4. What is in the middle of Paris? Ans:

Class: Name: No:

1. What city has no people? Ans:

2. What gets wetter the more it dries?Ans:

3. What building has the most stories? Ans:

4. What is in the middle of Paris? Ans:

5. If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Ans:

6. What has four legs, but can't walk? .

7. What's black when it's clean and white when it's dirty?

8. What starts with an 'E', ends with an 'E', and only has one letter in it?

9. What has only two words, but thousands of letters?

10. What always sleeps with its shoes on? (An animal) 11. What two keys can't open any doors? (An animal) 12. What has a ring, but no finger?

13.

is for the million things she gave me, means only that she’s growing old, is for the tears she shed to save me, is for her heart of purest gold,

is for her eyes with love-light shining, means right, and right she’ll always be,

Put them all together, they spell . 14.

ake a chance.

ide on your bike.

man and a bike.

ery fast, you ride.

at on your bike when ride.

eave everything aside.

Put them all together, they spell .

M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she’s growing old, T is for the tears she shed to save me, H is for her heart of purest gold,

E is for her eyes with love-light shining, R means right, and right she’ll always be,

Put them all together, they spell MOTHER.

Howard Johnson(c.1915) Travel

Take a chance.

Ride on your bike.

A man and a bike.

Very fast, you ride.

Eat on your bike when ride.

Leave everything aside.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/roadtrip/journeys_shortlist.shtml Too much distance between us

Red coach took me to the place you live

“Am I welcome”? I wondered Vacantly I gazed out of the window Everybody chooses their own road Leaving something important behind

13. What city has no people? Ans: electricity

14. What gets wetter the more it dries?Ans: a towel

15. What building has the most stories? Ans: library

16. What is in the middle of Paris? Ans: r

17. If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Ans: wet

18. A man and his son were in an automobile accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was rushed into surgery. The emergency room surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my son!" How is this possible? Ans: The surgeon is the boys mother.

19. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law? Ans: mom 20. How many animals did Moses take on the Ark? Ans: None.

21. It’s Noah who take animals on the Ark.

22. What is full of holes but still holds water? Ans: sponge

23. A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is he pointing at? Ans: himself

24. Johnny's mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child? Ans: Johnny.

25. Why is it against the law for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina? by Yumei Hsieh )Ans: That’s because he is still living.

26. There was an airplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived.

How is this possible? Ans: The two are married.

27. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Ans: Mount Everest.

28. The Mississippi River is the dividing line between Tennessee and Arkansas. If an airplane crashed exactly in the middle of the Mississippi River there, where would the survivors be buried? Ans:

Nowhere; the survivors are still living.

29. If everyone bought a white car, what would we have? A white carnation.

30. What has a ring, but no finger? A telephone 31. What has four legs, but can't walk?A Table .

32. What's black when it's clean and white when it's dirty? A blackboard.

33. What starts with an 'E', ends with an 'E', and only has one letter in it? An envelope.

34. What has only two words, but thousands of letters?A Post Office.

35. What always sleeps with its shoes on? (An animal)A Horse

36. What two keys can't open any doors? (An animal)A Donkey, and a Monkey.

37. What is as big as an elephant, but weighs nothing at all? (An animal)The shadow of an elephant. Riddle made by J.W.

38. Q:A young man is injured in a car accident. He is taken to the hospital. When he is brought into the operating room, the surgeon takes one look at him and says, “ I can’t operate on this man; he is my son.” But the doctor is not the young man’s father. How can this be?A1: The doctor is the young man’s mother.

39. Q: Which months have 30 days in them?All except February. The question doesn’t ask which months have exactly 30 days.

40. Q: If someone offers to sell you a coin bearing the date 25 BC for NT$500, would you buy it?No, because it’s a fake. In 25 BC, the modern dating system which BC and AD come from hadn’t been invented yet.

41. What is NOT in decades, years, weeks or days but IS in

centuries, minutes and seconds?A4: The letter n

42. A certain kind of germ reproduces by splitting in two every minute. A germ which does this is placed in a small container at exactly 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At 4 o’clock the container is full. When was it half full?A 5: The jar was half full at 3: 59.

43. The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer doesn’t use it, and the user doesn’t see it. What is it? A6: A coffin.What’s black and white and red( read) all over?A7. A newspaper

44. What’s brown and sounds like a bell?A8 : Dung

45. Why is six afraid of number seven?.A9 Because seven eight ( ate) nine.

46. When is a door not a door? Q10. When it’s ajar.

47. Q:A young man is injured in a car accident. He is taken to the hospital. When he is brought into the operating room, the surgeon takes one look at him and says, “ I can’t operate on this man; he is my son.” But the doctor is not the young man’s father. How can this be?A1: The doctor is the young man’s mother.

48. Q: Which months have 30 days in them?A2: All except February.

The question doesn’t ask which months have exactly 30 days.

49. Q: If someone offers to sell you a coin bearing the date 25 BC for NT$500, would you buy it?A3: No, because it’s a fake. In 25 BC, the modern dating system which BC and AD come from hadn’t been invented yet.

50. What is NOT in decades, years, weeks or days but IS in centuries, minutes and seconds?A4: The letter n .

51. A certain kind of germ reproduces by splitting in two every minute. A germ which does this is placed in a small container at exactly 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At 4 o’clock the container is full. When was it half full? A 5: The jar was half full at 3: 59.

52. The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer doesn’t use it, and the

user doesn’t see it. What is it? A6: A coffin.

53. What’s black and white and red( read) all over?A. A newspaper 54. What’s brown and sounds like a bell?A : Dung

55. Why is six afraid of number seven?.Because seven eight ( ate) nine.

56. When is a door not a door?Q10. When it’s a jar.