell of it?
How many cats are in a small room if in each of the four corners a cat is sitting, and opposite each cat there sit three cats, and a each cat's tail another is sitting?
How much will a 38° angle measure when looked at under a microscope that magnifies ten times?
How old is your son? asked a man to his neighbour. My son is five times as old as my daughter and my wife is five times as old as my son. Iam twice as old as my wife whereas my grandmother, who is celebrating her eighty-first birthday is as old as all of us put togeather. How old is the man's son?
I always follow my brother but you cannot see me, only him. You cannot hear him but you can hear me. What are we?
I always run but never walk, I sometimes sing but cannot talk, No head on which a hat to place, You always look me in the face.
I am a good state, there can be no doubt of it; But those who are in, entirely are out of it.
I am a perching barrel, filled with meat, Taking hits from leaps and dives. Look inside, but do not eat, The meat in there is still alive! What am I?
I am a precious little thing, dancing and eating all the time. Watch me from a distance, so you can feel my warm and gentle love. But don't come to close or my next meal you could be!
I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
I am always in front of you, but you will never see me. What am I?
I am believed to be only one dimensional, and tinier than anything can be, and there are many who say that I am the basis of all that we see. What am I?
I am cracked by Indiana Jones. What am I?
I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her. How old are we now?
I am nothing but holes tied to holes, yet am strong as iron.
I am nothing really at all, Yet I am easily found; Ignore me at your own peril, and you might end up crowned!
I am round as a bowl, deep as a tub, but all the world's water couldn't fill me up.
I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.
I am the greatest teacher out of them all, but alas in the end I kill my pupils.
I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams, my merest touch brings laughter
I am whole but incomplete. I have no eyes, yet I see. You can see, and see right through me. My largest part is one fourth of what I once was.
I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
I can be quick and then I'm deadly, I am a rock, shell and bone medley. If I was made into a man, I'd make people dream, I gather in my millions By ocean, sea and stream.
I can be short and sometimes hot. When displayed, I rarely impress.
I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
I can move even when you are still. I can be one or many.
I can ruin your day, or darken your life. And while I'm expected, I'm never alright. I'm bad for business, and worse for your hair. Wherever I am, there's something not there.
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing.
I climb higher when hot, But beware my rage, I’ll kill with a breath, If I can escape my cage
I count time, but have no end. Tick tick, but I am not a clock. What am I?
I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.
I fly through the air on small feathered wings, seeking out life and destroying all things.
I follow the orders of only two. I respect the work of only two. I am in constant battles with many, Though one surpassed them all. With forces joined, We created hell, Until our mutual enemy fell. Who am I?
I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.
I grow where no flower grows, where no light touches the walls, up or down, that I don't care, was here before people were.
I have a title and many pages I am a genteel of genteel descent I am a killer veteran of war I am a slave to my lord Pledged to his service.
I have a tongue, but do not talk. I follow close, but neither run nor walk. Coupled and hitched, but never married. You couldn't bear the load I've carried.
I have an eye but cannot see, You'll head inside when you see me.
I have five letters and people eat me. When you remove my first letter I become a crime. Remove my first two letters and I am an animal. If you remove my first and last letters I'm a form of music
I have legs but never walk, I may have flowers but no soil, I hold food but never eat.
I have ten or more daughters. I have less than ten daughters. I have at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is true, how many daughters do I have?
I have three hundred cattle, with a single nose cord
I have two hands but cannot clap
I march before armies, a thousand salute me. My fall can bring victory, but no one would shoot me. The wind is my lover, one-legged am I. Name me and see me at home in the sky.
I move very slowly at an imperceptible rate, although I take my time, I am never late. I accompany life, and survive past demise, I am viewed with esteem in many women's eyes. What am I?
I run, it runs, I stop, it runs What it it?
I scribble forms of the finest letter, And repel elements of the harshest weather. I am an arrow-aimer and a dust-breaker.
I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear.
I was born of mire and muck; Of velvets and of rags. I bear your secrets and share your sweat, Lying patiently in wait. I've never sinned, but still I'm hated- Drowned, beaten, then hanged. But the work is never done; I'll rise again in seven days.
I work when I play and play when I work.
I'm a type of pizza that is folded in half before cooking to contain a filling
I’m a word, six letters long; I sometimes enter with a gong. All in order from A to Z, I start with the letter B. What is the word?
I'm flat. You use me everyday. You need me to live. But you give me away everyday. I'm coloured and I have a founding father on me. What am I?
I'm not man's best friend, I'm their enemy, I can mark your end, yet you do not see me, I am very small, but very tough, If you have me, then you have it rough.
I'm one of five, I'm not alive. The one who sent me forth became king, The one who received me died. What am I?
I'm tall in the morning and short in the noon. I disappear at night but I will be back soon.
I’m the most peculiar thing, I’m sure that we have met, Maladies to you I may bring, Time or health is my theft. I’m a lifelong friend; to the disdain of your kin, I come in all colors, mainly black and white, I can be innocent, quirky, a force, or a sin, Dare turn and kick me, and I’ll put up a fight.
If 4+2=26, 8+1=79 and 6+5=111. Then, what is 7+3?
If 66 = 2, 99 = 2, 888 = 6, 00 = 2, 7777 = 0, 667= 2, 276 = 1, 833 = 2, then what does 2876 equal?
If all Wibbles are Criggles, all Borkins are Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins, is it true that all Borkins are Criggles?
If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
If eleven plus two equals one, what is nine plus five equal to?
If it is 1,800 kilometers to America, 1,200 kilometers to Japan, 2,400 kilometers to New Zealand, and 1,400 kilometers to Brazil- How far is Morocco?
If Mississippi should lend Missouri her New Jersey, what would Delaware?
If Teresa’s daughter is my daughter’s mother, who am I to Teresa?
If you happen to wear one of these warm garments around, you might get doused in red paint.
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 Crocidolite, 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 gods yearn. What am I?
If you spot one of these eastern warriors, they're not doing their job right.
If you throw a bottle of wine, a carton of juice and a can of soda at someone’s head, which one will hurt the least?
If you're stealing honey, be prepared to receive vengeance in this form.
In many years, not much has happened. In many minutes, a lot has happened. In one second, everything has happened.
In Paris but not in France, the thinnest of its siblings.
In the evening I'm long, in the morning I'm small; When seen in a ballroom, I'm nothing at all.
In the forest, this blends in just right, but every December it is covered with lights. What is it?
In the land of the green glass door there are riddles but no answers, sheets but no blankets, and books but no words. Name something found in the land of the green glass door.
In this place, people lie, people cry, and people ask why. In this place, people sleep, people weep, and people's solitude, they keep. What is it?
Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.
It can cause deflation of tires when dropped from the rear of spy cars.
It can pierce the best armor and make swords crumble with a rub, yet for all its power It can't harm a wooden club.
It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter. What is it?
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
It doesn't live within a house, nor does it live without. Most will use it when they come in, and again when they go out.
It flies when it's on and floats coming off.
It floats over the land, It cuts the tallest mountain, Its voice is like a fountain, Its body like a snake, Will flow into a lake.
It happens when something has been cut with H2O.
It has five wheels, though often think four, You cannot use it without that one more, You can put things in it, you can strap things on top, You can't find it in the market, but you can still go shop. What is it?
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.
It holds no blessings in disguise. Its rhymes are aimed at your demise, it's cast only to ruin, Whatever you are doin'.
It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?
It is a path of cow juice spread across the sky but cannot be seen by the naked eye
It is a sound of empty, speak and it'll talk back plenty. But all the more you yack, you'll get the same words back.
It is able to speak because it has a hard gone. You know what it is as soon as it has sung. What is it?
It is an arctic double breasted formal wear.
It is by nature, soft as silk; A puffy cloud, white as milk; Snow tops this tropical crop; The dirtiest part of a mop
It is destruction made out of thin air, You hear it howl and give a prayer, Through barns and houses it will tear. It is a deadly funnel, Of violent and twisting air.
