英语谜语大全
孔夫子背书箱-期末考试卷
英语谜语大全
month do soldiers hate?
many feet are there in a yard?
is an empty
purse always the same?
book has the most
stirring chapters?
kind of dog doesn't bite
or bark?
is the smallest room in the world?
kind of water should people drink in order to
be healthy?
do we know the ocean is
friendly?
can move faster, heat or cold?
is the library the highest building?
What
month do soldiers hate?
March (三月，行军)
How many feet are there in a yard?
It
depends on how many people stand in the yard.
(码，院子)
Why is an empty purse always the same?
There is no change in it. (零钱，变化)
What
book has the most stirring chapters?
A cook
book. (动人的，搅拌的)
What kind of dog doesn't bite
or bark?
Hot dog. (热狗)
What is the
smallest room in the world?
Mushroom. (蘑菇)
What kind of water should people drink
in order to be healthy?
Drink well water.
(井水，健康的)
How do we know the ocean is
friendly?
It waves. (起波浪，招手致意)
Which can
move faster, heat or cold?
Heat, because you
can catch cold. (追上冷，患感冒)
Why is the library
the highest building?
It has the most
stories. (故事，（楼）层)
1. What table is in
the field?
2. What is the only thing you can break when
you say its name?
3. What is there in your
house that ought to be looked into?
4.
What is that which you have never seen, heard or
felt, which never existed and
still has a
name?
5. What changes a pear into a pearl?
6. What question can never be answered by
'Yes'?
7. What ship has two mates but
no captain?
8. What is the most difficult
key to turn?
9. Where can you always find
money?
10. What is the surest way to double
your money?
11. Where does afternoon come
before morning in the world?
12. What
is the smallest bridge in the world?
13. What letter makes a road broad?
14. What letter sounds like a vegetable?
15. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in
the world?
16. What match can't be put in a
match-box?
17. When do 2 and 2 make more than
4?
18. I have cities but no houses, forests
but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?
19. I am something that has teeth but can't
eat. What am I?
20. What is a sick man a
controdiction?
Key:
1．Vegetable e
g letter “l”
6. Are you asleep? hip
8.a donkey the dictionary 10. Fold it.
the dictionary bridge of a nose B P
e it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待处理)
ll match, basketball match, etc.
they
make 22.
18.A map
19.A comb
he is an
impatient patient.
Q: What are two things people never eat before
breakfast?
A: Lunch and
supper.
Q: Why did the man
throw a bucket of water out the window?
A: He wanted to see the waterfall.
Q: Why did the man throw the butter out the
window?
A: He wanted to see
the butterfly.
Q: Why did
the man put the clock in the safe?
A: He wanted to save time.
Q: What has two hands and a face, but no arms and
legs?
A: A clock.
Q: What has a neck, but no head?
A: A bottle.
Q: Where is
the ocean the deepest?
A:
On the bottom.
Q: Why
did the man throw his watch out of the window?
A: He wanted to see time
fly.
Q: What
State in the United States is High in the middle
and
round at the ends?
A: Ohio.
Q:
twenty 2. One married
the other. How can be this ?
A:
he married the other
Q: How do you spell
mousetrap?
A: C-A-T.
Q: How many legs does an ant
have?
A: Two, the same as
an uncle.
(HINT: ant =
aunt)
Q: How many
people are buried in that cemetery?
A: All of them.
Q:
What can't be used until it's broken?
A: An egg.
Q: What
do tigers have that no other animals have?
A: Baby tigers.
Q: What is
Black and white and read (red) all over?
A: A newspaper
Submitted
by: Ashley
Q: Why is number
six afraid ?
A: Because
seven eight nine (seven ate nine)
Submitted by MR Engelsman
Q: How do you know when a motorcycle policeman is
happy?
A: He has bugs on
his teeth!
Submitted by
Judy Snoke
Q: What did zero
say to eight?
A: Nice belt.
(The 8 looks like a 0 with a
belt around its waist.)
Q: What did number 1 say to 7?
A: Nice hair
In the
alphabet...
Q: Which is the
most self-centered letter of the alphabet?
