\Co*nun"drum\, 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.