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Riddle:
The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 100 million miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, and light takes eight minutes to reach the Earth from the Sun. Let's say the Sun rose at 6am this morning, and that by some freak of physics the speed of light is suddenly doubled to 372,000 miles a second.
What time will the Sun rise tomorrow?
Answer: 6am again. After all, what diffrence does the speed of light make to the answer? It's irrelevant- only the speed of the roation of the Earth matters here.
Riddle:
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?
Answer: A needle and thread.
Riddle:
When is the only time that today and tomorrow come before yesterday?
Answer: In a dictionary.
Riddle:
What can be underwater, under fire, on fire and taking water all at the same time?
Answer: Submarine. Underwater meaning in water. Under fire meaning getting shot at. On fire meaning burning. Taking water meaning water is flooding into or through something.
Riddle:
I am the runner, The pencils the chaser. I eat up the lead, I choke on the eraser. When I am done, I become another one, To be used again. I am white And blank as well. I can be folded, Into a bell. My corners are cut perfectly, My lines are straight and blue. Me having black marks or not, Fully depends on you. What am I?
Answer: I Am Paper.
Riddle:
I can carry many though I have no body; I can often be weak but am hard to kill; I shine brighter than any light but you cannot see me; I sing the sweetest music but you cannot hear me; I can bring warmth to anyone no matter how cold it gets. What am I?
Answer: I am hope.
Riddle:
Why are people in jail the slowest talkers ever?
Answer: They can spend 25 years on a single sentence.
Riddle:
The man that builds it doesn't use it. The man that needs it doesn't know it. The man that wants it doesn't sell it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin/casket.
Riddle:
What symbol can be put between 2 and 3 to make the result greater than 2 but less than 3?
Answer: A decimal point
Riddle:
He's dead with a metal bar across his back. When a woman sees him, she is very pleased. This was all perfectly legal. What's going on?
Answer: The woman had captured a mouse with a mousetrap.
