Riddles

[Peaches]

See how many of the following you can get correctly ... I will post the answers in a few days ... have fun & let's see how well you score!!

Riddles ....

1. The one who makes it sells it.

The one who buys it doesn't use it.

The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.

What is it

2. The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what

is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong

with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?

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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing

district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run;

and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop

to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for

any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds

of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst

Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a

young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent

Wright in the late 1930's

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What is unusual about the paragraph above

3.What has 5(sometimes 4) hands but is normal

4. The music stopped. The woman dies. Why

5. The Hanging - Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a

dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't

figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off

of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it

6. A man dies of thirst in his own home. Hows is this possible?

7. QUESTION: You are walking through a field, and you find something to

eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put

it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's

later it walks away. What is it?

8. QUESTION: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has

full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or

body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an

apple so that all but one person can see it?

9. QUESTION: A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a

river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If

the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If

the chicken and the corn is left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?

10. QUESTION: I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head,

but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You

can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?

[sultan_emerr]

1. Moonshine

2. It has correct grammar, which is unusual these days.

3. A poker game, or a teenage boy in the back seat of a car with his date.

4. Britney Spears has heart attack upon realizing that she can't really sing.

5. Stood on block of ice.

6. His wife refused to do her duty and bring him a drink.

7. A 7-11 hotdog.

8. In that one person's butt.

9. He has a roast chicken and cornbread meal, then takes the fox in the row boat(with the chicken and corn in his belly).

10. An arrow