Riddles
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What building has the most stories?
Library
Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
The river was frozen.
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Map
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Dozens
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
A deck of cards
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
A road
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day and night
What will you find in the middle of Toronto
the letter O
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corners
A stamp
I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
A key
With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
A stapler
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
River
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
E
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
2nd
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald
What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroin
Where does today come before yesterday?
The dictionary
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
The man's son
What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Nothing