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脑筋急转弯8
RIDDLES （8）
1. Suppose you have a baseball. You're to throw it with all your might and have it stop and come back to you. How can you do this thing with the ball without using any other objects?
2. Suppose I give you an egg. Now, standing right where you are on this hard wooden floor, how could you drop that egg three feet without breaking the shell?
3. Two fathers and two sons went hunting. They shot three rabbits. Yet each took home one rabbit. how was that possible?
4. You're the pilot of an airplane that flies from New York to Chicago --- a distance of 740 miles. The plane goes 200 miles. The plane goes 200 miles an hour. It makes one stop for 30 minutes. What's the pilot's name?
5. After a man was given a gun and blindfolded, someone hung up his hat. The man paced off 100 yards, turned around and shot a bullet through his hat. How was that possible?
6. Suppose you wanted a log cut up. You called a workman who said he would charge 50 cents to cut it into two pieces, but you want the log cut into four pieces. How much would the workman charge?
answers
1.The baseball will stop and come back to you without hitting anything --- if you throw it straight up in the air.
2. Drop the egg from a height of four fee. It will drop three feet without breaking. After that, what a mess!
3. There were only three people hunting: a boy, his father, and his grandfather. The boy's father, of course, was the son of the grandfather.
4. Well, you're the pilot. What did you say your name was?
5. The man's hat was hung over the end of his gun.
6. First the workman would cut the log into two pieces. Then he'd cut each of these pieces in two. He would make a total of three cuts. At 50 cent a cut, that would be '1.50.
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RIDDLES （7）
1 How do we know that the play has a happy ending?
2 How can a girl have been eleven on her last birthday, and be thirteen next birthday?
3 How can a hat talk?
4 How do Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) dress?
5 How do mountain climbers break up with their boyfriends?
6 How can you spell mousetrap in three letters?
7 How do goldfish go into business?
8 How can you make tomatoes ripen?
9 Why won't you ever be hungry at the beach?
10 How did they catch the gangster who committed the robbery on Mount Everest(称珠穆朗玛峰)?
answers
1 Because everyone was so happy that it was over.
2 If she's turned twelve today.
3 Add the letter C and you make it chat.
4 As quickly as possible.
5 They cut ties.
6 Cat.
7 They start on a small scale.
8 Tell jokes about them until they turn red.
9 Because of all the sand which is there.
10 He returned to the scene of the climb.
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Riddles(6)
1. What is the eleven letter word that all Yale graduates spell incorrectly?
2. If someone finds an old coin bearing the date 47 BC and offers to sell it =o you for one dollar how much would you pay?
3. In the United States is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by our feet?
5. How many months have 30 days in them?
6. A bottle and a cork together cost '1.05. The bottle costs '1.00 more than the cork. How much does each cost?
7. Which is correct - eight and eight IS fifteen or eight and eight ARE fifteen?
8. A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. There is one foot between rungs and the tide goes  at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long until three rungs are covered?
9. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How =any people in the family?
10. Two fathers and two sons each shot a duck and none of them shot the same duck. Only three ducks were shot. Why?
11. We all know there are 12 one-cent stamps in a dozen, but how many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. Two planes leave Chicago and New York at the same time. Assume a 1000 mile distance. The east bound plane travels 240 miles per hour but due to headwinds the west bound plane can only make 80 miles per hour. When they meet, which is nearest to Chicago?
answers
1. incorrectly
2. One dollar
3. No.  If he has a widow, then the man is dead and cannot legally marry anyone.  
4. There is no dirt in a hole.  
5. 11 months.  All the months except February have 30 days in them.  
6. The bottle costs '1.025 and the cork costs '0.025.  
7. Neither is correct.  Eight and eight equals SIXTEEN.  
8. The rungs will never be covered because the boat rises with the tide.  
9. 9 family members total.  6 daughters, 1 brother, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith.
10.  There is a Grandfather, Father and Son.  The Grandfather is father of the Father and the Father is the father of the son.  The father is the son of the Grandfather and the Son is the son of the other.  Thus, there are two fathers and sons, but only three people.
11. 12.
12. Neither will be nearer.  When they meet they will be at the same place. 
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Riddles (5)
1.       A gambler is holding 3 coins. One is an ordinary quarter, the second has 2 heads, and the third has 2 tails. The gambler chooses one of the coins at random and flips it, showing heads. What is the likelihood that the other side is tails?
2.       As I was walking my dog to the market I met an elderly couple going in the opposite direction  with their 3 sons and 3 daughters.  Each son had 2 dogs of his own and each dog had 3 fleas.  Each daughter had 2 cats and each cat had 2 fleas.  In total, how many persons, animals and  insects were going to the market?
3.       My daughter has many sisters. She has as many sisters as she has brothers.  Each of her brothers has twice as many sisters as brothers.  How many sons and daughters do I have?
4.       A plane crashed and every single person on board this flight was killed, yet...there we're survivors. Explain how?
