Fun Riddles

A

100

1. If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
   
   

Second place.

200

1. During which month, do people sleep the least?
   
   

February. It’s the shortest month, with the fewest nights.

300

1. What is full of holes but still holds water?
   
   

A sponge.

400

1. What is made of water, but if you put it into water will die?
   
   

Ice.

500

1. You can’t keep this until you have given it?
   
   

A promise.

B

100

1. What should you break before you use it?
   
   

An egg.

200

1. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
   
   

Palm.

300

1. I have hands, yet I cannot shake your hand. I cannot give you a high five, and I have no fingers. What am I?
   
   

A clock.

400

1. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
   
   

Short.

500

1. There was a greenhouse and inside the greenhouse, 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?
   
   

A watermelon.

C

100

1. I have no doors, but I have keys. I have no rooms, but I have a space. You can enter, but you can never leave. What am I?
   
   

A keyboard.

200

1. I call the trees my home, yet I never go inside. If I ever fall off the tree, I will surely be dead. What am I?
   
   

Leaves.

300

1. Born in an instant, I tell all stories. I can be lost, but I never die. What am I?
   
   

Memories.

400

1. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
   
   

A candle.

500

1. Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck, but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?
   
   

The hunters were a man, his son, and his grandson.

D

100

1. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
   
   

A mushroom.

200

1. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
   
   

Silence.

300

1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I don’t have a body but I come alive with wind. What am I?
   
   

An echo.

400

1. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
   
   

A map.

500

1. People all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me. I am able to make you smarter and wealthier too. What am I?
   
   

School.