ESTONIAN DROODLES
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Question: How can a monkey reach bananas? A river is in between and it is afraid of water.
Answer: It starts to throw stones, bananas fall on this side of the river.
Archive reference: RKM II 367, 210 (5)
Location: MMg > TMr, Uhmardu k
Date: 1983
Subject: key
Question: How can a boy get bananas?
Answer: The boy starts to throw stones at the monkey. The monkey doesn’t have anything to throw and starts to throw bananas.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 6
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: monkey
Question: Here is a banana tree and a monkey, on the other side of a river there is a man. How can the man reach bananas?
Answer: He throws stones at the monkey, the monkey gets angry and throws bananas at the man.
Archive reference: RKM II 463, 536 (16)
Location: VNg < Rak
Date: 1994
Subject: monkey
Question: A man and a woman want bananas. How can they get bananas, if a monkey doesn’t give?
Answer: The man and the woman throw stones at the monkey, and the monkey throws bananas
Archive reference: RKM I 26, 5 (5)
Location: Plt Põltsaaa Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1991
Subject: monkey
Question: What is in the picture?
Answer: They start to throw stones at the monkeys, but the monkeys throw bananas at them and so they get the bananas.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 556/7 (5)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: On one shore there is a man and he is very hungry, but on his side of the shore there are only stones. He cannot swim to the other shore, or take a boat, because there are no transport facilities. On the other shore there is a monkey, who crams bananas into its mouth. How can the man get eaten?
Answer: The man throws a stone on the monkey-side of shore and since the monkey always mimics everything, then it throws bananas at the man
Archive reference: RKM, KP 2, 633/4 (8)
Location: Nrv Narva EEsti Kk, 12. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: Two islands, on one island there is a monkey on a palm-tree and eating bananas. On the other stony island there is a man, who wants to eat a banana, but can’t swim. The man doesn’t have anything to get across the sea. How could the man get bananas?
Answer: He starts to throw stones and the monkey throws bananas on its turn. This way the man gets the bananas.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 290 (6)
Location: Tln Haapsalu San Internaatk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a man get apples from a monkey?
Answer: The man starts to throw stones, but the monkey doesn’t have stones and it starts to throw apples
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 48 (1)
Location: Hps Haapsalu San Internaatk
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How could a man get bananas from a monkey?
Answer: The man throws stones at the monkey, and the monkey throws back bananas. This way the man gets the bananas.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 421 (9)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a man reach bananas?
Answer: The man starts to throw stones at the monkey and the monkey starts to throw back bananas.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 36/7 (5)
Location: Vai, Narva Jõesuu Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a man get bananas?
Answer: The man starts to throw stones at the monkey and the monkey [throws] back bananas.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 187/8 (5)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: A man is sitting on an apple tree and wants to get out of the garden. In front of one gate there is a dog named Ouch and in front of the other one there are two guards. How can he get out?
Answer: He throws an apple at one guard. This says, “Ouch!” The dog Ouch runs to them and the man gets out of the gate.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 11, 426/7 (16)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a man reach bananas, if the train is running all the time?
Answer: The man starts to throw stones at the monkey, and the monkey bananas at the man
Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 33 (7)
Location: Elv Nõo Reaalgümn, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: On one side of the garden there is a witch, who has a big pear tree in the garden. On the other side there is a monkey. Between them there is a small creek. The monkey wants to get pears from the witch, but how can it?
Answer: He throws a stone at the witch, the witch gets angry, throws a pear back, etc.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 325 (11)
Location: Se, Meremäe, Uusvada k Meremäe Kk, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can people get a banana, if the train is running without stops?
Answer: The men throw stones, the monkey throws bananas back.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 2, 299 (86)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: A boy wants an orange, but a guard is on the way, how can the boy get the orange?
Answer: The boy starts to throw stones at the guard, the guard throws back oranges.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 619 (14)
Location: Sa Nõo Reaalgümn, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: A boy wants to get a banana, although a sea is in between. How can he get the banana?
