Riddle:
How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not born a U.S. Citizen?
Answer: If he was born before 1783, then Massachusetts would still be a British colony.
Riddle:
What river in Bavaria answers the question, Who is there?
Answer: I, ser.
Riddle:
You do not want to have it, But when you do have it, You do not want to lose it. What is it?
Answer: A lawsuit.
Riddle:
What two reasons why whispering in company is not proper?
Answer: It is not aloud (allowed).
Private earing (privateering) is unlawful.
Riddle:
If a fender cost six dollars, what will a ton of coal come to?
Answer: To ashes.
Riddle:
We are five little objects of an everyday sort. You will find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
Answer: Vowels.
Riddle:
There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with a pair of scissors?
Answer: The person slept on a waterbed. His killer used the scissors to cut the bed open and drown him.
Riddle:
Why is a conundrum like a monkey?
Answer: Because it is far fetched and full of nonsense.
Riddle:
My first is appropriate, my second 'tis nine to one if you guess it. My whole elevates the sole above the earth. What am I?
Answer: Pat-ten.
Riddle:
What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
Answer: Iron.
Riddle:
I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are the three things?
Answer: Stove, fire, and smoke.
Riddle:
My head and tail both equal are, My middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heel Is quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, The matter's true, though passing strange Directly I to nothing change.
What Am I?
Answer: The figure eight.
Riddle:
Ripped from my mother's womb, Beaten and burned, I become a blood-thirsty slayer. What am I?
Answer: Iron ore.
Riddle:
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations.
What is it?
Answer: War.
Riddle:
Why is the letter F like an incendiary?
Answer: Because it makes ire fire.
Riddle:
Why are beautiful women like bread?
Answer: Because they are often toasted.
Riddle:
A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
Answer: A Minotaur.
Riddle:
Why is a man in debt like a misty morning?
Answer: Because he is surrounded with dues (dews).
Riddle:
What is that which has many leaves, but no stem?
Answer: A book.
Riddle:
What do we all do when we first get into bed?
Answer: Make an impression.
