Riddles
Riddles
2. There is only one word spelled wrong in the dictionary. What is it? Answer: W-R-O-N-G.
7. What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot.
8. What goes up, but never comes back down? Answer: Your age.
9. What is brown, with a head and tails but no legs? Answer: A penny.
11. What belongs to you, but other people use more? Answer: Your name.
13. What is bright orange with a green top and sounds like a parrot? Answer: A carrot.
14. What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner.
15. You buy me to eat, but you never eat me. What am I? Answer: A fork.
16. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footprints.
17. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? Answer: A palm.
18. What has four legs but can’t walk? Answer: A table.
20. What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge.
21. What has an eye but can’t see anything? Answer: A needle.
22. What has a key, but can’t open a locked door? Answer: A monkey.
23. What do dogs have that no other animal has? Answer: Puppies.
24. What must be broken before you can use it? Answer: An egg.
25. I am full of keys but can’t open any doors. What am I? Answer: A piano.
26. What kind of coat can only be put on wet? Answer: A coat of paint.
27. The more you take away, the bigger it gets. What is it? Answer: A hole.
28. What follows you everywhere but can’t be caught? Answer: Your shadow.
29. What goes up and down but never moves? Answer: A flight of stairs.
30. I have no eyes, ears, or legs, but I can help you move the earth. What am I? Answer: An
earthworm.
31. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing? Answer: An elephant’s shadow.
32. When does Friday come before Thursday? Answer: In the dictionary.
33. If an electric train is going south, what direction is the smoke going? Answer: There is no smoke –
it’s an electric train.
34. Why do lions eat raw meat? Answer: Because they don’t know how to cook.
35. How can a pantspocket be empty but still have something in it? Answer: If it has a hole in it.
36. Why are teddy bears never hungry? Answer: Because they are already stuffed.
37. Why is the Mississippi such an unusual river? Answer: It has four “i’s” and can’t even see.
39. Why isn’t your nose 12 inches long? Answer: Because then it would be afoot.
40. What kind of cup can’t hold anything to drink? Answer: A cupcake.
41. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves? Answer: A road.
43. What has a lot of teeth but can’t chew a thing? Answer: A comb.
44. What is the best place to grow a garden in school? Answer: In kindergarten.
45. Why did the boy bury his flashlight? Answer: Because the batteries died.
46. What building in a town has the most stories? Answer: The library.
47. What falls in winter but never gets hurt? Answer: The snow.
48. What kind of shower doesn’t need water? Answer: A baby shower.
49. What has ears but cannot hear? Answer: A field of corn.
50. A girl fell off a 25-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How? Answer: She fell off the bottom rung.
51. I have no legs so I never walk, but I always run. What am I? Answer: A river.
52. I am as light as a feather but even the strongest man can’t hold me for more than a minute. What
am I? Answer: Breath.
53. I am not alive, but I can still die. What am I? Answer: A battery.
54. I will always come but never arrive today. What am I? Answer: Tomorrow.
55. What can you easily break without touching it? Answer: A promise.
56. What is the hardest part about skydiving? Answer: The ground.
57. A king, a queen, and two twins are in a room. How are there no adults? Answer: They are beds.
58. Every time you stand up you lose it. What is it? Answer: Your lap.
59. I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot. What am I? Answer: Carpet.
60. What kind of flower does everyone wear on their face? Answer: Tulips.
61. What can travel the world while staying in the corner? Answer: A stamp.
62. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A candle.
63. If everything in a one-story house is yellow, what color are the stairs? Answer: There are no stairs
in a one-story house.
64. I shave every day but my beard stays the same. How? Answer: I’m the barber.
65. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to? Answer: An echo.
66. The more of me there is the less you can see. What am I? Answer: The dark.
67. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty? Answer: A chalkboard.
68. What has a lot of eyes but can’t see? Answer: A potato.
69. What has a lot of needles but can’t sew? Answer: A Christmas tree.
70. What has one head, one foot, and four legs? Answer: A bed.
71. What kind of band can’t play music? Answer: A rubber band.
72. What has a lot of words but never speaks? Answer: A book.
73. What runs around your backyard but never moves? Answer: The fence.
74. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t a hand? Answer: A glove.
75. What always tastes better than it smells? Answer: Your tongue.
76. What has four wheels and flies? Answer: A trash truck.
77. You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I? Answer: the letter
E.
78. A dog crossed a river without a bridge or a boat but didn’t get wet. How? Answer: The river was
frozen.
79. What has lakes with no water, mountains with no stones, and cities with no buildings? Answer: A
map.
81. I can travel up to 100 miles an hour but never leave the room. What am I? Answer: A sneeze.
82. I am always running but I never get tired. What am I? Answer: The refrigerator.
83. I have seven rings that you can’t wear on your fingers. What am I? Answer: Saturn.
84. I can be 100 yards long but you can hold me in your hand. What am I? Answer: A ball of yarn.
85. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? Answer: Trouble.
86. What can be full without eating a thing? Answer: The moon.
87. What can you taste every day but never eat? Answer: Toothpaste.
88. A boy throws a ball as far as he can and it comes back to him without anyone touching it.
How? Answer: He throws the ball straight up.
89. What five-letter gets shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: Short.
90. If a rooster is sitting on top of a barn and lays an egg, which way will it roll off? Answer: Roosters
don’t lay eggs!
91. Which weighs more: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? Answer: They both weigh a
pound.
92. I am an odd number, but if you take away a letter I am even. What number am I? Answer: Seven.
94. What word has 26 letters but only three syllables? Answer: Alphabet.
95. Grandpa went for a walk in the rain with no umbrella but his hair didn’t get wet. How is that
possible? Answer: Grandpa is bald.
96. I am always in front of you and never behind you. What am I? Answer: The future.
97. What starts with P, ends with E, and has over a thousand letters in it? Answer: The post office.
98. What do you find at the end of the rainbow? Answer: The letter W.
100. I can run even though I have no legs. What am I? Answer: Your nose.