Riddles
Why was a fictitious name added to an airplane’s passenger list?
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In this true case, many vacationers who flew with a certain airline had their homes burglarized while they were away. The police added a false name (but real address) to the list and caught the burglar red-handed when he broke in. It turned out that his sister worked for the airline and passed the list of passenger addresses to her nefarious brother.
A man left his house to get a drink but died because his watch stopped. Why?
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The man is Count Dracula who leaves his house for a nightly drink of blood. However, his watch has stopped and what he thinks is night is actually a solar eclipse. He is caught in the sunlight and he dies.
A woman is writing in capital letters. She has difficulty writing the letters A, E, F, G, H, and L but no difficulty with and C, K, M, N, V, and W. Why?
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She is writing along the top of a closed book, on the top of the pages. Any letter with a horizontal line in it is difficult since the pen tends to slip down between the pages.
I’m not clothes but I cover your body. The more I’m used the thinner I grow. What am I?
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A bar of soap
Never resting, never still, moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not. What is it?
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Sunshine
What hired killer never goes to jail?
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An exterminator (executioner also works)
Flat as a leaf, round as a ring, has two eyes but can’t see a thing.
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A button (a quarter also works)