Riddles

1. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

2. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
3. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
4. What has a neck but no head?
5. What type of cheese is made backwards?
6. What gets wetter as it dries?
7. Why did the boy bury his flashlight?
8. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
9. What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
10. What has to be broken before you can use it?
11. Why would a man living in New York not be buried in Chicago?
12. What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
13. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
14. Which month has 28 days?
15. Three men were in a boat. It capsized, but only two got their hair wet. Why?
16. If everyone bought a white car, what would we have?
17. How many letters are there in the alphabet?
18. Where does Friday come before Thursday?
19. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?
20. What ship has two mates, but no captain?
21. When is a door not a door?
22. Bobby throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though
nothing and nobody touches it. How?
23. Mary’s father has five daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the
fifth daughter’s name?
24. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one
thousand years?
25. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
26. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
27. If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
28. You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?
29. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without
being stolen. What are they?
30. What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .