Riddles 6

Questions1. Say my name and you break me. What am I?

2. If an electric train is travelling one hundred miles per hour in a westerly direction, and the wind is blowing from the north, in which direction will the smoke blow?

3. Who can jump higher than a house?

4. Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each person caught a fish and yet only three fish were caught. How is this possible?

5. What gets larger the more you take away?

Answers
Answers:

1. Silence.

2. There is no smoke from an electric train.

3. Anyone who can jump can jump higher than a house since a house can’t jump.

4. Only three people went fishing – a boy, his father and his grandfather. This makes two fathers and two sons from just three people.

5. A hole.

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