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Once you have moved past the medium riddles. 1. Riddle: I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I? Answer: Candle or Pencil. 2. Riddle: A time when they are green, a time when they're brown, but both of these times, cause me to frown. But just in between, for a very short while, They're perfect and yellow and cause me to smile! What am I talking about here? Answer: Bananas. 3. Riddle: Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible? Answer: They were not born in the same year. 4. Riddle: What goes in hard, comes out soft, and you blow continuously? Answer: Bubble Gum. 5. Riddle: A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly? Answer: Tilly. She seems to follow the scale Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, and then Ti. 6. Riddle: Which is the only way a leopard can change his spots? Answer: By going from one spot to another. 7. Riddle: There is an ancient invention, still used in some parts of the world today, that allows people to see through walls. What is it? Answer: A window. 8. Riddle: Sometimes I am born in silence, Other times, no. I am unseen, But I make my presence known. In time, I fade without a trace. I harm no one, but I am unpopular with all. What am I? Answer: A fart. 9. Riddle: Which one of Santa's reindeer can be seen on Valentines day? Answer: Cupid. 10. Riddle: I'm not clothes but I cover your body; The more I'm used, the thinner I grow. What am I? Answer: Bar of soap. 11. Riddle: What is the worst vegetable to have on a ship? Answer: A leek(leak). 12. Riddle: What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? Answer: Queue. 13. Riddle: What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none? Answer: A choice. 14. Riddle: What did the bee say to the flower? Answer: Hello, honey! 15. Riddle: You can touch me, You can break me, You should win me if you want to be mine. What am I? Answer: A heart. 16. Riddle: What's a lifeguard's favorite game? Answer: Pool. 17. Riddle: Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards. Answer: Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts, Two of Spades. 18. Riddle: A man was found dead next to a 13 story building. The police say it was a suicide, but you say it was a homicide (someone killed him). To prove this, you go to each floor on the building, open the window, and toss a penny out. You do this to each floor until you reach the 13th floor, open the window, and toss a penny out. How does this prove it wasn't a suicide? Answer: If the man committed suicide, he would've left the window open and you wouldn't have had to open it. 19. Riddle: What travels around the world but stays in one spot? Answer: A stamp. 20. Riddle: I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. I can take a mans house and build anothers, And I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I? Answer: The King of Hearts in a deck of cards. 21. Riddle: A horse was tied to a rope 5 meters long and the horses food was 15 meters away from the horse. How did the horse reach the food? Answer: The rope wasn't tied to anything so he could reach the food. 22. Riddle: Why do mummies like Christmas so much? Answer: Because of all the wrapping. 23. Riddle: Why was the picture sent to jail? Answer: Because it was framed. 24. Riddle: Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket? Answer: Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket. 25. Riddle: I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance. I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. What am I? Answer: Love. 26. Riddle: What weighs more? A pound of feathers or a pound of stones? Answer: The same. They both weigh a pound! 27. Riddle: I'm white, and used for cutting and grinding. When I'm damaged, humans usually remove me or fill me. For most animals I am a useful tool. What am I? Answer: A tooth! 28. Riddle: Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's? Answer: That. 29. Riddle: You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I? Answer: An onion. 30. Riddle: What did the tree wear to the pool? Answer: Swim trunks! 31. Riddle: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there? Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet. 32. Riddle: A logician with some time to kill in a small town decided to get a haircut. The town had only two barbers, each with his own shop. The logician glanced into one shop and saw that it was extremely untidy. The barber needed a shave, his clothes were unkempt, his hair was badly cut. The other shop was extremely neat. The barber was freshly shaved and spotlessly dressed, his hair neatly trimmed. Why did the logician return to the first shop for his haircut? Answer: Each barber must have cut the other's hair. The logician picked the barber who had given his rival the better haircut. 33. Riddle: What type of music do rabbits listen to? Answer: Hip hop. 34. Riddle: If you drop me, I'm sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I'll always smile back. What am I? Answer: A mirror. 35. Riddle: You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it? Answer: Your name. 36. Riddle: Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What Am I? Answer: Time. 37. Riddle: When will water stop running downhill? Answer: When it reaches the bottom. 38. Riddle: What do you call cheese that belongs to someone else? Answer: Nacho cheese! 39. Riddle: I have a thousand needles but I do not sew. What am I? Answer: A Porcupine. 40. Riddle: What has no body and no nose? Answer: Nobody knows. 41. Riddle: I have lakes but no water, No cars but I have streets; Many places and borders, But I'm in one piece. What am I? Answer: A Map. 42. Riddle: There was a man who wanted to prove his love to his wife. So, he climbed the highest mountain, swam the deepest ocean and walked the biggest desert. What do you think his wife said? Answer: Nothing. She divorced him for never being at home. 43. Riddle: George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda? Answer: Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others that are drinking coffee. 44. Riddle: There are two bodies on the floor. They are surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die? Answer: The bodies were goldfish because their fishbowl got knocked over onto the floor and broke. 45. Riddle: What kind of goose fights with snakes? Answer: A mongoose. 