51个简单的适合小学生的英语谜语及答案： RIDDLES 1.What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 2.What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long? 3.What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night? 4.I am small.I can fly.I like singing in the sky.What am I? 5.Which letter is a drink? 6.Which letter is around an island? 7.Which letter is an animal? 8.Which letter is a kind of vegetable? 9.Which is the longest English word? Why? 10.Which letter is a question? 11.Which letter is a part of your face? 12.I am very big and heavy.I have a long nose and big ears.What am I ? 13.I am the tallest animal in the world.What am I ? 14.I live in the sea.I am the biggest animal in the sea.What am I ? 15.What do you call your father’s father’s only son? 16.What is the biggest ant in the world? 17.What is in the middle of the world? 18.What do you call your father-in-law\'s only child\'s mother-in-law? 19.What is the smallest room in the world? 20.Teachers write on me with chalk.I can’t talk.What am I ?
21.You have it.You read it.There are some words and pictures on it.What is it? 22.Sometimes it looks like a boat.Sometimes it looks like a small white sun.What is it? 23.You throw away the outside and cook the inside.Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.What did you eat? 24.What goes around the world but stays in a corner? 25.Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die.What am I? 26.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? 27.I fly, but I have no wings.I cry, but I have no eyes.28.How many letters are in the alphabet? 29.I am always with you.Sometimes behind you, sometimes before you, sometimes by your side, but you can’t see me in the dark.30.What table is in the field? 31.What table can tell you what to do? 32.What changes a pear into a pearl? 33.What letter makes a road broad? 34.When do 2 and 2 make more than 4? 35.I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water.What am I? 36.What kind of dog doesn\'t bite or bark? 37.I am everywhere in the earth.Without me, you have to die.What am I ? 38.I can’t walk.I can’t fly.I can swim.What am I ?
39.I am green in spring and yellow in autumn.Birds like me and people like me.What am I ? 40.Chicken grows from it.What is it? 41.It’s very small in the sky, but it’s actually very big.What is it? 42.It’s a colourful bridge in the sky.What is it? 43.Why do lions eat raw meat(生肉)？ 44.Why is six afraid of seven? 45.A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.How can this be poible? 46.I am white.You can drink me.I am in the dairy group.What am I ? 47.I am green or red.I am spicy and hot.I am in the vegetable group.What am I ? 48.I am a kind of fruit, green outside and red inside.What am I ? 49.I am a kind of fruit, yellow outside and white inside with small black seeds.What am I ? 50.I am orange.I am thin and long.Rabbits like me very much.What am I ? 51.David was out for a walk when it started to rain.He did not have an umbrella and he wasn\'t wearing a hat.His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet.How could this happen?
SOLUTIONS
1.blackboard
2.a clock 3.the sun 4.a bird 5.T(tea) 6.C(sea) 7.B(bee) 8.P(pea) 9.smiles(There’s a mile between the first and the last letter.) 10.Y(why) 11.I(eye) 12.an elephant
13.a giraffe 14.the whale 15.father/daddy 16.an elephant
17.the letter “r” 18.mom 19.mushroom 20.a blackboard 21.a book 22.the moon 23.chicken 24.stamp 25.fire 26.river 27.cloud 28.eight 29.shadow 30.vegetable 31.timetable 32.“L” 33.“b” 34.(22) 35.a map
36.hot dog 37.air 38.fish 39.a tree 40.an egg 41.a star/ the sun/ the moon 42.a rainbow
43.Because they can’t cook.44.Because seven eight(ate) nine.
45.Because all of her children are boys.46.milk 47.pepper 48.a watermelon
49.a banana 50.a carrot 51.Because he’s bald.
谜语十则
1.Have you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?
2.My thunder comes before my lightning.My lightning comes before my rain.My rain dries up all the land it touches.What am I?
3.You can see it, but you can\'t touch it.It may disappear, but has never really left you.It grows throughout the day.What is it?
4.What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
5.I have holes on the top and bottom.And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water.I have holes on my left and on my rig.What am I?
6.A word I know, six letters it contains, Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.What is the word?
7.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
8.What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
9.Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can\'t hold it for much more than a minute?
10.What two words have the most letters in it?