It is in the rock, but not in the stone; It is in the marrow, but not in the bone; It is in the bolster, but not in the bed; It is not in the living, nor yet in the dead.
It is more feared than fear itself, And no one can escape it. It takes no sides and does not judge, it does not know to hold a grudge. It is the most clearest result, Of how life beats you by default.
It is sometimes known to have silver linings.
It is the assumed nocturnal symbol of Mr. Wayne. What is it?
It is the electronic version of junk mail or a salty meat in a can.
It is the great nemesis of the lactose intolerant.
It is weightless, you can see it. If you put it in a barrel it will make it lighter?
It is worldwide, but once only a spider could weave one
It regulates our daily movements, but it feels no interest in our lives. It directs us when to come and go, but does not care if we pay attention. What is it?
It stands upright and can be quite grand. Its secret is not hidden but right at hand. What is it?
It's a game played by serious people that takes place on a global scale.
It's anything but amusing when this body part gets hit.
It's been around for millions of years, but is never more than a month old. What is it?
It's equally comfortable in an orchestra and a geometry textbook. What is it?
It's got twists and turns, but has no curves. Twist it to fix it, turn it to ruin it. What is it?
It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh
It's usually found dried, but often kept slicker. Above another need, it's said to be thicker. What is it?
Its title means book.
John's father has three sons. Two of them are Tom and Paul what is third son name? riddle answer
Just head and foot yet never tires of dancing.
Kills the bad ones and the sad ones. Tightens to fit, so one size fits.
Known to accessorize with feathers, trumpets, and harps.
Large as a mountain, small as a pea, Endlessly swimming in a water-less sea.
Lazy Larry agreed to work on a job for his brother-in-law for thirty hours at eight dollars an hour, on the condition that he would forfeit ten dollars per hour for every hour that he idled. At the end of the thirty hours Larry wasn't owed any money and didn't owe his brother-in-law any money either. How many hours did Larry work and how many hours did he idle?
Left to right I’m quite bright. Right to left I might bite.
Lily is a lilypad in a small pond. Lilly doubles her size each day, On the 20th day she covers the whole pond. On what day was Lily half the size of the pond?
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?
Long and slinky like a trout, never sings till it's guts come out.
Long legs, crooked thighs, little head, and no eyes.
Look into my face and I'm everybody. Scratch my back and I'm nobody.
Looks like water, but it's heat. Sits on sand, lays on concrete. A play on the eyes, but it's all lies.
Man walks over, and man swims under. In times of war, it can be burned asunder. What is it?
Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it. It will not speak until spoken to. What is it?
Many hear me, but no one sees me, and I only speak when spoken to
Many-manned scud-thumper, Maker of worn wood, Shrub-ruster, Sky-mocker, Rave! Portly pusher, Wind-slave. What am I?
Marco and Bob have been the best friends ever since they were little kids. They are also very competitive. Throughout the years they have challenged each other to do both physical and mental challenges. And they completed the challenge. But one day Marco thought of something to challenge Bob to do - something he could start but never finish. The average man could do it and so could Mark and they were both the same sex and the same size. It is a physical challenge. Can you figure out what it was?
Marking mortal privation, when firmly in place. An enduring summation, inscribed in my face. What am I?
Mobsters judge the quality of a vehicle by the size of this
More precious than gold, but cannot be bought, Can never be sold, only earned if it’s sought, If it is broken it can still be mended, At birth it can’t start nor by death is it ended.
My coat keeps me safe From damage that’s near. I cause you happiness, sadness, Anticipation and fear. On the outside, I am put under judgment of price. But my insides have far more value That not even MONEY can suffice.
My first half is normally made of stone, my second is crazy, and I taste sweet when complete.
My first is a body of water. My second is me. My third came before. My fourth before all three. My fifth sounds like my first. My sixth is in a lake. Put all six together to make an animal that will keep you awake.
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today.
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I?
My first is an insect; my second is a border; my whole puts the face in a tuneful disorder.
My first is equality; my second is inferiority; my whole is superiority.
