RIDDLES¹ （7）

1 How do we know that the play has a happy ending?

2 How can a girl have been eleven on her last birthday, and be thirteen next birthday?

3 How can a hat talk?

4 How do Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) dress?

5 How do mountain climbers break up with their boyfriends?

6 How can you spell mousetrap in three letters?

7 How do goldfish go into business?

8 How can you make tomatoes ripen²?

9 Why won't you ever be hungry at the beach?

10 How did they catch the gangster³ who committed the robbery on Mount Everest(称珠穆朗玛峰)?

answers

1 Because everyone was so happy that it was over.

2 If she's turned twelve today.

3 Add the letter C and you make it chat.

4 As quickly as possible.

5 They cut ties.

6 Cat.

7 They start on a small scale.

8 Tell jokes about them until they turn red.

9 Because of all the sand which is there.

10 He returned to the scene of the climb.