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: 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: 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 is that which has many leaves, but no stem?
Answer: A book.
Riddle: What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
Answer: Iron.
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: 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: Why is a conundrum like a monkey?
Answer: Because it is far fetched and full of nonsense.
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.
