Conundrum

n. [Origin unknown.]
1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

“Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.”  

2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
“Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that?
W. Black.”

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