Hard Riddles With Simple Answers

#1 - Famous Riddle

On my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?

#2 - World Most Famous Riddle

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

#3 - November Riddle

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet.
He turns to the rich man and says to him,
'I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.'
The rich man laughs.
The poor man says, 'I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it.'
The rich man laughs again and says, 'OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?'
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

#4 - UPSC Interview Question

Bay of Bengal is in which state?

#5 - UPSC Interview Riddle

How can a man go eight days without sleep ?

#6 - Crime puzzle

There is a certain crime, that if it is attempted, is punishable, but if it is committed, is not punishable. What is the crime?

#7 - IPS Interview RIDDLE

If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?

#8 - Maths Logic Riddle

It can be easily calculated that the digits 0 to 9 can be arranged into 3628800 distinct ten-digit numbers.

But I also know how many of these numbers are prime.

Do you?

#9 - Brilliant Student Puzzle

There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: 'What is risk?'.Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?

#10 - Trick Riddle

What is the longest word in the dictionary