经典课堂英语谜语

经典英语谜语(一)

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

36．What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?

-- blackboard

37. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?

-- a clock

38. What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night? -- the sun

39. I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I?

-- a bird

40. Which letter is a drink?

--T(tea)

41. Which letter is around an island?

-- C(sea)

42. Which letter is an animal?