Riddles
Q: I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
A: A Candle
Q: If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?
A: A Secret.
Q: This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
A: A Waterfall
Q: I get whiter the dirtier I get. What am I?
A: A chalkboard.
Q:If I drink, I die. If i eat, I am fine. What am I?
A: A fire!
Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A: A stamp!
Q:What goes up when rain comes down?
A: An umbrella!
Q: I am as light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long. What am I?
A: Breath
Q:Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
A: Corn on the cob, because you throw away the husk, cook and eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.
Q: A blue house is made of blue bricks. A yellow house is made of yellow bricks. A red house is made of red bricks. An orange house is made of orange bricks. What would a green house be made of?
A: Glass.
Q: I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?
A: Go.
Q: Mary's father has 5 daughters - Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It's Mary!
Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
A: It can have a hole in it.
Q: What has 4 eyes but can't see?
A: Mississippi
Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
A: Nothing
Q:What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short
Q:What is the longest word in the dictionary?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile between each 's'
Q: A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man's son was in the operating room and the doctor said, "I can't operate on you. You're my son." How is that possible?
A: The doctor is his mom!
Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
A: The letter M
Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower- everything was pink!What color were the stairs?
A: There weren't any stairs, it was a one story house!
Q: What goes up and never comes down?
A: Your Age
Q: What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?
A: Your Name
Q: The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
A: a coffin
Q:What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A: a river
Q: I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
A: a sponge
Q:Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
A: a tissue
Q: How many letters are in the alphabet?
A:There are 11 letters in "THE ALPHABET."
Q:There are 2 fathers and 2 sons going on a fishing trip. Every person catches one fish. In total, there were only 3 fish. How is that so?
A:They were a grandpa, his son, and his grandson.
Q:Skinny I am fast,fat I am slow,but I'll still delight you from your eyes to your nose what am i
A:a candle
Q:You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
A:a onion
Q:What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
A:a rug
Q: I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
A:a shadow
Q: I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
A:a shoe
Q:No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
A:silence
Q:What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
A:stamps