Riddles
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Pencil lead
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
incorrectly
If you eat this you will die. What is it?
Nothing
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
silence
Three different doctors said that Paul is their brother yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying?
No one is lying because the three doctors are Paul’s sisters.
Two fathers and two sons come home from the mall. Yet when they arrive home, only three people get out of the car. How is this possible?
They are a grandfather, father, and son
How can the number 4 be half or 5?
IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two letters) of the word five.
What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?
A river
They are a grandfather, father, and son
Queue
I have keys, but no locks and space, and no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
A keyboard
If an electric train is moving north at 55 mph and the winds blowing east at 70 mph, which way does the smoke blow?
An electric train doesn’t emit smoke.
A murderer is condemned to death and he has the option to die in one of the following three rooms: a room full of raging fire, a room full of assassins with loaded guns, and a room full of lions who haven’t eaten in years. Which room should he choose?
The loins should be dead because they have not eaten in years
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
M
What has ten letters and starts with gas?
A car
How is it possible to drop an egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Concrete floors won’t crack from an egg dropping on them.