A:
Q: Which letter
is always trying to find reasons?
Q: Which letter is not
me?
A: U.
Q: What letter can do the work in one day that you
can do in
two days?
A: W (Double u- Double you)
Q: Why don't we need a compass at the North Pole?
A: Because every direction
is south.
Submitted by
Cüneyt ARAS
Q: Why is
the A like a flower?
A:
Because the B is after it.
Why is the letter
Because
it's in the middle of the day.
Q:
A:
Submitted by Susana P. Varona
Q:
A:
Submitted by José Mª Pérez
Q: What has two heads, four eyes, six legs and a
tail?
A: A horse and its
rider.
Q: What is as big as
a horse but doesn't weigh anything?
A: The horse's shadow.
Q.
Why was the hearse horse hoarse?
A. Because of the coffin
Submitted by Ciaran P. McCarthy
Q: Why are man with pierced ears better suited for
marriage?
Q: Because they
have suffered and bought jewelry.
Q: What begins with T, ends with T and has T in
it?
A: A teapot.
Q: Do you know why birds fly to south in the
winter?
A: Because it's too
far to walk there.
Submitted by Yang
Q:
Why do birds fly south in the fall?
A: Because it's too far to walk!
Submitted by Michèle Larouche
Q: Which letters do Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday
have in common?
A: None! None of them have
Submitted by Paulo José L.
do Amaral
I tried this one
with Japanese university students. They
understood all the words and enjoyed it.
Q: What are the 3 important rings in life?
A: Engagement ring, Wedding ring, and suffering.
Q: Which room has no
doors, no windows.
A: A
mushroom.
Submitted by LUZ
Q: What gets wetter as it
dries?
A: A towel
Q: A man rode into town on Tuesday. Two days later
he rode
home on Tuesday.
How is this possible?
A:
His horse's name is Tuesday.
Q: Why didn't the skeleton go to the dance?
A: He didn't have anybody to take. (any BODY)
Submitted by Toni Allen
(from daughter)
Q: A father
and his son were in a car accident. The father
died. The son was taken to
the hospital. The doctor came in
and said: I can't do surgery on him, because he's
my son. Who
was the doctor?
A: The doctor was his
mother.
It's an old riddle
that is more difficult in some countries
than in others.
Q:
Why did the student take a ladder to school?
A: Because heshe was going to high school!
Q: Why did the tomato blush?
A: Beacuse it saw the salad dressing!
Submitted by: Dave Williams
Q: What are the two strongest days of the week?
A: They are Saturday and
Sunday. All the others are weak
(week) days.
Submitted by
both Motoko Hashimoto & Alfredo Bilopolsky
Q: How far can a dog
run into the forest?
A:
Halfway, after that he is running out of the
forest.
Submitted by:
Rabi'a
Q: What do you call
a bear without an
A:
BBBBBBB
Submitted by: Drew
Bassett
Q: Which is faster,
heat or cold?
A: Heat,
because you can catch a cold.
A: How many apples can you eat if your stomach is
empty?
B: 4 or 5
A: No, that's wrong, because after eating one
apple your
stomach isn't
empty.
Submitted by: Mirali
If you are doing a
discussion about space, then students will
like this one.
Q: Why did
Mickey Mouse go to outer space?
A: To find Pluto.
Submitted
by: Elisa-SN Argentina
Q: What is the differnce between the capital of
Russia and a
calf's mother?
A: One is Moscow, the
other is a cow's Ma.
(It
needs to be spoken to understand it.)
Q: What do you call a Spaniard who can't find his
car?
A: Carlos
It's pronounced
Submitted
by Laurence Whiteside
Q:
What's the difference between electricity and
lightening?
A: You don't
have to pay for lightening.
This riddle may be used when teaching a lesson on
occupations.
Q: What's the
difference between a TEACHER and a CONDUCTOR ?
A: A teacher TRAINS the MIND
and a conductor MINDS the TRAIN.
Submitted by: Tania Mello (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Q: What part of your
body disappears when you stand up?
A: Your lap. (good for phrasal 'stand up', and
'laptop',
lap-dog, etc.)
