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One sheet, Two sheets, Three sheets, or Four, some use less, some use more. What am I? Answer: Toilet Paper.
Which is faster, hot or cold? Answer: Hot, you can easily catch cold.
When Tom was 10, his brother was half his age. Now, Tom is 18. How old is his brother? Answer: His brother is 13. Half of 10 is 5, so Tom’s brother will always be 5 years younger than Tom. This means when Tom is 18, his brother is still 5 years younger, which makes him 13.
Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: They weigh the same.
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
What is black, white and read all over? Answer: Newspaper.
Forwards I am heavy. Backwards I am not. What am I? Answer: Ton.
What is at the end of the rainbow? Answer: The letter W!
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first? Answer: The match.
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I? Answer: The letter ‘R’.
What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
What question can you never answer "es" to. Answer: Are you asleep or dead.
I am a king or queen, but also a common device to measure. What am I? Answer: Ruler.
A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who survived? Answer: All of the couples.
What has teeth but cannot eat? Answer: A Comb.
When I put on my clothes, it takes off its clothes. What is it?
Answer: Coat Hanger..
What kind of dog never bites? Answer: A hot dog.
What has a ring but no finger? Answer: Telephone
What room do ghosts avoid? Answer: The living room.
What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred years? Answer: The letter “M”
What wears a cap but has no head? Answer: A bottle.
What has arms, legs, and no head? Answer: Chair.
What is the capital in France? Answer: The letter F is the only capital letter in France.
What kind of cup doesn’t hold water? Answer: Cupcake or hiccup.
I have a face that doesn't frown, I have hands that do not wave, I have no mouth. I have a familiar sound and I do not walk, but I do move around. What am I? Answer: A clock.
What can't be burned in a fire? Answer: Ice.
Why is 6 afraid of seven? Answer: Seven (ate) nine.
What country is popular on Thanksgiving? Answer: Turkey.
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future.
What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge.
What begins with an E and has only one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
What begins with T, finishes with T, and has “T” in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Which table doesn't have table legs? Answer: Vegetable..
It is black, you say it's clean. It is white, but you say it's dirty. What is
it? Answer: Blackboard
What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel.
When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look? Answer: Because when you find it, you stop looking!
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How was that possible? Answer: Friday was the name of his horse.
You can hold me in your left hand but not your right. What am I?
Answer: Your right elbow. (or right hand)!
I go around all the places, cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I? Answer: A street.
You go at red and stop at green. What am I? Answer: A watermelon.
One night, a king and a queen went into a castle. There was nobody in the castle, and no one came out of the castle. In the morning, three people came out of the castle. Who were they? Answer: knight (night), the king, and the queen!
We are not flesh, feather, scales nor bone, yet we still have fingers
and thumbs of our own. What are we? Answer: Gloves.
What's never used until it's broken? Answer: An egg
What can you keep after giving to someone? Answer: Your word.
What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner.
What gets bigger the more you take away? Answer: A hole.
What goes up but never comes down? Answer: Your age.
Railroad crossing, watch out for cars. Can you spell that without any “r’s”? Answer: T-H-A-T.
Lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward. What is it? Answer: An icicle.
It starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows. What is it? Answer: A candle.
What is the smallest room? Answer: Mushroom.
I don't go out and play, I just stay home all day. I'm nice you might agree,
but mostly your feet just rub on me. What am I? Answer: Doormat.
What is the largest ant in the world? Answer: Elephant
There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?
Answer: The word “wrong.” It’s the only word that’s spelled W-R-O-N-G.
A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first? Answer: None of them—coconut trees don’t produce bananas!
I can be cracked. I can be made. I can be told. I can be played. What am I? Answer: A joke.
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to? Answer: An echo.
My words number quite many (like pen, pent, and penny) my title you will discover, is explained under my cover? What am I?
Answer: The dictionary.
Why did I throw the butter out of the window? Answer: I wanted to see the butterfly.
What has 88 keys, but cannot open a single door? Answer: A piano.
What has four wheels and flies? Answer: A garbage truck.
What kind of beans can you not grow on a farm? Answer: Jellybeans!
If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, then what relation is she to you? Answer: Your mother.
What has the head of a cat and the tail of a cat, but is not a cat?
Answer: A kitten!
Two people were playing chess. They both won. How is this possible?
Answer: They were playing two different games.
What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? Answer: NOON.
Where does today come before yesterday? Answer: In the dictionary.
What months have 28 days? Answer: All of them
Your friend says that she can throw a ball so that it flies away from her, changes direction suddenly, and then comes back to her. How is this possible? Answer: She throws the ball straight up in the air.
Billy’s pet rabbit eats 1 carrot on Sunday, 2 carrots on Monday, 4 carrots on Tuesday, and so on. How many carrots does he eat in a week? Answer: 127.
Two fathers and 2 sons spent the day fishing, but only caught 3 fish. This was enough for each of them to have one fish. How is this possible?
Answer: There were only 3 people fishing. There was one father, his son, and his son’s son. This means there were 2 fathers and 2 sons, since one of them is a father and a son.
What belongs to you but is used more by others? Answer: Your name.
How can a man go 8 days without sleep? Answer: He only sleeps at night.
What do you drop when needed, and take back when you don't?
Answer: An Anchor.
What can you swallow than can also swallow you? Answer: Water
What is filled 6 days a week, but if you don't own it, you can't take a peek?
Answer: Mailbox
What can jump higher than a building? Answer: Anything that can jump —buildings can’t jump!
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: “Short.”
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? Answer: A glove.
A man found an old coin and declared that the date on it was 150 B.C. This could not be true. Why? Answer: B.C. is counts backwards from the birth of Christ. If Christ hadn’t been born yet, there were no dates in B.C. yet!
Mississippi has four S’s and four I’s. Can you spell that without using S or I?
