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The Can You Solve the Riddles? quiz
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Progress: 1 of 7 questions
Full of riddles I have discovered in various books and found interesting.
Little Miss Etticoat
In her white petticoat
Every time she stands taller,
she only gets smaller.
Who is she?
candle
woman
dress
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Progress: 2 of 7 questions
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?
spider
human
sphinx
newt
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Progress: 3 of 7 questions
First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
wasp
bug
spider
human
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Progress: 4 of 7 questions
My shallow hills are the faces of kings
My horizon is always near
My music sends men to the grave
My absence sends men to work.
What am I?
food
water
sirens
coin
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Progress: 5 of 7 questions
At night I come without being fetched,
And by day I am lost without being stolen.
I am like a diamond,
But I am no jewel
What am I?
love
friendship
star
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Progress: 6 of 7 questions
I am the unreachable boundary,
Yet the place you wish to go,
I run away as you approach.
But I am always there.
What am I?
sun
horizon
sky
space
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Progress: 7 of 7 questions
Riddle me, riddle me ranty ro
My father gave me seeds to sow
The seed was black and the ground was white
If you riddle me that
You’ll escape my bite.
plants
pen and paper
ink
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