英語謎語和腦筋急轉彎

　　【熱門】

　　1 What is the difference between twice twenty-two and twice two and -twenty?

　　2 When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

　　3 What amount of money can be divided fifty-fifty between two persons, giving one person a hundred times more than the other?

　　4 The first part of an odd number is removed and it becomes even. What number is it?

　　5 Sisters and brothers have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who am I looking at?

　　6 Suppose there was a cat in each corner of the room; a cat sitting opposite each cat, a cat looking at each cat, and a cat sitting on each cat's tail. How many cats would there be?

　　7 Which can move faster, heat or cold?

　　8 Which is correct: The white of the eggs is yellow, or the white of the eggs are yellow?

　　9 Which has more legs—a horse or no horse?

　　10 Which candles burn longer—wax candles or tallow candles?

　　Answers:

　　1. The first is 44, and the second is 24.

　　2. When they make 22.

　　3. Fifty dollars and fifty cents.

　　4. ***S***even

　　5. My own son

　　6. Four. Each cat was sitting on its own tail.

　　7. Heat, because you can catch cold.

　　8. Neither. The whites are never yellow.

　　9. No horse. No horse has five or more legs. A horse has just four legs.

　　10. Neither. They both burn shorter.

　　【分享】

　　Riddles

　　1.What goes all over the house，but touches nothing?

　　2.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

　　3.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?

　　4.Why is a river rich?

　　5.I have cities but no houses，forests but no trees; rivers but without water; what am I?

　　6.A man jumped from a plane，but there was nothing? wrong? with him. Do you know why?

　　7.In a train，a woman saw other peoples’ faces were dirty. What would she do，do you know?

　　8.Why did John say he didn’t know where the sun was?

　　9.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?

　　10.Why does Tom’s mother go to work by plane every day?

　    Keys

　　1.A sound or voice.

　　2.My name.

　　3.The letter "C".

　　4.Because it has two banks.

　　5.A map.

　　6.Because the plane is on the ground.

　　7.She would close her eyes，of course.

　　8.Because it was at night.

　　9.In bed.

　　10.Because she works in a plane.

　　【推薦】

　　Questions:

　　1.Which can move faster, heat or cold

　　冷和熱誰跑得快

　　2.What coat has no collars, no sleeves, no pockets and

　　no buttons

　　什麼衣服沒領沒袖,沒有口袋也沒有鈕釦

　　3.What weather do mice and rats fear

　　老鼠害怕什麼天氣

　　4.Who always finds things dull

　　誰總覺得什麼事都無聊

　　Keys:

　　1.Heat, because you can catch cold.

　　熱跑得快,因為你追得上冷.

　　2. A coat of paint.

　　一層油漆.

　　3.When it's raining cats and dogs.

　　下滂沱大雨的時候.

　　4.A knife-sharpener.

　　磨刀師傅.

　　Notes:

　　1. cold n.冷;感冒

　　catch cold追上冷;患感冒

　　2.coat n.衣服;一層***油漆,灰塵等***

　　4.dull adj.無聊,沒勁;鈍

　　【精選】

　　1 [What do you call a girl who gambles?]

　　提示：Betty***貝蒂***是英語中常見的人名。把愛賭博***gamble***的女孩叫做Betty，因為bet的意思是“打賭”。

　　2 [What do you call a man who arrives in your letter box?]

　　提示：Bill***比爾***是 William***威廉***的愛稱，名詞 bill的意思是“賬單”。

　　3 [What do you call a man with a car on his head?]

　　提示：Jack是英語中常用的人名，名詞jack有“千斤頂”的意思，可以頂起汽車。所以，把“頭頂上有汽車的人”***a man with a car on his head***戲稱為Jack