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The document contains a collection of riddles and their answers. The riddles cover a variety of topics including words, numbers, logic puzzles, and wordplay. The answers provide explanations or solutions to the riddles.

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1. What English word has consecutive double letters?

Ans: Bookkeeper.
2. What falls but never breaks?
Ans: Day & Night
3. What English word retains the same pronunciation even after you take away four of its five
letters?
Ans: Queue
4. A plane crushed between the border of Canada and America. Where do you bury the survivors?
Ans: We cannot bury the survivors
5. What has thirteen hearts but no other organ?
Ans : A deck of cards
6. All 5 are busy. Ann is reading a book, Rose is cooking, Katy is playing chess and Mary is doing the
laundry. What is the 5th sister doing?
Ans: She is playing chess with Katy
7. What is next in sequence J F M A M J J A S O N ......?
Ans: D (each letter represents the first letter of the months of the calendar)
8. What is 3/7 chicken, ⅔ cat and 2/4 goat?
Ans: Chicago
9. What has many keys but can never open a lock?
Ans: A piano
10. Which word id always spelled incorrectly in the dictionary?
Ans: Incorrectly
11. What are the next three letters of the combination O T T F F S S ... ... ... ?
Ans: E N T (eight none ten)
12. What is always coming but never arrives?
Ans: Tomorrow
13. What is it that lives if it is fed but ndies if you give it a drink?
Ans: Fire
14. Some months have 31 days other have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
Ans: 12 months
15. If an electric train is moving north at 100 mph, and a wind is blowing to the to the west at 10 mph
with a 120° angle, which way does the smoke blow?
Ans: An electric train has no smoke
16. What is something that copies your looks but not sounds?
Ans: Mirror
17. What has a spine but no bones?
Ans: A book
18. A rancher had 500 cows and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?
Ans: a panoramic photo
19. If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. But if you have one, you have
none. What it is?
Ans: Choices
20. Swap one letter from the each of tge words “Right” and “Blight” to mske two related words.
Ans: Light & Bright
21. Tom has a new set of golf clubs. Using club 8 the ball travels an average distance of 100bmetres.
Using a club 7 the travels an average distance of 108 metres. Using a club 6 the ball an average
distance of 114 metres. How far will the ball go if Tom uses club 4?
Ans: 120
22. What is the next number of the series?
4 6 9 6 14 6 .......
Ans: 19
23. Mary is 4 times older than her brother. How old will Mary be when she is twice his age?
Ans: 24 years
24. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNWSDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Which day is three days before the day immediately following the day two days before the day
three days after the day immediately before Friday?
Ans: Wednesday
25. At a conference 12 members shook hands with each other before and after the meeting. How
many total number of hand shakes occurred?
Ans: 132
26. What is the 7th letter of Greek alphabet?
Ans: Eta ( )
27. What has to be broken before you can use it ?
Ans: An egg
28. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Ans: A mirror
29. The person who makes it has no need of it. The person who buys it has no use of it. The person
who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Ans: A coffin
30. What runs but never walks, murmurs but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps and has a mouth
but never eats?
Ans : a river
31. They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are
they?
Ans: Stars
32. I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?
Ans: Echo
33. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk. But when you look back, you don’t see a single
person the boat. Why?
Ans: All the people on board are married
34. What is the name of a group of butlers?
Ans: Sneer of butlers
35. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m
thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. Who am I?
Ans: Candle
36. What is the name given to a group of kittens?
Ans: kindle / litter / intrigue
37. What belongs to you but everyone uses it?
Ans: Your name
38. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no
fish. What am I?
Ans: A map
39. What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters
signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify
a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Ans: Heroine
40. What is so brittle that is breaks as soon as someone calls by its name?
Ans: Silence

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