My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp
My first is in wield, sever bones and marrow. My second is in blade, forged in cold steel. My third is in arbalest, and also in arrows. My fourth is in power, plunged through a shield. My fifth is in honor, and also in vows My last will put an end to it all.
My first is nothing but a name; my second is more small; my whole is of so little fame it has no name at all.
My first is second in line; I send shivers up your spine; not quite shining bright I glitter in the light.
My first keeps time, my second spends time, my whole tells time.
My first master has four legs, my second master has two. My first I serve in life, my second I serve in death. Tough I am, yet soft beside. Against ladies cheeks I often reside.
My head bobs lazily in the sun. You think I'm cute. For my face is yellow my hair is white and my body is green.
My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe.
My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend whos watch is always correct, stayed awhile, and then went home. There I made a simple calculation and set the clock right. How did I do this even though I had no watch on me to tell how long it took me to return from my friend's house?
My prefix is food. My suffix is rude. My infix comes in rounds. I keep you off the ground. What Am I?
My sides are firmly laced about, Yet nothing is within; You'll think my head is strange indeed, Being nothing else but skin.
My teeth are sharp, my back is straight, to cut things up it is my fate.
My tongue hangs out as I run over fields and streets all day. I get tied up every morning and untied at night.
Neither bought nor sold but more valuable than gold. It is built but not by hand. What is it?
Never alive but practically extinct. How we miss the letters pressing the ribbon of ink. What is it?
Not a burden for its weight and daily carried out, He who takes it wishes it had never come about
Oh, what a surprise! Oh, what a miracle! It sprouted without a seed, It stood without a trunk. What is it?
On my own, I am darkness, a black abyss. But, Life brings me light with its gentle kiss. I am quiet and cold, but warmth I can hold. Alongside beauties and wonders, sights to be told. My surface may be bare, this I'm aware. But, beautiful secrets I am eager to share. My mouth so large, I swallow you whole. To be in my belly is your goal. What may lie within can drive men to sin. Greed and desire, gluttony's kin. For some, I am fear. For others, hope. My perception shaped from life's scope. From the earth I have come, and forever will stay, even if parts of me crumble away. What am I?
Once they sailed the sea, now they surf the web
One day a little boy named John went over to his parents and said that he wanted to shoot people and blow them up. His parents were really proud of his career choice. What does John want to do?
One fourth of the population of a newly discovered planet have 4 legs. The rest have two legs. There are 60 legs total. How big is the population of the newly discovered planet?
One sunny afternoon, three men go for a ride on a hot air balloon over the Sahara desert. An hour into the trip, the balloon begins to lose altitude. A month later, someone found one of the ballooners laying on the desert sand dead, naked, and holding half a toothpick. What happened to him?
Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
Pair me with baking, I turn from colored to white, I'm dirt cheap; in stores and restaurants I abound. When I use my alias I can make quite a noise, Or in music, a much more well-liked sound.
People are hired to get rid of me. I'm often hiding under your bed. In time I'll always return you see. Bite me and you're surely dead.
People like this usually live in rural areas, unless they are lucky enough to strike oil and move to Beverly Hills.
Pirates put their booty in it.
Plant whose name sounds like a dish full of dairy spread.
Plow and hoe, reap and sow, What soon does every farmer grow?
Put into a pit, locked beneath a grate, guarded through the night, yet it still goes out.
Puzzle: Who are these people? | Person saw the bridge crossed 3 persons Riddle
Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when its cold. In warmth I wear an emerald glove and in between I dress in gold.
Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight. "No Fair" cried Robert, "You have 3 times as many as I do!" David said "Fine!" and gave Robert 10 more balloons. "Still not fair!" argued Robert, "You still have twice as many as I do." How many more balloons must David give Robert for them to have the same number?
Round as an apple, deep as a cup, and all the kings' horses can't fill it up. What is it?
Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it. What is it?
RUGBY = 9, TENNIS = 14, FOOTBALL = 12, HOCKEY = 16, SWIMMING = ?
Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb.
Salty water everywhere but not sea in sight.
