Riddles1

1. A woman was sitting on a windowsill on the 35th floor of a building. She
was about to commit suicide. The police surrounded the bottom of the
building telling her NOT to jump. Her husband was in the room with her and
kept trying to stop her. She got nervous and fell, yet she did not get or
hurt or even a scratch. Why?

2. A boat will carry only 200 pounds. How can a man weighing 200 pounds and
his 2 sons, each weighing 100 pounds, use the boat to cross a river?

3. Looking at a picture a man says "Brothers and sisters I have none but
that man's father is my father's son." Whose picture is it?

4. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would
hatch?

5. There are three errers in the statement of this problem. You must detect
all of them to recieve full credit.

6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on
Earth?

7. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?

8. Bill's parents have three sons. The first is named Tom, the second is
named Dick. What is the third son named?

9. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand
years?

10. A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National
Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation
to save his life. The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says "Oh my
god! I can't operate on this boy. He is my SON!" but the surgeon was not the
boy's father. How could this be?

11. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of
the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

12. A bottle and a cork together cost $1.50. the bottle costs $1.00 more
than the cork. How much does each cost?

13. A woman with no driver's license goes the wrong way on a one-way street and turns left at a corner with a no left turn sign. A policeman sees
her but
does nothing. Why?

14. The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The
one that uses it never knows that he's using it. What is it?

15. Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have you got?

16. Which common English word is most often pronounced incorrectly?

17. A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes ten minutes to
grill one side of a steak. What is the shortest amount of time it will take
to grill three steaks on both sides?

18. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you
don't want to use it?

19. A horse is tied to a five meter rope, six meters away from it was a bail
of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bail of
hay. How is
this possible?


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ANSWERS...

1. She fell INTO her room instead of out the window

2. First the 2 sons cross the river together. 1 son then re-crosses the
river to take the boat back to the man. The man then crosses the river The
other son then re-crosses river. Both sons then cross the river, and
everyone is now on the other side.

3. His son.

4. None. Roosters don't lay eggs.

5.Errors is spelled incorrectly (spelled "errers" in the problem).
Receive is spelled incorrectly (spelled "recieve" in the problem).
The third error is that there are only two errors, not three.

6. Mount Everest

7. Only the last one.

8. Bill

9. The letter M.

10. The surgeon is the boy's mother.

11.There are more than two babies. It could be triplets, quadruplets, etc.

12.The bottle costs $1.25 and the ! cork c ! osts $0.25.

13.She's a pedestrian or bicyclist.

14. A coffin.

15. 2 apples.

16. incorrectly

17. 30 minutes. First grill one side of two steaks for 10 minutes. Then flip
over the first steak. Set aside the second steak for now, and grill one side
of the third steak. Grill them for 10 minutes. Now the first steak is done.
Put the second steak back on and grill the other side, and flip over the
third steak. Grill for 10 more minutes. All 3 steaks  will be grilled in 30
minutes.

18. An anchor.

19. The other end of the rope is tied to nothing.