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Also see [[Riddle Me This]], [[These Questions Three]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Literature ==
* Subverted in [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] during The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy and the gang meet the Sphinx who, like everything else in Greek mythology in this series, gets modernized. She now uses an SAT style automatic grader and asks random trivia questions. Annabeth, who was taking the quiz expecting to hear the original questions, takes this as an insult to her intelligence and refuses to take the quiz. [[What an Idiot!|Guess who has to fight a Sphinx.]]
* Spoofed in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|Pyramids]]''. Pteppic encounters a Sphinx who asks him this riddle. He's unable to answer, but protests that the metaphor is overly simplistic, forcing it to give a more accurate version covering all possibilities. Pteppic answers this and walks off before the Sphinx remembers that it had already told him the answer.
* Parodied by John Sladek, in a story parodying ''[[Cordwainer Smith]]''. "The answer is a coffee table. I fixed four legs to it in the morning but two legs fell off in the afternoon, and by the evening I'd only gotten around to replacing one of them."
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* Averted in the ''[[Riddle of the Sphinx]]'' video game, which has nothing to do with this old trope except the name.
* Shows up in the [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|Unexpected Text Adventure]] section of ''[[Nie R]]''.
* Played with in [[Monster Girl Quest]]. As part of a trial to be [[Engagement Challenge|eligible to marry]] a [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]], a Sphinx gives this question, and it is lampshaded by Luka how almost everyone knows the answer to this question and that it's anticlimactic. {{spoiler|The riddle's true purpose is to illustrate that any monster and human romance will be a [[Mayfly
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