5.       How many 1 foot by 1 foot bricks would it take to complete a building that's 20 feet long on all four sides and 20 feet high?
6.       A cop was walking past a restaurant when he heard someone scream, "No John, not the gun!" He ran inside and saw a doctor, a lawyer, a milkman, and a dead body on the floor. He promptly walked over to the milkman and arrested him. He didn't witness the shooting and there was no apparent evidence to prove who shot the person and no one told him who the killer was. How did the policeman instantly know it was the milkman?
7.       What is so special about this sequence below?
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0
8.       A horse is tied to a five-meter rope, six meters away from it was a bail of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bail of hay. How is this possible?
9.       Mary was making apricot jam. She put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up. Then she remembered she had to add 1 ounce of lemon juice for every two apricots. How did she figure out how much lemon juice to put?
10.    Steve and Sally where sitting in their family room one night. While Steve was watching TV; his wife Sally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Steve decided to go to bed, but Sally kept on reading. With no use of artificial light, Sally kept on reading. How?

Answers
1.       One in three, since there're 3 heads, and only one of them has tails opposite.
2.       Two. Just my dog and I.
3.       4 daughters, 3 sons.
4.       There were married people on the flight… only "single” people died.
5.       Only 1… the “last brick” you put in will complete it”
6.       The milkman was the only male. The doctor and lawyer were females, so the cop knew that “John” was the milkman.
7.       The numbers are in alphabetical order. (eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two, zero)
8.       The other end of the rope is tied to nothing.
9.       She counted the pits.
10.    Sally was blind… she was reading a book by Braille.-
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Riddles (4)
1.Q: Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad?
A: Mom is closer, because dad is farther.
2.Q: Can you go to the cinema with your watch broken?
A: Of course not, for I don't have the time.
   I don't have the time有两种理解：1。我没有时间；2。我没戴表或是我的表坏了，不知道时间。
3.Q: Why is the comet like Micky Mouse?
A: It's a star with a tail.
   tail:（动物的）尾巴；彗（星）尾
4.Q: What's the largest room in the world?
A: The room for improvement.
   room：房间；空间，余地
5.Q: What's the poorest bank in the world?
A: The river bank.
   bank：银行；堤岸
6.Q: When is coffee like the surface of the earth?
A: When it's ground.
   ground地面，也是grind磨碎、碾碎的过去分词形式
7.Q: What month do soldiers hate?
A: March.
   march:行军
8.Q: When is a person not a person?
A: When he is a little cross.
   cross:恼火，烦恼；十字架
9.Q: When is a door not a door?
A: When it's ajar.
   ajar门虚掩，音似a jar
10.Q: When are boys not boys?
A: When they are bare-footed.
   bear-footed 赤脚，音似bear-footed，脚和熊一样
11.Q: When is a clock dangerous?
A: When it runs down the stairs and strikes one.
   strike one 另一个意思是：击中一个人
12.Q: Why is tennis so noisy?
A: Each player raises a racket.
   racket （网球等）球拍；喧哗，喧闹
   raise a racket大吵大闹
13.Q: If a cabbage and a carrot raced, which one would win?
A: The cabbage, because it's always ahead.
   a head of cabbage一颗卷心菜
14.Q: How many feet are there in a yard?
A: It depends on how many people stand in the yard.
   feet英尺；脚
   yard院子；码
15.Q: When are people like glasses?
A: When they make spectacles of themselves.
   make a spectacle of oneself使自己出丑，出洋相
16.Q: What beam is lighter than all the other beams?
A: Lightbeam.
17.Q: What animal eats with its tail?
A: All animals do. No one takes off its tail while eating.
   with用……做事；带着，有……
18.Q: How can you make a slow horse fast?
A: Don't give it anything to eat for a while.
   fast快的；绝食
19.Q: What is heavier in summer than in winter?
A: Traffic to the beach.
   heavy重的；交通量大的，繁忙的
20.Q: What clothing is always sad?
A: Blue jeans.
   blue兰色的；伤感的
21.Q: How many legs do horses have?
A: Six legs--forelegs in front and two in back
   forelegs前腿，音似four leg
22.Q: When are people smartest?
A: When it's sunny, because everything's brighter then.
   bright明亮；聪明
23.Q: I have a tree in my hand. What kind of tree is it?
A: It's a palm.
   palm棕榈树；手掌
24.Q: Can you explain what is free speech?
A: Your talking on someone else's phone
   free自由的，免费
25.Q: If the green house is on the right side of the road, and the red house is on the left side of the road, where is the white house?
A: In Washington, D.C.
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Riddles（3）
1. Q: What fruit is never found singly?
A: A pear.
pear 梨，音似pair一对
2. Q: Why is the bride unhappy on her wedding day?
A: Because she didn't marry the best man.
bride新娘bridegroom新郎best man男傧相；最好的男人bridesmaid女傧相
3. Q: What time must it be when the escaped hungry wolf ate the paymaster?
A: 8 p.m.
