Riddles - july - 2008 |
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| 1. I have legs. I have a back. I have arms. But I do not have a body. What am I? |
News |
| 2. Two persons are standing together. One of them is the father of the other’s son. Who are they? |
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Add ‘s’ to me. I become more than one. Add another ‘s’ to me. I become one again. Who am I? |
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It can be taken.
It can be practised.
It can be prescribed.
It can be studied.
What is it? |
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| 5. Mine is a triple character — biological, chemical and nuclear. What am I? |
Weapon |
Riddles - june - 2008 |
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| 1. I have legs. I have a back. I have arms. But I do not have a body. What am I? |
Chair |
| 2. I have complete (not amputated) hands, yet I have no fingers or thumbs. What am I?
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Clock |
| 3. I have feet but I never walk. What am I?
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| 4. I have no weight. I have nothing inside me, yet even ten strong men can’t lift me. What am I?
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| 5. Flesh-less and bone-less I am, yet I have fingers and thumbs. What am I? |
Glove |
Riddles - May - 2008 |
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| 1. Two hundred bricks were used in building a structure. How many bricks (of same size) will be required to complete a duplicate structure of the same size? |
One brick. It will complete the structure. |
| 2. What goes upto the door but cannot enter through it?
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The path leading to the door. |
| 3. Not a single incident of power-failure in a certain village has happened during the last fifty years. How is this possible?
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There is no public supply of electricity in that village.
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| 4. Name the four-letter word which can be spelt in two letters.
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Okay. This word can be spelt in two letters—O.K.
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| 5. One man had to accommodate four children and two goats under his small umbrella but none of them got wet. How come? |
Because it was not raining. |
Riddles - April - 2008 |
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| 1. I am something that always increases the more I am shared with others. What am I ? |
Knowledge |
| 2. What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine-driver.? |
The schoolmaster trains the mind and the engine driver minds the train. |
| 3. What goes through the window without breaking it? |
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| 4. Who handles more letters than a postman? |
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| 5. An ox is tied to a two metre long rope. Yet it goes to far - away fields to graze without breaking the rope. How is this possible? |
The ox is tied to one end of the rope. The other end is left free. |
Riddles - March - 2008 |
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| 1. What is it that won’t cry, if you strike it? |
A Match |
| 2. What is taken from you before you get it? |
A Photo or picture or portrait |
| 3. What is that which is more useful when broken? |
A coconut or an egg |
| 4. What is that which makes Adam a woman? |
Add ‘M’ (Madam) |
| 5. What has a top but cannot play with? What has a foot but cannot walk? |
A hill |
Riddles - February - 2008 |
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| 1. What is it that you can swallow but can swallow you too? |
Water |
| 2. What is that which bites without mouth and teeth? |
Shoe |
| 3. What do you throw out when you need it, and take in when you don’t? |
Anchor |
| 4.What has bed but never sleeps? |
River |
| 5. What has holes but still can carry water? |
Sponge |
Riddles - January - 2008 |
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| 1. A is father of B; but B is not the son of A. What then? |
Daughter |
| 2. To what question may you never answer ‘yes’? |
Are you asleep? |
| 3. What has a thousand needles but cannot sew? |
Porcupine |
| 4. Who is the man that does not do a day’s work but still gets his pay? |
A night-watchman |
| 5. I have cities but no houses; forests but no trees; rivers but no water. What am I? |
Map |
Riddles - December - 2007 |
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| 1. What has eyes but cannot see? |
Potato |
| 2. What is that which increases, when it is shared with others? |
Happiness |
| 3. What is that you cannot see but it is always before you? |
Your future |
| 4. What goes round the world yet stays in one corner? |
Postage stamp |
| 5. What goes up a hill and down a hill but never moves? |
Road |
