Ex. 11: Riddles

Find the most appropriate answers to these idiomatic English riddles.

1. What can you catch but not throw? – A      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What can you catch but not throw? – A cold. (Correct)

2. What has a face and two hands but no arms? – A      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What has a face and two hands but no arms? – A clock. (Correct)

3. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? – A      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? – A river. (Correct)

4. What has a neck but no head? – A      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What has a neck but no head? – A bottle. (Correct)

5. What has teeth but cannot bite? – A      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What has teeth but cannot bite? – A comb. (Correct)

6. What is it that you must keep after giving it to someone? – Your      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What is it that you must keep after giving it to someone? – Your word. (Correct)

7. What is as light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it for much more than a minute? –      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What is as light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it for much more than a minute? – Breath. (Correct)

8. They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they? –      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they? – Stars. (Correct)

9. What has been around for millions of years but is no more than a month old? – The      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

What has been around for millions of years but is no more than a month old? – The moon. (Correct)

10. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? –      . (Correct)(Incorrect)

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? – Silence. (Correct)

Your result: 00% correct.