English Riddles

1. Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son.

Who is the man?

Answer: the man is my son.

2. What is greater than God,

more evil than the devil,

the poor have it,

the rich need it,

and if you eat it, you'll die?

Answer: Nothing.

3. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

Answer: A stamp.

4. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A towel.

5. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he

weigh?

Answer: Meat.

6. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom.

7. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer: A palm.

8. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Answer: Incorrectly.

9. What gets broken without being held?

 Answer: A promise.

10. How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

Answer: None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

11. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

Answer: An onion.

12. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?

Answer: Stop imagining.

13. What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter W.

14. Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Answer: Neither, they both weigh one pound.

15. A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an

apple and one apple stays in the basket?

Answer: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the

basket still containing the apple.

16. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and

year and yet they're not twins.

How can this be?

Answer: The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

17. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

Answer: The letter m.

18. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?

Answer: Why should a living man be buried?

19. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
 Answer: If you take 2 apples, then you have of course 2.

20. One big hockey fan claimed to be able to tell the score before any game. How did he do it?

Answer: The score before any hockey game should be 0:0, shouldn't it?

21. What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand?

Answer: Normal - I wouldn't be very happy if I had all my fingers (10) on one hand.

Two Fathers and Two Sons Riddle

Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an
egg. The riddle is for you to explain how

one of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. Therefore the other father is both a son and a father to the grandson.

In other words, the one father is both a son and a father.

What's heavier, a tonne of gold or a tonne of silver?

They are the same

Can a man legally marry his widow's sister?

Yes

Which month has 28 days?

February

How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

10 times
Adams Mom has three children, the first is called April, the second is
called May, what is the third called?
Adam

Which mountain was the highest in the world before Mount Everest
was discovered?
Mt Everest

English Tongue Twisters

1. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

2. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.

Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
3. How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
4. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
5. Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
6. Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.
7. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
8. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
9. Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.
10. You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!
11. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
12. Clean clams crammed in clean cans.
13. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
14. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch
wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
15. Stupid superstition!
16. There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
17. World Wide Web
18. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky
people pick.from a commercial.
19. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
20. Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
21. Seventy seven benevolent elephants harder than it seems.
22. There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three
thieves go through.
23. Santa's Short Suit Shrunk name of a children's book.
24. If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps
that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
25. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
26. One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.
 27. Eleven benevolent elephants
28. Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, ...
29. Willy's real rear wheel
30. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.
31. How many cans can a cannibal nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans?
As many cans as a cannibal can nibble
if a cannibal can nibble cans.
32. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on
Thursday.
33. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
34. Plymouth sleuths thwart Luther's slithering.

BUGTONG

1. Bastong hindi mahawak-hawakan, sinturong walang mapaggamit-gamitan. (ahas)

2. Bahay ni ka huli, haligi'y balibali, ang bubong ay kawali. (alimango)
3. Mataas kung nakaupo, mababa kung nakatayo. (aso)
4. Kahit hindi tayo magkaano-ano, ang gatas ng anak ko, ay gatas din ng anak mo. (baka)
5. Ibon kong saan man makarating, makababalik kung saan nanggaling. (kalapati)
6. Bagama't maliit, marunong nang umawit. (kuliglig)
7. Dala mo't sunong, ikaw rin ang baon. (kuto)
8. Hulaan mo, anong hayop ako. Ang abot ng paa ko'y abot rin ng ilong ko? (elepante)
9. Kung manahi 'y nagbabaging at sa gitna'y tumitigil. (gagamba)
10. Kulisap na lilipad-lipad, sa ningas ng liwanag ay isang pangahas. (gamugamo)
12. Isang uod na puro balahibo, kapag nadikit sa iyo ang ulo, tiyak mangangati ang balat mo. (higad)
13. Isda ko sa tabang, pag nasa lupa ay gumagapang. (hito)
14. Ang lokong si Hudas, dila ang tsini-tsinelas. (suso)
15. Heto na si kurdapya may sunong na baga. (manok)
16. Isdang parang ahas, sa karagatan pumapagaspas. (igat )
17. Bato na ang tawag ko, bato pa rin ang tawag mo, turan mo kung ano. (ibong batu-bato)
18. Ibon kong kay daldal-daldal, ginagaya lang ang inuusal. (loro)
19. Hakot dito hakot doon, kahit maliit ay ipon ng ipon. (langgam)
20. Pag munti'y may buntot, paglaki ay punggok. (palaka)
21. Tumatanda na ang nuno, hindi pa rin naliligo. (pusa)
22. Narito na si pilo, sunong-sunong munting pulo. ( pagong)
23. May alaga akong hayop, malaki ang mata kaysa tuhod. (tutubi)
24. Kawangis niya'y tao, magaling manguto, mataas kung lumukso. (unggoy)
25. Anong insekto sa mundo na naglalakad na walang buto. (uod)
26. Naghain na si Lolo, unang dumulog ay tukso. (langaw)
27. Heto na si Ingkong, bubulong-bulong. (bubuyog)
28. Iisa na, kinuha pa. Ang natira ay dalawa. (tulya)
29. Hindi naman bulag, di makakita sa liwanag. (paniki)
30. Maliit pa ang linsiyok, marunong nang manusok. (lamok)
31. Munting anghel na lilipad-lipad, dala-dala'y liwanag sa likod ng pakpak. (alitaptap).
32. Pagkatapos na ang reyna'y makapagpagawa ng templo, siya na rin ang napreso. (anay)
33. Pinisa ko at pinirot bago sininghot. (surot)
34. Nakakalakad ako sa lupa, nakakalangoy din ako sa sapa, nakakalipad din ako ng kusa. (gansa)
35. Umuusad-usad sapagkat sa paa ay salat, pinahihirapan pa ng pasan-pasang bahay na ubod ng
bigat. (kuhol)
CORAZON COJUANGCO AQUINO
MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO
JOSEFA LLANES ESCODA
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF
Corazon Aquino Quest

1. Who is the first female President in Asia? (Complete name. Include middle name)
2. When did former president Cory died?
3. Who’s the mother of Democracy?
4. Ninoy Aquino, former President Cory’s spouse, died in what year?
5. What does the acronym EDSA mean in EDSA People Power Revolution?
6.

Josefa LLanes Quest

1. Founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines

2.