Nature Riddles Jokes and Brain Teasers with Answers
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Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest.
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.
What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
Answer: A stamp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A map.
Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Answer: Water. Explanation: Water can be in the form of a liquid, solid (ice), and/or a gas (water vapor) which is represented by "three lives". As a liquid, it is used to bathe, as a gas it creates clouds that float in the sky, and as a solid (ice), it can split rocks or create glaciers that scour the earth as they move downhill.
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Answer: I am the birds shadow.
Why can't the world ever come to an end?
Answer: Because it's round.
I run through hills; I veer around mountains. I leap over rivers and crawl through the forests. Step out your door to find me. What am I?
Answer: Roads.
I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my first letter and you have a path situated between man-made masses. What am I?
Answer: A Valley.
How do spiders communicate?
Answer: Through the worldwide web.
I am four letters long, I can be seen in the sky, I am the ocean & I am the sea. Can you guess me?
Answer: The color Blue.
Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?
Answer: The Dictionary.
What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their politics or religion, agree is between heaven and earth?
Answer: The word 'And'.
What has four eyes and runs south?
Answer: The Mississippi River.
I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home. Who am I?
Answer: I'm your imagination.
What is the sharpest thing in the world?
Answer: A fart, it can go through your clothes without making a hole!
Forward and forward I go, never looking back. My limit no one knows, more of me do they lack. Like a river I do flow, and an eagle I fly. Now can you guess, what am I?
Answer: Time. I am time!
I come right in front of Earth, at the end of time, and twice in a week. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
What did the ocean say to the beach?
Answer: I'm not shore.
How do shells get around in the ocean?
Answer: A taxi crab.
We capture light, and yet we don't. We reflect rays of sun, and yet we don't. Without us all the world is gray and dull for everyone. What are we?
Answer: Colors.
What is always traveling, has life, has sense but doesn't live?
Answer: The Earth!
I sail an ocean you'll never swim, and I voyage seas with white-cotton ease yet my hold is filled with water. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
I'm fatherless and motherless and born without sin. Roaring when entering the world, I never speak again. What am I?
Answer: Thunder.
I am in the beginning of the earth. I am at the end of the time. I appear two times in a week. I appear once in a year. What Am I?
Answer: The Letter E.
Say "silk" five times. Now, spell "silk." What do cows drink?
Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk," Your brain is obviously over-stressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as "Children's World." Just Kidding.
A man is on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crossed the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
Answer: The river was frozen.
Where do rivers sleep?
Answer: In river beds.
I can be half without getting thinner. I can shine with no fire. I can be hidden but never taken. I can stay dry while moving the ocean. What am I?
Answer: The Moon.
Why are some fish at the bottom of the ocean?
Answer: Because they dropped out of school!
What is made of wood but no saw on earth is sharp enough to cut?
Answer: Sawdust.
I'm first on earth, second in heaven, I appear twice in a week, and once in a year, I'm in the middle of the Sea. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
Answer: The bridge of your nose.
I'm not an airplane, but I can fly through the sky. I'm not a river, but I'm full of water. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
I blossom like a flower, a hindrance I create, and save you from the earth, do not use me too late. What am I?
Answer: A Parachute.
Where do fish keep their money?
Answer: In the river bank.
What has five eyes but cannot see?
Answer: The Mississippi River. It has five “i’s”
What do cows give after an earthquake?
Answer: Milk shakes.
I begin the earth and end the eclipse, I occur in seconds and minutes, but never in a hand although I am in a lifetime. What am I?
Answer: Letter E.
I welcome the day with a show of light, I stealthily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by noon, alas! I'm gone. What am I?
Answer: The morning dew!
I give you all the money in the world but I receive nothing. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, even a river can't fill it up. What is it?
Answer: A kitchen strainer.
What kind of rocks are found in the Mississippi River?
Answer: Wet ones.
I have a mouth, I do not talk, I always run, I never walk. What am I?
Answer: A river.
Why did the squirrel lay only its back on the river?
Answer: To keep its "nuts" dry.
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.
What did the ocean say to the other ocean?
Answer: Nothing, they just waved.
Which is the most shocking city in the world?
Answer:
Electri-city!