Submitted by: Richard
Q: What do you call a witch at the beach?
A: A sandwich.
Submitted by
Tinour
Q: Why did
the trafic signal turn red?
A: You would too if you had to change in the
middle of the
street.
Submitted by: Drew Hinds
Q:
What's the difference between a lion with
toothache and a
wet day?
A: One's roaring with pain
the other's pouring with rain
Submitted by: Eileen Dwyer
Q: Why are baseball stadiums so cool?
A: There is a fan in every seat.
My Spanish-speaking students got a kick out of
this one.
Q: What do you
call a person who speaks 3 languages?
A: (Try to elicit responses..) Tri-Lingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks two
languages?
A: (Many of them
know this one) Bi-Lingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks one
language?
A: An American!
Submitted by: Sarah
Q: What do you call a fish
without an eye?
A: Fsh.
(Hint: No
Submitted by: Kristi Swarbrick, Edmonton, AB,
Canada
Q: What has thirteen
hearts but no body and no soul?
A: A pack of playing cards.
Q: What do you call a fish that only cares about
himself?
A: Selfish.
Submitted by Cüneyt Aras, Turkey
Q: Why couldn't Mozart find his teacher?
A: Because the teacher was Hayden.
(Hayden --> Hidin' --> Hiding)
Submitted by Sheila S. and Judy R.
Q. What's a minimum?
A. A
very small mother!
(mini-
mom)
Submitted by Thierry
A.
Q: Why can't a bicycle
stand on its own?
A:
Because it's two-tired (too tired)
Submitted by Shir Noy
Q:
What do you get if you cross a pig with a karate
fighter?
A: Pork chops.
Q: What's got a head
and a tail, but no body?
A:
A coin.
Q: What's got a
wave but no sea?
A: My
hair.
Submitted by Nadia,
age 7
Q: What has
three feet but no legs or arms?
A: A yard.
Submitted by
Dobbin Pelagius
Q: Where
does a boxer who weighs 135 kilograms sit on a
bus?
A: Wherever he wants
to.
Submitted by
François Falardeau
What makes
A cow walking
backwards.
Submitted by
Fernando
Q: What does a man
say when he walks into a bar?
A: Ouch!
Submitted by
Miguel M. Llop Díaz-Cano
Q:
Where does Dracula stay when he goes to New York
City?
A: The Vampire State
building.
Q: What do cows
like to read?
A: The
mooooospaper
Q: What is the
longest word?
A: Smiles,
because there is a mile between the first and last
s.
Submitted by Guillermo Flores Grajales - Mexico
City ESL
teacher.
Re-worded by another
teacher.
Q: What's the
longest word in the English language?
A: Smiles. (Because there's a mile between the
first and the
last letter.)
A: What is the word that
everybody always says wrong?
B:
Submitted by Qin
Honghuai
Q: What five-
letter word becomes shorter when you add two
letters to it?
A: Short
Submitted by Kevin Schoepp
A: What's the longest word
in the dictionary?
B;
Rubber-band -- because it streches.
Submitted by Christopher Berry
Q. How many seconds are there in one year?
A. Twelve. January second, February second, March
second...
Submitted by Mark
A. Cole
Q. What two days of
the week start with the letter
A. Tuesday and Thursday? NO, today and tomorrow!
Submitted by Mark A. Cole
Q: What did the doughnut say
to the loaf of bread?
A: If
I had as much dough as you, I wouldn't be hanging
around
this hole.
Submitted by h
Q: Why did
the pony have a sore throat?
A: Because it was a little horse. (hoarse)
Q: What did the undertaker die of?
A: Coughin' (coffin)
Q: Why
can't a nose be twelve inches?
A: Because then it would be a foot.
Q: How do porcupines kiss each other?
A: Very carefully.
Q: What
has four wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck.
Q: What has teeth but can't bite?
A: A Comb.
Q: Why did the
chicken cross the road?
A:
To get to the other side.
Q. Why did the turkey cross the road?
A. Because the chicken was on vacation.
Submitted by Linda Edgerton
Q. Why did the baby cross the road?
A. Because it was stapled to the chicken.
Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?
A: To get to the other slide!
A: Why did the chewing-gum cross the road?
B: Because it was stuck to the chickens foot.
Submitted by Christopher
Berry
Q: Why did the
chicken cross the road?
A:
To show the possum it could be done.
Submitted by Alex McLean
Q:
Why do people call their own language their mother
tongue?
A: Because their
fathers seldom get a chance to use it.
NOTE: For this to be
funny, students need to understand that
in many cultures women have the image of speaking
so much that
their husbands
seldom have a chance to say anything.
Q: A big moron and a little moron are walking
across a bridge
when the
big moron falls off. Why didn't the little moron
fall
off?
A: He was a little more on.
Submitted by Kevin Schoepp
Q: Name one eight letter word that has kst in the
middle, in
the beginning,
and at the end.
A:
middle, and
Submitted by
Kevin Schoepp
Q: When does
a dialect become a language?
A: When its speakers get an army and a navy.
Q: What is a Honeymoon Salad?
A: Lettuce alone without any dressing.
Submitted by David Henry
Q: Why is it impossible to starve in the desert?
A: Because of all the
sandwiches (sand which is) there.
Submitted by Shad Schroeder
Q: Why don't sharks eat clowns?
A: Because they taste funny.
Submitted by maggie
Q: What
would the pig say when its tailed was held tight
by
the farmer who had a
sharp knife in his other hand?
A:
Submitted by Jing Wen of
San Francisco
Q: Do you
know where people send a horse when it is sick?
A: To a horsepital.
Q: What did the doctor say when the invisible man
called to
make an
appointment?
A: Tell him I
can't see him today.
Submitted by Genivaldo Rodrigues Sobrinho
Q: Which 'BUS' could cross
the ocean?
A: Columbus!
Submitted by Kusuma from
Thailand
Q: What a
bee says when it gets in the hive?
A: Hi Honey! I'm home!
Submitted by Bianca Lévesque -ESL Teacher ,
Montreal - Canada
Q:
How do you catch a squirrel?
A: Climb a tree and act like a nut !
Submitted by Mark Grable
A:
Why did the boy balloon chase the girl balloon?
Q: Because he wanted to see
her bust!
Q: What do you
call a fish with no eyes?
A: fsh (No letter
Q: What
do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No idea. (No eye deer)
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes or legs?
A: Still no idea.
Q: Where do cows go for entertainment?
A: They go to the mooovies!
Q: What animal is it that has four legs a tail and
flies?
A: A dead horse!
A: What is the difference
between a mail box and an elephant?
B: I don't know.
A: I'm not
going to give you any letters to post then!
Submitted by Leda Giménez de Comba , from
Argentina
Q: What do
you call 'a fly' without wings?
A: You call it 'a walk.'
Submitted by Makaron
I saw
this on a web-site of musician jokes. It's not
original,
but I thought I
would share it. Here it is:
Q: What's the difference between a musician and a
savings
bond?
A: A savings bond eventually matures and earns
money.
Submitted by James
Wilson, Mt. San Antonio College
Q: What color is a guitar string?
A: Plink!
(It is the sound
the a guitar makes. The word sounds like the
color
Submitted by
Submitted by V. Ellison
What goes
A bee flying
backwards.(Buz,Buz)
wards.(Buz,Buz)
Submitted
by Jozef Karpat
(After
teaching about telling time)
Teacher: What time is it?
Students: Umm, eight fifty-nine?
Teacher: Nope.
Students:
About nine o'clock?
Teacher: No.
Students: What
then?
Teacher: It's time to
go home.
Submitted by Kier
Bass
Q: What did one light
bulb say to another light bulb?
A: You are the light of my life.
Submitted by brenda
Q: Why
did the golfer take and extra pair of pants for
his
Saturday round of golf?
A: In case he got a hole in
one.
Submitted by Leah
Davis
Q. Why did the
golfer wear two pairs of trousers?
A. In case he got a hole in one!
Submitted by Lesley Morgan
Q: What flowers have two lips?
A: Tulips
Q: They travel
all over the world but end up in the corner,
what are they?
