Riddles

[chuckie]

What gets longer the more you pull, slots into a hole and works best when jerked?

[del fuego]

6.what goes up and down but never moves?



The Sun

[pineapple stu]

The sun never moves?

Even in the 15th century, you'd have been ridiculed for that.

[Rovers fan]

1) What is half of 2+2?

2) Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?


3) I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?

4) Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honour got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a youg girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

This is a paragraph taken from "Gadsby". What is wrong with this passage?

5) First, I have 4 legs,
Then I have two,
and then I have three.
What am I?

6) What can run but never walks, Has a mouth but never talks, Has a bed but never sleeps, Has a head but never weeps?

7) From what seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left?

8) Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish In the midday sun.

What am I?

9) A man without eyes saw plums on a tree;
He neither took plums, nor left plums,
Now how can that be?

10) If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 7 days?

11) What kind of cheese is made backwards?

12) A 16 year old boy was driving a moped down a one way street in the wrong direction. A policeman stopped him and gave him a ticket. The policeman paid the ticket himself. What is a logical explanation for this?

13) A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?

[gustavo]

1) What is half of 2+2?
2


4) Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honour got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a youg girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

This is a paragraph taken from "Gadsby". What is wrong with this passage?
Theres no letter "e" in it



6) What can run but never walks, Has a mouth but never talks, Has a bed but never sleeps, Has a head but never weeps?
a river?


8) Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish In the midday sun.

What am I?
shadow?



13) A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?
3
hope these are right:)

[Kildare Lad]

2) Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?
Dictionary?

5) First, I have 4 legs,
Then I have two,
and then I have three.
What am I?
A human?

7) From what seven-letter word can you take away two letters and have eight left?
Delight?

10) If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 7 days?
Theres no such thing as a hen and a half or an egg and a half?

12) A 16 year old boy was driving a moped down a one way street in the wrong direction. A policeman stopped him and gave him a ticket. The policeman paid the ticket himself. What is a logical explanation for this?
Policeman was his father?

[Rovers fan]

gus got 4,6,8,13 correct. kildare lad got 5,12 correct

[osarusan]

No 3. The answer is sand.

No7. The answer is sleight.

No 9. The answer is he had one eye, there were 2 plums, he took one.

[DmanDmythDledge]

1) What is half of 2+2?
1+1

9) A man without eyes saw plums on a tree;
He neither took plums, nor left plums,
Now how can that be?
He took the tree.

10) If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 7 days?
28

11) What kind of cheese is made backwards?
Edam
.....

[Rovers fan]

osaruan got 3,9 correct. DDD got 10,11 correct

[osarusan]

7 - sleight is wrong? Its a seven letter word, you take away sl and you're left with eight.......whats wrong with that?

[Calcio Jack]

11) What kind of cheese is made backwards?

Edam

[First]

7 - sleight is wrong? Its a seven letter word, you take away sl and you're left with eight.......whats wrong with that?

Also works with freight

[Rovers fan]

Freight is the answer i had

[gustavo]

1) What is half of 2+2?


3

:eek: i should have got that earlier

[sligoman]

If you say me, I break, what am I?

[superfrank]

If you say me, I break, what am I?
Secret.

[sligoman]

Secret.Not what I have anyway!

[stann]

If you say me, I break, what am I?

silence?

[sligoman]

silence?Yep:)