Two men had to go to the other side of the river, there is one boat, but only one person fits on it. Luckily they both got to the other side of the river. How?
Answer: They were on opposite sides of the river.
Why did the outlaw go to the river?
Answer: He heard it had two banks.
A duck arrives near a lake. He sees a sign where it is written "No swimming allowed.", but the duck jumps into the water. Why?
Answer: Because ducks can't read.
Who does the ocean date?
Answer: It goes out with the tide.
What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?
Answer: A tissue.
What is the most slippery country in the world?
Answer: Greece!
I am hewn from Earth and Fire; But to the sky, I aspire. I am nothing but contented; Until my patient rage is vented. What am I?
Answer: A volcano.
How do crazy people go through the forest?
Answer: They take the psycho path.
I roam the empty oceans pounding up over rocks, I make streams pour down peoples faces but some people like to ride me. What am I?
Answer: Waves.
My first is in ocean but never in sea, my second's in wasp but never in bee. My third is in glider and also in flight, my whole is a creature that comes out at night. What am I?
Answer: An Owl.
What has 1 in every corner, 2 in every room, but only 1 in the world?
Answer: The letter O.
Many always do say that I am life. I occupy most part of the earth surface, yet I'm found in you. What am I?
Answer: Water.
I am a contained world that you can shake but please don't drop me because I may break. What am I ?
Answer: A snow globe.
What do you call an ocean of orange soda?
Answer: A Fanta-sea
I come to you shattered and broken; And though not a word will be spoken; I will reveal to you, a world all anew; If you've the patience to make me unbroken. What am I?
Answer: A Jigsaw.
I am black of eye and bright of hair. I fast in to the ground and follow my lord as he races around the world. What am I?
Answer: I'm a Sunflower.
You can see me in a mirror, see me in a picture, and can even spot me in nature. What am I?
Answer: Beauty.
I sit here collecting dust, I can wait forever to open me and you will not be disappointed, I can make you laugh, cry, and sad, I contain all the knowledge of the world, let me take you to a faraway land. What am I?
Answer: A book.
What happened when the crooks fell into the ocean?
Answer: They started a crime wave.
What does a river do when told a joke?
Answer: It "gushes" with laugher.
A group of men is suddenly awakened by a loud, piercing, continuous sound. They all scramble out of their beds, get dressed, grab a pole, and disappear into a hole. What in the world are these men doing?
Answer: The men are firemen who were on night-shift duty at their firehouse. When they heard the fire alarm, they got dressed, slid down the fire pole, and got in the fire truck.
I came to prominence in the world during a time of trouble. I brought people together but helped keep them apart. I sound like I should go fast, but I am well known for taking too long to finish. What am I?
Answer: A Zoom meeting.
Which is the biggest jam in the world?
Answer: A traffic jam.
I hold a thousand voices, yet not one sound I make. I open doors to worlds though I never roam or break. In lines I travel paths, but never take a step— When you seek new places, I am the map you’ve kept. What am I?
Answer: A Book.
I can flow like a river, and come from dust, I age hard as iron, but never rust. What am I?
Answer: Concrete (liquid state before solidification).
Created by man. There you stand, but don't stand over here. Understand? I'm invisible, yet oddly divisional. I follow rivers and cross continents. What am I?
Answer: Borders.
What has emotions, but isn't living? Can be as Blue as the ocean or Red as blood. sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry.
Answer: A mood ring.
A group of men are suddenly awakened by a loud, piercing, continuous sound. They all scramble out of their beds, get dressed, grab a pole, and disappear into a hole. What in the world are these men doing?
Answer: They are firemen who were sleeping in their fire station. When they heard the fire alarm, they quickly got dressed, slid down the fire pole, and got in the fire engine to head to the reported fire.
I lie in the earth, and under the ground; A map may reveal me for journey's abound; I can be found in squares, to reduce down to size; Or at the end of a strand, where attachment lies. What am I?
Answer: Roots
Stronger than any beast, Rougher than any sea. Steadier than a favorable wind, and of me none shall be free. What am I?
Answer: I am Earth.
Where can you see the world but the world can't see you?
Answer: TV.
Make me thy lyre, even as the forests are. What if my leaves fell like its own -- The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone. What am I?
Answer: The west wind.
