Word
Riddles
Now it’s time to get a little tricky with our words. Letters can get a little confusing at times,
especially when it seems that everything rhymes. You take one out and put one in, and you
have a new word with a completely different meaning: Bird turns to Bing; Bing turns to sing; sing
turns to song… And this is taking too long. Please provide some help with punctuation and
pronunciation problems that people prove to particularly need help with. Persevere and persist but
remember to have peace and pleasure first.
1. What is the only English word, with two synonyms that are
antonyms of each other?
(Answer) Cleave
2. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12
remains, what is it?
(Answer) Dozens
3. It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year.
What is it?
(Answer) The letter “e”
4. This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is the word?
(Answer) Short.
5. What word has five letters but sounds like it only has one?
(Answer) Queue
6. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
(Answer) A teapot
7. What question can you never answer yes to?
(Answer) Are you asleep yet?
8. With thieves I consort, With the vilest, in short, I'm quite at ease
in depravity; Yet all diviners use me, and savants can't lose me, For I
am the centre of gravity!
Hint: Read this one out loud.
(Answer) The letter “v”
9. In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink
fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone,
a pink shower – everything was pink! What colour were the stairs?
(Answer) It is a one-story house, so there are no stairs.
10. Forward and forward I go, never looking back. My limit no one
knows, more of me do they lack. Like a river I do flow, and an eagle I
fly. Now can you guess, what am I?
(Answer) Time
11. A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is
no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
(Answer) The woman is blind and she is reading Braille.
12. If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a
strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift? ‘
(Answer) It is an electric train so there is no smoke.
13. In the year 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son: “When I was a
little boy, I decided to be a doctor after seeing an internet website
about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart, so
that the puppy would live a normal life.” The son then thought that
he would
become a doctor so that I could help people in a similar way. What is
the defect in this story?
(Answer) The internet did not exist yet when the father
was a young boy.
14. Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take
away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?
(Answer) The postman
15. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three
rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins
with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3
years. Which room is safest for him?
(Answer) The third room – lions who haven’t eaten in
three years are now dead.
16. Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, felled by three eyes, black
as night. What happened?
(Answer) A bowling ball knocked down ten pins.
17. I have three syllables. Take away five letters, a male will remain.
Take away four letters, a female will remain. Take away three
letters, a great man will appear. The entire word shows you what Joan
of Arc was. (Answer) Heroine
18. Often talked of, never seen, Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here, Still approaching, coming near. Thousands
for its visit wait,
But alas for their fate,
Though they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.
(Answer) Tomorrow
19. I know a word of letters three, add two and less there will be.
(Answer) Few
20. We are such little tiny creatures;
all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
One of us you'll find in jet.
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?
(Answer) The vowels - a, e, I, o, u.