School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)
- Location:
- Knocknasna, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Conchobhair
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- (1) What is the longest word in the English language?
Smiles there is a mile between the first and last letter
2 What letter changes a biped into a drinking vessel?
G it makes a glass of a lass.3. I am pushed about all day , and yet I never drop. I am in everbody's way and yet neer I stop. My four arms each day point in every way and my head is screwed on at the top. What am I?
Turnstile4. What's as crooked as a river?
Its banks.5 What is the difference between a school teacher and a Post office clerk?
One licks with a stick and the other sticks with a lick. 6. If 9 horses draw each two of turf daily, at 9s a load what will it all come to in the end of the year?
Ashes.- Collector
- Patrick Nash
- Gender
- Male
- 7. What has a head and no face?
A Match8 What has a face and no head ?
A watch. 9. What is it that never asks questions yet requires many answers?
A door-bell.10. Why does a person go to bed?
Because the bed wont come to him. 11. What has a head, a foot and four legs?
A bed12. What never goes long without winding?
A Clock13. Why does the hen peck the pot?
Because she cant lick it.