RIDDLE QUESTIONS

1. Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?

2. What is greater than God,

more evil than the devil,
the poor have it,
the rich need it,
and if you eat it, you'll die?

3. Who makes it, has no need of it.

Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?

4. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

5. What has a head and a tail, but no body?
6. What has an ear but can not hear?
7. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

8. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes.
What does he weigh?
9. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the
white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies.
What is it?
10. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
11. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

12. Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and
three legs in the evening?

13. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

14. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me.
What am I?
15. What gets broken without being held?
16. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
17. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
18. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
19. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
20. What can you catch but not throw?
21. What is at the end of a rainbow?

22. A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that
each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

23. A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches
the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180
cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.
When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

24. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same
month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?

25. A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but
didn't break the law. How come?

26. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

27. Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

28. A box without hinges, key, or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

29. What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never
grows?

30. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace.
 31. Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
32. The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
33. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
34. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?
35. A man living on the North Pole builds a house rectangular in shape. All the sides have
southern exposure. A big bear walks by. What color is the bear? Why?
36. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

37. One big hockey fan claimed to be able to tell the score before any game. How did he
do it?
38. You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full
matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. What is the first thing you light?
39. Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do?
40. What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand?

RIDDLE ANSWERS

1. The man is my son.

2. Nothing.
3. Coffin
4. A stamp
5. A coin
6. A needle
7. A towel
8. Meat
9. Watermelon
10. Mushroom
11. A palm
12. Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks
with a cane as an old man.
13. Incorrectly
14. A secret
15. A promise
16. Forward I am ton, backwards I am not.
17. A priest
18. An onion
19. A window
20. A cold
21. A letter W
22. Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them)
and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple.
23. If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the
first rung.
24. The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
25. She was walking
26. The letter M
27. Wind
28. Egg
29. Mountain
30. A clock
31. A matchstick.
32. Chess pawns.

33. Why should a living man be buried?

34. No, it is not legal to get married if you are dead.
35. The bear is white since the house is built on the North Pole.
36. If you take 2 apples, then you have of course 2.
37. The score before any hockey game should be 0:0, shouldn't it?
38. A match, of course.
39. There are more Chinese men than Japanese men.
40. Normal - I wouldn't be very happy if I had all my fingers (10) on one hand.