Tuesday, April 30, 2024

ENOUGH OF THIS VEXATION, HOBBIT. LET'S COMPETE AT RIDDLES!


THE RIDDLES
(Answers below. No peeking.)

1. I have cities but no houses; I have mountains but no trees; I have water but no fish. What am I?


2. If you eat me, my sender will eat you. What am I?


3. What living thing has a heart that doesn’t beat?


4. What’s the coolest letter in the alphabet?


5. I can fly but have no wings; I can cry but have no eyes. What am I?


6. Always in you, sometimes on you; if I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?


7. What can’t be burned in a fire nor drowned in water?


8. What word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

9. A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. Someone put something in it, and now it weighs 40 pounds. What did the person add?

10. What is it that, given one, you’ll have either two or none?

11. What has 10 letters and starts with gas?


12. When you need me, you throw me away. When you don’t need me, you bring me back. What am I?


13. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?


14. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?


15. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left?


16. When is a door not a door?


THE ANSWERS

1. A map

2. A fishhook

3. An artichoke

4. B (it’s surrounded by A/C)

5. A cloud

6. Water

7. Ice

8. Short (becomes shorter)

9. A hole

10. A choice

11. Automobile

12. An anchor

13. A coat of paint

14. An echo

15. Your left hand

16. When it’s ajar


BONUS RIDDLE:
What has one voice but goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? 

ANSWER: A human being, who crawls as a baby, stands on two legs as an adult, and walks with a stick in old age.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOOK...It’s JAMES CARVILLE, Demonrat strategist living in a cave. TRUMP will seal the cave shut with this little weasel still inside! Bawhahahaha

Anonymous said...

What has words, but never speaks?

What kind of band never plays music?

What has one eye, but can’t see?

If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?

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Anonymous said...

Thank you for the brain stimulation. 🙂

Anonymous said...

still 6 1/2 out of first place and sinking... go astros from the bottom up you are on first place - gueytogo!!!

rita