[Peaches4U]

Riddles .... these should be a piece of cake ... Will post the correct answers in a few days... in the meantime let's see who can get them all correct - have fun.

1. The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it

2. The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what
is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong
with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?

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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing
district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run;
and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop
to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for
any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds
of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst
Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a
young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent
Wright in the late 1930's

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What is unusual about the paragraph above

3.What has 5(sometimes 4) hands but is normal

4. The music stopped. The woman dies. Why

5. The Hanging - Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a
dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't
figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off
of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it

6. A man dies of thirst in his own home. Hows is this possible

7. QUESTION: You are walking through a field, and you find something to
eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put
it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's
later it walks away. What is it?

8. QUESTION: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has
full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or
body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an
apple so that all but one person can see it?

9. QUESTION: A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a
river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If
the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If
the chicken and the corn is left together, the chicken will eat the corn.
How does the man do it?

10. QUESTION: I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head,
but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You
can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?

[roddy32]

Stuff like this makes my head spin.

[jasper the rasper]

5. the hanging.
He was stood on a block of ice.

[roddy32]

8. QUESTION: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has
full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or
body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an
apple so that all but one person can see it?

Your head??

[Peaches4U]

Okay - here are the questions again with the answers ...

1. The one who makes it sells it.
The one who buys it doesn't use it.
The one who's using it doesn't know he's using it.
What is it

2. The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what
is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong
with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?

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"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing
district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run;
and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop
to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for
any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds
of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst
Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a
young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent
Wright in the late 1930's

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What is unusual about the paragraph above

3.What has 5(sometimes 4) hands but is normal

4. The music stopped. The woman dies. Why

5. The Hanging - Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a
dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't
figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off
of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it

6. A man dies of thirst in his own home. Hows is this possible
7. QUESTION: You are walking through a field, and you find something to
eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put
it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's
later it walks away. What is it?
8. QUESTION: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has
full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or
body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an
apple so that all but one person can see it?
9. QUESTION: A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a
river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If
the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If
the chicken and the corn is left together, the chicken will eat the corn.
How does the man do it?
10. QUESTION: I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head,
but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You
can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?


ANSWERS ....

1. Answer: A Coffin.
2. The letter "E" is the most commonly used letter in the English language,
but in the whole passage, there was no "E" used.
3. A person wearing a non digital watch - an average person has 2 hands, + a
minute hand on the watch + an hour hand and sometimes a second hand.
4. The woman is a blindfolded tightrope walker at a circus. The music ended
a little early, and she knew that she reached the ends, so she lost balance
and fell to her death.
5. He stood on a block of ice until it melted.
6. The man lives in a house boat, and is in the middle of the ocean with no
fresh water around.
7. It's an egg.
8. Place the apple on one person's head.lace the apple on one person's head
9. Man carries chicken, man leaves chicken and comes back, man gets fox,
man leaves fox and gets chicken, man leaves fox to get corn & to get
chicken, man gets chicken.
10. An arrow.