RIDDLES

1. What would you expect to see at a meeting of monarchs?

2. What can you pitch but not throw?

3. What four things can "K" stand for?

4. What is unusual about the composer of " L'Orfeo" and the composer of "The Tales of Hoffmann"?

5. What do Pollyanna, Dorothy Gale, Tom Sawyer, and Snow White have in common?

6. What are MA and MS, but not BA and BS?

7. What are X, Y, and Z, but not A, B, and C?

8. What two items of clothing make a baseball player?

9. [This riddle might be offensive to some.]

    What's the difference between the defense budget and Jesus? 

 

Answers:

 

1. Butterflies

2. A tent

3. Potassium, Strike out, Kilometer, Thousand

4. Both composers' names end in the name of another composer:

    MonteVERDI - OffenBACH  

5. They are all orphans.

6. Postal codes

7. Generations

8. SHORTS and TOP

9. The letter "N" - The price of peace and The Prince of Peace  

 

Credits:

1: Katherine Simonson

4: Patrick Jordan

5: Eva Finney 

6-7: Joseph Gangi.