TEN RIDDLES

1. What does Martha Stewart do the day after Thanksgiving?

2. What does Martha Stewart do when she gets a new phone book?

3. What crime is associated with bad behavior in tennis?

4. What fabric conquered the world?

5. What fabric is brave?

6. What fabric does a lot of traveling?

7. What did the floor salesman say after giving his best offer?

8. How do folksingers vote?

9. How can you have your family history traced for free?

10. A famous ornithologist was asked to be the keynote speaker at the opening of a new bird sanctuary. Unfortunately, he had a scheduling conflict and could not attend. What did he do?

Answers:

1. She blanches the turkey carcass, spray paints it gold, and turns it upside down to use as a sleigh to hold Christmas cards. 

 

2. She cross out the names of people she doesn't know and uses it as an address book.  

 

3. Contempt of court

4. Alexander the crepe

5. Serge protector

6. Alpaca ("Alpaca suitcase")

7. "That's vinyl."

8. By absentee ballad

9. Run for public office

10. He sent his egrets. 

 

Credit:

3: Lois Sidway

    GAMES Magazine

    July/August, 1982