Riddles...?!
Question: Whoever gets the most correct gets 10 points.
1) What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?
2) Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?
3) Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
4) What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level.
5) What ends everything always?
6) When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
7) A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
8) 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?
9) It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
Answers: Whoever gets the most correct gets 10 points.
1) What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?
2) Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?
3) Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
4) What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level.
5) What ends everything always?
6) When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
7) A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
8) 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?
9) It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
air
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meat
palindromes (the same forward and backward)
nothing
a secret
Friday is his horse
nothing
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grandfather (father#1), father (father #2, son #1), son (son #2
antidisestablishmentarianism ( I know its not buit its the longest I could think of)
your breath
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sorry, didn't know that many.
Your shadow.
So just finish your vegetables.
Meat.
They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.
The alphabet ‘g’.
A secret.
His horse’s name is Friday.
A coffin.
Beetle.
Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.
Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means'to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'
Your breath.
Both are in water - WaTer.
‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.
e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.
1 A reflection of you
2. He should have ordered something else
3. 160lbs
4. Nouns
5. Death
6. Time
7.Friday is a horse
8. Life insurance or a will
9.an insect
1. Your shadow.
2. Finish your vegetables.
3. Meat.
4. Palindromes.
5. G
6. A secret.
7. Horse's name.
8. A coffin.
9. Beetle.
10. Grandfather, Dad, Son.
11. Smiles.
12. Your breath.
13. Water, they're in the middle of it.
14. Startling.
15. E, N, T.
Your shadow.
So just finish your vegetables.
Meat.
They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.
The alphabet ‘g’.
A secret.
His horse’s name is Friday.
A coffin.
Beetle.
Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.
Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is ''- which means" to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'
Your breath.
Both are in water - WaTer.
‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.
e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten
great riddles....
too bad some don't think for themselves....
kat, we'll just call you COPY kat.....jeesh, you couldn't even correct Justin's typo......LOL