Riddle:
Why should doctors attend to window-sashes?
Answer: Because they have so many panes (pains).
Riddle:
Why is France like a skeleton?
Answer: Because only the bony part is left.
This is a play on words referring to Napoleon Bonaparte who played a key role in the 1789 French Revolution and was the first Emporer of France from 1804-15.
Riddle:
What has wings, But can not fly. Is enclosed, But can outside also lie. Can open itself up, Or close itself away. Is the place of kings and queens, And doggerel of every means. What is it upon which I stand? Which can lead us to different lands. What is it?
Answer: The stage.
Riddle:
What has 4 wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck! lol!
Riddle:
How is it possible to always find what you're looking for in the last place you look?
Answer: If you find what your are looking for then you would stop looking so it would be in the last place you look.
Riddle:
Round as an apple, Deep as a cup, All the King's horses Can't pull it up.
What is it?
Answer: It is a well.
Riddle:
What is that which, supposing it's greatest breadth to be four inches, length nine inches, and depth three inches and contains a solid foot?
Answer: A shoe.
Riddle:
Why is a rose-bud like a promissory note?
Answer: It matures by falling dew.
Riddle:
Why is a gooseberry pie like counterfeit money?
Answer: Because it is not currant (current).
Riddle:
With potent, flowery words speak I, Of something common, vulgar, dry; I weave webs of pedantic prose, In effort to befuddle those, Who think I while time away, In lofty things, above all-day The common kind that lingers where Monadic beings live and fare; Practical I may not be, But life, it seems, is full of me! What am I?
Answer: A riddler. ( or riddle )
Riddle:
As destructive as life, As healing as death; An institutioner of strife, Just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, Yet with an evil trend; As it was the beginning of things, It can also be the end. What is it?
Answer: It is fire!
Riddle:
There is not wind enough to twirl That one red leaf, nearest of its clan, Which dances as often as dance it can. What is it?
Answer: The answer is “flame” (or “fire”). This riddle is related to a quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The “one red leaf” is a metaphor for a tongue of flame on a low fire, which “dances” and flickers even when there isn’t enough wind to twirl an actual leaf. Coleridge’s imagery captures how a small flame closest to the embers moves restlessly with the slightest draft, appearing like a red leaf among its “clan” of other flames and coals
Riddle:
Why is a man with wooden legs like one who has an even bargain?
Answer: Because he has nothing to boot.
Riddle:
Sweet tooth, Ah shoot, All gone, We all long, For another piece of it. What is it?
Answer: Candy.
Riddle:
Up and down,up and down, touching neither sky nor ground. What is it?
Answer: A pump handle.
Riddle:
Such a slim little stripe in a shiny, round coat! How it grows in the warm sun's bright rays! But its jacket still fits, and it's worthy of note That it isn't so, tall on cool days. Hint: It's not a fishing pole.
Answer: A Thermometer.
Riddle:
My first is a very uncomfortable state,
In cold weather it mostly abounds.
My second's an instrument formed of hard steel,
That will cause the stout foe to stagger and reel,
And when used, is a symptom of hate.
My whole is an author of greatest renown,
Whose fame to the last day of time will go down.
Who am I?
Answer: Shakespeare.
Riddle:
How many black beans will make five white ones?
Answer: Five when peeled.
Riddle:
I bubble and laugh And spit water in your face. I am no lady, And I don't wear lace. What am I?
Answer: A fountain.
Riddle:
I heard of an invading, vanquishing army sweeping across the land, liquid-quick; conquering everything, quelling resistance. With it came darkness, dimming the light. Humans hid in their houses, while outside spears pierced, shattering stone walls. Uncountable soldiers smashed into the ground, but each elicited life as he died; when the army had vanished, advancing northward, the land was green and growing, refreshed. What is it?
Answer: A rainstorm.
