Words - Riddles

[Pages:4]Words Quiz by

1. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? 2. Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me. 3. What word doesn't belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat? 4. Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones: TABLE - - - - HOUSE 5. I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated. What am I? 6. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. 7. What word contains all of the twenty six letters? 8. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? 9. Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened? 10. One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it? 11. I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I? 12. 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? 13. What 5 letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down? 14. What English word has three consecutive double letters? 15. What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their politics or religion, agree is between heaven and earth? 16. Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters "he" in that order. There are two possible answers. 17. Foward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

18. Granny looked up from her rocking chair and said: As far as I can tell, there is only one anagram of the word trinket. What is it?

19. Find an English word which is singular, add an "s" and it becomes plural, and add another "s" it becomes singular again?

20. Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS

21. Which word that begins with the letter I, and by adding the letter A, becomes another word that is pronounced the same?

22. What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?

23. With potent, flowery words speak I, Of something common, vulgar, dry; I weave webs of pedantic prose, In effort to befuddle those, Who think I while time away, In lofty things, above all day The common kind that linger where Monadic beings live and fare; Practical I may not be, But life, it seems, is full of me!

24. What familiar word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle.

25. What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

26. What common English word has the 3 letter consecutive sequence, "XOP"?

27. What 7 letter word is spelled the same way backwards and forewords?

28. What word is right when pronounced wrong, but is wrong when pronounced right?

29. It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

30. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

31. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

32. This is an abnormal paragraph. It is not normal at all. All of it's writing is grammatically right, but it looks wrong. If you find what's wrong, you'll show your skill in sight. If you can't find it, that's alright. Not many found it instantly. You may look on for hours and hours, or you may find it soon. In any way, it isn't normal. Why?

33. A single word which is versatile, it can be a letter, unknown to the problem, a variable, a target, a love, an intercept, and a type of chromosome. What am I?

34. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

35. I am a five letter word and I am a fruit. Take the first letter out and I am a crime, take out the first and second letter and I am a animal, take out the first and last letter and I am a type of music. What am I.

36. Whats 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?

37. There is a word and six letters it contains Take one away and twelve is what remains. What word is it?

38. I have one, you have one. Take away a letter and a bit remains. If you remove the second, bit still remains. After much trying, you might be able to remove the first one also, but it remains. What's the word?

39. Which word is the odd one out: First, Second, Third, Forth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth.

40. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?

Riddle Answers

1. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. 2. "Your word". 3. What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme. 4. WARE. 5. Mount Rushmore. Get it, rock group? 6. The word "Few". 7. Alphabet. 8. NOON. Cool, huh? 9. Short. 10. MISSPELLED. It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS "misspelled." 11. The word Dozens. 12. Heroine. 13. SWIMS. 14. Bookkeeper. 15. The word 'And'. 16. Headache or Heartache. 17. The word Ton. 18. The word knitter. 19. There are actually 3 correct answers: Caress. Princess. Brass. 20. Courts. All of the others are anagrams of each other. 21. Isle and Aisle. 22. Incorrectly! 23. A riddler. ( or riddle ) 24. ISLAND. 25. The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, i. Cool,huh? 26. Sa-xop-hone. 27. Racecar. 28. The answer is wrong think about it. 29. Wheat. 30. Queue. 31. Smiles because it has a mile between each s! 32. This paragraph contains no words with "e" in it. This is abnormal as "e" is found most commonly. 33. X. 34. Words. 35. Grape cause if you take out the first letter it's rape, ape, rap. 36. Chicago. The first three words out of seven of chicken is CHI, the first two words out of 3 of cat is CA, and first two words out of goat is GO. Therefore making, (CHI)(CA)(GO). 37. Dozens 38. Habit! Remove the 'H', and it's 'a bit'. Remove the 'A', and it's 'bit'. Remove 'B', and it's 'it'. 39. Forth, is incorrectly spelled. It should be Fourth. 40. Stone Remove 'St' and you're left with 'One'

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