Screaming, soaring seeking sky. Flowers of fire flying high, Eastern art from ancient time, Name me now and solve this rhyme.
Searing 'cross the pitch-black skies, I scream in celebration, Yet moments later, my outburst through, I am naught but imagination.
Sharp and long, flag of the world. What is it?
Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.
Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I. Think my friend, tell me where does it lie?
Sometimes black, sometimes white, I have veins but no blood
Steals an event or even a mood. Reveals the truth or shatters it.
Surname of the pilot of the Millennium Falcon.
Take one out and scratch my head I am now black but once was red.
Talks like this, a green wise man does. Guess my clue, you will.
The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be? (3 possible solutions).
The French word for 'fun size' in women's clothing.
The hand sows, the eyes harvest?
The higher I climb, the hotter I engage. I cannot escape from my crystal cage.
The itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot variety is quite popular.
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
The moon is my father. The sea is my mother. I have a million brothers. I die when I reach land
The more holes you cover the lower it goes.
The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
The older they are the less wrinkles they have.
The ones who see it may go blind, Contracting the fool's madness. You have to dig to find it, Crush big stones or mine it. Wash dirt clumps in a pan and wait for it to settle, A shiny, precious metal.
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
The root tops the trunk on this backward thing, that grows in the winter and dies in the spring.
The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
The stack just might be sent all over. Full of what's new, yet it's nearly obsolete.
The title of the problem tells you how to approach these four questions. (A). A bus leaves Moscow for Tula at noon. An hour later a cyclist leaves Tula for mosco, moving slower than the bus. When the bus and cyclist meet, which one of the two will be farther from Moscow? (B). Which is worth more: a pound of $10 gold peices or half a pound of $20 gold pieces? (C). At six o'clock the wall clock struck 6 times. Checking with my watch, I noticed the time between the first and last strokes was 30 seconds. How long will the clock take to strike 12 at midnight? (D). Three swallows fly outward from a point. When will they all be on the same plane in space? Now check the answers. Did you fall into any of the traps which lurk in these simple problems?
The weapon of choice to create the biggest shock.
There are 100 light bulbs lined up in a row in a long room. Each bulb has its own switch and is currently switched off. The room has an entry door and an exit door. There are 100 people lined up outside the entry door. Each bulb is numbered consecutively from 1 to 100. So is each person. Person No. 1 enters the room, switches on every bulb, and exits. Person No. 2 enters and flips the switch on every second bulb (turning off bulbs 2, 4, 6, ...). Person No. 3 enters and flips the switch on every third bulb (changing the state on bulbs 3, 6, 9, ...). This continues until all 100 people have passed through the room. What is the final state of bulb No. 64? And how many of the light bulbs are illuminated after the 100th person has passed through the room?
There are 30 cows and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
There are millions of me. I am very small but when moving fast I am deadly.
There are several different kinds, but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?
There are two bodies on the floor. They are surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die?
There are two numbers whose product added to the sum of their squares is 109, and the difference of whose squares is 24. What are the two numbers?
There is a certain club which is for men only. There are 600 men who belong to this club and 5% of these men wear one earring. Of the other 95% membership, half wear two earrings and the other half wear none. How many earrings are being worn in this club?
There is a creature of God whose body is hard; it does not wish to eat unless you strike its head.
There is a man stood on top of a mountain frozen holding a peice of straw. How did he get there?
There is a puzzle which can be asked all day with a different correct answer each time. What is the puzzle?
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
There is someone, and there is always another, for without the other, there wouldn't be one
There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?
They belong to me; they belong to you; They can make you feel happy or make you feel blue; They never end until the day you do.
They can float and tickle, but their sound is rarely heard unless you're a pillow or bird. What are they?
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
They make no sense at all, In them you either fly or fall. They make you do it all. Their need is biologic, but they are most illogic. They are not real but still can be achieved, If they are just believed
They try to beat me, they try in vain. And when I win, I end the pain.
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
Thirty men and ladies two, gathered for a festive do; Dressed quite formal, black and white; soon movement turned to nasty fight.
This is in a realm of true and in a realm false, but you experience me as you turn and toss.
This is needed both for courage and hardcover books.
This is rectangular, hollow and has a lid, and where you’ll find it you might wonder, it is just six feet under. What is it?
This only turns over once you have traveled very far. What is it?
This only turns over once you have travelled very far. What is it?
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face.
This veggie is characterized of long stalks or shoots taken from the plant. They have a strong odor when cooked and can influence the color or urine
Though blind as well, can lead the blind well.
Though easy to spot, when allowed to plume, It is hard to see, when held in a room.
Though I have neither legs nor feet, my use is for to go; Although I cannot speak, I tell what others want to know
Though I wander the earth, I am no longer here. I am pale and I chill everyone near. Who am I?
Though not a plant, has leaves. Though not a beast, has spine. Though many wouldn't need this thing, It's more valuable than wine.
Thousands lay up gold within this house, But no man made it. Spears past counting guard this house, But no man wards it.
Thousands of these come together to make a digital image. What is it?
Three little letters, a paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.
Through its wounds, water does run. It once held many but now has none. What is it?
Tom volunteered to be the chief organizer for the world's tether ball championships. There were 657 contestants from around the world. The tournament was set up whereby the winner would advance and the loser would be eliminated. Since there was an odd number of participants, the initial pairing leaves one player out. That player gets a bye and automatically advances to the next round. How many matches will Tom have to schedule to determine the tether ball champion?
Try deciphering this code - S T O E E I T A E S S S I N O Y (Hint - count and you will have the answer!)
Turn us on our backs and open up our stomachs you will be the wisest of men though at start a lummox.
Twelve flags stand equidistant along the track at the stadium. The runners start at the first flag. A runner reaches the eighth flag 8 seconds after he starts. If he runs at an even speed, how many seconds does he need altogether to reach the twelfth flag?
Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.
Two cyclists began a training run, one starting from Moscow and the other starting from Simferopol. When the riders were 180 miles apart, a fly took an interest. Starting on one cyclists shoulder, the fly flew ahead to meet the other cyclist. After reaching him the fly then turned around and yet back. The restless fly continued to shuttleback and fourth until the pair met; then settled on the nose of one rider. The flys speed was 30 mph. Each cyclist speed was 15 mph. How many miles did the fly travel?
Two men walk into a restaurant. One man orders H2O. The second man says, “I will have H2O too.” The second man dies. How come the second man dies?
Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?
Two schoolgirls were traveling from the city to a dacha (summer cottage) on an electric train. "I notice," one of the girls said "that the dacha trains coming in the opposite direction pass us every 5 minutes. What do you think-how many dacha trains arrive in the city in an hour, given equal speeds in both directions?" "Twelve, of course," the other girl answered, "because 60 divided by 5 equals 12." The first girl did not agree. What do you think?
Used on a diamond and left on a board. It's great for a gymnast his grip to restore. What is it?
Useful tool for who in darkness dwell. Within you, corrupting like a deadly spell.
Using only brackets, parentheses, and these signs +,-, X, /. How can you express 100 with 5 1's and express 100 three ways with five 5's?
Vikings use this for warmth.
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. What is it?
Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble, Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
We are all around, yet to us you are half blind. Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find
We are few to the wise; We are abundant to the drunken; We can calm the beast and are precious to the child; We can devour the heart, without piercing the skin
We are five little objects of an everyday sort, You will find us all in a tennis court.
We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.What are we?
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
What binds two people yet touches only one?
What bird can lift the heaviest weight?
What breaks on the water but never on the land?
What can answer in any language? What can speak without a mouth? What can sing without an ear?
What can be big, white, dirty and wicked?
What can be filled with empty hands?
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What can be measured but not seen?
What can be seen but never found that only hides in the unwound?
What can be swallowed, but can swallow you?
What can be underwater, under fire, on fire and taking water all at the same time?
What can go through glass without breaking it?
What can run but can’t walk?
What can stand in place of a country but still fold away in a drawer?
What can you fold but not crease?
What can you share and still have all for yourself?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
What common verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
What contains zero calories, but if you consume it, you will probably gain weight?
