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* The [[Riddle of the Sphinx]], a trope in its own right, is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. The first author to mention it is Apollodorus in the 2nd century CE.

* Riddles are an important part of Norse Mythology, and in particular Odin is a fan of [[Duel to the Death|riddle games to the DEATH]]. This is also the inspiration for the riddle battle in [[The Hobbit]] between Gollum and Biblo, down to the unanswerable question.

* From ''[[The Bible]]'', Judges 14:18; Before he notoriously killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, Samson made a bet with them, giving them a riddle. If they solved it in 30 days, he would give them 30 sheets and 30 articles of clothing, and if they could not, they’d give him the same goods. The riddle was, “Out of the eater comes something to eat, out of the strong comes something sweet.” Well, the Philistines couldn’t answer it, so they tortured his wife to get the answer, which was “a lion and honey”. (Technically this was a [[Rigged Riddle]], as only he and his wife knew the incident that inspired it; when he was wooing her, he killed a lion to impress her. They made love right there, and when they were done, he noticed bees from a nearby hive swarming on the lion's carcass, so he decided to take the honey from the hive as a gift to her parents.) This was pretty much how the bad blood between them started.

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