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[one] What
is that which goes with a car, comes with a car, is of no
use to a car, and yet the car cannot go without
it? Answer |
| [two]It
stands on one leg with its heart in its head. Answer |
| [three]It's
been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month
old right now. What is it? Answer |
| [four]A
white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it
up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away
wingless. Answer |
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[five]As
I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was
neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was
it? Answer |
| [six]What
belongs to you but others use it more than you
do? Answer |
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[seven]What
goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney
up? Answer |
| [eight]What
is is that you will break even when you name it? Answer |
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[nine]What
connects two people but touches only one? Answer |
| [ten]The more you take away from it, the larger it
becomes? Answer |
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[eleven]I
am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot
express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am
always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but
I am always in darkness. Answer |
| [twelve]What
is put on a table, cut, but never eaten? Answer |
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[thirteen]Who
are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet
never see each other? Answer |
| [fourteen]What
holds water yet is full of holes? Answer |
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[fifteen]Though
it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an donkey, it has a
pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is
it? Answer |
| [sixteen]Lives
without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and which is begun only by air. Answer |
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[seventeen]A
hundred-year-old man and his head one night old. Answer |
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[eighteen]What
goes into the water red and comes out black? Answer |
| [nineteen]What
goes into the water black and comes out red? Answer |
| [twenty]When
one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one
knows what it is, then it is nothing. Answer |
Noise back
The letter S back
A sponge back
A cabbage back
Red-hot metal back
The moon back
A lobster back
Your name back
A pack of cards back
A hole back
A snail back
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Snow (the dove) melted by
the sun (the king) back
Fresh snow (the head) on
a tree stump (the old man) back
Silence back
Sawdust back
Eyes back
A wedding ring back
An umbrella back
An echo back