英语谜语及答案

Riddles (I)

1.What is smaller than an insect’s mouth?

2.What season is the most dangerous one?

3.What’s too much for me，just right for two，but nothing at? all for three?

4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?

5.How many feet are in a yard?

6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?

7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?

8.What has hands but no feet， a face but no eyes，tells but does not talk?

9.How many months have 28 days?

10.Which horses have six legs?

Keys (I)

1.Anything it eats.

2.Autumn. Because it is also FALL.

3.A secret.

4.March fourth. When a war breaks out，they’ll have to march forth.

5.It depends on how many people are standing in it.

6.A photographer.

7.The number 8.

8.Take away the upper half and 0 is left.

8.A clock.

9.All of them. Each month has its 28th day.

10.All horses have forelegs(four legs) in front and two in back， so they all have six legs

Riddles (II)

11.Why don’t babies need glasses?

12.What do you drop when you need it and? take? back? when? you don’t?

13.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?

14.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?

15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?

16.What is the center of gravity?

17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?

18.When Columbus discovered America，where did he stand?

19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?

20.When the boy fell into the water，what’s the first? thing? he did?

Keys (II)

11.Because they like bottles better.

12.An anchor.(锚)

13.A monkey can have fleas，but a flea can’t have monkeys.

14.A blackboard.

15.Sixty.

16.The letter V.

17.A doorbell.

18.On his feet.

19.A cat on a chair waiting for a mouse.

20.He got wet first.

Riddles (III)

21.Who isn’t your sister and isn’t your brother，but is still? a child of your mother and father?

22.What has teeth but can’t eat?

23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?

24.Which candle burns longer: a black one or a white one?

25.Why does a cook wear a high，white hat?

26.Can you name five days of the? week? without? saying: Monday， Tuesday，Wednesday，Thursday，Friday?

27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?

28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps，a big mouth? but? never speaks?

29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it. How can? you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?

30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?

Keys (III)

21.You yourself are.

22.A comb.

23.A farmer. He can? raise? pigs， chickens? and? so? on? without lifting them.

24.Neither.Because all candles burn shorter.

25.To cover his head.

26.The day before yesterday，yesterday，today， tomorrow， and? the day after tomorrow.

27.A hot dog.

28.A river.

29.Give three girls an apple each，and give the fourth girl? her apple in the basket.

30.Envelope.

Riddles (IV)

31.Three men were under one umbrella，but none of them? got? wet.How do they do it?

32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?

33.How much earth can you take from a hole 2 feet long， 2? feet wide and 2 feet deep?

34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?

35.What is pronounced like one letter，written with three letters，and belongs to all animals?

36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?

37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

38.What cannot be seen but only heard，and will not speak unless spoken to?

39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?

40.What part of a clock is always old?

Keys (IV)

31.It was not raining.

32.In a dictionary.

33.None.Because it has been taken out already.

34.A flag.

35.Eye.

36.Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.

37.Trouble.

38.An echo.(回声)

39.Short.

40.The second hand.

Riddles (V)

41.What person does every man take his hat off to?

42.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?

43.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?

44.What appears once in every minute，twice in every? moment， but not once in thousand years?

45.What would you say if you saw a ghost(鬼)?

46.Which is the left side of a cake?

47.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way street，but paid no attention to him. Why ?

48.Where should the milk be best stored ?

49.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?

50.What always has one eye open but can’t see?

Keys (V)

41.A barber.

42.Water.

43.I C U

44.The letter M.

45.I would say nothing and run as fast as possible.

46.The side that isn’t eaten.

47.The truck driver was walking there.

48.In a cow.

49.The ground.

50.A needle.

Riddles ( VI )

51.What goes all over the house，but touches nothing?

52.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

53.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?

54.Why is a river rich?

55.I have cities but no houses，forests but no trees; rivers but without water; what am I?

56.A man jumped from a plane，but there was nothing? wrong? with him. Do you know why?

57.In a train，a woman saw other peoples’ faces were dirty. What would she do，do you know?

58.Why did John say he didn’t know where the sun was?

59.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?

60.Why does Tom’s mother go to work by plane every day?

Keys ( VI )

51.A sound or voice.

52.My name.

53.The letter "C".

54.Because it has two banks.

55.A map.

56.Because the plane is on the ground.

57.She would close her eyes，of course.

58.Because it was at night.

59.In bed.

60.Because she works in a plane.