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   1. Question = 5/7 of a chicken, 2/3 of a cat and 1/2 of a goat, what is that?
   Answer = Chickcago

   2. Question = What is worse than having a hole in your stocking?
   Answer = Having one in your two

   3. Question = Two A's, two R's, two M's, and a G, put them together and spell them for me?
   Answer = Grammar

   4. Question = Which would you rather, to be nearly drowned or nearly saved?
   Answer = Nearly drowned

   5. Question = Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you would not guess that?
   Answer = A pipe

   6. Question = Lazy mother, working father and twelve black children?
   Answer = A clock

   7. What is full and holds more?
   Answer = A pot of potatoes when you pour

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Burns

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knocklough, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Thomas Burns

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knocklough, Co. Sligo