提 要

「搞笑謎語」也就是「腦筋急轉彎」，因為英語中特有的雙關涵義增加神祕感，所以同儕之間玩這「無厘頭」的問答遊戲（順便練習英文），務必請用英文。

❶A 15-foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat on a rainy day. The bottom rung touches the surface of the water. The rungs are about one foot apart. If the tide goes up, at the rate of one foot per hour, how long will it be until at least four rungs of the rope ladder are covered?

★ANSWER: Never is the answer; the boat will rise as the tide goes up!

❷This person in the blue coat is the father of the person standing next to him in the black coat. But the person in black is not the son of the person wearing the blue coat. How is that possible?

★ANSWER: That’s because the person in the black coat is the man’s daughter!

❸Old Macy’s Rooster sat and lays an egg on the barn roof, which way do you think the egg rolled?

★ANSWER: Oh, come on! Have you ever heard of a Rooster laying the egg!

❹An electric train is heading south at the speed of 150 mph. It is a windy day and the weather forecast gives a reading of the wind to be blowing 20 mph to the east. Can you calculate which way the smoke blows?

★ANSWER: It is an electric train guy! No smoke!

❺How can a lady go 10 days deprived of sleep?

★ANSWER: Well, she can sleep during the night time!

❻Alex asks his partner, “A little girl in my school bus asked me a really hard question. She asked me how I would pick up an elephant with one hand. I didn’t know what to answer to that!”

★ANSWER: Alex’s friend answers, “Don’t worry mate, you’re never going to find an elephant that has just one hand!”

❼It took ten men ten hours to build the wall next to the town library, now how long would four men take to build it?

★ANSWER: No time at all, the wall is already built isn’t it?

❽If there are 10 apricots on the table and you take away six of them, how many do you have?

★ANSWER: You have six apricots, the ones you took!

❾Tom’s dad has five sons, whom he named East, West, North, South..… Can you guess what would be the name of the fifth son?

★ANSWER: Tom is the fifth son!

❿If you were to throw a green stone into the blue sea, what will it become?

★ANSWER: The stone would become wet of course!

解 說

❶ 一個十五英尺長的繩索梯在雨天時掛在船的一邊。底部的繩梯觸及水面。梯的級距約一英尺。如果潮汐以每小時一英尺的速度上升，四梯級的浸在水中需要多長時間？

★答案是：「永遠不會」;「水漲船高」啊，隨著潮汐上升，船也將隨之上升！

❷這位穿藍色外套的人，是站在他旁邊穿黑色外套的人的父親；但穿黑色外套的人，不是穿著藍色外套的人的兒，怎麼會呢？

★答案是：那是因為穿黑色外套的人是穿藍色外套的人的女兒！

❸老梅西的雄雞坐在屋頂生蛋，你認為下的蛋應該往哪個方向滾？

★答案是：哦，拜託！ 你何時聽說過雄雞會下蛋！

❹電動火車以時速一百五十英里的速度朝南方向前進。這是一個有風的天氣，天氣預報顯示風以時速二十英里向東吹。你能計算出火車煙霧吹的方向嗎？

★答案是：這傢伙是一列電動車，沒有煙！

❺一位女士如何能夠連續十日被剝奪睡眠？

★答案是：這個嘛，她可以在那十夜裡睡覺！

❻亞歷克斯問他的夥伴：「我同校車的一個小女孩問我一個很難的問題，她問我『如何用一手舉起一隻大象』，我不知道該怎麼回答！」

★答案是：亞歷克斯的朋友回答他 ：「夥伴別擔心，你永遠不會找到只有一隻手的大象！」（如果用「an elephant with one hand」斷句，意思就是「只有一隻手的大象」。）

❼若在鎮圖書館旁邊修建一堵牆需要十個人工作十個小時，那麼四個人要建多久？

★答案是：不花任何時間啊，牆不是已經建成了嗎？

❽如果桌子上原本有十個杏子，你拿走了六個，你總共有幾個杏子？

★答案是：你有六個杏子，你拿走的那六個！

❾湯姆的爸爸有五個兒子，名字分別為東、西、北、南……那你能猜出第五個兒子的名字是什麼？

★答案是：湯姆就是那第五個兒子！

❿如果你把一塊綠色的石頭扔到藍色的大海裡，會產生怎樣的變化？

★答案是：當然，石頭會變溼！