1.What month do soldiers hate? --March (三月，行军) 2.How many feet are there in a yard? --It depends on how many people stand in the yard.(码，院子) 3.Why is an empty purse always the same? --There is no change in it.(零钱，变化) 4.What book has the most stirring chapters? --A cook book.(动人的，搅拌的) 5.What kind of dog doesn\'t bite or bark? --Hot dog.(热狗) 6.What is the smallest room in the world? --Mushroom.(蘑菇) 7.What kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy? --Drink well water.(井水，健康的) 8.How do we know the ocean is friendly? --It waves.(起波浪，招手致意) 9.Which can move faster, heat or cold? --Heat, because you can catch cold.(追上冷，患感冒) 10.Why is the library the highest building? --It has the most stories.(故事，（楼）层) 11.What table is in the field? --Vegetable 12.What is the only thing you can break when you say its name? --silence 13.What is there in your house that ought to be looked into? --mirror 14.What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name? --nothing 15.What changes a pear into a pearl? --the letter “l”
16.What question can never be answered by \'Yes\'? --Are you asleep? 17.What ship has two mates but no captain? --courtship 18.What is the most difficult key to turn? --a donkey 19.Where can you always find money? --In the dictionary 20.What is the surest way to double your money? --Fold it.21.Where does afternoon come before morning in the world? --In the dictionary 22.What is the smallest bridge in the world? --the bridge of a nose 23.What letter makes a road broad? --letter B 24.What letter sounds like a vegetable? --letter P 25.Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world? --Because it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待处理) 26.What match can\'t be put in a match-box? --Football match, basketball match, etc.27.When do 2 and 2 make more than 4? --When they make 22.28.I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water.What am I? --A map 29.I am something that has teeth but can\'t eat.What am I? --A comb 30.What is a sick man a controdiction? --When he is an impatient patient.31.What can hear without ears and answer without a mouth? --An echo 32.What room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors? --A mushroom 33.What is dark but is made by light ? --A shadow 34.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of ? --Trouble 35.What is black When it is clean and white when it is dirty? --A blackboard 还有些: What is dark but made by light? shadow What is higher without a head than with a head? pillow What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? trouble What person tried to make you smile most of the time? 谜底： photographer（摄影师）
It has cities but no houses,forests but no trees,rivers but no water.What is it? MAP! In the field stand many green round houses.In each green houses there is a white house.Inside the white house,there is a red body of water.In the water are many black men.What are they? WATERMELON! Something leads you up the hill and then down the hill,but it always lies still.What is it? ESCALATOR! 电梯！
1.What is smaller than an insect\'smouth?
2.What season is the most dangerous one?
3.What\'s too much for me,just right for two,butnothing at all for three?
4.On what day of a year do soldiers start warsin history?
5.How many feet are in a yard?
6.What person tries to make others smile most ofthetime?
7.From what number can one take half and leavenothing?
8.What has hands but no feet, a face but noeyes,tells but does nottalk?
9.How many months have 28 days?
10.Which horses have six legs?
11.Who isn\'t your sister and isn\'t your brother,but is still achild of your mother and father?
12.What has teeth but can\'t eat?
13.What kind of man can raise things withoutlifting them?
14.Which candle burns longer:a black one or awhiteone?
15.Why does a cook wear a high,whitehat? 16.Can you name
five
days
of
the
week
withoutsaying: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday?
17.What kind of dog never can bite andbark?
18.What has a soft bed but never sleeps,a bigmouth but neverspeaks?
19.Four girls have a basket with four apples init.How can you divide the apples so that each girl gets a wholeapple and one still remains in thebasket?
20.Which eight-letter word has one letter init?
Keys(答案) ：
1.Anything iteats.
2.Autumn.Because it is alsoFALL.
3.Asecret.
4.March fourth.When a war breaks out,they\'llhave to marchforth.
5.It depends on how many people are standing init.
6.Aphotographer.
7.The number8.
8.A clock.
9.All of them.Each month has its 28thday.
10.All horses have forelegs (four legs) in frontand two in back, so they all have six legs.
11.You yourselfare.
12.Acomb.
13.A farmer.He can raise pigs, chickens and soon without liftingthem.
14.Neither.Because all candles burnshorter.
15.To cover hishead. 16.The day before yesterday,yesterday,today,tomorrow, and the day aftertomorrow.
17.A hotdog.
18.Ariver.
19.Give three girls an apple each,and give thefourth girl her apple in thebasket.
20.Envelope.
