Ducks At A Distance

How Many Can You Answer Without Going Nuts?

1. What’s full of holes but still holds water?
2. What construction has the most tales?
3.Why is an island like the letter T?
4.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 gray,
I’m read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?
5.My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Stout, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
6.What other letter fits in the following run:
B C D E I K O X?
7.What is the next letter in the run: “B, C, D, E, G, …”? And Why?
8.Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
9.What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft?
10.What is the best month for a parade?
11.What’s white when it’s soil?
12.Which is quicker, hot or cold?
13.Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate?
14.Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?
15.When is your mind like a rumpled bed?
16.What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter?
17.What is it that everybody does at the same time?
18.Take away my first letter; take away my second letter; take away all my letters, and I would remain the same. What am I?
19.A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. But the boy’s father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How can it be?
20.What gets wet when drying?
21.What goes up a chimney down, but won’t go down a chimney up?
22.What is so fragile even saying its name can break it?
23.What comes once in a minute, double in a second, but never in a thousand years?
24.The more you take the more you leave behind.
25.A word I know, six letters it contains. Deduct just one, and twelve is what remains.
26.This runs fore to aft on one side of a ship, and aft to fore on the other. What is it?
27.I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
28.What turns everything around, but does not go?
29.While walking crosswise a bridge I saw a boat full of public. Yet on the boat there wasn’t a single person. Why?
30.Here on earth it is right, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?
31.I am an insect, & the first half of my name reveals another insect. Some well-known musicians had a name similar to mine. What am I?
32.What relation would your father’s sister’s sister-in-law be to you?
33.There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters.” What is the word?
34.Brothers or sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. Who is that man?
35.What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
36.When can you add two to eleven and get one as the right answer?
37.How far can a dog run into the woods?
38.Two legs I have, and this will confound: only at rest do they touch the ground! What am I?
39.It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It’s present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?
40.Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?
A. blast, paper, box, bank
B. juice, bag, support, carpet
41.I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my first letter & you have a path situated between man-made masses. What am I?
42.What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
43.What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
44.Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.
45.You can see nothing else
When you look in my face,
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie.
46.I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.
47.What are the next 3 letters in this riddle?
o t t f f s s _ _ _
48.He starts and ends 2 common English words. One painful in like, one painful in everyday matter.
Do you know what 2 words I must be?
49.What row of facts comes next in this run?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
50.What stinks when income and smells good when dead?
51. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many public are in the family?

Excellent Luck!:);)
p.s. you don’t have to answer all just some
E-mail me if you really want the answers the only way you’ll get the answers is if you answer at least ten or a few
i did not make these all up email me if you need help

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  • * B.T.S. * says:

    Not even the first one. lol

    March 10, 2010 at 11:28 am
  • P??p,Go??,E?o;[v????????l??!] says:

    edit

    March 10, 2010 at 11:38 am
  • Janu!! says:

    I want to answer these but every time, I have to scroll all the way up and all the way down, so it’s pretty frustrating.

    But congratulations for prose something this long!!!!!

    March 10, 2010 at 12:09 pm
  • soccer pro #19 says:

    1.sponge
    7.f cuz u skipped it
    8.one of the daughters is a mother
    13.yes
    14.one of the sons was a father
    16.live
    20.a towel?
    23.m
    too long to read all but at least i answered some

    March 10, 2010 at 1:01 pm
  • LILIE! says:

    well i for one know who’s nuts…
    1. the ocean
    2. the store, obviously.
    3. humans?
    12. hot
    16. helium.
    19. the mother is the doctor and the dad id the nurse. duh.
    24. a hole?
    25. dozens
    28. gravity. no question.
    29. because you’re hallucinating.
    30. here stil yesterday follows behihnd today!!
    35. I.
    37. untill he gets hungry and gives up
    51. five!!

    HAHAHA this was fun :)

    March 10, 2010 at 1:10 pm
  • Tallon S says:

    1.sponge
    2 Store
    3
    4 an eye
    5 Glide
    7 A, musical scale?
    8 Mom Daughter and grandma
    9Garbage truck
    10 May
    12Hot
    13 no
    14 same as 8 but with boys
    15 When Im thinking soil
    16 a hole( or candle)
    17live
    19 Male nurse, Mrs. Dr
    20 a towel
    21 Smoke?
    22Silence
    23 the letter M
    24.time
    29.They were “couples” as in not “single”
    30.calender
    32. my mother
    34.Grandad
    35. I
    36. on a clock
    42. your breath
    44. a secret
    50. Diner
    51. 10

    March 10, 2010 at 1:17 pm
  • ytred123 says:

    1.sponge
    2.store
    5.candle
    8. a grandma, her daughter, and her granddaugter
    14. a grandpa, his son, his grandson
    16. a hole
    19. the mother is a doctor and the father is a nurse
    22. silence
    23. the letter m
    24. track
    29. you saw the reflection of pepole from the bridge on the boat
    32. mother
    34. my son
    36. on a clock
    42. secret, or a promise
    50. a pig
    51. 7 (mom, dad, 4 daughters, one brother)

    i tried my best to answer as many as possible best answer please

    March 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm
  • Kanibal Kay says:

    1. sponge
    2. library
    3.?
    4. eye, or I, ( i’ve hear that before )
    5.?
    6. ?
    7.H? skip the sixth letter. (_bcde_ghij_lmno_)
    8. (ones the grandma, ones the mom, ones the daughter)
    9. ?
    10. march
    11. a baker?
    12.hot, because you can catch a cold!
    13. ?
    14.a grampa, a father, a son
    15. ? bedhead?
    16.holes
    17.blink? breath? eat? walk? HEAR!
    18. >. , : ; <
    19.they adopted?
    20.a towel
    21. i have no thought
    22. silence
    23. M
    24.A breath?
    25.a dozen?
    26. ?
    27. …?
    28. a mirror
    29. ?
    30.past? present? prospect
    31. ?
    32. aunt? i dont know!
    33.i dont know…

    NO MORE! i’ve gone nuts!

    March 10, 2010 at 2:50 pm
  • Jazka S says:

    1. Sponge
    2. Store
    3. They’re both in the middle of water
    4. Eye
    5. Candle

    6. H

    7. P. They all rhyme

    8. There are three public, a grandmother, a mother and a daughter

    9. Garbage truck

    10. March

    11. Blackboard

    12. Hot

    13. Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass.

    14. There are three public, a grandfather, a father and a son

    15. When it is not made up.

    16. A hole

    17. Grows grown-up

    18. Postman

    19. The father is the nurse and the mother is the doctor

    20. A towel

    21. An umbrella

    22. Silence

    23. The letter “m”

    24. Track

    25. Dozens

    26. The name of the ship

    27. Piano

    28. Mirror

    29. They were all couples

    30. In the dictionary

    31. Beetle

    32. Your mother

    33. Therein

    34. I am my fathers son, so that mans father must be me. So that man must be my son.

    35. Swims

    36. When you’re talking about time

    37. Half way. After that he’s walking out

    38. Wheelbarrow

    39. See-saw

    40. Bag. All words can start with sand.

    41. valley (-v = alley)

    42. Your breath

    43. Lounger

    44. Counterfeit money

    45. Reflection

    46. Few

    47. E N T

    48. Heartache and headache

    49. 1113213211

    50. A pig

    51. 7

    March 10, 2010 at 3:44 pm

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