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?
What do people want the least on their hands?
What do you have when you're sitting down that you don't have when you're standing up?
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?
What do you throw out when you need it but put away when you don’t?
What does a WW1 Trench, A Submarine and a Popular Phone App all have in common?
What does everyone know how to open but not how to close?
What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
What dress does everyone have, but no one wears?
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
What flares up and does a lot of good, and when it dies is just a piece of wood?
What flies around all day but never goes anywhere?
What flies without wings?
What gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries?
What gets closer when you blink?
What gets wet while drying?
What goes around and around the wood, but never goes into the wood?
What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
What goes in, but never through? I've got some and so do you. We might lend one, or even two, but only if our trust is true.
What goes with a car, comes with a car, is no use to a car but a car cannot move without it?
What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?
What hangs others yet can unintentionally hang itself?
What has 3 feet but cannot walk?
What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the evening and 3 legs in the night?
What has a bell but isn't a church. Is full of air but is not a balloon?
What has a big mouth, yet never speaks?
What has a bottom right at the top?
What has a mouth but can't chew?
What has a spot and is very bright, is sometimes, red, white, blue, yellow or green and is often blinding.
What has four legs during the day; and six or eight during the night?
What has four wings but cannot fly and uses the wind but does not know why?
What has one eye but cannot see?
What has six faces, But does not wear makeup. It also has twenty-one eyes, But cannot see?
What has thirteen hearts But no body or soul?
What has three feet but no arms or legs?
What has three ways out and just one way in?
What has two hands, a round face, always runs, but stays in place?
What has two legs but doesn't walk?
What has two spines and a lot of ribs, and carries much but never moves?
What holds names and memories which are not its own?
What is as big as you are and yet does not weight anything?
What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?
What is eaten but not grown and was born in water but will disappear if soaked?
What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water? riddle answer
What is given but kept by the giver?
What is it something that you always have but you always leave behind?
What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?
What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?
What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?
What is lighter than what it is made of?
What is made of wood but can't be sawed?
What is neither inside the house nor outside the house but a necessity for any home?
What is never used unless it's in a tight place?
What is often returned but is never borrowed?
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
What is red and nailed to a wall?
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
What is significant about 3661 seconds past midnight on 1st January 2001?
What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?
What is that you will break everytime you name it?
What is the 4 digit number in which the first digit is one-fifth of the last, and the second and third digits are the last digit multiplied by 3?
What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?
What is the freedom of birds and the pen of old men?
What is the heart of many risks, has a heart, but is not a living being?
What is the next 3 letters in this riddle? o t t f f s s _ _ _
What is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements?
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
What is the thing that stays the same size, but the more it's used the more it decreases?
What is the thing which, once poured out, cannot be gathered again?
What is up that’s also down? What’s a smile and a frown?
What is weightless but it needs two person to hold it?
What is weightless but takes two people to hold it?
What is yellow, looks like the moon and has seeds?
What kind of running means walking?
What kind of table has no legs?
What kinds of men are always above board?
What letter comes next: O T T F F S S ?
What liquid can contain the soul?
What looks back but cannot see?
What measures out time until in time all is smashed to it?
What month of the year has 28 days?
What moves without seeing and cries without eyes?
What number has all letters in alphabetical order when spelled out?
What number squared = 12345678987654321?
What points the way without a hand. It floats on water but exists on land?
What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?
What stays on the ground but never gets dirty?
What stays the same size no matter how much they weight?
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
What tastes better than it smells?
What travels from house to house and is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide but always stays outside?
What tree that definitely grows does not have a shadow and does not grow fruit?
What turns everything around but does not move?
What turns from red to black as soon as it touches water?
What two things can always see what the other sees, but can never see each other?
What two whole, positive numbers that have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added?
What type of bar gets you wet walking in and out of it but keeps you dry inside?
What type of paper can you neither read nor write on?
What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?
What was never scared but became petrified, can't make a bird but can make a bat, can't live in a house but would die to have one. What is it?
What weaves webs as they grow?