8 p.m.音似ate p.m., 而p.m. 是paymaster的缩写。paymaster（发放薪饷的）出纳员
4. Q: What will you break once you say it?
A: Silence.
break the silence打破沉默
5. Q: What kind of clothes lasts the longest?
A: Underwear, because it's never worn out.
worn out穿坏，磨损；穿在外面
6. Q: Why are farmers cruel?
A: They pull corns by the ears.
ear耳朵；一穗（玉米）
pull corns by the ears一穗一穗地掰玉米；揪着玉米耳朵掰玉米
7. Q: Why are babies like hinges?
A: Because they are things to adore.
adore喜爱，音似a door
things to a door门上的东西
8. Q: If a driver drives too fast he'll get a ticket. What will happen to a poet if
he writes too fast?
A: His poetic licence will be taken away.
poetic licence 诗的破格（如不遵从语法规则等）
9. Q: Why is an empty purse always the same?
A: There is no change in it.
change 零钱；变化
10. Q: Why do little birds in the nest agree with each other?
A: Because they would fall out if they didn't.
fall out 摔出去；争吵
11. Q: Why is an argument like a pen?
A: No good without a point.
point 尖，顶端；论点，要点
12. Q: When will the wind improve its image?
A: When it turns over a new leaf.
turn over a new leaf的真正涵义是：改过自新
13. Q: Why is learning English like a light gentle wind to a smart student?
A: It's a breeze to them.
breeze 微风，和风；轻而易举的事
14. Q: What has four wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck.
What has four wheels and flies?另一种理解是：什么东西既有四个轮子又有许多苍蝇？
15. Q: What's even harder to catch if you run faster?
A: Your breath.
catch one's breath 恢复正常呼吸（尤指剧烈运动后）
16. Q: What time is it when a man is chased by ten dogs?
A: It's ten after one.
17. Q: How can you tell a clock is shy
A: It has its hands over its face.
18. Q: Why does time fly?
A: To get away from all those who are trying to kill it.
kill time 消磨时间
19. Q: Why does an invisible man tend to go crazy?
A: Out of sight, out of mind.
out of sight, out of mind 眼不见为净
20. Q: Where can a dog get another tail?
A: At a retail store.
前缀re-表示“再一次”，“又……”。
21. Q: Why do carpenters think there's no such thing as gold in this world?
A: They never saw it.
saw 锯，也是see的过去式，seeing is believing眼见为实
22. Q: Why do you think doctors are mean?
A: Everything they treat me they make me pay for it.
treat 请客；治疗
mean 小气，吝啬
23. Q: What do you think of the Grand Canyon?
A: Just gorges.
gorges 是gorge(峡谷）的复数形式，音似gorgeous，宜人的，好的，美丽的
Just gorgeous!太棒了！太美了！
24. Q: How do you punctuate the following sentence?
A: Make a dash after it.
make a dash after it另一种理解是：冲上去拿呀
25. Q: How do you know a photographer is always progressive?
A: They are always developing.
develop 发展；冲（胶卷）

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Riddles(2)
1. Q: What roof never keeps out the wet?
A: The roof of the mouth?
roof 屋顶;上颚
2. Q: Does any child like going to school?
A: Every child likes going to school. Most of them just hate staying there before going home.
3. Q: Why is a peacock the best story-teller?
A: Because it always has a beautiful tale.
tale 故事,音似tail(尾巴)
4. Q: Why is a crazy person equal to two ordinary people?
A: Because he is a man beside himself.
beside oneself 真正的意思是:发狂,忘形
5. Q: What coat is always wet when it's put on?
A: A coat of paint.
coat衣服;涂层,一层(漆)
6. Q: Why did the band have a smash hit in the performance?
A: They had the audience glued to their seats.
smash hit 很成功的新剧,电影等
have someone glued to one's seat 真正的意思是:使某人喜欢得不忍离座,直到看完(表演)为止
7. Q: Why is Sunday the strongest day in a week?
A: The rest of the days are weak days.
weak 音似week, weekdays指不包括星期日的那些天
8. Q: Why are giraffes the cheapest to feed?
A: They make a little food go a long way.
因为它们脖子长，一点点食物都要走很长的路才能咽下去。go a long way 维持很长一段时间
9. Q: Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe?
A: They don't want to be hot-dogs.
10. Q: Why are mules helpless in dancing?
A: They have two left legs.
have two left legs（跳舞时）苯手苯脚
11. Q: Why is the pig always eating?
A: He's making a hog of himself.
make a pig of oneself 像猪一样吃得很多（贬义）
hog 肉用肥猪
12. Q: What kind of shoes are made of banana skins?
A: Slippers.
slipper 拖鞋
slip 滑，跌交
13. Q: How do you like your school?
A: Closed.
how do you like your school有两种理解：你觉得你们学校怎么样？/你希望你们学校是什么样子？
14. Q: Why are politicians no longer concerned with snowball fights?
A: The cold war is over.
cold war 冷战
15. Q: Why are watches fragile?
A: Because