School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- 26 When is a man out of date?
Answer: When he has a weak back.
27 Why does a horse never starve in harness?
Answer: Because he always has a bit in his mouth.
28 What turns without moving?
Answer: Milk.
- Collector
- Willie Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- 29 A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,
A hundred eyes, and never a nose?
Answer: A sieve
30 Lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
Answer: An Icicle
31 What is the weight of the moon?
Answer: A hundredweight, because there are four quarters in it.
32 Give the three degrees of getting on in the world
Answer: Get on, Get honour. Get honest.
33 How many ants make a landlord?
Tenants
34 What tree grows nearest the sea?
Answer: The beech(beach)
35 What four letters would frighten a thief.?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
