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Riddle:
A traveler starts a journey. For the first week he goes east. The second he goes in all directions. The third he flies up into the sky. In the fourth he comes back down. Who is the traveler?
Answer: An iceberg. It travels East as an iceberg, free flowing water when melted, flies up to sky when evaporated, falls back down as rain.
Riddle:
I help you through the toughest of times, and the darkest of nights. I am present in the day, and when you wake. When you dream, I take a back seat. You may call me good judgment, or a gut feeling. Either way, I am your friend. I always point you towards the light. Who am I? (2 answers).
Answer: Your conscious, or common sense.
Riddle:
If someone were to write a biography about us, the following could be reported: #1 - We are always present in multiple-choice exams. #2 - Sherlock Homes kept a close eye on us after he retired. #3 - Honor students are not very fond of us. #4 - One of us was a famous aunt on T.V. #5 - The person who played the owner of the Shady Rest Hotel was, in reality, one of us. Based on the biographical information above --- Who/what are we?
Answer: We are Bs, Bees, or Beas (as in Aunt Bea and actress Bea Benaderet.)
Riddle:
An archaeologist finds a coin dated 48 B.C. How did he know it was a fake?
Answer: BC is before Christ. Christ was not yet born when the coin would have been made and the date would be impossible.
Riddle:
I am the future, all eventual decay; In death and destruction, I lay. Your habits of order to prevent my disorder, Only hasten my final hooray. What am I?
Answer: Entropy.
Riddle:
A man has a machine that can turn him into any person that ever existed. He programmed into the machine the number 1, and then pressed the transformation button. Who did he become?
Answer: Adam.
Riddle:
Old mother Twitchett has but one eye, And a long tail which she can let fly, And every time she goes over a gap, She leaves a bit of her tail in a trap. What am I?
Answer: A needle and thread.
Riddle:
A retired zookeeper owned a huge house with a very large and beautifully landscaped yard. The neighbors of the man drove past his home daily, and admired his arrangement of all the large trees and numerous healthy bushes which adorned the front yard. One day, a neighbor drove by the former zookeeper's house, and was astonished to see a living, fully-grown ostrich standing in the yard. A week later, neighbors reported seeing a live, fully-grown bear standing near the ostrich. As the next few weeks passed, the neighbors saw a tiger, a lion, a hippopotamus, and finally an elephant appear in the yard of the retired zookeeper --- all fully- grown and alive, but without any cages or bars to protect the neighborhood from them. Amazingly, not one person who lived in that area ever expressed any fear of the uncaged animals, and no one ever called the police for protection. Were these people living in the Twilight Zone? What exactly was going on here, and why weren't any of these people afraid for their lives?
Answer: The retired zookeeper was also a professional topiary expert. Mixing together the best of his two worlds, he sculpted zoo animals from his fully-grown, healthy, living bushes in his front yard, much to the delight of his neighbors.
Riddle:
What's black and white and red all over?
Answer: A zebra with a sunburn.
Riddle:
In her work each day, a courageous young woman often encounters cobras, vipers, stingrays, barracudas, eagles, cougars, impalas, rams, spiders, beetles, and on rare occasions, a panther. This woman has no fear of any of these as she walks around in the midst of them, never carrying a gun or a whip, and without being protected from them by iron bars or safety barriers of any kind. What is the occupation of this brave, young woman, and why does she have no fear when performing her job?
Answer: The young woman is a used-car saleswoman who encounters a wide variety of high and low end trade-ins at the dealership where she works. Incidentally, all of the models of the used cars listed in this puzzle are named after animals. The last one mentioned, the Watercar panther, is an amphibious automobile which started to be produced in 2013.
