英文脑筋急转弯
英文腦筋急轉彎
Bennett Cerf’s
Book of Riddles
1. What do birds fly south?
2. What gets lost every time you stand up?
3. What kind of dog has no tail?
4. What is the last thing you take off when you go to bed? 5. What do giraffes have that no other animals have? 6. What does the fireman wear red brace?
7. Why did the little boy throw the clock out the window? 8. What is the best way to make a fire with two sticks? 9. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence? 10. What did the big firecracker say to the little firecracker? 11. What goes up when the rain comes down?
12. What kind of animals can jump higher than a house? 13. What holds up a train?
14. What is a bird after he is four days old?
15. What is the first thing you put in a garden? 16. What did the pig say when a man got him by the tail? 17. Why is an egg not like an elephant?
18. What dog keeps the best time?
19. Why do white sheep eat so much more than black sheep? 20. What is the big and red and eat rocks?
21. How many lions can you put in an empty cage? 22. How many balls of string would it take to reach the moon? 23. Why does a hen lay eggs?
24. What makes more noise than a cat stuck in a tree? 25. Why does a baby pig eat so much?
26. If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what will it become? 27. What kind of animal has a head like a cat and a tail like a cat? 28. Why does a stork stand on one leg?
29. Name five things that have milk in them?
30. Who always goes to bed with his shoes on?
31. When is a cook bad?
ANSWER
1. Because it is too far to walk.
2. Your lap.
3. A hot dog.
4. You take your feet off the floor. 5. Little giraffes.
6. To keep his trousers up.
7. Because he wanted to see time fly. 8. Make sure one of the sticks is a match. 9. Time to get a new fence.
10. “My pop is bigger than your pop.”
11. An umbrella.
12. All kinds of animals. House cannot jump. 13. Bad man.
14. Five days old.
15. Your foot.
16. The pig said, “This is the end of me.”
17. If you do not know, I would not want to send you to get eggs.
18. A watch dog.
19. Because there are so many more white sheep. 20. A big red rock eater.
21. One. After that the cage is not empty. 22. Just one. But it would have to be a big one. 23. Because if she let them drop, they would break. 24. Two cats stuck in a tree.
25. To make a hog of himself.
26. Wet.
27. A kitten.
28. Because if he took two legs off the ground, he would fall down.
29. Butter, cheese, ice cream, and two cows. 30. A horse.
31. When he beats an egg.