Here are some riddles that my mom got from work...without an answer key! See if you can figure some out. I only know a few. I will post the answers I know soon!!
1. Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive; one scratch from me and you will find your prospects take a dive. What am I?
2. A man takes a barrel that weighs 50 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 50 pounds. What did he put in it?
3.There is a town in New York where 10% of all people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
4. The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How is this possible?
5. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
6. Have you herd the saying What goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?
7. What runs around a house but dosen't move?
8. If one child has 5 2/3 sand pile and another has 2 1/3, and you combine them, how many sand piles do you have?
9. I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but I still remain whole, I can be long like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole. What am I?
10. Who can shave 25 time a day and still have a beard?
11.What kind of room has no windows or doors?
12. What is the longest word in the English languge?
13. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
14.What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
And I know the answer to this one...
How far can a dog run into the woods?
10 months ago
