Riddle:
What disappears the moment you say its name?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle:
What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
Answer: An icicle.
Riddle:
I have 10 books and I label them with their number. I take seven out to read. How many books are left?
Answer: 9! You have token the book with the label seven!
Riddle:
What's a foot long, made of leather, and sounds like a sneeze?
Answer: A-Shoe.
Riddle:
What kind of rocks are found in the Mississippi River?
Answer: Wet ones.
Riddle:
Which word in English is spelled backwards?
Answer: Backwards.
Riddle:
What goes up and down, but doesn't move an inch?
Answer: Stairs.
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:
What brightens your day when it's dark, although it's usually in the shade?
Answer: A lamp.
Riddle:
What do cats call mice on a skateboard?
Answer: Meals on wheels!
Riddle:
What is good for your bald head?
Answer: Some hair.
Riddle:
What is the last thing you take off before going to bed?
Answer: Your feet from the floor.
Riddle:
I am more powerful than god and more evil than the devil. I am what rich people want and what poor people have. I can never die. What am I?
Answer: I am nothing.
Riddle:
What asks, but never answers?
Answer: An owl.
Riddle:
What did the painter say to his Valentine?
Answer: “I love you with all my art!”
Riddle:
A man flipped a coin 9 times and every single time it landed on heads. If the man flipped the coin again, what is the chance that it lands on heads?
Answer: 50%. It's always 50%.
Riddle:
What is equal to time, more likely to corrupt, possessed by the rich, needed by the poor, and if taken away, leads to a loss of status?
Answer: Money.
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:
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
Answer: A jack in the box.
Riddle:
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs!
