趣味英语题英语智力题147题

趣味英语题147题

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6. What is that we have in December but we don’t have in any other month? What is the difference between here and there? What is the end of everything? What is the difference between a pear and a pearl? What is never out of sight? What happens twice in every moment, once in every minute and never in a thousand years?

7. What is that every pauper(乞丐) possesses(拥有) yet is had by neither man, woman or child?

8. What is it that is the beginning of eternity(永久), the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every race?

9. What is in the middle of gravity(地球引力)?

10. What is the center of gravity?

11. What is the most important thing in the world?

12. What part of New York is in Chicago?

13. What’ in the church but not in the steeple(尖塔)? The parson(教区牧师) has it, but not the people.

14. What is in fashion but always out of date?

15. What is found in the center of Australia and America?

16. What is in the middle of the world?

17. Which letter is a drink?

18. Which letter is an insect?

19. Which letter goes all around Australia?

20. Which letter can test your eyesight?

21. Which letter can let you see?

22. Which letter can make a road wider?

23. Why is the letter O like a pain?

24. Why is the letter W like a scandal (流言蜚语)?

25. Which letter is the most useful to a deaf woman?

26. What letter makes pice inquisitive(好奇)?

27. What letter will set one of the heaviest bodies in motion(运动)?

28. Why is the sewing machine like the letter S?

29. Why should boys and men avoid the letter A?

30. Why should a housekeeper(管家) never out the letter M in her refrigerator?

31. What does the letter B do for boys as they grow up?

32. How can the letter W be used to bring music up to date?

33. Why is the letter B like a fire?

34. What changes a pear into a pearl?

35. Why is the letter B like a bad boy?

36. Why is the letter F like death?

37. Why is the letter Y like a divorced(离婚的) mother?

38. Why is the letter D like a wedding ring?

39. Why is a teacher of girls like the letter C?

40. Why is summer like the letter N?

41. Why does a young lady depend on the letter Y?

42. Why is the letter S like a thunder?

43. Which three letters can turn a girl into a woman?

44. Why is the letter B very hot?

45. Luke had it first, Paul had it last; boys never have it; girls have it but once; Miss Sullivan had it twice in the same place, but when she married Pat Murphy she never had it again.

46. What is the easiest way for a young lady to become a lad?

47. How can we make road wider?

48. What makes a word become a sword?

49. I claim to magic power, yet a fast I can make a feast; I am never among the first, but the last I can make the least. The gust(一阵) of the wildest storm, I can change to a welcome guest; In the North or the South I’m unknown, but I am found in the East or the West.

50. If all the letters of the alphabet were on the top of a mountain, which letter would leave first?

51. In what way are the letters O and E nearly kept house alike?

52. Where as by you I have been driven from ouse from ome, from ope, from eaven, and places by your learned society. In Hexile, Hanguish, and Hanxiety; Nay, charged without one just pretence, with Harrogance and Himpudence---I here demand full restitution(归还), and beg you’ll mend your Helocution. A petition to the inhabitants(居民) of Kidderminster(肯德明斯特), England, popularly attributed to(把….归因于)Byron?

53. How do you make notes out of stone?

54. Can you change the letters of new door to form one word?

55. What month do soldiers hate?

56. How many feet are there in a yard?

57. Why is an empty purse always the same?

58. What book has the most stirring chapters?

59. What kind of dog doesn\'t bite or bark?

60. What is the smallest room in the world?

61. What kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?

62. How do we know the ocean is friendly?

63. Which can move faster, heat or cold?

64. Why is the library the highest building?

65. What kind of table has no legs?

66. I have cities but no houses;forests but no trees;rivers without water;what am I?

67. What letter is a drink?

68. What stands in the middle of the world?

69. What is white when it is dirty?

70. Who carries his house with him?

71. What keeps you alive but you can’t see and touch?

72. What is it that passes in front of the sun yet cast no shadow?

73. What has an eye, but can’t see?

74. What is always filled when it is used and empty when at rest?

75. What has two legs but can’t walk?

76. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

77. What two words have thousands of letters in them?

78. What is the best and cheapest light?

79. What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than yourself?

80. What table is in the field?

81. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

82. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

83. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?

84. What changes a pear into a pearl?

85. What question can never be answered by \'Yes\'?

86. What ship has two mates but no captain?

87. What is the most difficult key to turn?

88. Where can you always find money?

89. What is the surest way to double your money?

90. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

91. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

92. What letter makes a road broad?

93. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

94. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

95. What match can't be put in a match-box?

96. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

97. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?

98. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What am I?

99. What is a sick man a controdiction?

100. How many times can you take 7 away from 49?

101. What always weighs the same no matter how large it becomes?

102. How much soil in a hole 2 meters deep and one meter across?

103. I have a very large barrel that is very heavy. What can I put in it to make it lighter? It is not a gas and by lighter, I mean less heavy.

104. There is one word in this puzzle which spells incorrectly. Can you find it? 105. What was the biggest ocean in the world before Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean?

106. If five cats can catch five rats in five minutes, how many cats do you need to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes?

107. I saw some ducks yesterday. They were walking to the river. One baby duck was walking between two baby ducks; one baby duck was walking behind two baby ducks; but the first duck was walking in front of the three baby ducks. How many ducks did I see yesterday?

108. Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went the local pet shop in the hope of securing such a find. She was in luck. The shop assistant assured her that the parrot would learn and repeat any word or phrase it heard. Polly was delighted. However, a week later, the parrot still hadn’t spoken a word. Polly returned to the shop to explain, however, it appeared that the assistant was accurate in what he had said, and refused a fund. Why didn’t the parrot talk?

109. What are you given at a very early age and always belongs to you, but is used more by others than by you?

110. Dodgy Dave was washing windows on a multi-storey office building when he slipped and fell off his fifty foot ladder directly onto the concrete pavement below. Amazingly, he didn’t hurt himself at all. How can this be possible

111. Why are 1988 dollar bills worth more than 1997 dollar bills?

112. Harry, the happy hippo, happily hopped from the hippo hospital. How many h’s are there in this sentence?

According to the American Constitution(宪法), in order to become President of the United States there are only five prerequisites. The candidate(候选人) must:

1) be at least 35 years old.

2) Be a citizen of the United States.

3) Have resided in the United States for at least fourteen years.

4) Have been born in the United States.

What is the fifth requirement

113. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, then four and five make?

114. Standing on a one way street, were two highway patrol officers(巡警), specifically looking for drivers who were in violation(违反) of local traffic laws.

A taxi driver was going the wrong way down the street, however, the officers did

nothing. What explanation can you offer?

115. How can you get a fully grown apple inside of a bottle? The bottle has to be a normal glass bottle which has no breaks, the entrance of which is clearly too small for the apple to pass through. The apple must end up in perfect condition. How? 116. Maggie Mathematical has five sons. One is called Alpha, another is called Beta, the third is called Gamma and the third is called Fred. What’s the fifth son’s name?

117. What does this question simplify to?

(x－a) ×(x－b)×……×(x-z)=?

118. Two fine fellows were working very hard all day at the local coal mine. One of the fellows managed to get a really dirty face, but the other fellow managed to stay clean. When they reached the end of their day and re-joined the surface in the lift, the fellow with the dirty face simply went home, however, the fellow with the clean face rushed off to wash. Why?

119. Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl(乙烯基) record (if you can remember them!) or the number of days in the year?

120. At the recent passing out parade(游行) of the local St John Ambulance summer recruitment(征募新兵) drive, there were exactly 100 successful recruits. They were lined up in a nice square formation of 10 rows by 10 columns. Who was the tallest---the tallest of the shortest people in each column OR the shortest of the tallest people in each row?

121. If a red house is made from red bricks and a yellow house is made from yellow bricks. What is a greenhouse made from?

122. If you have two identical screws and arrange them in such a way that their threads touch each other with their heads facing away from each other. Screw one screw and unscrew the other. What happens?

123. Imagine a small chess board, 3 by 3. If you place a knight on the top left hand corner, how many different squares can the knight reach less than four moves?

124. James said that he was born on February29, 1900. What birthday will he celebrate in the year 2000?

125. Which is heavier, a pound of feathers, a pound of wood or a pound of steel? 126. If carrots should be poached(水煮) for 10 minutes, cabbages should be poached for 12 minutes and cauliflower should be poached for 18 minutes, can you tell me how long cucumbers should be poached?

127. A lorry recently drove under my local railway bridge, it managed to get about half way when if became stuck fast. It was too tall, 12 feet and 1 inch to be precise. The bridge was exactly 12 feet high. The lorry driver was most unhappy as his

monthly bonus(奖金) was at stake(在危险中). He tried to move backwards and then forwards, but to no avail(有帮助). Finally a clever old soul has a good idea to release the stricken lorry. What was his idea?

128. If penguins live with a density(密度) of 1,000 penguins per square mile and can run at an average speed of 7 miles per hour on land and swim at 20 mils per hour. And if a polar bear has a territory(领地) of 10 square miles, can run at 25 miles per hour and swim at 10 miles per hour, how many penguins will an average polar bear eat in any given mouth, remembering that a polar bear could, as maximum(最大量), only eat one penguin per hour and 7% of the land is next to the sea.

129. This morning while I was walking on the beach, I noticed a small coin glittering in the sun. On close examination I could read the date 126 BC. Thinking that this coin would obviously be worth something, I popped into the local museum to ask their advice. They were very kind to me but informed me that the coin was worthless. Why?

130. There is a butcher at the local butcher shop. He is five eleven inches tall, and he wears size 12 shoes and is well built. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh?

131. In Aberland, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why? 132. If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

133. In the olden days, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Monday, spent six days in town and left on Friday. How is that possible?

134. Before Mount Everest(埃佛雷斯峰,即珠穆朗玛峰) was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

135. Paul was 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

136. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

137. What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

138. How can you throw a ball so that it goes a short distance, come to a dead stop, reverses(颠倒) its motion, and then goes the opposite way. You are not allowed to bounce it against anything, hit it with anything, or ties it to anything.

139. The capital of Turkey is a long word. Can you spell it?

140. What is maximum overhang(垂悬物) you can create with an infinite(无限的) supply of bricks?

141. A lion can consume one sheep in two hours, a wolf can consume three sheep in eight hours and a hyena (鬣狗) can consume one sheep in eight hours. If all of the animals were in a cage and were given a sheep, how long would it take them to consume it?

142. A group of Englishmen are traveling on a German plane, piloted by a Norwegian, bound for Finland. If the plane was to crash in Sweden, where would the survivors be buried?

143. When James was nine years old he hammered a nail into a tree to mark his weight. Ten years later, James returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by four inches each year, how much higher would the nail be?

144. If Fred can lay 1, 000 bricks in three hours, Jimmy can lay 1, 000 bricks in two hours and Kev can lay 1, 000 bricks in six hours. How long will it take Fred, Jimmy, and Kev to lay 1,000 bricks if they all work together?

145. Which of the following statements is true?

1). One of these statements is true.

2). Two of these statements are true.

3). Three of these statements are true.

4). Four of these statements are true.

5). Five of these statements are true.

6). Six of these statements are true.

146. What is the longest word in the English language?

147. I bet you $1 that is you give me $2, I will give you $3 in return. Would you bet with me?

148. There are 1,200 elephants in a herd. Some have pink and green stripes, some are all pink and some are all blue. One third are pure pink. Is it true that 400 elephants are definitely blue?