Party Riddles 3.2.6

1. The maker doesn't want it; the buyer doesn't use it;
and the user doesn't see it. What is it?

2. A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents
who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. The child
is not a United States citizen. How is this possible?

3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the
highest mountain on Earth?

4. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her
birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

5. Captain Frank and some of the boys were exchanging
old war stories. Art Bragg offered one about how his grand -
father led a battalion against a German division during World
War I. Through brilliant maneuvers he defeated them and
captured valuable territory. After the battle he was presented
with a sword bearing the inscription "To Captain Bragg for
Bravery, Daring and Leadership. World War I. From the
Men of Battalion 8." Captain Frank looked at Art and said,
"You really don't expect anyone to believe that yarn, do you?"
What's wrong with the story?

6. What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their
religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?

7. In what year did Christmas and New Year's fall in the
same year?

8. A woman from New York married ten different men
from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of
these men died, and she never divorced. How was this
possible?

9. Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than
1989 American dollar bills?

10. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

11. How could you rearrange the letters in the words
"new door" to make one word? Note: There is only
one correct answer.

12. Even if they are starving, natives living in the
Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?

13. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg
are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

14. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take
a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

15. There were an electrician and a plumber
waiting in line for admission to the International
Home Show. One of them was the father of the
other's son. How could this be possible?

16. After the new Canon Law that took effect on
November 27, 1983, would a Roman Catholic man
be allowed to marry his widow's sister?

17. How many outs are there in an inning?

18. How many animals of each sex did Moses
take on the Ark?

19. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10" tall.
What does he weigh?

20. A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die.
How many are left?


EXTRA CREDIT:


1) Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
And whoever knows it, wants it not.
Can you tell me what I speak of?

2) There are three houses in a straight row.
One is red, one is blue, and one is white. The
red house is left of the middle. The blue house
is right of the middle. Where's the white house?

3) The shape of my form will waver and bend,
From the things I'm destroying
and the things I will rend.
My color will vary from bright red and blue,
The power I'm using will dictate my hue.

4) I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak,
But I am nobody's fool.
For there is no language that I can't speak,
Though I never went to school.
What am I?

5) Name this famous nursery Rhyme:

Complications arose during an investigation of dietary
influence; one researcher was unable to assimilate adipose
tissue, and another was unable to consume tissue consisting
chiefly of muscle fiber. By a reciprocal arrangement
between the two researchers, total consumption of the
viands under consideration was achieved, thus leaving
the original container of the viands devoid of contents.




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ANSWERS TO RIDDLES:


1. A coffin.
2. The child was born before 1776.
3. Mount Everest (it just hadn't been
discovered).
4. Clara lives in the southern hemisphere.
5. World War I wasn't called "World War I"
until World War II.
6. The word "and".
7. They fall in the same year every year.
New Year's Day just arrives very early
in the year and Christmas arrives very
late in the same year.
8. The lady was a Justice of the Peace.
9. One thousand nine hundred and ninety
dollar bills are worth one dollar more than
one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine
dollar bills.
10. Only once, and then you are subtracting
it from 20.
11. "one word"
12. Penguins live in the Antarctic.
13. Neither. The yolk of the egg is yellow.
14. You have to take a picture of a man
with a camera, not with a wooden leg.
15. They were husband and wife.
16. No. A dead man can marry no one.
17. Six . Three in each half of the inning.
18. Moses took no animals. It was Noah
on the Ark.
19. Meat.
20. Nine.

Extra Credit Answers:

1) Counterfeit Money
2) Washington, D.C.
3) Fire or Flames
4) Echo
5) Jack Sprat Could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
And so, betwixt them both,
They licked the platter clean.




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