Answers to Daft Definitions:-
1. Vexillology : means... b. the study of flags 2. Skiamachy: is ... d. counterfeit fighting or argument 3. Joyance: is … b. the action of enjoying oneself . 4. Abderian: means... a. foolish 5. A Shoneen is ... a. a would-be gentleman who puts on pretentious airs 6. Ululant refers to.... a. having a howling sound; wailing; 7. Horrisonous means ... b. horrible sounding 8. Empleomania means ... d. a mania for holding public office 9. Eponyms are... a. words derived from a particular person’s name; 10. Frim means … b. flourishing;
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Answers to 'A riddle selection'1. You live in a one storey house made entirely of redwood. What colour are your stairs?
Answer - What stairs? It's a one storey house so there aren't any. 2. How many months have 28 days? Answer - All of them have at least 28, so the answer is 12 3. How many 1cm slices can you cut from a loaf that's 25cm long? Answer - One; because as soon as you cut off one slice the loaf isn't 25cm long any more. 4. What room in your house is unlikely to be haunted? Answer - The living room 5. Divide 30 by half and add ten to get...? Answer - 70 (because when you divide a number by 1/2 you actually double it). 6. If you feed me I’ll grow; I don’t breathe, but need air; I’m not alive but can move fast; water kills me. What am I? Answer - Fire 7. Initially a farmer has 17 sheep, he sells all but 8 of them, how many sheep does he still have. Answer - 8, he's sold all the rest. 8. What has belonged to you for most of your life, but other people usually use more than you do? Answer - your name 9. There are 45 apples in your basket. You take three apples out of the basket. How many apples do you have? Answer - 45; you still have the basket of apples as well as the 3 you've taken out of it. 10. David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____? Answer - David; because if his father has three sons, and we are given the names of the other two, i.e. Snap & Crackle, David must be the third. 11. What has a head, a tail, is brown, but has no legs? Answer - unless you are very cruel to small brown creatures the answer is a penny (or any other copper coin) 12. Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? Answer - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 13. A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with Sarah. The bus driver has to go on a long bus trip that lasts a week. Before he leaves, he gives Sarah seven apples. Why? Answer - Because 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away' 14. What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer - The letter m. 15. What is more use when it is broken than when it’s whole? Answer - An Egg |