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1．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.A: Pencil lead 2．What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house? A: The Sun 3．What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? A: :Your word 4．What walks all day on its head? A: A nail in a horse shoe 5．What gets wet when drying? A: A towel 6．What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? A: The letter “M”
7．What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up? A: A sieve
8．There were five men going to church and it started to rain.The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry.A: Body in coffin, and bearers 9．The more you take, the more you leave behind.What are they? A: Footsteps 10．He who has it doesn't tell it.He who takes it doesn't know it.He who knows it doesn't want it.What is it? A: Counterfeit money 11．Brothers and sisters have I none
but that man's father is my father's son.A: My son 12．Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night? A: A fly 13．I bind it and it walks.I loose it and it stops.A: A sandal 14．What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood? A: The bark of a tree
15．I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again.A: A watch 16．I have a little house in which I live all alone.It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.A: A chicken in an egg 17．Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.A: Fire, smoke
18．There are four brothers in this world that were all born together.The first runs and never wearies.The second eats and is never full.The third drinks and is always thirsty.The fourth sings a song that is never good.A: Fire, water, earth, wind 19．A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land.A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.A: Rain 20．Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.A: Sciors 21．What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it? A: Noise 22．It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.A: A cabbage 23．It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old.What is it? A: The moon 24．A white dove flew down by the castle.Along came a king and picked it up handle, ate it up toothle, and carried it away wingle.A: Snow melted by the sun 25．As I went acro the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked.What kind of wood was it? A: Sawdust 26．What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? A: Your name 27．What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up? A: An umbrella 28．What is is that you will break even when you name it? A: Silence
29．What fastens two people yet touches only one? A: A wedding ring 30．What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes? A: A hole 31．I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickne.You cannot expre happine without me, yet I am in the midst of croes.I am always in risk, yet never in danger.You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkne.A: The letter: “S”
32．What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten? A: A pack of cards 33．Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other? A: Eyes 34．What holds water yet is full of holes? A: A sponge 35．Though it is not an ox, it has
horns;though it is not an a, it has a pack-saddle;and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind.What is it? A: A snail 36．Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.A: An echo 37．A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.A: Snow on a tree stump 38．What goes into the water red
and comes out black? A: A red hot poker 39．What goes into the water black and comes out red? A: A lobster 40．When one does not know what it is, then it is something;but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.A: A riddle
41.A man and his bo have the same parents, but are not siblings.How is this poible?
Answer: He is self-employed.He is his own bo.42.A man built his house above a river between two trees.He attaches his house to the middle of the two tree's trunks.He does this because the river rises by 2 inches each years, but the trees grow 1 inch each year.If his house is 4 inches above the river how long will it take for water to hit his house?
Answer: 2 years, his house won't go up at all because trees grow from the top, not the bottom.43.I am weightle, but you can see me.Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter.What am I?
Answer: A hole.44.What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? Answer: Man.He crawls as a baby, walks, then uses a cane in old age.45.A man is walking through the park one day and sees a group of four boys standing in a circle.A smaller boy is holding a large stick and hands it to a larger boy saying “I couldn't do it, your turn.”
The larger boy swings the stick twice and the other two boys go to the ground.The smaller boy says “I'll get 'em next time.” The man walks away smiling.What just happened?
Answer: The boys were at a birthday party hitting a pinata.Riddle: You throw away the outside, eat the inside, and throw away the inside.Answer: Corn on the cob
