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ENGLISH VINGLISH - 8 - LAST PART

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RIDDLING ENGLISH

If you earn a score of 25, you are average, 50 Good’

75 Very Good and 90 and above Outstanding.

Note: Answers of these Riddles are given at the end

Of English Vinglish part-

R. 1      What flies without wings?

R. 2    What has a ring, but no finger?

R. 3    What begins with T, ends with T

   and has T in it?

R. 4      How many seconds are there in a year?

R. 5       What can be seen in the middle of March

           and April that cannot be seen at the

           beginning or end of either month?

R. 6       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?

R. 7      What’s the difference between here and there?

R. 8      Pronounced as one letter, and written with three,

Two letters there are, And two only in me. I’m

double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and grey, I’m

read from both ends, And the same either way.

What am I?

R. 9       A kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

R. 10    What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water?

R. 11    What body part is pronounced as one letter but

written with three, only two different letters are 

used?

R. 12    What jumps higher than a building? Buildings do 

             not jump.

R. 13    Which is correct “The yolk of the egg is white” or

“The egg yolk is white?”

R. 14    You throw away the outside and cook the inside.

Then you eat the outside and throw away the 

inside. What did you eat?

R. 15    A man was to be sentenced and the judge told him

you may make a statement. If you tell the truth I’ll

sentence you to 4 years, however, if you lie then I’ll

sentence you to 6 years. After the man’s statement 

the judge decides to let him go. What did the 

man say?

R. 16    There was a plane crash where every single 

person died. Who survived?

R. 17    What English word has three consecutive double 

             letters?

R. 18    What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no 

             trees; and water, but no fish?

R. 19    What common English verb becomes its own past

tense by rearranging its letters?

R. 20    What goes through a door but never goes in and

never comes out?

R. 21    I’m so fast you can’t see me, though everyone else

can see straight through me. I don’t stop until the

day you die. What am I?

R. 22    What 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?

R. 23    I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead,

make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an 

instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?

R. 24    I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, 

             I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, 

I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, 

I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole. 

What am I?

R. 25    What is at the end of a rainbow?

R. 26    We hurt without moving. And poison without 

touching. We bear truth and lies, but are not 

judged by size. What are we?

R. 27    You see a boat filled with people. You look again,

but this time you don’t see a single person on the 

boat. Why? Hint: The boat has not sunk.

R. 28    If what goes up must come down, what comes 

down that must go up?

R. 29    Which word contains 26 letters but only three 

syllables?

R. 30    What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

R. 31    What is it something that you always have but you

always leave behind?

R. 32    I always run but never walk, Have a mouth but 

never talk. What am I?

R. 33    A man was driving a black car. His lights were off.

The moon showed no light. A cat was in the middle

of the road. How did he know to stop?

R. 34    What goes through towns and over hills but never

moves?

R. 35    What invention lets you look right through a wall?

R. 36    You are my brother, but I am not your brother.

Who am I?

R. 37    A woman shoots her husband, then holds him

underwater for five minutes.

Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they

enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

R. 38    What time of day, when written in capital letters, is

the same forwards, backwards and upside down?

R. 39    Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in

a shelter. What am I?

R. 40    What word looks the same upside down and 

              backwards?

R. 41    What is it that no man ever yet did see, which 

never was, but always is to be?

R. 42    What tastes better than it smells?

R. 43    What has an eye but cannot see?

R. 44    Everyone has me but nobody can lose me. 

What am I?

R. 45    There is a man in a 4 storey building. He jumps 

out of the window and is unharmed. He 

used no padding, and had no harm done. How?

R. 46    Where do fish keep their money?

R. 47    I am a king who’s good at measuring stuff. 

What am I?

R. 48    Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

R. 49    It can be cracked, it can be made, it can be told,

it can be played. What is it?

R. 50    How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor

without cracking it?

R. 51    Which ring is square?

R. 52    Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

R. 53    The more there is the less you see.

R. 54    What is always slow to come, but never actually 

             happens?

R. 55    What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also 

made   up of 3. Sometimes is written with 

9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, 

and never is written with 5.

R. 56    What has hands but cannot clap?

R. 57    What sits in a corner while travelling all 

around the world?

R. 58    Tear one off and scratch my head, what once 

was red is black instead?

R. 59    What can you catch but not throw?

R. 60    What gets broken without being held?

R. 61    What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

R. 62    I am a seed with three letters in my name. 

Take away the last two and I still sound the 

same. What am I?

R. 63    I’m simple for a few people but hard for them 

to hear I live inside of secrets I bring people’s 

worst fears What am I?

