10 Points!!! Answer 10 riddles for 10 points first one gets them!!!?

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1.Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible? 

2.What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.

3.I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I? 

4.A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in? 

5.What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it

6.I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I? 

7.Sabrina gave Samantha as many dollars as Samantha started out with. Samantha then gave Sabrina back as much as Sabrina had left. Sabrina then gave Samantha as back as many dollars as Samantha had left, which left Sabrina broke and gave Samantha a total of $80.00. How much did Sabrina and Samantha have at the beginning of their exchange?

8.Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan? 

9.Name an eight letter word that has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.

10.Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at thirty-four minutes past twelve a.m. What was it?

▪Toronto Mɑple Leɑfs Fɑn▪ · Accepted Answer

1. The date is B.C.
2. Mountain
3. A windmill
4. The woman was pregnant and died during child birth and the stranger was the baby.
5. Charcoal
6. A fingernail
7. Sabrina: $50 and Samantha: $30
8. They pile up the dirt they dug out of the tunnel and climb out of the window from the top of the pile.
9. Inkstand
10. The time and month, date, year are 12:34, 5/6/78

♥ Anonymous ♥ · Answer

1. The years are in B.C., not A.D. as you probably assumed. Based on the system we use to number the years, the years counted down in B.C. (but they weren't counting backwards back then).

2. Mountain

3. A Windmill

4. His wife died during birth.

5. Charcoal.

6. Fingernails

7. The upper step is what is the ammout that was with sabrina (40$) is the dobule of what she had before samatha gave here as many as she had left 

Now sabrina had (20$) and samantha had (60$) the last step , samantha gave sabrina as many as she started with , that means samanth started with the half of (60$) that was (30$) so sabrina had started with (50$)

8. Piling up the dirt and standing on it.

9. Backstep

10. At that moment, the time and day could be written as: 12:34, 5/6/78.

Anonymous · Answer

1.  
2.  Mountains!
3.  A Building which has 4 wings!
4.  The wife gave birth to a child and died.  The newborn child is the stranger in the car!
5.  Coal!
6.  Finger nails!
7.  
8.  They piled up all the dirt from the tunnel under the window and then climbed on top of the dirt and escaped from the window!
9.  
10.  12:34 5 6 78

SayWhat YouNeed ToSay · Answer

1. B.C. not A.D.
2. Mountain
3. Windmill
4. Either the woman was a stranger hitchhiker and the wife had died due to some unrelated incident before this deal even started, or the woman WAS his wife and died giving birth in the car; the stranger was the baby.
5. Charcoal
6. Fingernails
7. Sabrina 50, Sam 30
8. Build a mound of soil by tunneling until it reaches the window. (do the cops ever check on these convicts?)
9. Inkstand
10. It was 12:34 on 5-6-78.

Nick R · Answer

1) The years are BC

4) The wife was a moron and let him in.

5) Charcoal

7) Sabrina had $50 and Samantha had $30

8) Stand on top of the dirt that they dig out of the tunnel. Of course that is on top of the bed or something. ALSO, he could do what was done in The Count of Monte Cristo and switch places with his cell mate after the cell mate dies. He would then be carried out of the jail.

9) Inkstand

10) It was 12:34 5/6/78 (like counting 1, 2, 3,4 ,5, 6, 7, 8)

Anonymous · Answer

1. Because he is growing younger.
2. Air.
3. Rock.
4. His wife let him in. Or his wife was the stranger.
5. Blood.
6. Wall.
7. dunno.
8. They dig up to the window.
9. You can't, because the word will have 9 letters if you have kst in the middle, beginning and the ending.
10. someone died

Hawk Girl · Answer

1. Paul is the name of two different guys.
2. a family tree
3. A mansion, east wing west wing south wing north wing?
4. convertible
5. charcoal
6.  fingernail
7. 30-Sabrina, 50-Samantha
8.stand on the dirt they dug up
9.Inkstand
10. 12345678

Anonymous · Answer

i think the answer to number 8 is that they move the bed and then they stand on the bed, and stand on top of each other.
i could be wrong though ...

sugarbee · Answer

1. leap year
2.grass
3.windmill
4.carbon monoxide
5.charcoal
6.wood...lumber
7.$40.00?
8.?
9.?
10. Your birthday

Anonymous · Answer

Everest isn't the talles mountain... Mauna Kea is.

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