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Riddles.


1. What lands on its head as often as it lands on its tail?

Tim Sedgwick, Connecticut

2. Why does the mom carry the baby?

Nancy Zanaty, Colorado

3. Why is an elephant big, gray, and wrinkly?

Bryan Stayne, California

4. Why did the people call the fireman Fred?

Ashley Metzger, New York

5. What did one hurricane say to the other hurricane?

Deontae Mack, Michigan

6. What did the ant sing when he went to play ball?

Lindsey Justice, North Carolina

7. What does it mean when you come into the house and you don't have to do any chores?

Markian Sich, New York

8. What happened to the plant in math class?

Jill Fleming, Georgia

9. Thirty white horses on a red hill. They clomp, they stomp, they stand still. What am I?

Jesse Gonzalez, California

10. Where did the fortune teller go on her vacation?

Dane Suchan, Saskatchewan

11. What did the pilgrims think of Plymouth Rock?

Jessica VanderWolk, Massachusetts

Answers:

1. A penny. 2. Because the baby can't carry the mom. 3. Because if it were small, white, and round, it would be an aspirin. 4. Because it was his name. 5. "I've got my eye on you." 6. "Take me out to the small game." 7. It means you are in the wrong house. 8. It grew square roots. 9. Teeth; the red hill is the tongue. 10. Palm Beach. 11. They took it for granite.

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