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What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window
If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
A secret
What can’t be put in a saucepan?
It’s lid
What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Second place
What building has the most stories?
The library
What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
A fence
What has hands, but can’t clap?
A clock
What has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
An envelope
What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
The letter “o”
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?
the letter “e”
What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Stone
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map
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 goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
A road
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence