some riddles

[yuvashree]

1.What's full of holes but still holds water?

2.What building has the most stories?

3.What other letter fits in the following series:
B C D E I K O X?

4.Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats.
Each female gets her
own cat. How is this possible?

5.f your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks,
and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark
to be sure you had a matching pair?

6. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make
it weigh 12 pounds?

7. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a
thousand years?

8. It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have
it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

9. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

10.What’s smaller than an ant’s mouth?

[venkat]

1. sponge...


2.library

3.???

4.???

5.???

6.???


7.m


8.nothing is there like tat... i suppose...


9.????


10.its teeth or food....

[theja jessi]

-------------jessi's answers-----------
1.sponge

2.libray

3.???????

4.one grandmother,one mother,one daughter.so we got two mothers,tmo
daughter.there each share each pet.

5.v can pick white sock bcz else all loke alike.

6.??????

7.M

8.nothing is greater than GOD,no answer to it,i think so...

9."BOOKKEEPING."where it has two OO's,KK's,EE's in sequence

10. wat it eats.

[razia]

3. H because when all the words in the series turned upside down
remain the same
6.Make a hole

[*uma*]

1.sponges

 

2.library

 

3.H, because these letters are same when viewed upside down too.

 

4.one grand mother,one mother,one daughter

 

5.five

 

6.hole or  8pounds of any weight which can displace same amount of water.

 

7.M

 

8.nothing

 

9.bookkeeping

 

10.ant's food

[yuvashree]

On Aug 15, 5:34 pm, yuvashree <yuvashr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1.What's full of holes but still holds water?

> ans: sponge

> 2.What building has the most stories?

> Ans:library

> 3.What other letter fits in the following series:
>    B C D E I K O X?

> Ans:H
All of the letters in the series when flipped vertically remain
the same.

> 4.Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats.
> Each female gets her
> own cat. How is this possible?

> There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.The grandmother is also the mother's mother, so there are 2 daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3 people.

> 5.f your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks,
> and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark
> to be sure you had a matching pair?

> Ans: 5
since there are oly four colors if u pull 5 socks surely one ll
match with any of the color..

>
6. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to
make
> it weigh 12 pounds?

> Ans:Holes

> 7. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a
> thousand years?

> Ans:M

> 8. It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have
> it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

> Ans:Nothing
Nothing s greater than god, nothing s more evil than devil. the
poor hve nothing,the rich need nothing,nd if u eat nothing u ll die

> 9. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

> Ans:Bookkeeper

> 10.What’s smaller than an ant’s mouth?

Ans: wat the ant eats