Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: I am a nice word composed of five letters, but the Romans would call me a numbers.

What am I?

Question: It takes one word to separate them; otherwise they are inseparable.

What are they?

Question: Whoever makes me can hear me, but nobody else can.

What am I?

Question: A poor woman takes an expensive piece of jewelry, when she is caught the owner of the jewelry tells her "You can have this for seven figures or you will go to jail." The woman soon leaves with the jewelry.

How did she do this?

Question: I am shorter when I stand and taller when I sit.
Sometimes I'm even called a pit.

What am I?

Question: A father goes to prison and the mother will have to sell her hotel, but their young daughter is happy.

How can these parents tolerate such ingratitude and what put them in this situation?

Question: We are twelve in the family. I am the second one, as well as the youngest.

Who am I?

Question: I can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

What am I?

Question: A man goes into a barbershop and gets a $15 haircut. He pays the barber with a $20 bill, but the barber doesn't have change because it is an especially slow day. The barber goes to the flower shop next to his own and trades the $20 bill for a $10 dollar bill and two $5 bills. Then he gives the man his $5 in change.

Later the lady from the flower shop confronts the barber and tells him that the $20 bill he gave her was counterfeit. The barber agrees and he gives the lady a different $20 bill.

Later that day he tries to figure out how much money he lost. What did he lose?

Question: Four people need to cross a bridge in 17 minutes in the middle of the night. The bridge can only hold two or less people at any time and they only have one flashlight so they must travel together (or alone). The flashlight can only travel with a person so every time it crosses the bridge it must be carried back. Tom can cross in 1 minute, John can cross in 2 minutes, Sally can cross in 5 minutes, and Connor can cross in 10 minutes. If two people cross together they go as fast as the slower person.How can they cross the bridge in 17 minutes or less?