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order, and uses each only once?
What word is a plural, but when you add an "S" to the end, it becomes singular?
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
What zips through the sky with a tail of fire and dust. It could be an omen, its origin to discuss?
What's a place you have left but didn't enter?
What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?
What's the most romantic part about the ocean?
When can someone truthfully tell someone “well done” but think they did a bad job?
When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
When I asked her how old she was, she smiled and said cryptically: "The day before yesterday I was 22, but next year I'll be 25." What is her birthday and when was the date of our conversation?
When I get closer my tail grows longer, but when I go away my tail leads the way.
When I live I cry, If you don't kill me I'll die.
When I'm born I fly. When I'm alive I lay. When I'm dead I run.
When I'm used, I'm useless, once offered, soon rejected. In desperation oft expressed, the intended not protected. What am I?
When it comes in, From sea to shore, Twenty paces you'll see, No less, no more.
When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?
When the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was nine he was asked to add all the integers from 1 through 100. He quickly added 1 to 100, 2 to 99, and so on for 50 pairs of numbers each adding to 101. Answer: 50 X 101=5,050. What is the sum of all the digits in integers from 1 through 1,000,000,000? (That's all the digits in all the numbers, not all the numbers themselves.)
When the creeper passes, all the grass kneels
When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?
When the horse strokes the cat, the wood begins to sing.
Where do you go in through one hole and come out through two holes at the same time?
Where humans breath liquid?
Which button does not function when being pressed?
Which word contains 26 letters but only three syllables?
While playing with a metal washer shaped like a ring, Dave accidently pushed it on his finger too far and couldn't get it off. Trying to remove it using soap and water didn't work. The hospital sent him to a service station thinking they could cut the metal. Since the ring was made with a specially hardened steel, it couldn't be cut. Just then Bob arrived on the scene and suggested an easy way to remove the washer in just a few minutes. What was his solution?
Whiling away the hours of flowers, Walking through fields of gold. Preening and pruning in lights fading hours, For petals to freeze in the cold. What is it?
White bird, featherless, flying out of paradise. Flying over sea and land. Dying in my hand.
White fat and fluffy, May even look like a puppy. Seems heavy but is light, Floats about without a worry, But if it turns dark you have to hurry!
Who eats a lot of iron without getting sick?
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it?
Who lives in a house with one bedroom, 50 hallways, and ghosts lurking everywhere?
Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Whoever makes it, tells it not; whoever takes it, knows it not; and whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
Why is an orange not like a church bell?
With head without hair. With mouth without tooth.
Within, I clean all that is bad and is old. I make juice that’s the color of gold. Should I die, a filter machine would you need assembled to replace me and beans I resemble.
Without this, eating food and Steven Spielberg's career would be very different.
You are having a bad day if 12 peers deem you to be this
You can always see it, but it's too far away to touch. Mountains rest on it, and at sea it surrounds you. What is it?
You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
You can hold it without using your hands or your arms. What is it?
You can only have it once you have given it.
You can read it both ways, I wear; One way it's a number, reversed a snare.
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?
You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears.
You have accidently left out the plug and are attempting to fill the bath with both taps full on. The hot tap takes 6 minutes to fill the bath. The cold tap takes 2 minutes and the water empties through the plug hole in 4 minutes. In how many minutes will the bath be filled?
You need a key to receive an answer from me. The answer you'll find is straight from your mind. What is it?
You seek it out, when your hunger is ripe. It sits on four legs, and smokes a pipe.
You should keep it as straight as can be, yet very few do. Most of the time it's slightly bent or curved. Your sadness usually causes it to bend further, but don’t bend it for too long or it may never be able to fully straighten out again. What is it?
You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the inside. What is it?
You throw me out when you want to use me and you take me in when you don't want to use me. Who am I?
You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer, how can you boil the egg for only two minutes?
You want to send a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object. You have several locks with keys. The box has a locking ring which is more than large enough to have a lock attached. But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. How do you do it? Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.
You’ll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train
You'll see savory dishes in Hong Kong sizzling in these.

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