Quiz: Riddle challenge for high IQ individuals. How many can you solve?

New Delhi: This difficult riddle puzzle challenge can be solved only by highly intelligent people. Are you ready for a challenge?

1. I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?

A) A mirage

B) A map

C) A dream

2. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

A) Footsteps

B) Time

C) Shadows

3. A man gazes at a painting in a museum and states, "Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the painting?

A) His son

B) His father

C) Himself

4. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

A) A whisper

B) An echo

C) A shadow

5. A woman donates 50 cents to a beggar. The beggar is the woman's sister, but the woman is not the beggar's sister. How can this be?

A) The beggar is her cousin

B) The beggar is her sister

C) The beggar is her mother

6. What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

A) The letter M

B) A second

C) The future

7. What must be broken in order to use it?

A) A promise

B) An egg

C) A secret

8. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

A) A riddle

B) A joke

C) A mirror

9. I can be written, spoken, broken, and revealed. What am I?

A) A code

B) A promise

C) A heart

10. A man is on one bank of a river, his dog on the other. The man whistles to his dog, who crosses the river without wetting his feet and without a bridge or boat. How?

A) The river is frozen

B) The dog jumps over the river

C) The dog swims really fast

11. The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?

A) A hole

B) A fire

C) A balloon

12. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine run away. How many are left?

A) 8

B) 9

C) 17

13. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

A) Silence

B) Trust

C) A glass

14. I am not alive, but I can grow. I don't have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

A) A cloud

B) A fire

C) A virus

15. A person was born in 1950 but passed away in 1955. How can this happen?

A) He was born in room number 1950 of the hospital

B) He resided on a planet whose years had less duration

C) His birth year and death year were in disparate calendars

Answers 

1. B - A map

2. A - Footsteps

3. A - His son

4. B - An echo

5. B - The beggar is her sister

6. A - The letter M

7. B - An egg

8. B - A joke

9. B - A promise

10. A - The river is frozen

11. A - A hole

12. B - 9

13. A - Silence

14. B - A fire

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16. A - He was born in hospital room number 1950

How many did you answer?