[转贴] 趣味英语谜题 - 广州南沙人事人才网论坛

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[转贴] 趣味英语谜题

1. which is the longest word in english?[smiles/棕熊]

2. why is the letter "b" just the same as fire?[coz it makes oil boil/brunel]

3. why are the fish-store bosses ungenerous?[their business makes them selfish/far away/turbo_s]

4. when does a piece of wood look like a king?[when it is made into a ruler/brunel]

5. why don't many carpenters believe that there is stone in the world?[cos they never saw one/brunel]

6. a teacher draws a bull and a bullet in the blackboard. which word does he want his students to guess?[bulletin/moonjusthere]

7. here is a word which is composed by 7 letters. the part with its first two letters means male, the first three letters means female, and the first four letters still means male, lastly the whole word means female again. then what's this word?[heroine/turbo_s]

8. have you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? well what goes up and never goes down?[age/brunel]

9. my thunder comes before my lightning. my lightning comes before my rain. my rain dries up all the land it touches. what am i?[volcano/bennycheng]

10. you can see it, but you can't touch it. it may disappear, but has never really left you. it grows throughout the day. what is it?[shadow/bennycheng]

11. what common english verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?[eat/moonjusthere]

12. i have holes on the top and bottom. and i have holes in the middle, yet i still hold water. i have holes on my left and on my rig. what am i?[sponge/brunel]

13. a word i know, six letters it contains, subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. what is the word?[dozens/brunel]

14. what can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?[river/bennycheng]

15. what ** has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?[keyboard/brunel]

16. light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?[breath/bennycheng]

17. what two words have the most letters in it?[post office/beckham56]

18. what can hear you without ears and can answer you without a mouth?[echo/白银の游戏王]

19. what a room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors?[mushroom/dejavu]

20. what large instrument do you carry in your ears?[drums/dejavu]

21. what question can never be answered by "yes"?[are you asleep?/白银の游戏王]

22. what ship has two mates but no captain?[courtship/白银の游戏王]

23. what is the most difficult key to turn?[donkey/白银の游戏王/dejavu]

24. what person tried to make you smile most of the time?[photographer/dejavu]

25. what is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?[nothing/白银の游戏王]

26. how do you feel today?[此题作废]

27. what is the only thing you can break when you say its name?[silence/dejavu]

28. what is the smallest bridge in the world?[the bridge of a nose/dejavu]

29. where can you always find money? [in the dictionary/杯墨亭]

30. what is the surest way to double your money?[fold it/brunel]

31. what letter sounds like a vegetable?[letter p/杯墨亭]

32. why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?[此题作废]

33. when do 2 and 2 make more than 4?[when they make 22/brunel]

34. i am something that has teeth but can't eat. what am i?[此题作废]

35. why is u the jolliest letter? [because it's in the midst of fun/杯墨亭]

36. why is the letter e so important?[because it's the begining of everything/杯墨亭]

37. why are girls afraid of the letter c ?[此题作废]

38. why do people wish for something they haven't got?[此题作废]

39. how can you make a rope shorter without cutting or winding it?[此题作废]

40. what can you tell from peter's record card with extremely poor grades?[此题作废]

41. when do people have two mouth? [when there's two of them/杯墨亭]

42. why do giraffes have long neck?[because their heads are far from their bodies/杯墨亭]

43. how do you know policemen are strong?[because they can hold up traffic with just one hand/杯墨亭]

44. how can you make 1000 out of eight 8?[8+8+8+8+88+880=1000/杯墨亭]

45. what animal can jump as high as a tree? why?[all animals, for trees can't jump./dejavu]

46. what is it that everyone wants to have and get rid of too?[one's appetite/杯墨亭]

47. can you name the capital of every state in the u.s. in ten seconds?[washington d.c./杯墨亭]

48. how can you be completely sleepless for seven days and still lack no rest?[sleep at night/dejavu]

49. how did the pick-pocket spot the plain-clothes cop in his woman's disguise?[he passed by a cosmetics store without looking in the window./白银の游戏王]

50. why does a cat look first to one side and then to the other side when it enters a room?[because it can't see both sides at once./brunel]

51. how does the letter r help friendships?

52. if a dog loses his tail, where does he get another?[at the retail store./dejavu]

53. for which birthday do candles burn longest on a cake? and why?[none. because candles always burn shorter./dejavu]

54. how would you divide thirteen apples evenly among twelve people?[make apple sauce./rdai2000]

55. when can a man have something and nothing in his pocket at the same time?[when his pocket has a hole in it/brunel]

56. how can you light a candle with a box of candles and no matches?

57. how many hard-boiled eggs could the giant goliath eat on an empty stomach?[one. after that his stomach would not be empty./dejavu]

58. what animal took the most luggage into the ark and what animal took the least?[the elephant took his trunk, whereas the rooster only had a comb./dejavu]

59. when you lose something, why do you always find it in the last place you look?[because you always stop looking when you find it./brunel]

60. if a man happened to be up on a steeple 300 feet high with a goose, and the ladder was taken away, how could he get down?

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