Easy
How many letters are in the alphabet?
11 ( t-h-e a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t)
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
The letter “M.”
“What walks on four feet in the morning,
two in the afternoon,
and three at night?”
– “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles
Man.
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
C (sea).
“This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.”
– “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
Time.
There’s a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
A school.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short (Short-er).
“Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.”
– “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wind.
What instrument can you hear but never see?
Your voice.
What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
Envelope.
“If you break me, I’ll not stop working.
If you can touch me, my work is done.
If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?”
– “Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King
The heart.
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?
– 18th Century England
One.
I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrong. If you pronounce me wrong it is right. What word am I?
Wrong.
“First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,
Next tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?”
– “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J.K. Rowling
Spider (spy – d – er).