We love movies, and we love working out our minds, so it's always a pleasure when we can appreciate two of our passions at the same time. How many of these movie riddles can you solve?

Let's get started with the first...

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug has this wonderful riddle in it:

"Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still."

Can you guess what those horses are?

All answers are provided at the very end of this list!!!

A man’s driving down the road with his son and they get in an accident. Two ambulances come and take the man and his son to different hospitals. The son goes into the operating room, the doctor looks at him and says, “I can’t operate on this boy. He’s my son.” How’s that possible?

What is the anagram for Johnny Alucard's last name?

"From Santi’s earthly tomb with demons hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest."

"Don't be fooled, it isn't thunder. Staying put would be a blunder."

"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

"The legend writ, the stain affected. The key in Silence undetected. Fifty-five in iron pen, Mr. Matlock can’t offend."

"Tear one off and scratch my head. What once was red is black instead."

"O, Draconian Devil! Oh, lame Saint!" is an anagram of what?

"What weighs more: All the trains that pass through Grand Central Station in a day, or all the trees cut down in a year to print US currency?"

"What’s round, but not always around? It’s light sometimes; it’s dark sometimes. Everyone wants to walk all over me. What am I?"

"Speak friend and enter."

"A shepherd has to cross a river with a sheep, a wolf and a cabbage. Only two can go on the boat. For example, the shepherd and the sheep. How can they cross the river without the wolf eating the sheep and/or the sheep eating the cabbage?"

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat has seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?"

"There are two doors. One leads to the castle, the other to certain death. You may ask one question, to one guard, to help you decide which door is the correct one. One guard always lies, and one always tells the truth. How do you choose?"

"In my mind’s eyes, I see three circles joined in priceless, graceful harmony.

Two full as the moon, one hollow as a crown.

Two from the sea, five fathoms down.

One from the earth, deep under the ground.

The whole, a mark of high renown.

Tell me, what can it be?"

"They fly at night, you'd better run. These winged things are not much fun."

"We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court."

"What has roots nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?"

"Need a hand, well you just wait. We'll lend a hand, we each have eight."

"If you look at the numbers on my face, you won’t find 13 any place."

"It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes out first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter."

The eight of us go forth not back, to protect our king from a foe’s attack.

"This thing all things devours,
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers,
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal,
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down."

1. Teeth

2. The doctor is the boy's mother

3. Alucard spelled backwards is "Dracula"

4. The Path to Illumination. The riddle tells Robert Langdon that he must follow the Path to Illumination, something every Illuminati member follows, in order to save the Catholic Church.

5. A stampede

6. Depends. African or European?

7. This refers to the Declaration Of Independence

8. A match

9. Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa

10. They weigh the same: nothing. U.S. currency isn't printed on paper from trees, and trains go through Grand Central Terminal, not Station.

11. The moon

12. Mellon. It's the Elven word for "friend."

13. Take the sheep over, come back alone, take the cabbage over, return with the sheep, take the wolf over, come back alone and take the sheep over.

14. There isn't an answer. The Mad Hatter is mad.

15. Just one. The narrator.

16. Ask either guard which door the other guard would say leads out. To stay alive, you must walk through the opposite door you’ve been told to use.

17. A ring. Specifically, the ring of the Lord of the Marsh, Calibos, which features two perfect pearls and a circle of gold.

18. Bats

19. Vowels ("a tennis court" features A-E-I-O and U)

20. A mountain

21. Spiders

22. A clock

23. Dark

24. Chess Pawns

25. Time

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