Daily Riddle

[beautiful_mess38]

Can you decipher this common phrase?

Salt: Good morning
Pepper: Hello

[beautiful_mess38]

One day, Bob and Hannah were sitting out on their deck, sipping on some drinks. Bob ran into the house, got an empty two-liter bottle from the freezer and a quarter, and returned to the deck.

"I bet you money that this quarter will move with nobody touching it."

Hannah thought this was a sure win, however, she lost. When Bob placed the quarter on the mouth of the bottle, the quarter began jumping on one side and making popping sounds.

How did Hannah lose?

[Newcomer]

Originally posted by beautiful_mess38:
One day, Bob and Hannah were sitting out on their deck, sipping on some drinks. Bob ran into the house, got an empty two-liter bottle from the freezer and a quarter, and returned to the deck.

"I bet you money that this quarter will move with nobody touching it."

Hannah thought this was a sure win, however, she lost. When Bob placed the quarter on the mouth of the bottle, the quarter began jumping on one side and making popping sounds.

How did Hannah lose?


I love science questions. I got staight A's in school in this subject. Its the only class I got straight A's in LOL

Anyways, By bob taking the bottle out of the freezer and moving it to outside the air in the bottle started to expand and with the quarter on top air had to be released somewhere and this was the cause. I think I am correct http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/yes.gif

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
As the bottle had previously been in the freezer, the cool air inside expanded when placed in a warmer temperature and escaped through the only out, or the mouth. However, while the quarter was blocking this passage way, the cool air could not leave. Therefore, the expanding cold air moved the quarter enough so a little cool air could come out of the bottle. The popping sounds were from the quarter landing back on the bottle

[Newcomer]

So I am correct right?

[beautiful_mess38]

A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?

1) a circular depression & a part for a canine actor
2) a container for an alcoholic beverage & an insignificant insect
3) a container for a container & the bottom of a coffin
4) a cunning wolf relative & insect foot coverings

[Nascar8Fan]

Hhhmmmm...very interesting. I didn't know this and my maiden name is "Spooner"!!!!! lol http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif Is it #2?

Originally posted by beautiful_mess38:
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?

1) a circular depression & a part for a canine actor
2) a container for an alcoholic beverage & an insignificant insect
3) a container for a container & the bottom of a coffin
4) a cunning wolf relative & insect foot coverings

[Coldwolf]

I'm working on them..I got the first one.

1. round hole & hound role

[BGW]

Originally posted by Coldwolf:
I'm working on them..I got the first one.

1. round hole & hound role

Lemme help...Old Man! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/hb2.gif

4. sly fox and fly sox

[Coldwolf]

2 beer mug and mere bug

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
1) round hole & hound role
2) beer mug & mere bug
3) basket case & casket base
4) sly fox & fly socks

[beautiful_mess38]

She so peaceful, yet causes fear
Him so bright and full of cheer
She rests the body, he wakes the soul
Him so light, she black as coal
Her with mole and tiny bright freckles
He covers us with tiny tear speckles
She hides us, he beams with pride
He her husband, she his bride
He in bright silk, her all in velvet
A yin-yang marriage as they tell it
Two lovers who meet but twice a day
When he must go, she need stay
Now I ask you, who are they?

[Chem101]

Day and night of course!

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
Day and night.

[beautiful_mess38]

Unscramble the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed:

EQUEU Take letters 1,4 and 5
YMRRA Take letters 1,2 and 3
IELAN Take letters 1,3 and 5
CBA Take letter 2

Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?

[beautiful_mess38]

Which is the odd one out?
Boundaries
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Chameleon
Keyboards

[monkey]

I'm still trying to unscramble the words from the previous one. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/bonk.gif

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer

"Keyboards". All the other words contain names from the 12 signs of the zodiac: bound-Aries, Cancer-ous, Libra-rian, Scorpio-ns, chame-Leo-n

[beautiful_mess38]

Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser, these clues only have the first letters of each of the words.

Can you figure out what songs they are?