R. 64    I go into the water black and come out red. 

What am I?

R. 65    Which is the six letter English word having 

4 ‘S’?

R. 66    Which is the seven letter English word having 

4 ‘E’?

R. 67    Which is the smallest English word having 

all the vowels? Also write some other English 

words having all the vowels.

R. 68    I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m 

old. What am I?

R. 69    A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no 

lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, 

nothing. Yet she is reading. How?

R. 70    You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene 

lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do 

you light first?

R. 71    What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

R. 72    You draw a line. Without touching it, how do 

you make the line longer?

R. 73    Name four days of the week that start with the 

letter “t”?

R. 74    What goes around and around the wood but 

never goes into the wood?

R. 75    A man was outside taking a walk, when it 

started to rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella 

and he wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes got 

soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got 

wet. How could this happen?

R. 76    A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency 

room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, 

“I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” 

But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How 

could that be?

R. 77    What can run but can’t walk?

R. 78    If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an 

hour and there is a strong westerly wind, 

which way does the smoke from the train drift?

R. 79     What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in 

             common?

R. 80     How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, 

to only have it come back to you, even if it 

doesn’t bounce off anything?

R. 81    My name is Ruger; I live on a farm. There are 

four other dogs on the farm with me. Their 

names are Snowy, Flash, Speedy and Brownie. 

What do you think the fifth dog’s name is?

R. 82     A boy fell off a 30-meter ladder but did not get 

hurt.  Why not?

R. 83      What never asks questions but is often Answered?

R. 84      What belongs to you but other people use it more 

than you?

R. 85     I have a large money box, 48 centimetres square 

and 42 centimetres tall. Roughly how many coins 

can I  place in my empty money box?

R. 86    What does this mean? I RIGHT I.

R. 87    Imagine you’re in a room that is filled with water. 

There is no windows or doors. How do you get 

out?

R.88    The more you take, the more you leave behind. 

What are they?

R. 89   What two keys can’t open any door?

R. 90    What invention lets you look right through a wall?

R. 91    Which three words in the English language are 

all of the following?

Four letters long; start with t, c or b; and have the 

same last three letters yet do not rhyme.

R. 92    Take a 3 letter, 1 syllable word. Add a single 

letter to the end of the word and it becomes 

a 4 letter, 3 syllable word. What is the word?

R. 93    Change a long pause to a short pause by 

doubling a letter. What are the two words?

R. 94    What starts and ends with ‘e,’ has only one 

letter in the middle, but still contains 

hundreds of words?

R. 95    Which word in the English language has the 

following 3 meanings? 

a. to empty b. to be even with c. to be full of.

R. 96     What word in the English language is always 

spelled incorrectly?

R. 97  Which five letter word becomes shorter 

when two letters are added to it?

R. 98  Can you think of the one-word Answer to this 

Riddle.? Rich people need it, poor people 

have it and if you eat it, you’ll die.

R. 99   Take away the whole and some still remains. 

What is it?

R. 100   Which word has the most letters in it?

R. 101   Which word is pronounced wrong by all the 

smartest and wisest sages and scholars in 

the land?

R. 102   What is the only word in the English language 

that ends in Mt?

R. 103   When is this sentence true? There are eleven 

letters in the alphabet.

R. 104   What kind of clothes do lawyers wear?

R. 105   Which five letter word has six left after you 

take two letters away?

R. 106   What falls often but never gets hurt?

R. 107   Lives without a body, hears without ears, 

speaks without a mouth, to which the air 

alone gives birth. What is it?

R. 108   Look at me. I can bring a smile to your face, 

a tear to your eye, or even a thought to your 

mind. But, I can’t be seen. What am I?

R. 109   Which house can fly?

R. 110   What is the difference between a fly and a 

mosquito?

R. 111   Which ten letter English word is having 

four “U”?

R. 112. Out of 26 alphabets of English language

           there is one letter which is pronounced as 

double of another letter and also resembling 

with yet another letter doubled stretcher.

R. 113   Can you Answer what, where and when

           by replacing only one letter from each?

R. 114   Which is the shortest complete sentence of

          English language?

 

 

UNRIDDLING THE “RIDDLING-ENGLISH”

A.1     “TIME”.

A. 2      PHONE.

A. 3      TEAPOT.

A. 4      12 as 2nd Jan, 2nd Feb. 

             and so on.

A. 5      The letter “r”.

A. 6      HEROINE.

 A. 7     “T”.

 A. 8      An eye.

A. 9       A palm

A. 10     A sponge.

A. 11     Eye.

A. 12     All animals can jump higher 

        than a building.

