Riddles For 11.30.5

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1) Two people are talking on the phone

long distance. One is in an East Coast

state of the U.S., the other is in a West
Coast state of the U.S. The first asks

the other, "What time is it?" He hears

the answer and says, "That's funny. It's
the same time here!" Neither one of them

were mistaken about the time. How is this

possible?

2) What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before you're done,
and the slower you work,
the sooner you're finished?

3) With pointed fangs it sits and waits,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

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1) One is in Eastern Oregon (Mountain time);

the other in Western Florida (Central time),

and the phone call takes place on daylight-

savings-time changeover day at 1:30 a.m.
2) ROASTING MEAT ON A SPIT
3)A STAPLE OR A STAPLER

Riddles For 11.28.5

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1) The Lines - Which Movie???

"I'm in the library on a Saturday night!
..She'll think I'm a geek! "
"Hey, she's in here too."
"Oh, yeah, that's right."

(CLUE: A MEL GIBSON FILM)

2) I start with the letter e,
I end with the letter e.
I contain only one letter,
Yet I am not the letter e!

What am I?

3)Can you decipher these well known proverbs?

a) A rotating fragment of mineral collects no bryophytic plants.
b) Exercise your visual faculties prior to executing a jump.
c) Under no circumstances compute the number of your barnyard
fowl previous to their incubation.
d) An excess of individuals skilled in the preparation of
edibles impairs the quality of thin soup.
e) A feathered biped in the terminal part of the arm equals
in value a pair of feathered bipeds in densely branched
shrubbery.
f) A recently purchased implement for brushing aways floor
dirt invariably effaces the dirt most efficiently.
g) A timorous heart at no time succeeds in acquiring the
beautiful damsel.
h) Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent
affection and armed conflict between nations.

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1) FOREVER YOUNG
2) ENVELOPE
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a) A rolling stone gathers no moss.
b) Look before you leap.
c) Never count your chickens before they hatch.
d) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
e) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
f) A new broom sweeps clean.
h) Faint heart ne'er won fair lady
i) All's fair in love and war.

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Riddles For 11.19.5

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1) I'm so fast you can't see me,
Though everyone sees straight through me,
I don't stop until the day you die.

What am I?


2) What is it that a child could carry,
yet in turn could carry a man,
but nothing short of magic
could make it stand on one end?


3) My posterior is adorned with feathers. I have a rather
long neck and quite a pointy nose. I am able to fly, yet
I have no wings. What am I?

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1) The blink of an eye
2) A Rope
3) An arrow or a dart

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Riddles For 11.15.5

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1) What has roots that nobody sees, and is
taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it
never grows. What is it?

2) These ten fictitious names are all rearrange -
ments of the names of famous people. For example,
if Sheila O'Norton was in the list, you would discover
that this was really Horatio Nelson is disguise. Can
you discover who everyone really is?

a) Jamie Braser
b) Frank Cardise
c) Fred Colatis
d) Alfie Dondee
e) Fidel Haltor

f) Jon Hasket

g) Fred Hyron

h) Mark Larx

i) Helmut Tarrin

j) June Seatan

3)I sit and face you and you stare right back.
You say nothing to me for I do not understand,
but you understand all of what I say if you want to.
I never move but I can make you feel any number of
different emotions but mostly none at all,
then you leave without saying goodbye.

What am I?

4) A man gets out of jail and goes to a nearby
hotel where he leaves a considerable sum of
money. He then moves his car to another
hotel where he leaves a lesser sum of money.
What is he doing???


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1) A Mountain
2)
a) James Barrie
b) Francis Drake
c) Fidel Castro
d) Daniel Defoe
e) Adolf Hitler
f) John Keats
g) Henry Ford
h) Karl Marx
i) Martin Luther
j) Jane Austen
3) A T.V. Set
4) He is playing Monopoly.

Patient To His Doctor

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The patient is adamant. "Doc, I need a liver transplant,
a kidney transplant, a heart transplant, a cornea transplant,
a spleen transplant, a pancreas trans. . ."

"What makes you think you need all these?"

Well, replied the patient, "My boss said if I wanted to keep
my job I needed to get reorganised."

Riddles For 11.9.5

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1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

3) From which animal do we get catgut?

4) In which month do Russians celebrate
the October Revolution?

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are
named after what animal?

7) What was King George VI's first name?

8) What colour is a purple finch?

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

10) With pointed fangs it sits and waits,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

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1) 1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
116 years

2) Which country makes Panama hats?
Ecuador

3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
Sheep and Horses

4) In which month do Russians celebrate
the October Revolution?
November

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
Squirrel fur

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are
named after what animal?
Dogs

7) What was King George VI's first name?
Albert

8) What colour is a purple finch?
Crimson

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
New Zealand

10) A staple or a stapler

Movie Studio Warehouse

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Two mice live in a movie studio warehouse and
are looking for food. Suddenly one hears the other
chewing. "What did you find?" he asks.



"I'm not sure," comes the answer from the second
mouse. "It looks like a piece of film celluloid from
an old movie. Let me see... Ah, yes. It's from 'Gone
With the Wind.' "

"And how is it?" asks the first mouse.

"Not so great," replies the second mouse.

"The book was better."

Riddles For 11.4.5

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1) What year of last century is the same when its number is
upside down? What year of the previous century is the same
when inverted?

2) Can you decipher this famous nursery rhyme?

A human female, extremely captious and given to opposed
behavior, was questioned as to the dynamic state of her
cultivated tract of land used for the production of various
types of flora. The tract components were enumerated as
argentous tone-producing agents, a rare species of oceanic
growth, and pulchritudinous young females situated in a
linear orientation.

3) Saturday and Sunday, I am big. Tuesday thru Thursday
I am small. And, Monday and Friday I am non-existent.
What am I?


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ANSWERS:

1) The invertible years are 1961 and 1881

2) Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

3) The letter "s".

Riddles For 11.2.5

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1) Black When I`m Clean
White When I`m Dirty
What am I?

2) When it's alive, its life gets short.
When I kill it, its life prolongs.
What is it?

3) What does the star represent:

A N O
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ANSWERS:

1) Blackboard

2) A candle