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| - These are the answers to the riddles that Archimedes the Wizard gives to you:
* R: What goes around the World but stays in a corner?
* A: Stamp
* R: What kind of driver doesn't have a license?
* A: Screwdriver
* R: What is an ant dictator?
* A: Tyrant
* R: What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal party?
* A: A bootie
* R: What word is always pronounced wrong?
* A: Wrong
* R: What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
* A: Kangaroo
* R: Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
* A: Fire
* R: What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
* A: Rug
* R: Its been around for millions of years, but its no more then a month old?
* A: Moon
* R: What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the day, and three legs at night?
* A: Man
* R: What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?
* A: Yardstick
* R: What can you catch, but not throw?
* A: Cold
* R: What has a neck but no head?
* A: Bottle
* R: What runs all around the yard without moving?
* A: Fence
* R: Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
* A: Fly
* R: What kind of can never needs a can opener?
* A: Pelican
* R: What is the best way to send way to an Easter Bunny?
* A: Hare mail
* R: What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
* A: Sieve
* R: What never gets any wetter now matter how much it rains?
* A: Ocean
* R: What is found all over the house?
* A: Roof
* R: What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?
* A: Sun
* R: What kind of paper makes you itch?
* A: Scratch
* R: What is it that you can keep only after giving it to someone else?
* A: Word
* R: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
* A: Pencil
* R: What walks all day on its head?
* A: Horseshoe nail
* R: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
* A: Towel
* R: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
* A: M
* R: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
* A: Footsteps
* R: He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?
* A: Counterfeit money
* R: What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?
* A: Bark
* R: What is it that someone has to take before you can get it?
* A: Photograph
* R: I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again. What am I?
* A: Watch
* R: What did the skeleton order at the restaurant?
* A: Spare ribs
* R: Where does Dracula usually eat his meals?
* A: Casketeria
* R: A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.
* A: Rain
* R: What kind of ant can count?
* A: Accountant
* R: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
* A: Name
* R: What do you call a witch that lives at the beach?
* A: Sandwitch
* R: What is it that you will break even when you name it?
* A: Silence
* R: What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
* A: Cards
* R: I'm where yesterday following today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
* A: Dictionary
* R: What five letter word has six left after you take two letters away?
* A: Sixty
* R: I'm the part of a bird that is not in the sky. I swim in the ocean and yet I remain dry. What Am I?
* A: Shadow
* R: What is most useful when used up?
* A: Umbrella
* R: What is it that one needs most in a long run?
* A: Breath
* R: What do people make that no one can see?
* A: Noise
* R: What is the first thing the President does every day?
* A: Wakes Up
* R: I can run, but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
* A: Nose
* R: You throw away the outside and cook my inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
* A: Corn
* R: What has four legs and a back, but no body?
* A: Chair
* R: What is a monsters favourite bean?
* A: Human bean
* R: What goes from New York to California without ever moving?
* A: Highway
* R: What kind of tie does a pig wear?
* A: A Pigsty
* R: I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops. What am I?
* A: Sandal
* R: The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
* A: Coffin
* R: What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
* A: Paint
* R: I am as light as a feather. put me in a bucket, and I’ll make it lighter. what am I?
* A: A hole
* R: I have holes in my top and in my bottom yet I hold water. What am I?
* A: Sponge
* R: What is everyone doing at the same time?
* A: Aging
* R: What is the biggest jewel in the world?
* A: Baseball diamond
* R: What kind of table has no legs?
* A: Multiplication
* R: As I went to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits, kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
* A: One
* R: I'm as light as a feather, yet the strongest person cant hold me much more then a minute. what am i?
* A: Breath
* R: What can run yet never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
* A: River
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