英语谜语和脑筋急转弯
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1 What is the difference between twice twenty-two and twice two and -twenty?
2 When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
3 What amount of money can be divided fifty-fifty between two persons, giving one person a hundred times more than the other?
4 The first part of an odd number is removed and it becomes even. What number is it?
5 Sisters and brothers have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who am I looking at?
6 Suppose there was a cat in each corner of the room; a cat sitting opposite each cat, a cat looking at each cat, and a cat sitting on each cat's tail. How many cats would there be?
7 Which can move faster, heat or cold?
8 Which is correct: The white of the eggs is yellow, or the white of the eggs are yellow?
9 Which has more legs—a horse or no horse?
10 Which candles burn longer—wax candles or tallow candles?
Answers:
1. The first is 44, and the second is 24.
2. When they make 22.
3. Fifty dollars and fifty cents.
4. (S)even
5. My own son
6. Four. Each cat was sitting on its own tail.
7. Heat, because you can catch cold.
8. Neither. The whites are never yellow.
9. No horse. No horse has five or more legs. A horse has just four legs.
10. Neither. They both burn shorter.
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Riddles
1.What goes all over the house，but touches nothing?
2.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?
3.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?
4.Why is a river rich?
5.I have cities but no houses，forests but no trees; rivers but without water; what am I?
6.A man jumped from a plane，but there was nothing? wrong? with him. Do you know why?
7.In a train，a woman saw other peoples’ faces were dirty. What would she do，do you know?
8.Why did John say he didn’t know where the sun was?
9.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?
10.Why does Tom’s mother go to work by plane every day?
Keys
1.A sound or voice.
2.My name.
3.The letter "C".
4.Because it has two banks.
5.A map.
6.Because the plane is on the ground.
7.She would close her eyes，of course.
8.Because it was at night.
9.In bed.
10.Because she works in a plane.
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Questions:
1.Which can move faster, heat or cold
冷和热谁跑得快
2.What coat has no collars, no sleeves, no pockets and
no buttons
什么衣服没领没袖,没有口袋也没有钮扣
3.What weather do mice and rats fear
老鼠害怕什么天气
4.Who always finds things dull
谁总觉得什么事都无聊
Keys:
1.Heat, because you can catch cold.
热跑得快,因为你追得上冷.
2. A coat of paint.
一层油漆.
3.When it's raining cats and dogs.
下滂沱大雨的时候.
4.A knife-sharpener.
磨刀师傅.
Notes:
1. cold n.冷;感冒
catch cold追上冷;患感冒
2.coat n.衣服;一层(油漆,灰尘等)
4.dull adj.无聊,没劲;钝
英语谜语和脑筋急转弯【精选】
1 [What do you call a girl who gambles?]
提示：Betty(贝蒂)是英语中常见的人名。把爱赌博(gamble)的女孩叫做Betty，因为bet的意思是“打赌”。
2 [What do you call a man who arrives in your letter box?]
提示：Bill(比尔)是 William(威廉)的爱称，名词 bill的意思是“账单”。
3 [What do you call a man with a car on his head?]
提示：Jack是英语中常用的人名，名词jack有“千斤顶”的意思，可以顶起汽车。所以，把“头顶上有汽车的人”(a man with a car on his head)戏称为Jack
