Gollum's Riddle Challenge 2000
The Riddles
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Congratulations to our winners!

First Place - Brendan Ritchie

Second Place - Darren Brian

Third Place - Johnathan Hurshman


Riddle Answers:

  1. Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. (answer: leaves)
  2. I am on three legs when I rest and one when I work. (answer: wheelbarrow)
  3. I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never thrown. (answer: eyelashes)
  4. I can be short and sometimes hot. When displayed, I rarely impress. (answer: temper)
  5. I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty. (answer: skull)
  6. Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans. What must you fill with empty hands? (answer: gloves)
  7. I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but I am nobody's fool. For there is no language that I can't speak, though I never went to school. (answer: echo)
  8. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. (answer: ear of corn)
  9. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. (answer: onion)
  10. I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. (answer: a splinter)


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