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What gets wetter and wetter the more it

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You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the
inside. What did you eat?

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What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

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What can you catch but not throw?

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2. I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

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3. What's black and white and red all over?

8 RIDDLE:
4. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

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8
I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water.
5.
What am I?

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6. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

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8
The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who
7.
needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

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8
I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out,
8.
up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?

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9. Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?

9 RIDDLE:
 What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a
0.
bed but never sleeps?

9 RIDDLE:
1. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

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2. A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?

9 RIDDLE:
3. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

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9
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am
4.
I?

9 RIDDLE:
5. I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?

RIDDLE:
9
I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I
6.
couldn't find it. What am I?

9 RIDDLE:
7. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

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I never was, am always to be,
9 No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
8. And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
What am I?

RIDDLE:
9
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What
9.
am I?

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10 I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give
0. birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at
once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

10 RIDDLE:
1. Pronounced as one letter,
 And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?

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10
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What
2.
are they?

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3. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

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From the beginning of eternity
10 To the end of time and space
4. To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?

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In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal-clear
10
A golden apple doth appear.
5.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.
--Mother Goose
What am I?

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10
It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me, what stinks while
6.
living but in death smells good?

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All about, but cannot be seen,
10
Can be captured, cannot be held,
7.
No throat, but can be heard.
What is it?

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If you break me,
I do not stop working.
10 If you touch me,
8. I may be snared.
If you lose me,
Nothing will matter.
What am I?
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If a man carried my burden,
10 He would break his back.
9. I am not rich,
But I leave silver in my track.
What am I?

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11 Glittering points that downward thrust,
0. Sparkling spears that never rust.
What is it?

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Weight in my belly,
11 Trees on my back,
1. Nails in my ribs,
Feet do I lack.
What am I?

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Until I am measured,
11 I am not known.
2. Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown!
What am I?

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My life can be measured in hours;
11 I serve by being devoured.
3. Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow.
Wind is my foe.
What am I?

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11 Lighter than what I'm made of,
4. More of me is hidden than is seen.
What am I?

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To unravel me
11 You need a key.
5. No key that was made by locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I will understand.
What am I?

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11
I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much
6.
as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they?

11 RIDDLE:
 Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not.
7.
What is it?

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There is not wind enough to twirl
11 That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
8. Which dances as often as dance it can.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What am I?

RIDDLE:
What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
11
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
9.
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?

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Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
12
In mystic force and magic spelling
0.
Celestial sprites eludicate
All my own striving can't relate

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12
What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you
1.
work, the sooner you're finished?

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What I am filled,
I can point the way;
12 When I am empty,
2. Nothing moves me.
I have two skins,
One without and one within.
What am I?

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As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
12 Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
3. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I?

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4. I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

12 RIDDLE:
5. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?
12 RIDDLE:
6. What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?

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I have hands that wave at you,
12 Though I never say goodbye.
7. It's cool for you to be with me,
Especially when I say, "HI."
What am I?

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Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?

Riddle:
What has roots that nobody sees,
22 and is taller than trees.
0. Up, up it goes,
and yet it never grows.
What is it?

Riddle:
22
I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot always found,
1.
toiling away with little sound. What am I?

22 Riddle:
2. What's the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

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22
I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength
3.
which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your , but I'm never thrown. What am I

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22
You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once yours is lost, it will soon be
4.
lost by others.

22 Riddle:
5. What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?

22 Riddle:
6. Always invisible, yet never out of sight. What are they?

22 Riddle:
7. What is it that leaps and runs and yet has no feet?
22 Riddle:
8. Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. Who is that man?

22 Riddle:
9. You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

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23
When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was
0.
from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?

Riddle:
23
See if you can translate the following?
1.
Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E

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Bouncing Bob was riding a particularly frisky horse when suddenly its bridle came off. As they
23 raced down the road, a screaming Bob clung to the horse's for dear life. Out of the corner of his
2. eye, Bob saw a car coming, and realizing the horse was completely out of control, he panicked.
Flailing his arms about, he accidentally caused the horse to come to an abrupt halt. What could
Bouncing Bob have done to make the horse stop?

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23 There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors
3. were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any
cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?

23 Riddle:
4. How far can a dog run into the woods?

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While exploring the wilds of Canada, Wild Man Dave was captured by hostile wood fairies. Brad,
the powerful chief of the fairies told him he could make one final statement, which would
23
determine how he would die. If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If
5.
the statement were true, he would be fried in oil. Wild Man Dave found neither of this options
too his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation.
What is the one statement he could have made.

