Riddle:
There are 3 apples for 2 sons and 2 fathers to eat. Each of them get their own apple. How is it numerically possible?
Answer: They are one son, one father and one grandfather.
Riddle:
One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?
Answer: MISSPELLED. It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS "misspelled."
Riddle:
Two sentries were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?" How did he know that his companion was smiling?
Answer: Although the guards were looking in opposite directions, they were not back to back. They were facing each other.
Riddle:
I can slash but I have no knife, I can dash but I have no legs, I can pound but I have no hammer, I can star but I have no stage.
What am I?
Answer: A Keyboard.
Riddle:
A man goes out drinking every night, returning to his home in the wee hours of every morning. No matter how much he drinks, he never gets a hangover. This drink is very well known, but is rarely consumed, served warm and taken straight from its source. The man is a sucker for a free drink, especially since he can't live without it. What is his favorite drink?
Answer: Blood, he's a vampire!
Riddle:
What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing.
Riddle:
I have many teeth and sometimes they're fine,
First I'm by your head, then I'm down your spine.
What am I?
Answer: A Comb.
Riddle:
What is Greater than God, worse than evil, the poor have it, the rich require it and if you eat it you die?
Answer: Nothing. Nothing is better than God. Nothing is worse than evil. The poor have nothing. The rich don't have anything they have everything. If you eat nothing you die.
Riddle:
In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear. What am I?
Answer: A Tree.
Riddle:
I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: I am fire.
Riddle:
You go in me for brushing,
For flushing,
For rushing;
But please go in me one at a time,
Or someone might be blushing.
What am I?
Answer: A bathroom.
Riddle:
I am seen in the water and seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli. What am I?
Answer: The color blue.
Why each clue points to blue:
- Water: Large bodies of water often look blue because they reflect the color of the sky and, to a lesser extent, water weakly absorbs longer wavelengths (reds) more than shorter ones (blues), leaving a bluish appearance.
- Sky: The sky appears blue due to Rayleigh scattering—shorter blue wavelengths of sunlight scatter more in the atmosphere, making the dome of the sky look blue. Rainbow: Blue is one of the visible color bands in a rainbow, between green and indigo.
- Jay’s feather: Many blue jays look blue not from pigment but from structural coloration—the microscopic structure of the feathers scatters light to produce blue.
- Lapis lazuli: This gemstone is famously deep blue because of the mineral lazurite.
Riddle:
A big person and a small person are going to fish. The big person is not the small person's father but the small person is the big person's son. What is the relationship between the two?
Answer: The big person is the small person's mother.
Riddle:
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
Riddle:
Sometimes I move fast,
Sometimes I move slow;
But my speed is truly constant,
And nowhere I go.
What am I?
Answer: Time.
Riddle:
Why can't you trust the law of gravity?
Answer: Because it will always let you down.
Riddle:
My voice rises above the din, sometimes catching all unaware. I never ask questions, yet get many answers.
What am I?
Answer: A doorbell.
Riddle:
Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom.
Riddle:
What goes up and never comes down?
Answer: Your Age.
Riddle:
When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty nothing moves me, I have two skins, one without and one within. What am I?
Answer: I am a glove.
