English Riddles

 Work hard on the following problems to see if you can answer them in new ways!

 

1. What is the difference between here and there?

 

2. What are the strongest days of the week?

 

3. Why did man put wheels on his rocking chair?

 

4. Why is the letter “R” like Christmas?

 

5. At what time of day was Adam born?

 

6. Why did the person throw a clock out the window?

 

7. What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?

 

8. What nail¹ should you never hit with a hammer?

 

9. What ring is square?

 

10. Why is the sun like a loaf of bread?

 

11. What table is in the field?

 

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

 

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

 

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?

 

15. What changes a pear into a pearl²?

 

16. What question can never be answered by “Yes”?

 

17. What ship has two mates³ but no captain?

 

18. What is the most difficult key to turn?

 

19. Where can you always find money?

 

20. What is the surest way to double your money?

 

21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

 

22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

 

23. What letter makes a road broad?

 

24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

 

25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

 

26. What match can’t be put in a matchbox?

 

27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

 

28. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?

 

29. I am something that has teeth but can’t eat. What am I?

 

30. What is a sick man a contradiction⁴?

 

KEY:______________________________________________________________

 

1. The letter “t”.

 

2. Saturday and Sunday (all the other days are weak days)

 

3. Because he wanted to rock and roll

 

4. Because it comes at he end of December.

 

5. Just before Eve. (Eve 一语双关，“晚间”“夏娃”)

 

6. To see time fly.

 

7. A quarter to one (12:45; 一人分一个)

 

8. Your fingernail⁵.

 

9. A boxing ring.(拳击场地)

 

10. Because it’s light when it rises. (light“亮的”“轻的”；rise“升起”“发虚”)

 

11. Vegetable

 

12. Silence

 

13. Mirror

 

14. Nothing

 

15. The letter “T”

 

16. Are you asleep?

 

17. Courtship

 

18. a donkey⁶

 

19. In the dictionary

 

20. Fold it

 

21. In the dictionary

 

22. the bridge of nose

 

23. letter B

 

24. letter P

 

25. Because it is killed before it is cured(烘烤等处理)

 

26. Football match, basketball match, etc

 

27. When they make 22

 

28. A map

 

29. A comb

 

30. When he is an impatient⁷ patient.

1 nail   

n.钉子，指甲；vt.用钉钉牢，使固定，使集中于，揭露

参考例句：

• He drove a nail into the wall.他把钉子钉在墙上。
• In order to hang the picture,he had to hammer a nail.为了挂那幅画，他必须钉枚钉子。

2 pearl   

n.珍珠，珍珠母

参考例句：

• He bought his girlfriend a pearl necklace.他给他女朋友买了一条珍珠项链。
• The crane and the mother-of-pearl fight to death.鹬蚌相争。

3 mates   

[英]伙伴( mate的名词复数 )； 同伴； （非正式）配偶； （熟练工人的）助手

参考例句：

• He's out boozing with his mates. 他和他的朋友们喝酒去了。
• They've been best mates since school. 他们从上学时期以来就是最要好的朋友。

4 contradiction   

n.矛盾，不一致；否认，反驳

参考例句：

• Your attitude is in contradiction to your character.你的态度和你的性格相抵触。
• Your statements today are in contradiction with what you said yesterday.你今天的声明与你昨天所说的话相互矛盾。

5 fingernail   

n.手指甲

参考例句：

• Why does she always paint that one fingernail blue?她为什么总是把一个手指甲涂成蓝色？
• I have the fingernail clippers.我有指甲钳。

6 donkey   

n.驴子；蠢人；顽固的人

参考例句：

• This donkey can carry two sacks of grain.这头驴能驮两袋粮食。
• "I'll buy your donkey,"said the two.“我想要买你的驴子”两人异口同声说。

7 impatient   

adj.不耐烦的，急躁的；热切的，急切的

参考例句：

• He was so impatient that I could hardly hold him back.他是那样急躁，我简直拉不住他。
• With an impatient gesture he thrust the food away from him.他不耐烦地把吃的东西猛地推开。