Riddles
What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?
0
What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
1, 2, and 3.
If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
120
2 men catch 2 fish in 2 minutes. At this rate, how many men could catch 500 fish in 500 minutes?
2 men
On a clock, how many times a day do the minute and hour hand overlap?
22
What number comes next in the following sequence? 2 4 8 10 20 _
22 the sequence is +2, x2
If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
2nd place.
If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
9
There are several books on a bookshelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?
9
A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?
A Catcher and Umpire.
What thing that God made sleeps with its head down?
A bat
What is brown or silver, has a head and tail but no arms or legs?
A coin
What runs around a field but never moves?
A fence
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
The more you take away the larger it becomes. What is it?
A hole
I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
A joke
I have lakes with no fish. I have roads with no cars.
A map
I can run but never walk. Wherever I go, thought are close behind me.
A nose
As your ideas grow, I shrink. What am I?
A pencil
Riddle: The more you work, the more I'll eat.You keep me full, I'll keep you neat. What am I?
A pencil sharpener
What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
A pillow
What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?
A river!
I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
A splinter
What's full of holes but can still hold water?
A sponge.
What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?
A teapot
I have two arms, but fingers I have none. I've got two feet, but I cannot run. I carry well, but I carry best with my feet off the ground. What am I?
A wheelbarrow
How many months have 28 days?
All of them
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg.
Use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols + and = to make a true equation. Note: Each must be used exactly once and no other numbers or symbols can be used.
Answer: 3 squared =4+5
Would you rather enter a pool with a man eating shark, or a pool with ten electric eels?
Answer: If you do not wish to die, join the man in his feast. Notice the man is eating the shark, since there are no commas to make it "a man, eating shark" and there isn't a dash to make it "a man-eating shark".
Riddle: A semi truck weighing exactly 10,000 pounds gets onto a bridge that is 100 miles long. The bridge's weight limit is exactly 10,000 pounds, any more will break the bridge. After going about 80 miles down the bridge a small bird lands on the truck. What happens?
Answer: Nothing, after traveling 80 miles the truck will have surely burnt enough fuel to allow the bird to land on the truck without breaking the bridge.
Riddle: Why would a hair stylist rather cut the hair of two brunettes than one red head?
Answer: They would get paid more for two haircuts than one.
What jumps higher than a building?
Anything that can jump, buildings don't jump.
Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Because 7 8 9!
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
Breath
What is black when you buy it, red wh en you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Charcoal
The more there is, the less you see.
Darkness
How can a man go eight days without sleep?
Easily, he sleeps at night
In what year did Christmas and New Year's fall on the same year?
Every year
The more you take the more you leave behind.
Footsteps
If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?
Glass
A man is twenty years old but has only had five birthdays. How is that possible?
He was born on Febuary 29th on leap year
You are my brother, but I am not your brother. Who am I?
I am your sister
Mary's mom has four children. The first child is called April. The second May. The third June. What is the name of the fourth child?
Mary
What has 4 eyes but can't see?
Mississippi
A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
None of them, because you can't get a banana from a coconut tree!
Riddle: A tomato vine is 3 meters long. The bottom foot of the vine doesn't grow any tomatoes but the rest of the vine grows a tomato every 5 inches. How many vegetables can grow off of the vine?
None tomatoes are fruits
Riddle: How high would you have to count before you use the letter 'A' in the spelling of a number?
One thousand
On my way to Tulsa I saw a man and his wife. His wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wife and man. How many were going to Tulsa?
Only me.
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Pencil lead
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
What starts with a 'P', ends with an 'E' and has thousands of letters?
The Post Office!
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?
The doctor is his mom!
What is next in this sequence: JFMAMJJASON_ ?
The letter D. The sequence contains the first letter of each month.
I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
The letter S
What is the center of Gravity?
The letter V
A boy at a carnival went to a booth ran by a man who said "If I can write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
There are 3 stoves. A glass stove, a brick stove , and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which do you light up first?
The match
What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
The read the same right side up and upside down.
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything?
Throw the ball straight up in the air.
What is the most common use of cowhides?
To keep cows warm.
Can you name the two days starting with T besides Tuesday and Thursday?
Today and tomorrow
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Wholesome
Can you rearrange the letters in new door to make one word?
Yes
What is something you will never see again?
Yesterday
You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Which animal in the room is the smartest?
You
In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
You can not take a picture of a man with a wooden leg, you need a camera to take a picture.
What is the last thing you take off before bed?
Your feet off the floor.
What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?
Your mother
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name
What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
Your word
