Daffodil International University
Educational => English Language Lab => Topic started by: nusrat-diu on June 30, 2011, 02:13:35 PM
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You can keep this until you have given it.
What's that?
Answer: Word
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Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Answer me quick and wait for the next riddle.
Have a good day!!
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Answer: Fire
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Imagine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly you are surrounded by hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this?
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Answer: No more imaginaton please!
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You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
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Answer: Onion
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What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
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Wow Nusrat, We want some more!
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Thanks Nahid!
The answer to the previous one: Stamp
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What can you catch but not throw?
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Answer: Cold
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You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
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Madam is it fish?
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yes..it's fish. Chicken could also be the answer.
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Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
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Answer: tissue paper
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I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
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answer: sponge
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I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
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answer: shoe
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What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
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The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
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I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
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Answer: A shadow
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The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
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I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
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I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
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I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: a hole
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I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
Answer: A tree
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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?
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Answer:
An eye.
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From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?
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Answer: The letter 'e'
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In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal-clear
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.
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answer: an egg
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I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
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answer: A nose.
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What's black and white and red all over?
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answer: A zebra painted red.
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A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
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answer: Suicide
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I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
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answer: A shadow.
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I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
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Answer: Breath.
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I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?
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Answer: Smoke.
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I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
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Answer: A dictionary
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Dear Nusrat Madam,
Nice going on. Please post more....
Thanks
Md. Rafiqul Alam Rubel
Assistant Director(IT)
Daffodil Internatonal University
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Thanks Rubel for your encouraging words!
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All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
What is it?
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Answer: The wind
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If you break me,
I do not stop working.
If you touch me,
I may be snared.
If you lose me,
Nothing will matter.
What am I?
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Answer: One's heart.
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If a man carried my burden,
He would break his back.
I am not rich,
But I leave silver in my track.
What am I?
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A snail.
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My life can be measured in hours;
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow.
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
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Answer: A candle.
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I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they?
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A stove, fire, and smoke.
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Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
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Counterfeit money.
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There is not wind enough to twirl
That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
Which dances as often as dance it can.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The sun.
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What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?
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A human does. As a baby, it crawls; in old age, uses a cane.
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Weight in my belly,
Trees on my back,
Nails in my ribs,
Feet do I lack.
What am I?
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A ship.
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To unravel me
You need a key.
No key that was made by locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I will understand.
What am I?
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A cipher.
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What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?
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Nothing.
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You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?
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Trust.
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What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
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A coat of paint.
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You do not want to have me,
But when you have me,
You do not want to lose me.
What am I?
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A lawsuit.
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What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
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A kangaroo.
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My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?
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A volcano.
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I can be cracked, I can be made.
I can be told, I can be played.
What am I?
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A joke.
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a skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
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pine apple?
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It's potato which tastes nice after being cooked.
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I think pineapple is the best answer because it has lots of eyes ? What do you think ?
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The riddle says 'I can be very nice when I am done'...In that case potato is the best answer, though pineapple is also cooked that I found in many recipes.
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I'm a four-digit number! My 2nd digit is twice greater than my 3rd. The sum of all my digits is thrice greater than my last digit! The product of my 3rd and 4th digits is 12 times greater than the ratio of my 2nd to 3rd. What am I?
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7638
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I am with you every time,
yet no one sees me.
I make you hold grudges,
and give you a reason to be happy.
As you get older I start to disappear.
What I am?
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If mother = 62
Brother =52
Sister = 22
Then father =?
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Father= Mr 2
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If
1=5
2=10
3=15
4=20
5=?
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Answer- 1
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Which is only come up but never come down?
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ANSWER- Age.
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I live in water.
U live in earth.
We met when we died.
What we are?
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If mother = 62
Brother =52
Sister = 22
Then father =?
I dont understand what is this? please tell me about the details about this,
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If mother = 62
Brother =52
Sister = 22
Then father =Mr 2?
Here, Mother, brother and sister use the designation of father.
Like,
mother = Shajeda Rahman
Brother =Shaidor Rahman
Sister = Tanzina Rahman
Father =Abdur Rahman
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I sits on your nose and hold your ear.
What am I?
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It Is glass/sunglass.