Riddles And Puzzles

[englandboy – John]

The letter `i` :nana: :nana: :nana:

A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50
and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Ten
years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80,
how many years was he a widower?

[Peggy]

25 years! 😆 :bow:

Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

[englandboy – John]

Mmmm, OK, I`m going to take a wild guess……
I think it is “fire” :dunno:

What state is surrounded by the most water?

[Peggy]

Hawaii. All of it is surrounded by water :nana:

If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

[englandboy – John]

Only one, after that, the piggy bank is no longer empty 😛 :bow:

I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

[Peggy]

A sponge! 8)

Walks in the wind,
Runs in the rain,
Makes dry oceans in the sun.
Counts time, stops clocks,
Swallows kingdoms, gnaws rocks.

What is it?

[englandboy – John]

SAND :nana:

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

[Peggy]

😯 You are faster than the speed of sound!

TIME! :bow:

A man is in a rowing boat floating on a lake, in the boat he has a brick. He throws the brick over the side of the boat so as it lands in the water. The brick sinks quickly. The question is, as a result of this does the water level in the lake go up or down?

[englandboy – John]

Ahhh, that`s like the old story of an ice cube in a glass full of water.
When the cube melts will the water pour over the top of the glass?

The answer to both is no, as the displacement of water will remain the same.

Where does ice come after hockey?

[Peggy]

Well, this is what I had found, but it doesn’t mean that they are right! I don’t have a clue myself! 😕 😯

When an object is floating be it because it is something less dense than water, say polystyrene, or because it is in a boat, say a brick and the whole boat is less dense than water, then it displaces in the water it’s own mass. For example a 10 Kg lump of lead on a boat will force the boat to sink by a volume equivalent to 10Kg of water. Hence displacing 10Kg of water. Or indeed forcing the water level to raise by an amount equivalent to 10Kg of water. (Like when you get in the bath.)

When an object sinks in water it necessarily displaces it’s own volume.

So when the brick is in the boat it is displacing it’s own mass equivalence in water. When the brick is thrown over the side it is displacing it’s own volume in water.

So which of these is greater?

Well we know the brick to be more dense than water because it sinks. So the volume of water equivalent to the mass of the brick is greater than the volume of the brick. And so less water is displaced after than before. Hence…

The Water Level Goes Down!!!!

Anyway, to answer your riddle,

In The dictionary! 🙄

Why did the blonde:
keep empty beer bottles in her fridge?

[englandboy – John]

For those who do not drink (I think)

Alive without breath,
as cold as death,
never thirsty; ever drinking,
all in mail never klinking

What am I?

[Peggy]

Right again! 😆

I’m considered to be “late”.
I rid the world of many.
Many fear my arrival,
But others welcome me. What am I?

[englandboy – John]

OK Peggy, this is a wild hunch……….the “Angel of Death?”

I`ll not post a question, as I`m not sure the above is the right reply :dunno:

[Peggy]

Yes, you are right AGAIN! 😆 It’s death or Angel of Death!

Your turn…take a :bow:

[englandboy – John]

:nana:

There are three roads for different things,
One goes under, one goes above, and one goes though the middle.
Who are each of the roads for and what is each road?

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