School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)

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   Question - Long and lanky, deaf and dumb, has no legs and yet can run
   Answer - A River

   Question - Black and white and read all over
   Answer - A Newspaper

   Question - As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man
   Answer - A Penny

   Question - Why does a hen pick a pot
   Answer - Because she cannot lick it

   Question - Why does a crow fly over a mountain
   Answer - Because she cannot fly under it

   Question - What part of a cow comes out a gap first
   Answer - Her breath

   Question - There is a little house that would not fit a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayors house
   Answer - A Thimble

   Question - As green as grass and it is not grass, as white as snow and it is not snow, as red as blood and it is not blood as black as coal and it is not coal

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Garlagh Cross, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Hubert Smyth

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lismullin, Co. Meath