Riddles
What word has 5 letters but is pronounced like only one letter?
"Queue", pronounced as the letter 'Q'.
In 1926, F. Hoffman & Company of Chicago set out to make perfectly round chocolate-covered caramels. The manufacturing equipment didn’t quite cooperate, however, and what came out were oval-shaped candies. A worker pronounced them “duds,” but everyone agreed they still tasted good, so the company kept producing them under the playful name.
Milk Duds
May Kick Wick
Make it quick
Huff Oral Heave Glow Fur
A Four Leaf Clover
A “turducken” is a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken. Using that name’s logic, what should you call burger stuffed with a taco stuffed with a pizza?
A) Burtaczza, B) Burcaopiz, C) Pizacobur
A: Burtaczza. Turducken uses the first three letters of TURkey, then the first three letters of DUCk, and the last three letters of chicKEN. By that logic, a Burtaczza is a combination of a BURger, TACo, and piZZA.
A baseball team had won a game 19-17. No errors. But not a single man crossed the plate. How could this be?
All of the players were married.... or It was a woman's team
When Franklin Mars, founder of the Mars candy company, needed a name for the new candy bar that would follow his wildly successful Milky Way bar, he turned to the family stables, of all places. He named it after the family’s prized horse. It came out in 1930 and was an immediate hit.
Snickers
Watt Sap Inning
What's happening?
Mare Itch Prop Owes All
Marriage Proposal
Which of these phrases is NOT an anagram of Post Malone?
A) Salmon Poet
B) Metal Spoon
C) Mostly Peanut
C: Mostly Peanut. Post Malone has 10 letters, and “Mostly Peanut” is the only option with more than 10 letters. Also, there is no U or Y in Post Malone.
What two words, when combined, hold the most letters?
Post office!
The Curtiss Company claimed that this candy bar was named after President Cleveland’s daughter, when they brought a lawsuit against a famous baseball player for using a similar name.
Baby Ruth.
May Pulls Ear Up
Maple syrup
Raw Key Ant Bull Wink Hill
Rocky And Bullwinkle
Logically, which of the words on the bottom should be included in the list below?
Dearest, Conveyer, Diagnosed, Asking, Potatoes, ?
A) Chairs, B) Rocket, C) Orange, D) Futon
A: Chairs. All the words contain a part of the body within them. Chairs contains the word “hair”.
What do these three have in common: Dogs, Diamonds, and Double Plays
They are best friends of something: Man's best friend, a girl's best friend, and a pitcher's best friend.
Leo Hirschfield, the inventor of the chewy, chocolatey candy, named them for his 5-year-old daughter, Clara's nickname. It was a popular nickname at the time, and appealed to penny-toting children who bought up Hirschfield’s individually wrapped treats.
Tootsie Roll
Canoes He Wad Ice He
Can You See What I See
These Hound Doff Moo Sick
The Sound Of Music
Ben is 45 years old and has a 20-year-old daughter named Elle and a three-year-old sister named Ella. What is Ella’s relationship to Elle?
A) Aunt
B) Cousin
C) Half sister
A: Aunt. Even though Ella is much younger, she is Elle’s aunt because she is the sibling of Ben, Elle’s father.
A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer know that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has 12 boughs and each bough has 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to sell?
None -- A pear tree cannot produce plums.
You might reason that the inventor of this candy was a big Alexandre Dumas fan. And you would be wrong (well, mostly). The name refers to the three different pieces of candy that used to be inside each package: chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Three Musketeers
Eighth Reap Ease Hoot
A Three Piece Suit
Lou Quad Hive Cot
Look What Ive Got
Which one-name celebrity pairs with each of these words below?
NAVY, BABY, VACUUM
A) ADELE, B) SEAL, C) RIHANNA
B: SEAL. Seal links the three words: Navy Seal, Baby Seal, and Vaccum Seal.