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Riddles

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  1. When do dogs have 16 legs?

  2. Why isn't your nose twelve inches long?

  3. In what month do women talk the least?

  4. What do mice have that no other animal has?

  5. How many men were born last year?

  6. What word is always pronounced wrong?

  7. Why do birds fly south in the winter?

  8. If a woman marries a king, what would she be?

  9. What follows a horse wherever he goes?

  10. What nail should you never hit with a hammer?

Copyright (C) 1997 by Charles Kelly
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.