RIDDLES

RIDDLES
1) IT is greater than God, IT is worse than devil, IT is eaten by God and devil and if we eat IT we die. What is that IT?

2) A ________ surgeon is ____ _______ to perform surgery as there is __ ______. (The same word is to be filled in all the blanks. But, the same word is split in to two in the second and the third blanks.)

3) In a year how many months have 28 days? ____________

4) Choose any three numbers from 1to 9. Whether you add them or multiply them, the answer is same. Which are those 3 numbers?

5) How can you double your money? ____________________

6) What travels round the world yet stays in one corner? ______ ______.

7) When do 2 and 2 make more than 2? _________.

8) Using number 8 only 8 times, make a total of 1,000.
______ + ______ + ______ + ______ + ______

9) What has six legs, but only walks with four?
______ ______ ______ ______ ______

10) What word of FOUR letters still has FIVE left, when three of the letters taken away? ______________.

11) I have two hands, but no arms. Who am I? ___________.

12) What did Nehru become after his 39th year?

13) Can you write Eleven Thousand Eleven Hundred and Eleven? ____________________________________.

14) What belongs to you, but is used more by others?
_______________________________.

15) There is one 9 between 1 and 10. Similarly there is one more 9 between 10 and 20, and also between 20 and 30.
Then how many 9s are found between 1 and 100.____________.

16) When did Christmas and New Years fall in the same year? __________________.

17) Can you solve it?

(x-a) (x-b) (x-c) (x-d) (x-e) (x-f) (x-g) (x-h) (x-i) (x-j)
(X-k) (x-l) (x-m) (x-n) (x-o) (x-p) (x-q) (x-r) (x-s) (x-t) (x-u) (x-v) (x-w) (x-x) (x-y) (x-z). ________________.

18) An electrical train is moving with a speed of 160 km/hour from east to west. The wind is moving at a speed of 60 km/hour from north to south. Which direction will the smoke from the rail engine travel?

19) “O“
“T“
“T“
“F“
“F“
“S“
“S“
“E“
“N“
“ “ What is the next letter in this series?

20) Using five 3s we get ‘100’ as under.
33 x 3 + 3/3 = 100.

Now, using five 3s can you get ‘10’?

21) A police van which was going very fast, stopped suddenly. Why?

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22) A word in English language reads the same when turned upside down and back to front. What is that word?

23) A person wearing black shirt, black pant, black hat, black shoes, black watch and black spectacles, knocking the door of a house. Why? __________________________________________
24) Barking dog does not bite. Why? _______________________________________

25) From where did the birds come to Chennai? _______________________________________

26) Seven is an odd number. How can you make it even?
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27) How can you make road broad?
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28) How many sides does a circle have?
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29) How many seconds are there in a year?

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30) How was M.G.R, before his death?
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31) If a man marries a princess, what would he be?

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32) If a man was born in Mumbai, raised in Hyderabad, came to Tiruchi and died in Chennai, what is he?

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33) If you throw a black stone into the Cauvery River, what will become?

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34) If you cut an apple into two, what would you get?
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35) John’s mother has four sons; namely, East, West and north. Who is the fourth son? _____________________________

36) Name the first bus that went America. ___________

37) One plus ten makes nine, instead of eleven. How?
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38) There are 10 frogs in a well, among those 10, 4 are dead. Now how many frogs would be in the well?
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39) The alphabet goes from A to Z. What word goes from Z to A? __________________________________

40) To whom does a king take of his crown? ____________

41) To live hundred years, what one needs to do?
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42) What did Columbus see on his right hand when he Discovered America? _________________________

43) Divide 50 by ½ and add 50. What is the result?
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44) Can you write 31 using only the digit 3 five times?
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45) By drawing one line, make the following figure into an even number.- IX
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46) Using 3 digits, what is the least number you can arrive at?
(You can use the numbers 1 to 10). _______________________________________

47) What is lighter than a feather, but can not be held for more than a minute? _______________________________

48) What is that dark but made of light? ____________

49) What is the difference between an African elephant and an Asian elephant? _______________________________________

50) Why do we plant trees in the sides of a road?

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51) What would be the colour of the teeth of a baby that is born in South Africa? ____________________________________

52) What is as big as an elephant but does not weigh even a milligram?
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53) What holds water but is full of holes? _______________
54) What is the end of the world? ___________________
55) When will a net hold water? __________________________________________
56) When does a car go exactly as fast as a train? _________________________________________
57) Where can you always find health, wealth and happiness?
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58) Where are the kings of England usually crowned?
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59) Which is sweet; an apple or a ripe mango? _______________________________________

60) Which is the word that has all the vowels in it? _________

61) Which state does the Ganges be? __________________

62) Who always goes to bed with shoes on? _____________

63) Who can jump higher than a statue? __________________________________________

64) Who earns a living without doing a days work? _____________________________________

65) Why did the cowboy ride his horse? _______________________________________

66) Why did the boy throw butter out of the window? ________________________________________

67) Why do lions eat raw meat? _____________________________________

68) Why is that those who live in southern side of Kauveri River, not buried in the northern side of it?

