The Riddle

The Riddle may refer to:

Music

  • The Riddle Song, English lullaby
  • The Riddle, a 1959 jazz album by Dave Brubeck
  • The Riddle (album), a 1984 rock album by Nik Kershaw
  • "The Riddle (Nik Kershaw song)", a song by Nik Kershaw in 1984, also covered by Gigi D'Agostino, and by Jack Holiday & Mike Candys
  • "The Riddle (You and I)", a 2006 rock song, released as a single and on the album Two Lights, by Five for Fighting
  • "The Riddle", a song from the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical)
  • "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)", a 2000 song by Paul van Dyk in collaboration with Saint Etienne
  • "The Riddle, (Passion and Warfare)", a song by Steve Vai released in 1990.
  • Literature

  • The Riddle (novel), a 2004 fantasy book of the Pellinor series by Alison Croggon
  • The Riddle (fairy tale), one of Grimm's Fairy Tales
  • "The Riddle", by Walter de la Mare; see wikisource:The Riddle (Mare)

  • Film

  • The Riddle (film) a film starring Derek Jacobi
  • Locations

  • The Riddle, Herefordshire, a settlement in England, United Kingdom
  • The Riddle (fairy tale)

    "The Riddle" (German: Das Rätsel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 22. It is Aarne-Thompson type 851, winning the princess with a riddle.Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book. It is sometimes known as A Riddling Tale and is about a man whose wife is transformed into a flower. This is mainly used in children's adaptions of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

    Synopsis

    There once was a prince who decided to go on a journey with his servant. In a dark forest, they came to a small house, where a maiden warned them that her stepmother was a witch who disliked strangers, but unfortunately there was nowhere else for shelter. The prince and his servant reluctantly entered the witch's house, but before they went to bed, the maiden warned the prince and his servant not to eat or drink anything the witch gave them because it might be poisonous. The next morning, the witch gave the prince's servant a poisonous drink, telling him to give it to his master, but the servant ended up spilling it on the prince's horse, killing it. When he told the prince what had happened and they came to the dead horse, a raven was already eating the corpse. Deciding they may not find better food that day, the servant killed the bird and took it with him. Next, they reached an inn and the servant gave the innkeeper the raven to make food of it. Unknown to the prince and his servant, the inn was really a robbers' den. The robbers returned, and, before killing the travellers, sat down to eat. Immediately after eating a few bites of the raven soup the innkeeper had prepared, the robbers fell down dead from the poison that the raven had in its body. The innkeeper's daughter then showed the prince and his servant the robbers' hidden treasure, but the prince insisted that the daughter keep it.

    The Riddle (album)

    The Riddle is the second solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was released in November 1984 on MCA Records. The album peaked at #8 on the UK Album Chart and was certified Platinum by the BPI.

    The album spawned three singles. The lead single was "The Riddle", which peaked at #3 in the UK and was a commercial hit across Europe. "Wide Boy" was the second single and peaked at #9 in the UK, whilst the third and final single release "Don Quixote" peaked at #10 in the UK.

    Cover artwork

    The album cover was shot on Chesil Beach in Dorset. On the back sleeve of the album, the Isle of Portland is seen in the background. Additionally, the single release of the title song "The Riddle" used the same image of Kershaw on the beach, whilst the back sleeve featured a photograph of Kershaw reading a map, standing at Portland Bill. The Trinity House Obelisk is highlighted in the photo.

    Critical reception

    Smash Hits gave the album a mostly positive review calling it "a commendable offering from the thinking man's Limahl". Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Scott Bultman wrote of the album "Kershaw's second album finally garnered some deserved attention. The rest is his unique style of well-crafted synth-pop."

    1 kilometre

    To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 1 kilometre and 10 kilometres (103 and 104metres).

    Conversions

    1 kilometre (unit symbol km) is equal to:

  • 1,000 metres
  • 0.621371 miles
  • 1,093.61 yards
  • 3,280.84 feet
  • 39,370.1 inches
  • 100,000 centimetres
  • 1,000,000 millimetres
  • Side of a square of area 1 km2.
  • Radius of a circle of area π km2.
  • Human-defined scales and structures

  • 1 km wavelength of the highest long wave radio frequency, 300 kHz
  • 1.280 km span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers)
  • 1.609 km 1 mile
  • 1.852 km 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arc minute of latitude at the surface of the earth
  • 1.991 km span of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
  • 2.309 km axial length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world
  • 3.991 km length of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the world as of December 2008
  • 5.072 km height of Tanggula Mountain Pass, below highest peak in the Tanggula Mountains, highest railway pass in the world as of August 2005
  • 1 centimetre

    To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10−2m and 10−1 m (1 cm and 10 cm).

  • 1 cm – 10 millimeters
  • 1 cm – 0.39 inches
  • 1 cm – edge of square of area 1 cm2
  • 1 cm – edge of cube of volume 1 ml
  • 1 cm – approximate width of average fingernail
  • 1.5 cm – length of a very large mosquito
  • 2 cm – approximate width of an adult Human finger
  • 2.54 cm – 1 inch
  • 3.1 cm – 1 attoparsec (10−18parsecs)
  • 3.5 cm – width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography
  • 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball
  • 7.3–7.5 cm – diameter of a baseball
  • 8.6 cm × 5.4 cm – dimensions of a standard credit card
  • See also

  • Orders of magnitude (length)
  • Centimetre
  • References

    10 zettametres

    To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists distances starting at 10 Zm (1022m or 1.1 million light years).

    Distances shorter than 10 Zm

  • 24 Zm — 2.5 million light years — Distance to the Andromeda Galaxy
  • 30.8568 Zm — 3.2616 million light years — 1 megaparsec
  • 40 Zm — 4.2 million light years — Distance to the IC 10, a distant member of the Local Group of galaxies
  • 49.2 Zm — 5.2 million light years — Width of the Local Group of galaxies
  • 57 Zm — 6 million light years — Diameter of the supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101
  • 95 Zm — 10 million light years — Distance to the Sculptor Galaxy in the Sculptor Group of galaxies
  • 95 Zm — 10 million light years — Distance to the Maffei 1, the nearest giant elliptical galaxy in the Maffei 1 Group
  • Distances longer than 100 Zm

    See also

  • List of nearest galaxies
  • Orders of magnitude (length)
  • References

  • Local Group
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