Riddles
What question can you never answer "yes" to?
"Are you asleep?"
What goes up and down stairs without moving?
A carpet
What can you catch but not throw?
A cold
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
A match
I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?
A mirror
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
A mushroom
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
A nose
You can't keep this until you have given it.
A promise
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
A secret
I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
A sponge
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
A stamp
You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
A telephone
What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from the library.
A telephone book
What do you serve that you can't eat?
A tennis ball
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?
An anchor
What has to be broken before it can be used?
An egg
Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
An onion
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.
Breath
Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
Corn
The more there is, the less you see.
Darkness
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
Fire
The more you take the more you leave behind.
Footsteps
What do you fill with empty hands?
Gloves
A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
Holes
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white?" or "The yolk of the egg is white?"
Neither, the yolks are yellow.
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
None. Roosters don't lay eggs.
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
River
Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
She lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Silence
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
Stars
What can go up and come down without moving?
The temperature
Why don't lobsters share?
They're shellfish.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Towel
What goes up and never comes down?
Your age
