Riddles and Puzzles

[classic33]

Derby Disaster
10 fine horses completed the gruelling 3 mile course. Predictably, as per every year, the results mysteriously went missing. However, various marshals remembered the following snippets of information:
Simple Simon lost to Zebra Wings. Zebra Wings beat Simple Simon, Frogman's Flippers and Apple Pie. Fizzy Pop lost to Minty Mouth, Simple Simon and CD Player. Frogman's Flippers beat Windy Hill, CD Player and Simple Simon. Top Hat lost to CD Player, Kippers and Apple Pie. CD Player beat Top Hat and Fizzy Pop. Apple Pie lost to Zebra Wings and Simple Simon. Kippers lost to Apple Pie and Frogman's Flippers. Frogman's Flippers beat Fizzy Pop, Minty Mouth and CD Player. CD Player lost to Frogman's Flippers, Kippers and Apple Pie. Top Hat beat Fizzy Pop and Windy Hill. Minty Mouth lost to Windy Hill and Simple Simon. Windy Hill lost to Apple Pie and CD Player.
Which horse finished where?

 

[classic33]

Electrifying
There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the Home Show. One of them was the father of the other's son.
How is this possible?

 

[classic33]

Sportings Unknown
Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Liar, Liar.
A man walks up to you and says --‐ "everything I say to you is a lie." Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

He's lying. If he was telling the truth, then we have a contradiction, because all his statements would be lies, but at the same time he just told you the truth. Therefore by elimination, he's lying.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Gentle Touch
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

Silence.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Electrifying
There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the Home Show. One of them was the father of the other's son.
How is this possible?

They were different sexes.

Unless of course it was one of those modern marriages of gay couples.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Just getting my answers in early, while most of the competition is asleep! Are you an insomniac, @classic33? It's definitely sleeping time over there.

 

[classic33]

Just getting my answers in early, while most of the competition is asleep! Are you an insomniac, @classic33? It's definitely sleeping time over there.

Get by on around three hours sleep a day.
03:23hrs

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Get by on around three hours sleep a day.

That's a handy skill to have! But do you do it by choice or necessity?

 

[classic33]

Down to medication being taken.

 

[Boo]

Pear, Where!
In some off-licences, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, the bottle hasn't been cut in any way.
How did they get the pear get inside the bottle?

Not sure whether it's the answer you're looking for, but there are other products like this on the market, and it's done by wiring the bottle to the tree / plant in question and training the branch such that the fruit in question develops inside the bottle. Once grown and removed from the tree the spirit / liqueur etc is then added.

 

[Boo]

Say What.
Forward I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?

A ton. (But not a tonne, obviously.)

 

[Boo]

Sportings Unknown
Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

I initially considered chess, but I think experts could probably estimate who was winning at any given point.
Then poker, as no-one knows who's won until the cards go down, but that's just for an individual hand, and people can see how a player is doing overall, so on reflection, it can only be...

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[AndyRM]

I initially considered chess, but I think experts could probably estimate who was winning at any given point.
Then poker, as no-one knows who's won until the cards go down, but that's just for an individual hand, and people can see how a player is doing overall, so on reflection, it can only be...

Pro/Celebrity Mud Wrestling

I reckon it's boxing.

 

[classic33]

I initially considered chess, but I think experts could probably estimate who was winning at any given point.
Then poker, as no-one knows who's won until the cards go down, but that's just for an individual hand, and people can see how a player is doing overall, so on reflection, it can only be...

Pro/Celebrity Mud Wrestling

No.