Riddle Me Crazy: May 2010

Riddle #21

The four sentences in Group A share a special feature. If you correctly identify that common feature, you will find that one of the sentences in Group B also has that same feature. What is the feature? What sentence in Group B can be added to Group A?

Group A:
Martians travel in space wearing green capes.
The Dutch girl made a sandwich of edam cheese.
The government keeps a file of every thing that you do in your life.
The hunter slept on a bed of rabbit pelts.

Group B:
A quart of condensed milk has a volume of one pint.
It takes a bun to make a hamburger.
The bear climbed a ladder to get in the tree.
The desert was a rainbow of colors.
The parrot bit the pirate on the nose.
The queen hornet sat on a throne of honey.

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Riddle #20

I live above a star, and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS (& sometimes Q)are my initials, now tell me what I mean.

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Riddle #19
The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be?

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Riddle #18

Based on the clue in parentheses, find a four-letter word that can be inserted backwards into the blank to complete a longer word.

Example: di____ve (a defeat)
Answer: dissolve ("A defeat" gives you LOSS, which is placed backwards in the blank: di_SSOL_ve.)

1. mu____ds (rodents)
2. fro____g (young lice)
3. con____s (flightless bird)
4. ta____le (flying mammals)

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Riddle #17
Good at math? Try this one.... 1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3

So what does
11=?
12=?

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Riddle #16
How many letters are in The Alphapet?

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Riddle #15
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.

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Riddle #14

Using the following hints, how can you get from the first word to the fourth word to the seventh word?

Word 2 is a synonym of Word 1. One letter of the second word has been changed to make Word 3. Word 3 was changed to present tense to make Word 4. Word 5 is a synonym of Word 4. One letter was removed from Word 5 to make Word 6. Word 7 is a synonym of Word 6.

Giant _____ _____ Bite _____ _____ Chop

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Riddle #13
How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?

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Riddle #12
When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

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Riddle #11
The annual Star Trek convention was in town and as a result, aliens and Trekkies overran the town. Five friends came dressed up as aliens from different planets which Star Fleet had made contact with over the years. Each planet orbited a different star, and had a different size population. From the clues given, determine the name of each planet, the year Star Fleet made contact, the star the planet orbits, and the size of the population.

1) The population of Kappa is larger than that of the planet orbiting Polaris, which made contact earlier than Kappa.
2) Wezen is the star whose planet has a population of 9.5 million, which is not named Rho.
3) Zeta is the planet around Albati, which was not the last one to make contact.
4) The Mu contact took place in 2161.
5) Contact was made with Betelgeuse system in 2217, whose population was smaller than the planet contacted in 2202.
6) The largest population is on Pi, contacted next after the smallest population.
7) 12 million was the population of the planet contacted after the planet in the Electra system.

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Riddle # 10
There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters." What is the word?