Riddles

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

• envelope

• letter “e”

• Ablonde

• Short

What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?

• Dozens

• envelope

I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?

• less

• few

• more

• que

I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

• Chicago

• Isle

• The letter “g”

• Few

Answer explanation

Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)

Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?

• A mirror

• Light

• Silence.

• frozen.

Answer explanation

Answer: The river was frozen.

What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

• Hera

• A river

• Footsteps

• Heroine