You cannot touch me. I cause anger and illness. My remedy is tangible. It spreads happiness throughout the world everyday. What am I?
Answer: Hunger. Food.
What moves around the world has several destinations but only one stop and full of energy?
Answer: Idk the answer lol
I am older than earth and am still living. I am a person. What am I?
Answer: A Liar.
You'll rarely find me in the forest, and hardly want to in the desert. I'm deadly in flight, but I never dance on water without an audience. What am I?
Answer: Skipping Stone.
While Sam was traveling, he saw a lake, a tree, and a city. What did he see?
Answer: Electricity.
I create my lair with earthen string, and dispatch my prey with a biting sting. What am I?
Answer: A spider.
Even though the odds are always in favor of the gambling house, why does the establishment insist on a house limit on stakes?
Answer: Every casino in the world would go bankrupt without a house limit on stakes. Without it, gamblers would keep doubling their stakes until they won. No matter how bad a losing streak they were on, they would eventually win.
I am named for my fleeting motion. Numbered zero and four score more. A barren desert and a heavy ocean. One is flowing, the other a solid core. Who are we?
Answer: Mercury and mercury.
Two people are standing on the bank of a river looking forward to crossing to the other side. There is one boat with a capacity for one person. The two people managed to cross the river safely. How did they do it?
Answer: The two were on opposite sides of the river.
I have no eyes, no legs or ears, and I help move the earth. What am I?
Answer: A worm.
Upon my top there is a golden shop wherein a dollar can't be spent. Along my sides stretch nature's slides which will never relent. At my feet where people meet full of ire, dread and lament. What am I?
Answer: A mountain. On the top one can find clarity and make memories that a conventional shop can't sell. Nature's slides are rivers. At my feet or foot of the mountain is the first step and place everyone has to be to begin the climb, which will be difficult (ire, dread and lament)
When I looked In the lake, I saw my reflection, but yet I disappear from every picture I take. What am I?
Answer: A ghost.
Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far; for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?
Answer: Glass.
What song can everyone in the world sing?
Answer: The 'Happy Birthday' song.
I shake, but unlike the strength of an earthquake. You can find me both high and low, usually out of control. I can be considered both good or bad, sometimes used for both happy or sad. What am I?
Answer: Singing Pitch.
Asher and Miles were shipwrecked. Miles was swept away by a strong current and woke up on an island. And Asher found a small wooden boat in the middle of the ocean. Both guys were thirsty and hungry. Who's going to survive for longer?
Answer: Miles will survive for longer because the water on the island might as well be drinkable. But Asher can't drink the ocean water because the amount of salt in it is too dangerous for people to consume safely.
Like a snake I constrict. Like a flowing river I glitter. However if I am licked. I will be bloody not bitter. What am I?
Answer: A necklace. They constrict your throat, they glitter and if you lick them, they will taste of metal (the same taste as your blood.)
On Earth, I am dead, Though I live on the moon. I am in no crater, And I'm in every boom. What am I?
Answer: The Letter "0".
Both happiness and sorrow I bring from ancient taps a plenty. I dull the pain of cuts and life, some drowning in my embrace. What am I?
Answer: Answer: Alcohol Line-by-line analysis: "Both happiness and sorrow I bring" – This thing causes both joy and sadness — possibly something intoxicating, poetic, or emotional. "From ancient taps a plenty." – "Taps" hints at barrels, kegs, or faucets. "Ancient" suggests it’s been around a long time — maybe alcohol. "I dull the pain of cuts and life," – Suggests a numbing agent, metaphorically or literally. Again, this supports alcohol or possibly water. "Some drowning in my embrace." – A powerful final line — both literally (drowning) and metaphorically (being consumed or overwhelmed). Most fitting answer: Alcohol Brings happiness (celebration) and sorrow (addiction, regret). Comes from "ancient taps" — barrels, kegs, breweries. Dulls pain — physically (as a disinfectant) and emotionally (as a depressant). People can become lost or consumed by it — "drowning" in it. Alternative interpretation: Water Brings life and joy, but also floods and sorrow. Comes from ancient sources — springs, wells, rivers. Cleans wounds, sustains life, but also causes drowning. Has existed since ancient times — crucial to all life. Verdict: Both alcohol and water are strong contenders, but given the emotional duality, taps, and "dulling pain," the riddle most precisely points to: Alcohol
What can emit an umbra on the earth, provide phosphorescence for all it's creatures. All while altering the visual surface of itself within phases?
