Riddle:
What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?
Answer: Australia was always the biggest island in the world, even before it was discovered.
Riddle:
A mile from end to end, Yet as close to you as a friend. A precious commodity, freely given. Seen on the dead and on the living. Found on the rich, poor, short, and tall, But shared among children most of all. What is it?
Answer: A simple smile.
Riddle:
What is good for your bald head?
Answer: Some hair.
Riddle:
What bird is very rude?
Answer: A mocking bird.
Riddle:
What is the difference between an elephant and a flea?
Answer: An elephant can have fleas but a flea can't have elephants.
Riddle:
What three common songs have the same melody?
Answer: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle twinkle little star, and the Alphabet song! All kid songs
Riddle:
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
Answer: A jack in the box.
Riddle:
What kind of rocks are found in the Mississippi River?
Answer: Wet ones.
Riddle:
Which is the most shocking city in the world?
Answer:
Electri-city!
Riddle:
What is the leading cause of dry skin?
Answer: Towels.
Riddle:
In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?
Answer: It happens every year.
Riddle:
If boiling water is poured into a thick drinking glass as well as a very thin wine glass. Which of the two is more likely to crack?
Answer: The thick glass is more likely to crack since glass is a poor conductor of heat. In a thin glass, the heat passes more quickly from the glass into the surrounding air, causing the glass to expand equally. When hot water is poured into a thick glass, the inner surface expands, but the outer surface does not. It is this extreme stress on the glass that causes it to crack.
Riddle:
Nothing on the outside Nothing on the inside Light as a feather Yet ten men cannot lift it.
What is it?
Answer: A bubble.
Riddle:
What brightens your day when it's dark, although it's usually in the shade?
Answer: A lamp.
Riddle:
What kind of shoes do spies wear?
Answer: Sneakers.
Riddle:
What is the last thing you take off before going to bed?
Answer: Your feet from the floor.
Riddle:
What is something that is more usefull when you break it?
Answer: Chopsticks.
Riddle:
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one. Michael J. has a short one. Madonna doesn't have one and the Pope never uses it. What is it?
Answer: A last name.
Riddle:
The king of the jungle, rare as gold, black as night, in light not there and night not seen. Goes in water, goes on trees, goes in caves, goes on the ground. Claws of knives, teeth of swords, roar of death but silent as a mouse. What is it?
Answer: A black panther (black jaguar)
Riddle:
It stalks the countryside with ears that can't hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn.
