What is black and yellow and goes zzub, zzub?
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a busy bee
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a flying bee
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a singing bee
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a bee flying backwards
Reveal answer
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Correct answer
Explanation
This is a classic riddle playing on word reversal. A bee normally makes the sound 'buzz' when flying forward. When flying backward, the sound 'buzz' reversed becomes 'zzub'. The visual description 'black and yellow' confirms it's about a bee.
AI explanation
This is a classic riddle. A bee normally buzzes "buzz, buzz" — reversing the letters gives "zzub, zzub." So the answer plays on the idea of a bee flying backwards, which would (nonsensically) make its buzz sound backwards too. The other options ("a busy bee," "a flying bee," "a singing bee") don't explain the reversed "zzub" sound, which is the whole joke of the riddle.