Question: What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing.
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Question: A man was shot to death while in his car. There were no powder marks on his clothing, which indicated that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked. After a close inspection was made, the only bullet-holes discovered were on the man's body.
How was he murdered?
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How was he murdered?
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Answer: The victim was in a convertible. He was shot when the top was down.
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Question: Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?
Answer: They were not born in the same year.
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Question: I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Answer: I am tomorrow - your future.
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Question: 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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Question: Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
Answer: David (Roman numerals).
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Question: RIDDLE:When asked how old she was, Suzie replied,
"In 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 years ago." How old is she?
"In 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 years ago." How old is she?
Answer: Use some math remember in 2 yrs she's twice as old
She's 12 ! 14yr / 2yr = 7yr add 5yr and get 12 years old.
She's 12 ! 14yr / 2yr = 7yr add 5yr and get 12 years old.
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Question: What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What is it?
Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What is it?
Answer: .A Mountain
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Question: I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Answer: Your fears.
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Question: I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils O red fruit, Ivory, fine timber! The loaf's big with it's yeasty rising Money's new minted in this fat purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples Boarded the train there's no getting off.
Answer: Only women get this way
Pregnancy (this is also a famous poem)
Pregnancy (this is also a famous poem)
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