Answer: T-H-A-T!
There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. All the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs? Answer: No stairs—it’s a one-story house!
I’m full of keys but I can’t open any door. What am I? Answer: A piano.
I have married many times but have always been single. Who am I?
Answer: A priest.
I am higher without a head. What am I? Answer: A pillow.
I have 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach. What am I? Answer: A deck of cards.
What needs to be answered but never asks a question? Answer: The phone.
If I said tomorrow, “The day before yesterday was Saturday,” which day is it now? Answer: Sunday.
I called my dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge, a boat or a raft. How is that possible? Answer: The river was frozen.
What two words, added together, contain the most letters? Answer: Post office.
Which is heavier, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? Answer: The same – a pound is a pound!
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I? Answer: Breath.
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday? Answer: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Timmy’s mother had three children. The first was named April, the next was named May. What was the name of the third child? Answer: Timmy of course!
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet? Answer: A coat of paint.
Grandpa went out for a walk, and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible? Answer: Grandpa’s bald!
A man is holding exactly $5.25 but only has one coin. How is this possible?
Answer: He has a quarter and a $5 bill.
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it cannot see it or feel it. What is it? Answer:A coffin.
What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin.
What tastes better than it smells? Answer: Your tongue.
Two fathers and two sons are sitting at the table, yet there are only three people.
How is this possible? Answer:One grandfather, one father, and one son.
Name three consecutive days without naming any of the seven days of the week.
Answer: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years? Answer: The letter M.
What has three feet but cannot walk? Answer: A yardstick.
What runs, but never walks, often murmurs – never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? Answer: A river.
I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I? Answer: A feather. (A piece of paper or a leaf would certainly qualify too!)
I break but never fall. And I fall but never break. What are we? Answer: Day and night.
What gets sharper the more you use it? Answer: Your brain.
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it? Answer: A secret.
What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold.
They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they? Answer: Stars.
Bella is outside a shop. She can’t read the signs, but she knows she needs to go in to make a purchase. What store is she at? Answer: An eyeglass store.
Wednesday, Bill and Jim went to a restaurant. They ordered and ate their food. Then they paid the bill, but neither Bill nor Jim paid. Who did?
Answer: Wednesday did.
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? Answer: The “C.” (sea)
Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying? Answer: No one—the doctors are Robert’s sisters.
What kind of ship has two mates but no captain? Answer: A relationship.
What has a bottom at the top? Answer: Your legs.
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Answer: Wet.
What color is the wind? Answer: Blew.
I sometimes run but I cannot walk. What am I? Answer:Your nose
When I’m ripe, I’m green. When you eat me, I’m red. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon.
What can you break without touching it? Answer: A promise.
Where does today come before yesterday? Answer: In the dictionary.
I am an odd number. Take away a number and I become even. What number am I? Answer: Seven.
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you? Answer: You and your father are standing back-to-back.
What invention lets you look right through a wall? Answer: A window!
A horse attached to a 24-foot chain wants an apple that is 26 feet away. He reaches the apple and munches on it, no problem—how is that possible?
Answer: The other end of the chain isn’t attached to anything.
I have cities, but I don’t have houses. I have forests, but I don’t have trees. I have rivers, but I don’t have fish. What am I? Answer: A map.
What has a thousand needles but can’t sew? Answer: A porcupine.
If someone asks you this question, you can never answer “yes.” What is the question? Answer: “Are you asleep?”
You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?
Answer: You finished in 2nd place.
Zoey has a very big family. She has 20 aunts, 20 uncles and 50 cousins. Each of her cousins has an aunt who is not Zoey’s aunt. How is this possible?
Answer: Their aunt is Zoey’s mom!
Q: What is full of holes but can still hold water? A sponge.
Q: Two in front, two in behind, and one in the middle. How many are there? Three. ( 1 2 ) 3 1 (2 3) 1 (2) 3
Q: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? The word “wrong!”
Q: What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of? Trouble!
Q: The more you take away, the bigger this becomes. What is it? A hole!
Q: What word contains 26 letters, but only three syllables? Alphabet!
Q: A girl fell off a long staircase. She wasn’t hurt. Why? She fell off the bottom step.
Q: It follows you and copies your every move. But you can’t touch it or catch it. What is it? Your shadow.
Q: What building has thousands of stories? The library!
Q: What has a neck but no head? A bottle!
Q: A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 5 cents.
Q: What invention allows you to look right through a wall? A window!
Q: What are two things you can NEVER eat for breakfast? Lunch and dinner!
Q: What goes up and down but never moves? The temperature!(Alternative answer – a flight of stairs!)
Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind? What are they? Footprints!
Q: I have no eyes, no ears, and legs, and yet I help move the earth. What am I? An earthworm!
Q: If there are three cookies and you take away two, how many do you have? If you take two, then of course you have two!
Q: What do dogs have that no other animal has? Puppies!
Q: Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I? Fire!
Q: First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat? Corn on the cob!
Q: What do eggs, a safe, and a whip all have in common? They all crack.
Q: I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I? A postage stamp.
Important Information
32. Riddle: What type of cheese is made backward?
Answer: Edam.
33. Riddle: A girl throws a ball as hard as she can. It comes back to her, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
Answer: She throws it straight up in the air!
34. Riddle: An electric train is headed east. Where does the smoke go?
Answer: Electric trains don’t produce any smoke!
35. Riddle: What is the one thing everyone can agree is between heaven and earth?
Answer: The word “and.”
36. Riddle: When is “L” greater than “XL”?
Answer: When you’re using Roman numerals.
37. Riddle: How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, is half (the middle two letters) of the word “five.”
38. Riddle: A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was not out. There were no streetlights. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. Luckily, the truck driver stopped in time—how did he see her?
Answer: It was daytime!