A. 13     Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.

A. 14     CORN.

A. 15    “You will sentence me to 

six years”. If that statement was 

a lie the man would get 6 years 

which would really make    his 

statement true. If it was true 

he would get only 4 years 

rendering the statement false. 

Refusing to go against his own 

words the judge decides to let 

him go.

        A.16   Married couples.

       A. 17    Bookkeeper.

       A. 18    A map.

       A. 19   Eat and ate.

       A. 20   A Keyhole.

       A. 21   The blink of an eye.

       A. 22    Chicago. The first three letters 

           out of seven of chicken is 

            CHI, the first two letters out 

            of 3 of cat is CA and 

                     first two letters out of 4 of 

        goat is GO making it  CHICAGO.

       A. 23    A Memory.

       A. 24     A Snake.

       A. 25     The letter “W”.

       A. 26     WORDS.

       A. 27     All the people on the boat 

            are married.

       A. 28     The Sun.

       A. 29     Alphabet.

       A. 30     A Penny.

       A. 31     Fingerprints.

       A. 32     A River.

       A. 33     It was a very bright and 

            Sunny day.

       A. 34     A Road.

        A. 35     A Window.

A. 36     I am your sister.

A. 37     She took a photo of him and

                            developed it in the dark room.

A. 38      Noon

A. 39      Letter “r”.

A. 40      Swims.

A. 41      Tomorrow.

A. 42      Your tongue.

A. 43      A Needle.

A. 44       A shadow.

A. 45.      He jumped out of the 

                ground floor.

A. 46       Riverbank.

A. 47       Ruler.

A. 48     “C”.

A. 49        Jokes.

A. 50      It's highly likely the concrete 

                              Floor will not crack.

A. 51        A boxing ring.

A. 52       Fire.

A. 53       Darkness.

A. 54       Tomorrow.

A. 55       Correct, the word ‘WHAT’ 

                 has 4 letter in it, ‘YET’ 

                  has 3, ‘SOMETIMES’ has 9, 

                  THEN has 4, ‘RARELY’ 

                   has 6 and ‘NEVER’ has 5.

       A.56     A Clock.

       A. 57     Stamp.

       A. 58      A    match.

      A. 59      A cloud.

      A. 60       A Promise.

       A. 61       A horse.

       A. 62       Pea.

       A. 63     The truth.

       A. 64     A Lobster.

       A. 65     Assess.

       A. 66     Referee.

      A. 67     Equation is the smallest of 

    them. Other words are 

    encouraging,

                       endeavouring, enamouring,

                        education, insurmountable.

      A. 68     Candle.

      A. 69      The woman is blind and 

        Reading Braille. 

      A.70     The match.

      A. 71     A towel.

      A. 72      You draw a shorter line  

     next to it, and it becomes 

     the longer line.

          A. 73    Tuesday, Thursday, today 

                        and tomorrow.

      A.  74     The bark on a tree.

      A.  75     The man was bald.

      A.76     The doctor was his mom.

      A. 77    A drop of water.

      A. 78    There is no smoke coming 

                        from Electric trains.

      A. 79     To read the same right up

                        and upside down.

      A.80     Throw the wall straight up

                        in the air.

      A. 81     Ruger.

      A. 82      He fell off the bottom step.

      A. 83     A Doorbell.

      A. 84     Your name.

      A. 85     Just one, after which it will

                        no longer be empty.

       A. 86    Right between the eyes.

      A. 87     Stop imagining.

       A. 88     Footprint.

       A. 89     A monkey and a donkey.

       A. 90     WINDOW.

       A. 91     Tomb, comb, bomb.

       A. 92     Ore, oreo, are-area.

       A. 93      Coma->Comma.

       A. 94      Envelop.

       A. 95      Flush.

       A. 96      Incorrectly.

       A. 97      Short.

       A. 98      Nothing.

       A. 99     Wholesome.

       A. 100     Mailbox.

        A.101     Wrong.

        A. 102     Dreamt.

        A. 103     When “the alphabet” is in

                             quotation marks 

                              (count the letters.)

    A.104      Lawsuits.

       A.105       Sixty.

       A. 106      Snow or rain.

       A. 107      Echo.

       A. 108      Memories.

       A. 109     A house fly.

       A. 110    A mosquito can fly but 

             fly cannot mosquito.

                          

     A.111    TUMULTUOUS.

       A. 112      It is “W”.

       A. 113     Replace W of each word 

            with T.

     A. 114        “I AM”.

 

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