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Riddles

Подготовила: Сидакова В. Р.

2018 г.

Riddles.

1. Which is the strongest day in the week? (Sunday, because all the others are week (weak) days. A week-day is a working day, Sunday is not a working day.)

1. When I eat, I live; but when I drink, I die. What am I? (Fire.)

1. What is it that was tomorrow and will be yesterday? (Today.)

1. What is it that is black a white, and yet red all over? (The paper is white and the words are black and it is read (red) all over.)

1. What word becomes shorter by the addition of a syllable? (The word short becomes shorter by the addition of a syllable.)

1. What relation is that child to it father, that is not its father’s own son? (Its father’s daughter.)

1. When is a potato like a boy? (When they are both in jackets.)

1. What belongs only to you, and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

(Your name.)

1. What colour were the winds and waves in the storm? (The winds blew (blue) and the waves rose.)

1. Two geese before a goose, and two geese behind a goose and one goose in the middle. How many geese in all? (Three: one behind the other in a row.)

1. What is neither in the house, nor out of the house? Yet a house cannot do without it? (A window, a door.)

1. What goes up when the rain comes down? (An umbrella.)

1. What key does not lock a door? (A music key.)

1. Where does June comes before May? (In the dictionary.)

2. What is the best place to put the cake in? (In the mouth.)

1. What comes twice in a moment, once in minute and never in a hundred years? (The letter M.)

1. What is it that gets larger the more you take from it? (A hole.)

1. Why do we all go to bed? (Because the bed will not come to us.)

1. Which letter of the alphabet goes all round Great Britain? (The letter C (the sea).

1. What goes up but never comes down? (Smoke, or your age.)

1. What has four legs and can fly? (Two birds.)

1. What has many eyes and never cries? (A potato.)

1. Which month has 28 days in it? (All months have.)

1. What did one wall say to another? (Meet you at the corner.)

1. Who always goes to sleep with his shoes on? (A horse.)