[b]RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT[/b]: This set of riddles have been solved. Try the more recent set (https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/143418785/0/0).
[b]RULES[/b]: Say the # followed by the answer. As soon as you get the correct answer, your name will be announced, and no, you're not allowed to use Google. [b]CANCELLATIONS[/b]: (1) If you suddenly shoot a statement without a number, your statement will be ignored. (2) If you suddenly state the answer for more than one riddle, the latter part of your statement will be ignored. (3) If you answer another riddle in a subthread of replies, your statement will be ignored. [b]NOTE[/b]: These are literally riddles, not jokes or statements full of puns. [b]THEME[/b]: Places and Events.
#1.
Where could it be? The sand is very immense, and the heat is extremely intense. Here, in this dilapidated land, nothing can grow, but it itself grows. Nothing can stop it's persistent onslaught. A slow death to a large land, but the land itself is ever larger still.[spoiler]The answer is The Sahara Desert. Discovered answer by [i]googankill[/i]. [/spoiler]#2.
How? Why? When? Did these objects of great mass form from unintelligible hands? Why would such a shape come into being, or why would it's neighbor have a broken face? That cat and/or man?[spoiler]Answer is [i]The Great Pyramids of Giza[/i]. Discovered answer by [i]ShadowFlame742[/i].[/spoiler]#3.
She stands with some sense of pride, as if it was deserving it. She cuddles the gifts she receives without teaching those gifts to maintain their humility. She stands in order to remind, to help, and to remember. ...at least, that's what the French implied.[spoiler]The answer is Statue of Liberty. The answer was discovered by [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i].[/spoiler]#4.
No one thought it would have a sequel, but it did, and when it started, it spread like wild fire over the European plains. The first country it invaded was it's own, the second was it's neighbor, and the third was it's "friend." It disarmed it's people, and then it's people's neighbors. 'Til d'day it introduced liberation from far neighbors.[spoiler]The answer is [i]WWI[/i]. The answer was discovered by [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i].[/spoiler]#5.
Suddenly, an angel forced one foot into the earth and one foot into the sea, rolling the sky as if it was a scroll. The earth burned, but the sky darkened. The creatures went blind, and then they died. No blood was spilled; it was only and purposefully poured.[spoiler]The answer is Hiroshima. The answer was discovered by [i]CrunchyWolf[/i].[/spoiler][b]WINNERS[/b]:
#1. [i]googankill[/i]
#2. [i]ShadowFlame742[/i]
#3. [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i]
#4. [i]DeAdKiTtEnPiE[/i]
#5. [i]CrunchyWolf[/i]
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You can try the new set at https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/143418785/0/0.
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Edited by ClusiveC: 7/30/2015 2:06:56 AMDidn't do number 1 because I clicked spoiler alert and saw answer. #2 Space. The shape it's referring to is earth, and it's broken-faced neighbor is the moon - the moon which we only see one side of, which is a broken-faced, crater-scarred side. #3 Country/State/Nation-state. Every country stands on pride of it's flag and what it 'symbolizes', although we know that no country has any right to feel self-pride, because those countries are only the actions of the people who live within them. The 'gifts' are obviously taxes paid by citizens. The country itself is a reminder to all who lives within it of it's history, and welfare systems represent the 'help' part. #4 Is obviously World War two or WW1. I see no need to explain this. This shouldn't even be considered a riddle, imo. #5 Represents the grim reaper.The grim reaper is the angel of death. 'One foot into the earth' represents grim coming to claim the life of someone, while 'one foot into the sea' represents the connection grim has to the afterlife. One foot in the earth, and one in the sea. Grim is directly linked to both. 'Rolling the sky' is simply a slick way of saying that your vision fades and darkens to black as you die. Nothing special here. 'The creatures went blind, and they died' - well, of course. This is the grim reaper we're talking about here. These creatures are simply people, who die. The blood part at the end represents a person's soul. The soul isn't spilled because that implies that souls aren't accountable for their actions, and end up wherever they may. This isn't true in grim's case, because he 'purposefully pours' these souls into the containers that they will rest at for eternity - the realms that these afterlife souls inhabit. Easy. EDIT: I was wrong as hell on pretty much all of these.
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Edited by Zesta: 7/30/2015 2:04:52 AMIs #5 Mt. St. Helens or Krakatoa? The eruptions, that is.
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Use brains tag? Lol no
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Last guess. #5 is the atomic bombing of Japan.
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These riddles were made easiest to hardest, and every answer is, or at least it should be, in every person's history or geography textbook.
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Is #5 the ice age?
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Is #5 related to a volcanic event?
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5 the red sea
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#5 Some type of earthquake/tsunami event? Like the one that happened at Japan.
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#5 The exctinctuon of the dinosaurs? And if not, in the hopes you accept vague answers, an extinction event.
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Number five sounds similar to Revelations.
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#5 Mount Vesuvious Volcano explosion on Pompeii?
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No body can figure out number five? [b]HINT[/b]: It's only an event.
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#4 world war 1
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Edited by Calus Missing Normal Pills: 7/29/2015 8:08:07 PM#3 Statue of Liberty #4 World War 1
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#4 ww2
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#3. jeanne d'arc
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Edited by breen: 7/29/2015 8:03:00 PM[Deleted by OP]
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#1 the sahara
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Edited by ShadowFlame742: 7/29/2015 7:43:32 PM#2 the pyramids of Giza and sphinx #4 World War II