1. CROAOF
2. IDOAWC
3. RTRNRHAVSN
4. GGROBAR
5. IHABCWY
6. ISMKSC
7. OTFDOCMTLGTM
8. FTSMWAJHS
9. IBMBOJHSSOM
10. JBJBJBR

[IMatWORK]

#3 is Rudolf the red nose reindeer has a very shiny nose.
#8 is Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul
#10 is Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock

I could probably figure out more if your avatar wasn't so distracting. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

[monkey]

#6 is I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
#7 is On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me.

[Nascar8Fan]

1. Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire.
2. I'am dreaming of a white Christmas.
4. Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)
2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...)
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose...)
4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer...)
5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without you...)
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus...)
7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...)
8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a jolly, happy soul...)
9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on Johnny's head, somebody snitched on me...)
10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock...)

[beautiful_mess38]

As you are reading this message, you will notice some spelling errors. Do not be frigtened, however. This is how you must anelyze:

First, find al of the missing, repeated, or incorrect letters

Second, alow yurself to look at these and look at the wword that is represinted

Finally, tell me a numbur that most commonnly is associated with the word

Good Luck

[Dodgergirl]

31?

[only1alphafemale]

thats my guess too 31

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
Missing, Repeated, and Incorrect Letters:

H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N

Word: Halloween

Number: 31 (Halloween is the 31st of October)

[beautiful_mess38]

Can you determine the professions/jobs described below? Each clue is an anagram of the answer.

One Word
1. Stamp on
2. For trees
3. Remit sin
4. Menial cop
5. Court poser

Two Words (first word is "a" or "the")
6. Dints teeth
7. He tots income
8. Sit, chat, pay, sir
9. I seen at birth cot
10. Their art's caustic

Two Words
11. Spirit shaper
12. Poles gather a report

Bonus (two jobs, middle word is "and")
13. Mass dress alteration

[beautiful_mess38]

My first is double twenty-one but twice of twenty-two,
Decipher it and you will see that statement is quite true.

My next two are just three apart, or, looking at the link,
You'll have the answer easily and will not have to think.

My fourth is so more ways than one, so long as you can spell,
While my fifth splits first and second, so what is it? Can you tell?

It may seem like these words of rhyme are nonsense things to say,
Though the five together are right here (two ways) so what are they?

[beautiful_mess38]

Answer
The answer that you seek to find, in words, is now shown here,
To understand the clues read on, I'll try to make it clear.

The twenty-first of letters is U in the alphabet,
Double it, W is the letter you would then get.

Now the twenty-second letter of the alphabet is V,
When written twice together a W it could be.

I hope I've explained the clues to give W as letter one,
Now let's move on, there's four more letters to be done.

The second and third letters are three from each other,
But to scour the alphabet to find them, you needn't bother.

If you were looking carefully you'd have seen in the third line,
The linking word, OR, fits this criteria just fine.

This makes the second O, and R would be the third,
Which gives us W, O and R as letters of this word.

The fourth letter in the alphabet is fourth in the answer too,
Which makes the fourth one D, only one more left to do!

Finally the fifth lies between the first and second,
In the alphabet, S splits W and O, that's what I reckoned.

Combine the five, see that they've been used here a lot?
And in the seventh line, sixth word, the answer even got a spot!

So now you know the answer and those clues are less absurd,
It's amazing what you can do with a word, oops, I mean WORDS!
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[beautiful_mess38]

Recently, Snow White's seven dwarfs met up with three of their friends and went to the cinema to see Bambi. From the clues below, can you determine the order in which they stood in the ticket queue?

Grumpy was in front of Dopey. Stumpy was behind Sneezy and Doc. Doc was in front of Droopy and Happy.
Sleepy was behind Stumpy, Smelly and Happy.
Happy was in front of Sleepy, Smelly and Bashful.
Bashful was behind Smelly, Droopy and Sleepy.
Sneezy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was in front of Grumpy, Stumpy and Sneezy.
Dopey was in front of Droopy.
Sleepy was in front of Grumpy and Bashful.
Dopey was behind Sneezy, Doc and Sleepy.
Stumpy was in front of Dopey. Smelly was behind Doc.