RIDDLES

1. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
2. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
3. What can you catch but not throw?
4. During what month do people sleep the least?
5. There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today
that allows people to see through walls. What is it?
6. What is the centre of gravity?
7. What goes up and never comes down?
8. What stays where it is when it goes off?
9. What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
10. A cowboy rode to an inn on Friday. He stayed two nights and left on Friday.
How could that be?
11. What fastens/ties up two people yet touches only one?
12. What jumps higher than a building?
13. Mr. Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother.
How many children does Mr. Smith have?
14. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
15. Imagine you are swimming in the ocean and a bunch of hungry sharks
surround you. How do you get out alive?
16. What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
17. Does a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks weigh more?
18. I have Eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door?
19. A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree.
Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
20. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
21. If you count 20 houses on your right going to the store and 20 houses
on your left coming home, how many houses did you count?
22. Timmy's mother has three children. The first was named April.
The next was named May.
23. What kind of tree is carried in your hand?
24. There is a boat crash in the middle of a lake between Malaysia and Singapore.
Where do they bury the survivors?
25. Scientists are trying to figure out what is between Heaven and Earth. What is it?
26. An empty bus pulls up to a stop and 10 people get on. At the next stop
5 people get off and twice as many people get on as at the first stop.
At the third stop 25 get off. How many people are on the bus at this point?
27. How can you make 7 even?
28. When do you go at red, but stop at green?
29. What happens when you throw a black rock into the yellow sea?
30. What's always coming, but never arrives?
31. A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate
who the visitor was to him. The inmate replies: "brothers and sisters I have none,
but that man's father is my father's son." Who was the visitor to the inmate?

1. Pillow 2.Lunch & Dinner 3. A cold 4. Feb (Shortest month) 5. Window 6. V 7. Age
8. Alarm Clock 9. Carrot 10. The horses’ name was Friday 11. Wedding ring
12. Everything, buildings don't jump. 13. He has 5 children, all of the daughters have the same 1 brother.
14. Your name 15. Stop imagining 16. A glove 17. Same. They both weigh a ton. 18. A piano
19. None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree! 20. A priest
21. 20, they are the same houses. 22. Timmy 23. A palm 24. Nowhere, you don't bury survivors.
25. and 26. 1, the driver 27. Remove the 's' from 'seven' to make it 'even.'
28. When you are eating a watermelon! 29. It sinks... 30. Tomorrow 31. His son
1. What is the best way to keep your hat from falling off your head?

2. What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?

3. I am greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have me, the rich don't, and if you eat me, you'll

die. What am I?

4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday?

5. I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and

space. What am I?

6. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

7. A butcher named butch is 6 feet tall and has size 12 shoes.

What does he weigh?

8. What single line can you add to the following statement to make it true? 5+5+5=550

9. A person was born in 1940. Today is his 18th birthday. How is that possible?

1. Don't put it on your head. 2. The sun 3. Nothing 4. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
5. The letter E… 6. The letter M…. 7. Meat 8. Add a line to the first '+' to make it a 4.
9. He was born in hospital room 1940.