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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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