A: Stamps
Submitted by Takya,
Malaysia.
Q: Why
didn't the farmer cry when his dairy cow fell off
the
cliff?
A: There's no use crying over split milk.
Submitted by Alfred Vincent
Q: Ten copycats were sitting in a boat, and one
jumped out.
How many were
left?
A: None. They were
all copycats.
Q: What is
the difference between a jeweler and a jailor?
A: A jeweler sells watches.
A jailer watches cells.
Submitted by Cristina Toso
Q: What is a bachelor?
A: A
man who never Mrs. (misses) anyone.
Submitted by C. Berry
Q:
Why do cows have bells?
A:
Because their horns don't work.
Submitted by Barbara Koehler
This one may be difficult for some ESL students
since it
requires knowing
the words
Q: Why do
seagulls fly over the sea?
A: Because if they flew over the bay, they would
be bagels!
Submitted by
Corey Palmer, Lemoore, CA
Q: What's the difference between a trampoline and
an English
textbook?
A: You take off your shoes before jumping on a
trampoline.
Q: How do you
get ten English teachers to agree on the best
teaching method?
A: Shoot nine of them.
(Use
as an example of the insult variety of jokes.)
Q: Why were the
little drops of ink crying?
A: Their mother was in the pen and they did not
know how long
her sentence
would be.
Submitted by
Walter Lowe, aka
Q:
How many sheep does it take to make one wool
sweater?
A: I didn't even
know sheep could knit!
Q:
What's a teacher's favorite nation?
A: Expla-nation.
Q: What's
the most colorful state of U.S.A.?
A: Color-ado.
Submitted by
Jeanine Padilha,Brazil
Q: In what state does it cost the most to live in?
A: Expennsylvania.
Submitted by Mike McKinney
Q: What did the cannibal who was late for dinner
get?
A: The cold shoulder.
Submitted by Sean
A Christmas time joke for grammar classes:
Q: What do you call Santa's helpers?
A: Subordinate Clauses.
Submitted by: Mike
Q: What
do you call a dog with no legs?
A: Why bother, he won't come anyway.
Q: How do you top a car?
A:
Tep on the brake, tupid!
Submitted by Sandra Duncan
Q: Is there a word in the English language that
uses all the
vowels
including
A:
Unquestionablely!
Submitted
by lisa
Q: Why do birds fly
south for the winter?
A:
Because it's too far to walk.
Submitted by Kevin Long
Vocabulary Quiz:
Q: What is
the longest word in the English language?
A: Smiles. (There is a mile between the first
letter and the
last
letter.)
Information Quiz:
Q: What is the tallest
building in our town?
A: The library. (It has the most stories.)
Submitted by Walter Lowe, aka
Q: If you are Russian before you enter the
bathroom and
Finnish after
you leave the bathroom, what are you when you
are in the bathroom?
A: European. (You're a-peein'.)
Submitted by Cara Thompson (from my step-
daughters)
This riddle
may be good for high-level science majors.
Q: What do you call a test tube that graduates
from high
school?
A: A graduated cylinder
Submitted by Margaret Elliott
Q: How did Jonah feel after he got swallowed by a
fish?
A: Down in the mouth.
Q: What did the monk say to
the hotdog vendor?
A: Make
me one with everything.
Submitted by Jason Schulte
Maybe only appropriate for more mature students.
Q: What did the fish say
when he hit the wall?
A:
Dam!
Submitted by: DuMars
Q: A man was locked in
a room with only a bed, a calendar, and
a piano. How did he drink, how did he eat, and how
did he get
out? Another man
was locked in a room with only a mirror and a
table. How did he get out? A
third man was locked in an empty
room. How did he escape?
A:
The first man drank from the springs of the bed,
ate the
dates off the
calendar and played the piano until he found the
right key, which he used to
unlock the door. The second man
looked in the mirror to see what he saw. Then he
took the saw
and cut the
table in half. Next, he put the two halves
together to make a whole. Finally, he crawled out
through the
hole. The third
man broke out with the measles.
Submitted by Walter Lowe, aka
Q. What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick!
Submitted by
Moira Dykes, Cambridge