学期经典英语谜语

经典英语谜语

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month do soldiers hate?

--March (

三月，行军

)

many feet are there in a yard?

--It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (

码，院子

)

is an empty purse always the same?

--There is no change in it. (

零钱，变化

)

book has the most stirring chapters?

--A cook book. (

动人的，搅拌的

)

kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?

--Hot dog. (

热狗

)

is the smallest room in the world?

--Mushroom. (

蘑菇

)

kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?

--Drink well water. (

井水，健康的

)

do we know the ocean is friendly?

--It waves. (

起波浪，招手致意

)

can move faster, heat or cold?

--Heat, because you can catch cold. (

追上冷，患感冒

)

is the library the highest building?

--It has the most stories. (

故事，（楼）层

)

11. What table is in the field?

--Vegetable

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

--silence

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

--mirror

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never

existed and still has a name?

--nothing

15. What changes a pear into a pearl?

--

the letter “l”

16. What question can never be answered by 'Yes'?

--Are you asleep?

17. What ship has two mates but no captain?

--courtship

18. What is the most difficult key to turn?

--a donkey

19. Where can you always find money?

--In the dictionary

20. What is the surest way to double your money?

--Fold it.

21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

--In the dictionary

22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

--the bridge of a nose

23. What letter makes a road broad?

--letter B

24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

--letter P

25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

--Because it is killed before it is cured (

烧烤待处理

)

26. What match can't be put in a match-box?

--Football match, basketball match, etc.

27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

--When they make 22.

28.

I

have

cities

but

no

houses,

forests

but

no

trees,

rivers

without

water.

What am I?

--A map

29. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What am I?

--A comb

30. What is a sick man a controdiction?

--When he is an impatient patient.

can hear without ears and answer without a mouth?

--An echo

room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors?

--A mushroom

is dark but is made by light ?

--A shadow

is easy to get into but hard to get out of ?

--Trouble

is black When it is clean and white when it is dirty?

--A blackboard

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What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?

-- blackboard

37. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand

long?

-- a clock

38. What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night?

-- the sun

39. I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I?

-- a bird

40. Which letter is a drink?

--T(tea)

41. Which letter is around an island?

-- C(sea)

42. Which letter is an animal?

-- B(bee)

43. Which letter is a kind of vegetable?

-- P(pea)

44. Which is the longest English word? Why?

--

smiles(There’s a mile between the first and the last letter.)

45. Which letter is a question?

-- Y(why)

46. Which letter is a part of your face?

-- I(eye)

47.

I

am

very

big

and

heavy.

I

have

a

long

nose

and

big

ears.

What

am

I

?

-- an elephant

48. I am the tallest animal in the world. What am I ?

-- a giraffe

49. I live in the sea. I am the biggest animal in the sea. What am I ?

-- the whale

50. What do you call your father’s father’s only son?

-- father/daddy

51. What is the biggest ant in the world?

-- an elephant

52. What is in the middle of the world?

--

the letter “r”

53. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?

-- mom

54. What is the smallest room in the world?

-- mushroom

55.

Teachers write on me with chalk. I can’t talk. What am I ?

-- a blackboard

56. You have it. You read it. There are some words and pictures on it.

What is it?

--.a book

57.

Sometimes

it

looks

like

a

boat.

Sometimes

it

looks

like

a

small

white

sun. What is it?

--moon

58.

You

throw

away

the

outside

and

cook

the

inside.

Then

you

eat

the

outside

and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

-- chicken

59. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

-- stamp

60. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What

am I?

-- fire

can

run

but

never

walks,

has

a

mouth

but

never

talks,

has

a

head

but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?