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My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches.
A volcano.
A rooster lays an egg at the very top of a slanted roof. Which side is the egg going to roll off on?
Neither, roosters don’t lay eggs.
Take away the whole, and some remain. What is it?
The word “wholesome.”
This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
Your name.
What is full of holes but still holds a lot of water?
A sponge.
What has four fingers and thumb, but it is not living?
A glove.
What spends all the time on the floor but never gets dirty?
Your shadow.
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
The wind.
What has fifteen diamonds but isn’t rich?
A deck of cards.
What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
Charcoal.
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?
He is bald.
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.
Time.
What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?
An umbrella.
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
“Incorrectly.”
A bus driver goes the wrong way on a one-way street. He passes the cops, but they don’t stop him. Why?
He was walking.
Hands she has but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are cold, eyes she has but without sight.
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A doll.
What can be given and can be accepted, is worth a great deal but costs nothing yet has no monetary value?
An apology.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.
Darkness.
What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
A pillow.
What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
Stone.
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Pencil lead.
Why is it that when you have lost something, it’s always in the last place you look?
Because you stop looking when you find it.
What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up, up it goes, and yet, never grows?
A mountain.
Without a bridle or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?
Eye glasses.
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
An artichoke.