I'm going to give several riddles now. As with the game, any who can answer (this
time) 7 or more, you're a stud and gimme a holler! I'll give an example first:
Two men waged a bet on who could stay underwater the longest
without the aid of a breathing apparatus. One managed to stay underwanter for a
minute. The other knew he could not beat this, but with a secret family method,
managed to stay underwater for 2 minutes. How did he do it?
Answer:
He filled a cup of water and stood under it for two minutes.
1. You throw away the outside, cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
2. What is at the beginning of every eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?
3.What 5 letter word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
4.While on a safari in the jungle of Africa, a man wakes one morning and finds something in his pocket. It has a head and a tail, but no legs. When the man got up, he could feel it move within his pocket, but showed little concern and went about his day. Why such a casual attitude?
5. Two men were playing chess. They played 7 games. Each won the same number of games, and there were not any draws or stalemates. How did this happen?
6. What is 1 thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between Heaven and Earth?
7. If 7 people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?
8. King Henry the VIII gave his wife a bottomless container to put flesh and blood in. What did he give her?
9. There is a word in the English language in which the first 2 letters signify a male, the first 3 signify a female, the first 4 signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
10. Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34pm What was it?
11. When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?
12. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest moutain on Earth?
13. Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
15. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?
16. A men's baseball team won the game 9-0 without a single man crossing the plate. How?
17. It is impossible for anyone to survive longer than one week without water, yet one man managed a 10 day desert crossing without finding water or brining any along. How was this possible?
18. A man married 10 different women. He did not break any laws, none of the women died, and he was never divorced. How is this possible?
19. Make this equation correct by adding one small, straight line:
(you cannot make the equals sign a not-equals sign)
5 + 5 + 5 = 550
20. There are 3 light bulbs upstairs. Downstairs, there are 3 switches to those
light bulbs. If you can only go upstairs once, how can you determine what switch
goes to what light bulb?