TURANDOT

The three riddles from the opera TURANDOT by Puccini:

1. What is born each night but dies each dawn?

2. What flares hot like a flame, yet it is no flame?

3. What is like ice but burns, and if it accepts you as a slave, makes you a king?

Answers:

1. Hope

2. Blood

3. Turandot - The Chinese Princess whose hand can be won only by the suitor who can answer her three riddles