Classic Riddles With Answers 1 : Top Short Riddle
Difficulty ★★☆☆☆ Popularity ★★★★★ There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing ?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
Sucide
Difficulty ★★★★☆ Popularity ★★★★☆ You walk into a room where there are three primates held in their respective cages:
1) A lion who is eating the flesh of a goat.
2) An orangutan who is playing with blocks.
3) A donkey who is sitting idle.
Who is the most intelligent primate in the room ?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
You are also a primate and you are human thus you are the most intelligent.
Difficulty ★★★☆☆ Popularity ★★☆☆☆ Emperor Akbar once ruled over India. He was a wise and intelligent ruler, and he had in his court the Nine Gems, his nine advisors, who were each known for a particular skill. One of these Gems was Birbal, known for his wit and wisdom. The story below is one of the examples of his wit. Do you have it in you to find out the answer?
A farmer and his neighbour once went to Emperor Akbar's court with a complaint.
'Your Majesty, I bought a well from him,' said the farmer pointing to his neighbour, 'and now he wants me to pay for the water.'
'That's right, your Majesty,' said the neighbour. 'I sold him the well but not the water!'
?The Emperor asked Birbal to settle the dispute.
How did Birbal solve the dispute?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
'Didn't you say that you sold your well to this farmer?' Birbal asked the neighbour. 'So, the well belongs to him now, but you have kept your water in his well. Is that right? Well, in that case you will have to pay him a rent or take your water out at once.'
The neighbour realized that he was outwitted. He quickly apologised and gave up his claim.
Difficulty ★★★★☆ Popularity ★★★★★ Find the smallest sentence with all the english alphabets.
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
PACK MY BOX WITH FIVE DOZEN LIQUOR JUGS.
Difficulty ★★★★☆ Popularity ★★★☆☆ man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
1:45.
The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two
Difficulty ★★☆☆☆ Popularity ★★★★★ Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be ?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
Difficulty ★★★★☆ Popularity ★★★★★ Alexander is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.
There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.
How can the Alexander survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
Alexander picks up a piece of wood and lights it from the fire on the west end of the island.
He then quickly carries it near the east end of he island and starts a new fire. The wind will cause that fire to burn out the eastern end and he can then shelter in the burnt area.
Alexander survives the fire, but dies of starvation, with all the food in the forest burnt....lolzzz
Difficulty ★★★☆☆ Popularity ★★★☆☆ In Greek mythology, the Sphinx sat outside of Thebes and asked this riddle of all travelers who passed by. If the traveler failed to solve the riddle, then the Sphinx killed him/her. And if the traveler answered the riddle correctly, then the Sphinx would destroy herself. The riddle:
What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx destroyed herself.
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
A man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.
Of course morning, noon, and night are metaphors for the times in a man's (person's) life. Such metaphors are common in riddles. There were two Thebes, apparently this Thebes was the one in Greece. And this Sphinx was apparently not the one at Giza, in Egypt.
Difficulty ★★★☆☆ Popularity ★★★★☆ 'Ferari driver' easily beats the 'force indain driver' in a two care race.How did Indian newspapers truthfully report so to look as 'force indain drive' had outdone the 'ferari driver'
Think ??
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
The Indian newspaper reported (correctly) that the 'Ferari driver' came in next to last while the 'force india driver' came in second..
Difficulty ★★★☆☆ Popularity ★★★★★ A frog fell on a bottom of the well.
The well is 30 feet deep.
During day time, the frog jumps 5feet while at night when the frog sleeps he slip back 4feet.
In how many days frog will come out from the well ?
Answer & Explanation
Solution:
26days
In 25days, he will jumo 25feet and den next five feet will make him out of the well