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23
King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born. Their combined ages when they died were 100
6.
years. King Eros died in the year 40 B.C. In what year was King Tut born?

23 Riddle:
7. Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 a.m. What was it?

23 Riddle:
8. Even when the Arctic natives are starving, why won't they eat penguin eggs?
 Riddle:
23
How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts,
9.
is not born a U.S. Citizen?

Riddle:
We are little creatures;
of us have different features.
of us in glass is set;
24 one of us you'll find in jet.
0. Another you may see in tin,
and the fourth is boxed within .
If the fifth you should pursue,
it can never fly from you.
What are we?

24 Riddle:
1. What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?

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24
If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door.
2.
How many moves will it take to reach the door.

24 Riddle:
3. Name an eight letter word that has: kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.

Riddle:
24
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard,
4.
amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?

Riddle:
What is greater than God.
24 More evil than the Devil.
5. The poor have it.
The rich don't need it.
And if you eat it, you'll die?

Riddle:
24
It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the, and the end of
6.
every space? What is it?

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Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if
24
they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They
7.
then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long.
Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?

24 Riddle:
8. A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles
 each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse's
legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true. Since the
horse is normal, how is this situation possible?

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24
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a
9.
head but has a face. What is it?

Riddle:
25
The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not
0.
need it. Your lady friend's husband has it and she uses it. What is it?

Riddle:
25
As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor
1.
crooked. What kind of wood was it?

Riddle:
Sabrina gave Samantha as many dollars as Samantha started out with.
25 Samantha then gave Sabrina back as much as Sabrina had left.
2. Sabrina then gave Samantha as back as many dollars as Samantha had left,
which left Sabrina broke and gave Samantha a total of $80.00.
How much did Sabrina and Samantha have at the beginning of their exchange?

25 Riddle:
3. I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

25 Riddle:
4. You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?

Riddle:
25
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter
5.
"A"?

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I can be long, or I can be short.
25 I can be grown, and I can be bought.
6. I can be painted, or left bare.
I can be round, or square.
What am I?

Riddle:
25
I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of
7.
all to live and breathe on the terrestrial ball. What am I?

25 Riddle:
8. What's black when you get it,
 Red when you use it,
And white when you're all through with it?

25 Riddle:
9. What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?

26 Riddle:
0. Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof?

26 Riddle:
1. What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?

Riddle:
26
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must
2.
take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?

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I was born in the 18th century, yet still live on today. Appearing on TV when I have something to
26
say. Called everything from "honest" to a dirty rotten "crook", I used to wear a wig, but have had
3.
several looks. I've always had a party, but never disturb the neighbors. I've been shot at many
times - major stories for the papers. What am I?

26 Riddle:
4. What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

26 Riddle:
5. What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?

Riddle:
26
It is in a rock but not in a stone, it is in marrow but not in a bone. It is in a bolster but not in a
6.
bed, it is not living, nor is it dead. What is it?

Riddle:
26
Only one color, but not one size; stuck to the ground, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in
7.
rain; doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?

Riddle:
26
Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet.
8.
Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll know, when you I do claim. Who am I?

Riddle:
26
Be you ever so quick, with vision keen, by your eyes, we are never seen.
9.
Unless perchance it should come to pass, you see our reflection in a looking glass. What are we?
 Riddle:
27
Inside a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it quickly, before the fire's
0.
too much to take! ?

27 Riddle:
1. You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?

Riddle:
27
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant
2.
yet lasts a life time?

Riddle:
27
First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away.
3.
What am I?

Riddle:
27
Hands she has but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are cold,
4.
eyes she has but without sight. Who is she?

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27
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands
5.
sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?

27 Riddle:
6. This runs fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore on the other. What is it?

Riddle:
27
What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it?
7.
You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?

Riddle:
27
This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks.
8.
Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?

27 Riddle:
9. Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

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28
What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red.
0.
The plumper it gets, the better the old woman likes it?

Riddle:
28
An open-ended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
1.
What am I?
 Riddle:
28 I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have
2. leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and
hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?

28 Riddle:
3. A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I. ?

Riddle:
28
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after
4.
the storm has fled. What am I?

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In spring I am gay in handsome array;
28 in summer more clothing I wear;
5. when colder it grows I fling off my clothes;
and in winter quite naked appear.
What am I?

Riddle:
28
It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground.
6.
It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?

28 Riddle:
7. I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?

Riddle:
28 A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky.
8. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing.
What am I?

