RIDDLES

1. They are twin sisters of the same height. They work in the kitchen, arm in arm. Whatever is cooked, they always try it first. (chopsticks)

2. When I slap you, I slap me. When I hit you, my blood flows. (A mosquito)3. It will follow you for 1000 miles and never miss home. It desires neither food nor

flowers. It fears not water, fire, knives nor soldiers. It disappears when the sun sets behind the western mountains. (A shadow)

4. Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening? (Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walk on two feet as an adult, and then walk with a cane as an old man.)

5. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? (watermelon)

6. How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him? (None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.)

7. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he? (A preacher)8. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

(The letter ‘m’)9. I travel all over the world, but always stay in my corner. What am I? (A stamp)10. How can you add eight 8s to get the number 1,000 using only addition? (888 + 88 + 8 + 8

+ 8 = 1,000)11. What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mom's day? (A school bus)12. 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? (Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass)