NINE RIDDLES

1. Why was the first-base umpire unhappy?

2. A. York, Jersey, Mexico, Hamphire 

    Q. What's the question?

3. A. Ralph Emerson

    Q. What's the question?

 

4. What after-school activity in high school would you not mention in your college application? 

5. What do you call a missing song?

6. What do you call a casual interest in poetry?

 

7. What does motorcycle velocity have to do with house design? 

8. A. The guy who lopped sweaters

    Q. What's the question?

9. What is unusual about the following sentence - disregarding its meaning?

    I value xylophones like cows dig milk.

Answers:

 

1. He wanted to work at home.

2. "What's new?"

3. "Where's Waldo?"

4. Detention

5. Absentee ballad

6. Idyll curiosity

7. Split-level (motorcycLE  VELocity)

8. "Who is Reverend Spooner?" (swapped letters)

9. The first letters of each word are the Roman numerals I, V, X, L, C, D, M (although all but I are uncapitalized - to avoid giving too big a clue).

Credits:

 

2-3: Mary Ellen Uthlaut

4: Brooke Husic and Will Nediger 

5-9: Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon