some english riddles
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2. What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters taken away and still retain its original pronunciation?
3.What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
4.What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?
5. What 3 letters change a girl into a woman?
6. What always goes up but never comes down?
7. What 5 letter word can be rearranged 3 different times to get 3 different words each containing 1 more syllable than the last? The word has no duplicates of letters.
8. Jenn picked a book off the highest shelf in her room. On the spine she read "How to Jog". She ran out of the room and opened the book but found it had absolutely nothing to do with jogging. What was the book about?
9. A woman owns a shop and the first day she had 13 customers, the second day she had 14 customers, the third 95, and the fourth 62. Following the sequence, how many customers will she have tomorrow?
10. Eternally I am 1 to 6, Eternally I am 15 to 20, I am always 5, but I am never 21 unless I am flying. What am I?
11. With no wings, I fly. With no eyes, I see. With no arms, I climb. More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe. I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end, I rule all. What am I?
12. I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all who live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
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1.
2. Queue
3. The year is read the same upside down as rightside up. (6009)
4. Tomorrow
5. AGE
6. Someone's age
7. 1) Aides 2) Aside 3) Ideas
8. It was an encyclopedia containing the letters "HOW" through the letters "JOG"
9. 35 customers. The numbers reversed are 31415926 and with a decimal they are 3.1415926, which is Pi, meaning the next number is 53, reversed to be 35.
10. A die
11. The human imagination
12.It can be either tomorrow or the future. Once its here it is no longer tomorrow but today. Its no longer the future but the present.
2. What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters taken away and still retain its original pronunciation?
3.What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
4.What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?
5. What 3 letters change a girl into a woman?
6. What always goes up but never comes down?
7. What 5 letter word can be rearranged 3 different times to get 3 different words each containing 1 more syllable than the last? The word has no duplicates of letters.
8. Jenn picked a book off the highest shelf in her room. On the spine she read "How to Jog". She ran out of the room and opened the book but found it had absolutely nothing to do with jogging. What was the book about?
9. A woman owns a shop and the first day she had 13 customers, the second day she had 14 customers, the third 95, and the fourth 62. Following the sequence, how many customers will she have tomorrow?
10. Eternally I am 1 to 6, Eternally I am 15 to 20, I am always 5, but I am never 21 unless I am flying. What am I?
11. With no wings, I fly. With no eyes, I see. With no arms, I climb. More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe. I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end, I rule all. What am I?
12. I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all who live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
ANSWERS
1.
2. Queue
3. The year is read the same upside down as rightside up. (6009)
4. Tomorrow
5. AGE
6. Someone's age
7. 1) Aides 2) Aside 3) Ideas
8. It was an encyclopedia containing the letters "HOW" through the letters "JOG"
9. 35 customers. The numbers reversed are 31415926 and with a decimal they are 3.1415926, which is Pi, meaning the next number is 53, reversed to be 35.
10. A die
11. The human imagination
12.It can be either tomorrow or the future. Once its here it is no longer tomorrow but today. Its no longer the future but the present.
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Hi friend,
1. What comes down never goes up?
=> Rain
2. Which starts with E and ends with E and has only one letter?
=>Envelope
3. What has holes but can hold water?
=> Sponge
4. Which has a lot of keys but cannot open a door?
=> Piano
HOPE THIS HELPS YOU :)
1. What comes down never goes up?
=> Rain
2. Which starts with E and ends with E and has only one letter?
=>Envelope
3. What has holes but can hold water?
=> Sponge
4. Which has a lot of keys but cannot open a door?
=> Piano
HOPE THIS HELPS YOU :)
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