46. Riddle: There is a dead man in the middle of a field, nothing is around him and there are no footprints of any sort. There is an unopened package next to him. How did he die? HINT: As he approached the field he knew he was going to die. Answer: Failed Parachute 47. Riddle: Why can't a pirate ever finish the alphabet? Answer: Because he always gets lost at sea! 48. Riddle: I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I? Answer: I am Tree. 49. Riddle: You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I? Answer: A telephone. 50. Riddle: I run all around the pasture but never move. What am I? Answer: A fence. 51. Riddle: What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct? Answer: "What time is it?" 52. Riddle: Why weren't the tennis players allowed in the restaurant? Answer: Because they make too much racquet. 53. Riddle: What kind of nut has no shell? Answer: A Doughnut. 54. Riddle: What has wheels and flies, but it is not an aircraft? Answer: A garbage truck. 55. Riddle: What do elves learn in school? Answer: The elf-abet. 56. Riddle: I act like a cat, I look like a cat, Yet I am not a cat. What am I? Answer: Kitten. 57. Riddle: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be? Answer: The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops. 58. Riddle: No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I? Answer: A Calendar. 59. Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner. 60. Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left? Answer: Your left hand! 61. Riddle: It has a long neck, a name of a bird, feeds on ships cargo, and is not alive. What is it? Answer: A crane. 62. Riddle: There is a brother and a sister. The boy wants to visit his father in jail, and the sister wants to visit her mother in the hospital. But they both are not allowed in the jail or hospital. All they have is a gun. What do they do? Answer: The boy shoots the girl, and then the boy goes to jail for attempted murder and the girl goes to the hospital due to her injuries. 63. Riddle: Why can you not trust Atoms? Answer: Because they make up everything. 64. Riddle: Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow? Answer: The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly. 65. Riddle: What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? Answer: A river. 66. Riddle: I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the Sun. What am I? Answer: Ice. 67. Riddle: What is harder to catch the faster you run? Answer: Your breath! 68. Riddle: I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her. How old are we now? Answer: I am 40 and my daughter is 10. 69. Riddle: I am wet when drying. What am I? Answer: A towel. 70. Riddle: Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS Answer: Courts. All of the others are anagrams of each other. 71. Riddle: Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other. How did she accomplish this? Answer: Tom's mother slid a newspaper under a door, each sibling standing on each side. 72. Riddle: There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there? Answer: Just four, in a square formation. 73. Riddle: Why does the teacher wear sunglasses when she comes to the class? Answer: Because the students are bright. 74. Riddle: Which one of Santa's reindeer can you see in outer space? Answer: Comet. 75. Riddle: While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives? Answer: Just one, me. 76. Riddle: What has a foot on each side and one in the middle? Answer: A yardstick. 77. Riddle: When do astronauts eat their sandwiches? Answer: At launch time. 78. Riddle: Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; Has two eyes, can't see a thing. What is it? Answer: A button. 79. Riddle: What food lives at the beach? Answer: A sandwich. 80. Riddle: You have 5 kids and you have to get them all into a car. Tommy and Timmy are twins but they fight so they can't sit together. Sarah and Sally fight too, so they can't sit together. Max fights with his sisters so he can only sit by his brothers. There's 5 seats side by side and you have to put them in order. How would you seat the kids, so that everyone is happy? Answer: Sarah, Tommy, Max, Timmy, and then Sally. 81. Riddle: A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I? Answer: The daughter. 82. Riddle: What word is always pronounced wrong? Answer: Wrong! 83. Riddle: What is a ghost's favorite dessert? Answer: Ice Scream. 84. Riddle: I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I? Answer: The moon! 85. Riddle: I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I? Answer: The word Dozens. 86. Riddle: You can see it every day, But cannot touch it at will. What is it? Answer: The sky. 87. Riddle: Why didn't the Mummy have any friends? Answer: He was too wrapped up in himself. 88. Riddle: I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat. Who am I? Answer: Mercury. 89. Riddle: 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. Who Am I? Answer: Rain. 90. Riddle: There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? Answer: The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I 91. Riddle: If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse? Answer: Five minutes. 92. Riddle: What asks no questions but requires many answers? Answer: A doorbell. 93. Riddle: Why did they let the Turkey join the thanksgiving band? Answer: Because he had the drumsticks. 94. Riddle: Why didn't the monster eat the crazy person? Answer: He was allergic to nuts. 95. Riddle: I run in and out of town all day and night. What am I? Answer: A road. 96. Riddle: When is music like vegetables? Answer: When there are two beats (beets) to the measure. 97. Riddle: Little Tommy Tittletat took two Ts, to tie two ups to two tall trees, to torment the terrible little tat. How many T's in all of that? Answer: There are 2 T's in all of ThaT. 98. Riddle: A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, "that's nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!" The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how? Answer: The kid filled a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes. 99. Riddle: I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I? Answer: Tomorrow. 100. Riddle: What is shaped like a box, has no feet, and runs up and down? Answer: An Elevator.

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