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Symphosius's riddles on smoke, a cloud, rain, ice, river and fish, and snow, in London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii folio 105r. The riddles themselves, written in tercets of dactylic hexameters, are of elegant Latinity. [7] The author's brief preface states that they were written to form part of the entertainment at the Saturnalia.
A rare surviving example from this period is the Parkside Whispering Pines Miniature Golf Course located near Rochester, New York, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [8] The first miniature golf course in Canada was at the Maples Inn in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. The "Mapes" was constructed as a summer home in the 1890s ...
The winning team faces Henry's Riddle Run, where they have one minute to solve six rebus riddles to win their bank; should they do so, they may take on one further double-or-nothing rebus riddle, for which they have 20 seconds; however, if they fail to solve this riddle within the time limit, they lose all of their money and instead take home a Riddiculous themed teacup and saucer as a ...
The answer to the Harvard riddle is a simple "No." Forget all of the filler words meant to trick you in the beginning, and pay attention to the last line. It asks you directly if you can solve the ...
The riddles are all in verse, each one stanza long, and well integrated in their style into the genre of Eddaic poetry. [6] Each stanza has six to eight lines, usually in the metre ljóðaháttr, followed by a two-line conclusion in the metre fornyrðislag, 'Heiðrekr konungr | hyggðu at gátu' ('consider this riddle, King Heiðrekr') (though in the manuscripts themselves this repeated line ...
The "I Have 6 Eggs" riddle has gone viral across social media, puzzling many with its deceptively easy setup. Despite its basic premise of just counting some eggs, this riddle has proven a bit ...
Elephant jokes rely upon absurdity and incongruity for their humor, and a contrast with the normal presumptions of knowledge about elephants. They rely upon absurdist reasoning such as that it would be the relatively incidental evidence regarding the smell of an elephant's breath or the presence of footprints in the butter that would allow for the detection of an elephant in one's bathtub or ...
Every Tuesday on the show, Jimmy weighed the pros and cons of a topic that's currently in the news, with the pros being the setups and the cons being the punchlines. (e.g. Pro: With Tiger competing, this year's Masters promises to be the most exciting golf tournament ever. Con: That being said, it's still golf.)