Riddle: This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. What am I?
Answer: Time!
Riddle: Formed long ago, yet made today, Employed while others sleep. What none would freely give away. Nor any wish to keep. What is it?
Answer: A bed.
Riddle: What goes uphill and downhill, and always stays in the same place?
Answer: A road.
Riddle: What English word is spelled easily with just one eye?
Answer: The word 'EASILY'.
Riddle: What is an insect’s favorite sport?
Answer: Cricket.
Riddle: What has a foot but no leg?
Answer: A ruler!
Riddle: It's better to be safe than sorry. What is the contradictory proverb?
Answer: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Riddle: The sun bakes them, the hand breaks them, the foot treads on them, and the mouth tastes them.
What are they?
Answer: Grapes.
Riddle: What is the thing that can be seen but not touched, spoken but not heard, and thought but not seen?
Answer: An idea.
Riddle: What is the hardest tea to swallow?
Answer: Reality.
Riddle: What 7-letter word has all 5 vowels and a q in it?
Answer: Sequoia.
Riddle: As I was walking across the London Bridge, I met a man who tipped his hat and drew his cane, and in this riddle, I said his name. What is it?
Answer: And drew = ANDREW.
Riddle: With a little detective work and deep thought, the following facts can make an accurate statement. 11 is a racehorse 12 is 12 1111 race 12112. Can you figure it out?
Answer: 11 is a racehorse 12 is one too 11 won one race 12 won one too
Riddle: What sneaks through doors and windows without knocking? What heats an unlit stove? What gives the cat a snug place to rest?
Answer: The sun!
Riddle: What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls?
Answer: Night and Day!
Riddle: What name besides Anna reads the same both ways?
Answer: Hannah.
Riddle: What is a device that you always have access to, that do not require recharging, and can record all of the useful information you have learned?
Answer: Your brain!
Riddle: What can be seen, but cannot be touched, and when put in a barrel, will make the barrel lighter?
Answer: A beam of light!
Riddle: Everywhere it lurks, unsettling men and unnerving children. In a house it visits, in a cave it dwells. One light can put it to flight and make it retreat. Yet you can never escape it, for it is always there. What is it?
Answer: The shadows.
Riddle: Many hands make light work. What is the contradictory proverb?
Answer: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
