Riddles

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1 Question. This thing is in a kings palace and it would not go on your thumb?
Answer = It is a thimble.
1 Question = This thing goes round the field and never stops till it goes through the world?
Answer = A light day.

3 Question = There is a little thing it has a eye but cannot see?
Answer = A needle.
4 Question = Why is your nose not twelve inches long?
Answer = Because it would be a foot.
5 Question = Twenty four little things scraping up the field?
Answer = A harrow.

6 Question = As I went Curly hill, Curly hill was quaking. I met a thing. It was standing naked. It had nine tops, nine tails nineteen hundred score of nails?
Answer = Irish Thistle.
7 Question = Why is a policeman like a mill horse?
Answer = Because he goes his rounds.

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8 Question = Why is Paris like the letter F?
Answer = Because it is the capital of France.
9 Question = Why is Ireland like a bottle?
Answer = Because it has Cork in it.
10 Question = Which island is most like snow?
Answer = The Isle of Wight.
11 Question = Which place is often seen outside a Cinema?
Answer = Kew (cueue)[?]
12 Question = If you were trying to light the fire and the gas with the same match, which would you light first?
Answer = The match.