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69) Why was MGR buried in Anna Nagar? _______________________________________

70) Why do we buy clothes? ______________________________________

71) Using the number 7 only 7 times make a total of 100. _______________________________________

72) 54+4+6=500. Using one stroke, make the equation true. ________________________________________

73) A digit is used 3 times and the sum is 60. Any mathematical sign may be used. ______________________________

74) Place the fewest possible mathematical symbols between the following digits in order to make the equation true. _________________________________________

75) Find the number which when multiplied by 13 is increased by 100.

76) The difference between the number and its square root is 90. What is the number? _________________________

77) How do you represent 1 by writing 9, three times? ______________________________________

78) I am 7 letters long- 1234567. My 123 is a vehicle. My 456 is a piece of luggage.
My 567 changes every year. What am I?

79) Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall,how long would it take four men to build it?

80)
Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
81)
Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
82) Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
83) Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
84) Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
85) Q. What looks like half apple?
86) Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
87) Q. What happened when wheel was invented?
88) Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
89) Q: Rhul Gandhi is the ____________of Indira Gandhi's son.
90) Q:These English words have one thing in common:
banana, dresser, grammar, potato, revive, uneven
91) Q: Do you know the logic of emergency ambulance) number-'108'
92) Q: If 1=5
2=25
3=125
4=625
5=?
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RIDDLES SOLVED

1)IT is NOTHING.
2)Notable, not able and no table.
3)All the 12 months have 28 days.
4)The three numbers are 1,2 and 3. If you add them the answer is 6.If you multiply them then too the answer is 6.
5)By looking into a mirror.
6)Postage stamp.
7)When they make 22.
8)888+ 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.
9)A horse with a rider.
10. LOVE- remove three letters, L,O and E, then remains ‘V’, the roman number five.
11. Clock.
12. Forty years old.
13. 11000
1100
11
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12111
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14. Your name.

15. 20. You count like this 9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,90,91, 92, 93,94,95,96,97,98, and99.
16. Christmas and New Years always fall in the same year; New Year comes at the first of the year, and Christmas comes near the end of it.
17. Answer is ‘0’. X-x = 0. Any number multiplied with ‘0’ is 0.

18. There is no smoke from an electrical train.

19.
“O“ne
“T“wo
“T“hree
“F“our
“F“ive
“S“ix
“S“even
“E“ight
“N“ine
“T”en

20. 3+3+3+3/3 = 9+1 = 10.
21. Because, sudden break was applied.
22. Noon.
23. There is no calling bell.
24. Both can not be done at a time.
25. Of course, from eggs.
26. Take away the letter‘s’.
27. Just add ‘b’ to it.
28. Two. Inside and outside.
29. Twelve. 2nd, January, 2nd, February, 2nd, March ……
30. He was alive.
31. Her husband.
32. He is dead.
33. It will become wet.
34. Two pieces.
35. John.
36. Columbus.
37. I + X = IX.
38. 10.
39. Zebra.
40. Barber.
41. One needs to breathe.
42. Five fingers.
43. 50 /(1/2) + 50 = 50x (2/1) + 50 = 150.
44.
3
3 +3 + 3/3 = 27 + 3 + 1 = 31.

45. six
46. 1
1
1
47. Breath.
48. Shadow.
49. African elephant is in Africa and Asian elephant is in Asia.
50. If they are planted in middle of the road, buses can not go.
51. No teeth for a new born baby.
52. An elephant’s shadow.
53. Sponge.
54. ‘d’.
55. When water is frozen.
56. When it is on the train
57. In the dictionary
58. On the head
59. They are not sweets but fruits.
60. Education.
61. Liquid state.
62. A horse.
63. Anybody. Statues can’t jump.
64. Night watchman.
65. Because the horse was too heavy to carry.
66. Because he wanted to see butterfly.
67. Because they do not know to cook.
68. Only the dead are buried.
69. Because he was dead.
70. Because we can not get them free.
71. (7x7)+(7x7)+ 7+7
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7
72. 54+446=500.
73. 55+5=60
74. One of the several ways is
1+ (2x3) + (4x5)-6+7+ (8x9) =100
75. X x 13 = X + 180
13X –X = 180
12X = 180
X = 180/12 = 15
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76. 100. (100-\/ 100 = 90 )


77.
9-9 0
9 = 9 = 1

78. CABBAGE.
79. A. No time at all it is already built.
80. A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack!
81. A. Very large hands.(Good one)
82. A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.
83. A. No Probs, He sleeps at night.
84. A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that.
85. A: The other half.
86. A: Dinner.
87. A: It caused a revolution.
88. A : Liquid
89. A: name
90.A: if all the words listed, if the first letter, is placed at the end of the word
and read backwards it spells out the same.
91. A: Your birth year(last 2 digits) + your current age = 108
92. A: 1 (Remember the first line? 1=5)
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