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English Riddles 1.What belongs to you and yet is used more often by others than yourself? 2.What’s the longest word in English? 3.Which four letters would frighten a thief? 4.What’s the center of gravity? 5.What gets bigger the more you take from it? 6.Why is the letter “B” like a fire? 7.What is the word the first two letters of which for a man, the first three for a woman, the first four for a brave man and the whole for a brave woman? 8.Why is the number nine like a peacock? 9.It takes off a piece of its clothing every day and nothing left to wear at the end of the year? 10. If five dogs are running after a cat down the street, what time is it? 11. Why is Sunday the strongest day in a week? 12. Why is the letter “a” like twelve o’clock? 13. Which travels faster, heat or cold? 14. What man cannot live inside a house? 15. Who is the strongest man in the word? 16. Which letter makes a road broad? 17. What are several things you can always count on? 18. Why is the letter “c” like Beijing? 19. Which letter is the most useful to a deaf woman? 20. Why is the letter “U” the happiest letter? 21. Why is the letter “T” like an island? 22. How do you make a slow horse fast? 23. What table has no legs? 24. What is that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else? 25. What letter a drink? 26. What begins with “T,” and is full of “T”? 27. Is it better to have a lion eat you, or a tiger? 28. It’s clothed but it’s not a man. It’s four-footed. What is it? 29. Who is safe when a man-eating tiger is on the loose? 30. Ten plus ten equals ten, take ten from ten, you have twenty, when the weather is cold there are ten, when it’s warm there are twenty? 31. What will happen when you and I are gone? 32. On which birthday do candles burn longest on a cake? 33. From what number can you take a way half and have nothing left? 34. How can you make a hat talk? 35. How can a girl have been eleven on her last birthday and be thirteen next birthday? 36. How can you buy eggs and be ce