Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: In 1940, a correspondent proposed the following question:

A man's age at death was one twenty-ninth of the year of his birth. How old was he in 1900?

Question: To be here is to be close to those dear,
I see no light but feel warmth from within,
it's lonely here but soon I'll be free.

What am I?

Question: I'm number three.
But I'm not a number.
I'm hot and cold at the same moment but not at the same time.
I'm number three.
But I'm not a number.

Who or what am I?

Question: Look at me I want to play.
I'll move like you in every way.
Be tricky, but the result is always a draw.
Why? Because I'm an expert at response and call.

What am I?

Question: Mr. Smith has two children. If the older child is a boy, what are the odds that the other child is also a boy?

Question: You are surrounded by a 100 foot wide and 100 foot deep moat. You have a 40 foot tall ladder, matches, a gallon of water, and as much rope as you need.

How can you get across the moat?

Question: It's got twists and turns, but has no curves.
Twist it to fix it, turn it to ruin it.

What is it?

Question: Ripped from my ancestors home, beaten and burned, I become a bloodthirsty killer.

What am I?

Question: In a town their is a barber who cuts everybody in the town's hair. But nobody in the town cuts their own hair. Yet the barbers always has beautifully kept and full hair.

Who cuts the barber's hair?

Question: I cannot hear or even see,
but sense light and sounds there may be.
Sometimes I end up on the hook,
or even deep into a book.

What am I?