TEN RIDDLES

1. What element is like a long, dull lecture? 

2. Why do scarecrows win so many awards?

3. Why are rabbits and amoebae good at math? 

4. What do you call courtly calicoes and regal beagles? 

5. What do you do when you get an onion from the cooler?

6. What do a shoplifter and a cattle rustler have in common?

7. What do you call a vulpine animal eating smoked salmon?

8. What do a Boston magician and a Boston fish seller have in common?

9. What happened to the female sheep after she was left out in a blizzard?

10. Take a five-letter sign on certain doors, remove its first letter, and you'll have a word meaning sign. Remove that word's first letter, and it's a sign on nearby doors. What are the three words?

Answers:

 

1. Boron

2. They're outstanding in their fields.

3. Rabbits multiply and amoebae divide.

4. Reigning cats and dogs

5. Spring a leek

6. They both take stock.

7. A fox with lox

8. They both say, "Pick a cod."

9. She was taken to the icy ewe ward.

10. Women, Omen, Men 

Credits:

5: Harvey Estes

6: Adam Aaronson 

10. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon 

     Reader's Digest 

     February, 2009