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Riddle: There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine.
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Riddle: When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?
Answer: A Light Switch.
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Behind Who?

ROD: 08-03-2025

Riddle: How can you physically stand behind your friend as he physically stands behind you?
Answer: By standing back to back.
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Riddle: How do you make a poisonous snake cry?
Answer: Take aways it rattle.
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Riddle: I walked through a field of wheat, I picked up something good to eat, It was white and had no bone, In twenty-one days it walked alone. What did I pick up?
Riddle: I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
Answer: A blackboard.
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Riddle: Where do TVs go on vacation?
Answer: To remote places.
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Riddle: Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme. What am I?
Answer: I'm Knowledge.
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Riddle: How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
Answer: None, it was Noah.
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Riddle: Where can you learn to make ice cream?
Answer: In sundae school.
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