Riddles 1
A barrel of water weighed 60 pounds. Someone put something in it and now it weighs 40 pounds. What did the person add?
A hole
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper or Bookkeeping
How much are 2,001 pennies worth?
How much are $20.11 worth in pennies?
How much are 2004 pennies worth?
2,011
1c
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
"Incorrectly."
It belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
Your name
I am something people celebrate or resist. I change people’s thoughts and lives. I am obvious to some people but, to others, I am a mystery. What am I?
Age
You're in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
The match
How many holes in A Polo?
4
A P O O each have 1 hole
Turn me on my side, and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
The number eight
What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
What connects two people, but touches only one?
A wedding ring
My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
A volcano
Choose Food
A pen
An eyeball
A mouth
A rubber glove
A chair
A mouth
choose food
Pronounced - chews food
When Billy's asked how old he is, he replies, "In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago." How old is he?
12 years old
What has 10 letters and starts with gas?
Automobile
How can the number four be half of five?
IV, the Roman numeral for four, is half (two letters) of the word five.
A woman was born in 1975 and died in 1975. At the age of her death, she was 22 years old. How is this possible?
1975 refers to the hospital room number, not the year.
What follows December 2nd?
n
December 2nd
The letter n follows after the 2
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 1/2 goat?
Chicago
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
All the passengers are married.
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS.
ENT. Each represents the first letter of a number in a sequence beginning with "one." So what comes after six and seven? Eight, nine, and ten.
How much dirt is in a hole that measures four feet by four feet by five feet?
None
What is the 7th letter of the alphabet?
h
the is 1, 2, and 3
alp is 4, 5, and 6
making h number 7
TEN = 20, 5, 14. MEN = 13, 5, 14. Using the same logic, what do WOMEN equal?
WOMEN = 23, 15, 13, 5, 14. The numbers represent the letter's position in the English alphabet.
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are a grandfather, father, and son.