Fountain of Riddles

The Fountain of Riddles is a living fountain that can answer any question. He was featured in the 1990 special Basil Hears a Noise.

When Basil (as a shephard) asked the creatures of the forest what they were going to do about the mystery person who was playing tricks on them, King Elmo thought of the Fountain of Riddles and believed that it might have the answer. The creatures turned to the shephard bear and disguised him as a minstrel (much to his chagrin) and sent him and his lambies into the forest to find the Fountain of Riddles.

After meeting Sir Louis and getting separated from him, Basil and his lambies were sent scared running after encountering a poison eel that a dragon warned them about earlier until they came across a goblin reading a book on a rocky fountain which was spitting out water into a pond. Basil asked the goblin if he knew anything about the Fountain of Riddles, but the goblin said there was no such thing. All of a sudden Sir Louis came and chased the goblin away (thinking he was bothering Basil and the lambies). When the goblin left, the fountain he was sitting on came to life and our heroes realized that it was the Fountain of Riddles when he told a joke.

They asked the Fountain of Riddles who was playing tricks on the creatures of the forest and the Fountain told them in a riddle: ''"What wears a black pointy hat, a black dress, rides a broomstick, and is usually in a very bad mood?". ''Although the answer was easy which even the Fountain stated, they had a hard time figuring it out, so the Fountain of Riddles gave them another hint: "It starts with W and rhymes with ditch". Basil finally figured out that the answer is a witch. Basil and Sir Louis celebrated briefly, but upon realizing that there is a witch in the forest they scarcely ran for their lives, leaving the Fountain of Riddles to be at piece.