USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The person who made it doesn’t want it, the person who paid for it doesn’t need it, and the person who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?
A
A present.
B
A good grade.
C
A coffin.
D
A crib.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The man who invented it (the carpenter) doesn’t want it because it represents death. The man who bought it (the funeral director) doesn’t need it because he will never use it.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is it? A coffin. Coffin makers have no need for a coffin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first discovered written riddles are close to 4, 000 years old. They were written in Cuneiform, the writing of the ancient Sumerians. A shortened and simplified version of one of these earliest riddles is: “A house you enter blind, but come out with sight.

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