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Q: What do the numbers 11, 69 and 88 all have in common? A: They all read the same way when placed upside down. Q: If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5? A: 9. Q: I add 5 to 9 and get 2.
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The queen tests Solomon with riddles (including I Kings 10.1–13 and II Chronicles 9.1–12). This inspired various later works: four riddles are ascribed to her in the 10th or 11th-century Midrash Proverbs. [7] These plus another fourteen or fifteen tests of wisdom, some of which are riddles, appear in the Midrash ha-Ḥefez (1430 CE).
The date when this compilation was originally made is uncertain, and the dates of individual riddles even less clear: the oldest may go back to Archaic Greek, the youngest to Byzantine; [7] but the emergence of the compilation in its present form is generally associated with Constantine Cephalas, working in the tenth century. [8]
A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
Answer: He had low elf-esteem. Why don’t lobsters give Christmas presents? Answer: They’re shellfish. What’s the coldest month of the year? Answer: Decem-brrrrr. Where do Santa and Mrs ...