Riddles

Question 1

What has to be broken before you can use it?

Answer 1

An egg

Question 2

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Answer 2

A candle

Question 3

What month of the year has 28 days?

Answer 3

All of them

Question 4

What is full of holes but still holds water?

Answer 4

A sponge

Question 5

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

Answer 5

The future

Question 6

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

Answer 6

A promise

Question 7

What goes up but never comes down?

Answer 7

Your age

Question 8

What gets wet while drying?

Answer 8

A towel

Question 9

What can you keep after giving to someone?

Answer 9

Your word

Question 10

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Answer 10

All the people on the boat are married.

Question 11

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Answer 11

The match

Question 12

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

Answer 12

He was born on February 29.

Question 13

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

Answer 13

A bank

Question 14

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

Answer 14

An echo

Question 15

I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

Answer 15

Your shadow

Question 16

What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?

Answer 16

A piano

Question 17

What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?

Answer 17

Your right elbow

Question 18

What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?

Answer 18

A chalkboard

Question 19

What gets bigger when more is taken away?

Answer 19

A hole

Question 20

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

Answer 20

Your breath

Question 21

Where does today come before yesterday?

Answer 21

The dictionary

Question 22

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

Answer 22

A secret

Question 23

What goes up and down but doesn’t move?

Answer 23

A staircase

Question 24

It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

Answer 24

Your name

Question 25

What has one eye, but can’t see?

Answer 25

A needle

Question 26

What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?

Answer 26

A Christmas tree

Question 27

What has hands, but can’t clap?

Answer 27

A clock

Question 28

What has legs, but doesn’t walk?

Answer 28

A table

Question 29

What has one head, one foot and four legs?

Answer 29

A bed

Question 30

What can you catch, but not throw?

Answer 30

A cold

Question 31

What kind of band never plays music?

Answer 31

A rubber band

Question 32

What has many teeth, but can’t bite?

Answer 32

A comb

Question 33

What has words, but never speaks?

Answer 33

A book

Question 34

What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

Answer 34

A stamp

Question 35

What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?

Answer 35

A glove

Question 36

What has a head and a tail but no body?

Answer 36

A coin

Question 37

Where does one wall meet the other wall?

Answer 37

On the corner

Question 38

What building has the most stories?

Answer 38

The library

Question 39

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Answer 39

Seven

Question 40

Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

Answer 40

Neither—they both weigh a ton.