Thursday, March 6, 2025

RIDDLES 

1. What's the difference between an ornithologist and cruciverbalist (crossword puzzle fan)?

2. What is both attractive and repulsive at the same time?

3. What is unusual about the name JASON?

4. What do you call the guy telling the story of Poseidon creating smoked salmon?

5. What's unusual about the words ONCE and QUINCE?

6. What might Caesar have said if he came to Gaul and found everything satisfactory?

7. Can you think of a word whose letters are the names of two animals and a musical scale tone? The word begins with the name of one of the animals.

8. What should you do if you're addicted to seaweed?

9. PALE GAS is an acronym for seven noted things. What are they?

10. What do you call the big game among Pepperidge Farm empoyees?

11. Can you think of two words beginning with the same four letters, both of which could be found in a dining room?

Answers:

1. One's a bird nerd and the other a word nerd.
 
2. A magnet
 
3. The letters in JASON are the initial letters of the consecutive months - July, August, September, October, November.
 
4.  A locksmith (lox myth)
 
5. In Spanish, ONCE means eleven, and QUINCE means fifteen.
 
6. "I came, I saw, I concurred."
 
7. DOGMATIC (dog + cat + mi)
 
8. Seek help (sea kelp)
 
9. The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Avarice, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger, Sloth 

10. GOLDFISH BOWL
 
11. Chandelier on the ceiling and chanticleer (rooster) on the table

 

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