Riddles2


      

 


What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour.  

 
 
 

Answer: The letter M  
 
It goes up and down the stairs without moving.  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Carpet  
 
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.  
 
 
 
 
 

Answer: Fire  
 
Twelve white ponies,  
On a red hill,  
Always moving,  
but standing still.  
What are we?  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Teeth  
 
What's the beginning of eternity,  
the end of time and space,  
the beginning of the end,  
and the end of every place?   
 
 
 
 

Answer: E 
 
What five letter English word does not change its pronunciation when four letters are taken away?  
 
 
 

Answer: Queue  
 
What can you catch but not throw?  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A cold  
 
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A nose
 
Take one out and scratch my head  
I am now black but once was read  
 
 
 

Answer: A match  
 
What is black and white and is red all over?  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A newspaper 
 
He has a look of awful scorn,  
And wears his clothes a funny way,  
Waving his hands over fields of corn,  
He keeps the birds away!  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Scarecrow  
 
I'm in a rock, not in a stone  
I'm in marrow, not in bone  
I'm in a bolster, not in a bed  
I'm not living , i'm not dead  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: "R"  
 
Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Corn  
 
I have a 100 legs but cannot stand.  
A long neck but no head.  
And I eat the maids life.  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Broom  
 
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A stamp  
 
What gets wetter the more it dries?  
 
 
 

Answer: Towel  
 
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.  

 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Coffin   
 
 
 
The more there is the less you see.  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Darkness  
 
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.  
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: Stars  
 
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?  
 
 
 

Answer: Ton  
 
There was a green round house. Inside the green round house was a smaller white house. In the white house was a red house. And living in the red house were lots of little black babies.   
 
 
 

Answer: A Watermelon  
 
What kind of room has no windows or doors?  
 
 
 

Answer:  A mushroom  
 
They are Dark, 
and always on the run. 
without the sun,  
would be none. 
 
 
 

Answer: Shadow 
 
What common English verb becomes its own past tence by rearranging its letters? 
 
 
 

Answer: Eat or Ate
 

What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood?
 
 
 

Answer: A clock
 

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?
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A Sponge
 
 
 
I look at you, you look at me
I raise my right,you raise your left
What is this object?
 
 
 
 
 
Answer: A Mirror