Around the House
Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
An onion
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
None. Roosters don't lay eggs.
What do you serve that you can't eat?
A tennis ball
What goes up and never comes down?
Your age
Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white?" or "The yolk of the egg is white?"
Neither, the yolks are yellow.
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is this object?
A ring
Why don't lobsters share?
They're shellfish.
What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
A yardstick
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Silence
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
A match
What goes up and down stairs without moving?
Carpet
He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
A priest
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
A stamp
The more there is, the less you see.
Darkness
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
Stars
I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?
A mirror
As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
Glove
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?
An anchor
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
A secret
I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
A sponge
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest human can't hold it for much more than a minute.
Breath
I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
Splinter
Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
Jack and Jill are goldfish.
Four jolly men sat down to play, And played all night till the break of day. They played for cash and not for fun, With a separate score for every one. When it came time to square accounts, They all had made quite fair amounts. Now, not one has lost and all have gained, Tell me, now, this can you explain?
Four men in a band