Riddle:
28
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went
9.
through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?

29 Riddle:
0. What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

Riddle:
29
This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty
1.
roaring call. What is it?

29 Riddle:
2. Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
29 Riddle:
3. What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

29 Riddle:
4. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

29 Riddle:
5. Who killed one-fourth of mankind?

Riddle:
29 When they are caught, they are thrown away.
6. When they escape, you itch all day.
What are they?

29 Riddle:
7. You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?

Riddle:
29 Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
8. A. BLAST, PAPER, BOX, BANK
B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET ?

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Often talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
29
Still approaching, coming near.
9.
Thousands for it's visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Thou' they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here. ?

Riddle:
Three mountain climbers paid a lot of money to be the first to scale a mountain. After several
30
days of climbing they finally reached the pinnacle, and to their dismay, found a cabin and three
0.
frozen bodies. Since the mountain climbers were the first to ever climb the summit, how could
this be possible?

Riddle:
30 If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right with your right hand,
1. which way would you turn the socket with your left hand in order to unscrew it while holding the
bulb stationary?

Riddle:
30
If someone says to you, "I'll bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I will give you $3 in return", would
2.
this be a good bet for you to accept?
 Riddle:
A farmer in California own a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store.
30 The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase.
3. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and
each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will
the farmer be able to deliver?

Riddle:
Never resting, never still.
30 Moving silently from hill to hill.
4. It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What is it?

Riddle:
30
If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or
5.
two friends to the movies at the same time?

Riddle:
30
A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten
6.
years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?

Riddle:
30
What is so unusual about the sentence below? (Other than it doesn't make any sense?)
7.
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." ?

Riddle:
30 A worm is at the bottom of a forty-foot hole. It can crawl upwards at the rate of four feet in one
8. day, but at night, it slips back three feet. At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out
of the hole?

30 Riddle:
9. Why can't you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg?

Riddle:
Bubba invited Beavis and Butthead to his house for a barbecue. Since Bubba's barbecue is only
capable of handling two hamburgers at once, he wonders how he can cook three hamburgers at
31
once, he wonders how he can cook three hamburgers in the shortest amount of time. It takes
0.
five minutes for each side of a burger to cook. Therefore, in ten minutes two will be cooked, and
another ten minutes will be needed to cook the third burger. Butthead says all three can be
cooked i just 15 minutes. How?

31 Riddle:
1. Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

Riddle:
31
How can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a widow, or otherwise
2.
legally separated, legally marry 10 men?
31 Riddle:
3. Clara Clatter was born on December 27, on a hot summers day. How is that possible?

31 Riddle:
4. Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

Riddle:
31
If five thousand, five hundred five dollars is written as $5,505, how should twelve thousand,
5.
twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Riddle:
31 You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half
6. meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water
assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

31 Riddle:
7. How can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one dollar bills?

Riddle:
31
There are four girls, and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple, yet one apple remains
8.
in the basket? How is this possible?

Riddle:
31
There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to
9.
see through walls. What is it?

Riddle:
32 Sally and her younger brother were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided
0. to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they
couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this?

Riddle:
32 If it takes Alicia 3 hours to paint a fence, and it takes Mark 6 hours to complete the same job.
1. How long would it take both of them working together at their normal paces to complete the
same job?

32 Riddle:
2. Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change. What am I?

Riddle:
32
The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father,
3.
but were not brothers. How can this be possible?

32 Riddle:
 There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living their have unlisted phone numbers. If
4. you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of
these people would have unlisted phone numbers?

Riddle:
32
A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less
5.
than 20 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?

32 Riddle:
6. What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

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I am the fountain from which no one can drink.
32 For many I am considered a necessary link.
7. Like gold to all I am sought for,
But my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.
What am I?

Riddle:
32
Two men were playing tennis. They played five sets and each man won three sets. How can this
8.
be possible?

Riddle:
32 Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For
9. profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only
gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme?

33 Riddle:
0. The more there is the less you see. What is it?

33 Riddle:
1. What demands an Answer, but asks no question?

Riddle:
33
There are 2 cops parked along a one-way street looking for traffic violations.
2.
They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do nothing. Why?

33 Riddle:
3. What runs around all day then lies under the bed with its tongue hanging out?

Riddle:
Dark with white markings,
33 And smooth like a rock.
4. Where learning occurs,
I help convey thought.
What am I?
 Riddle:
33
What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after
5.
traveling a short distance?

33 Riddle:
6. To what question can you never answer "yes"??