02-21-2007, 08:33 PM
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FFR Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 18
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Re: The Riddle Thread
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Originally Posted by Reach
More Brain Pain: Analogies
Here are some ridiculously hard analogies. You are free to use a dictionary or other resources if you want. Generally there is only one correct answer. I will accept more than one for some. Anyone with an average vocabulary won't get any of these right, so cookies to anyone that can get some of them. Maybe 1/2 points if you're close but not exact.
Oh yea, and if you can help it avoid other peoples answers.
1. FALL : AUTUMNAL :: SPRING : ?
2. ONE : MONO :: FEW : ?
3. LIFE : VITAL :: BIRTH : ?
4. X^2+Y^2=Z^2 : PYTHAGORAS :: X^n+Y^n = Z^n : ?
5. 24 HOURS : ROTATION :: 26,000 YEARS : ?
6. WATER : SWIMMER :: CAVE : ?
7. TAUGHT BY ANOTHER : PUPIL :: TAUGHT BY ONESELF : ?
8. GENERALIZED : LOCALIZED :: ANEMIA : ?
9. TEACHER : MENTOR :: BULLY : ?
10. * : ASTERISK :: 'e'ROTATED180DEGREES :
11. INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ANTARCTICA : GONDWANALAND :: HORSE, ASS, ZEBRA : ?
12. FEAR OF STRANGERS : XENOPHOBE :: LOVE OF CATS : ?
13. TINTINNABULATION : ONOMATOPOEA :: BITTERSWEET : ?
14. BEND ONE'S KNEE TO : GENUFLECTION :: TURN ONE'S BACK ON : ?
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Have any of these not been answered or been incorrectly answered so far? If so, which ones? I'm losing track...
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