Answer: He throws a stone at the monkey and the monkey throws a banana at him.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 28, 37 (4:4)
Location: Urv Antsla Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: Here is a coco palm here is a river here is a man. And one monkey is. A man wants to get these nuts from there. How can he reach the nuts? He can’t go into the river there are crocodiles there.
Answer: The man throws a stone at the monkey, the monkey throws back a nut.
Archive reference: RKM II 347, 220 (22)
Location: Räp
Date: 1980
Subject: monkey
Question: How could Juku get these bananas to himself that he sees from the island?
Answer: He starts to throw stones at that monkey there, the monkey throws bananas at him.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 28, 4 (25)
Location: Urv Antsla Kk
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a man get a banana?
Answer: The man starts to throw stones, the monkey in turn bananas
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 355/6 (5)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: A boy is under the banana tree and wants to get a banana. A monkey is sitting on a tree. How can the boy get the bananas?
Answer: He starts to throw stones at the monkey, the monkey throws in turn bananas at him.
Archive reference: RKM II 413, 53 (6)
Location: Puh
Date: 1988
Subject: monkey
Question: A gammer got ill. In a big garden there grew a magic banana that would cure the gammer. Around the garden there are a fence and angry dogs. How can a gaffer reach the banana?
Answer: The gaffer picks up a stone from the ground and throws it at the monkey, who sits on the tree. The monkey is so stubborn that throws a banana at the gaffer.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 9, 310 (1)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey
Question: A man wants a banana, but he can’t reach it. How should the man act to get the banana?
Answer: The man has to throw a stone at the monkey, then the monkey throws in turn a banana.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 93 (6)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: monkey
Question: It is the apple season in the garden on an apple tree a monkey is sitting. Outside the garden there is a militiaman (i.e. a Russian policeman), who badly wants an apple. How can he?
Answer: The militiaman throws a stone at the monkey, the monkey gets angry and throws an apple at the militiaman.
Archive reference: RKM II 369, 147/8 (11)
Location: MMg, Kudina v, Pataste k
Date: 1983
Subject: monkey
Question: How can children reach apples? Here is a house, a kennel. Very sweet apples. This is a river. The children are on the other side of the river and can’t get across the river. In the house there lives a witch and she has an angry dog. How can the children reach the apples?
Answer: Children come, see that an apple tree, can’t get over the river. They want to get those apples from there. They start to throw stones at the kennel. The witch comes out, she doesn’t have stones – throws apples. So the children get the apples this way.
Archive reference: RKM II 367, 125/6 (4/5)
Location: MMg, Kudina v, Vaidavere k
Date: 1983
Subject: monkey
Question: Here is a king’s castle here are apple trees. Here is the house of an old man here are stones. In between there is a steep river. How can the old man get apples from the king’s garden?
Answer: He throws a stone, the king gets angry and throws in turn an apple.
Archive reference: RKM II 359, 320 (8)
Location: Trt
Date: 1980
Subject: monkey
Question: A poor man really wanted to get golden apples, but a border was in between. How could he get the apples?
Answer: He started to throw stones. That rich person, who didn’t have anything to throw, threw apples at the peasant.
Archive reference: RKM II 324, 27 (53)
Location: Trt
Date: 1976
Subject: monkey
Question: A gammer was seriously ill only a witch’s pear could help her, but a gaffer couldn’t get it by any means, because he only had an apple tree. How could the gaffer get this pear, because he couldn’t swim?
Answer: The gaffer started to throw apples at the witch and the witch started to throw pears at the gaffer and so the gaffer got the pear.
Archive reference: RKM I 21, 234 (1)
Location: Trt Tartu 5. Kk
Date: 1988-9
Subject: monkey
Question: How can a boy reach golden apples?
Answer: The boy starts to throw stones at the witch, the witch doesn’t have anything to throw back, she starts to throw golden apples.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 43
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: monkey
Question:
Answer: On one side of the fence there is Little Red Ridinghood, on the other side there is a witch. Little Red Ridinghood hits the head of the witch with a stone, the witch in turn with apples, this way Little Red Ridinghood got the magic apple.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 99 (3)
Location: Hps Haapsalu San Internaatk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: monkey