Answer: The moon.
Why was the ocean arrested?
Answer: Because it beat upon the shore.
What river in Bavaria answers the question, Who is there?
Answer: I, ser.
Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers?"
Answer: In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west.
How does a caterpillar cross the river?
Answer: When a caterpillar becomes a moth.
I'm an object; good at drawing. I draws without using any drawing instrument, yet I can draw even better and faster than the world's best artist. But what I will draw won't stay permanent and what I draws may see me or not. What am I?
Answer: A mirror. Humans can see it but objects cannot.
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.
Endlessly, I hunger, Lazily, I sleep. Murderous, I thunder, Desires, I do seek. Hoarding countless treasures, so my stature I retain, Envious of others whose feet on Earth remain. What am I?
Answer: "The Seven Deadly Sins" - Reasoning: Each sentence structure portrays one of the seven deadly sins from Christian theology, with the exception of the final 5 words. In order according to the riddle, these are; gluttony, sloth, wrath, lust, greed, pride and envy. The final 5 words, "whose feet on Earth remain", act in conjunction with the section on envy, demonstrating the perspective of a sinner in hell, who is envious of those still alive, and thus can still repent for their sins in order to enter Heaven.
A pot-hole filled valley, where rains often fall; A land through which no river shall crawl. What am I?
Answer: A sieve.
My head and the point are made from same. I am held by what's taken apart from the grain. I am atop of a great ocean beast. My swing will let fire and lead release. What am I?
Answer: Hammer.
I'm from the Old World, and my name from Latin; I can be cured, or served with au gratin. What am I?
Answer: Beef.
Which is lighter, the sun or the earth?
Answer: The sun, it rises every morning.
There's a land where there are mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?
Answer: The land of double letters.
What can grasp the world's edges with great precision, yet always perceives the imagery as vague conceptions?
Answer: Peripheral vision.
Mr. Crocker's mom gave him a present for his birthday. This gift was special, since his name was known around the world. What was the gift?
Answer: A Crock-pot.
Who's fault will it be if California falls into the ocean?
Answer: San Andreas fault.
How does a river flood?
Answer: When it gets to big for its bridges.
I dance in the wind and I bow to a storm. I grow best in temperatures that are warm. By the riverbeds I like to grow, where the people in boats like to row. What am I?
Answer: A river reed. Didn't guess it did you?
Why is the largest city in Ireland likely to be the largest city in the world?
Answer: Dublin, because it is every year doubling.
What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole?
Answer: All the difference in the world.
In what place did the rooster crow when all the world heard him?
Answer: In Noah's Ark.
How do you get into the great lakes?
Answer: With the Florida Keys.
What is the best way to get from earth to mars?
Answer: PLANET!
Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?
Answer: The North Pole.
Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
Answer: Because they were all married and not single.
A rubber ball is tossed off the top of a 90 foot building. Every time it bounces, it goes back up half way. How many bounces will the ball take before it stops?
Answer: The answer is infinite, in a gravity free world. But of course gravity will eventually stop it.
Why do black sheep eat less than white sheep?
Answer: Because there are less black sheep in the world than white.
Which is the largest room in the world?
Answer: The room for improvement.
A forest exists somewhere on Earth. This forest has no life except for trees. After a storm, a tree was hit by lightning and falls. What sound would it make?
Answer: None. Sound does not exist if it is unheard.
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I?
Answer: Current.
Many-manned scud-thumper, Maker of worn wood, Shrub-ruster, Sky-mocker, Rave! Portly pusher, Wind-slave. What am I?
Answer: The ocean!
Oh, what a surprise! Oh, what a miracle! It sprouted without a seed, It stood without a trunk. What is it?
Answer: The world.
What's the most romantic part about the ocean?
Answer: When the buoy meets gull.
A traveler came to the river side, with a donkey bearing an obelisk. But he did not venture to ford the tide, for he had too good an *. What is the missing word?
Answer: Asterisk = "Ass to Risk".
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