RIDDLES FINAL ROUND
Why did I go golfing with two pairs of pants on?
just in case I get a hole in 1.
I am made of rock surrounded by wood. Everyone uses me, what am I?
PENCIL
A man leaves home and turns left three times. When he returns home he finds two men wearing masks. Who are the two men?
UMPIRE AND CATCHER
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
YOUR NAME
If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
A PROMISE
What word is always pronounced wrong?
WRONG
What word can you add letters to to make it shorter?
SHORT
A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?
Because he cannot reach the buttons higher than five.
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
YOUR BREATHE
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
THE LETTER R
Why did the grandma put wheels on her rocking chair?
she likes to rock and roll
Only one color, but not one size, stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, doing no harm and feeling no pain. What is it?
A SHADOW
Which is faster? Hot or Cold?
Hot is faster, because you can catch a cold.
If you have me you want to share me, if you share me you won't have me. What am I?
A SECRET
I go all around the world but never leave the corner. What am I?
A STAMP
There is an apple tree on a cliff. If the wind is blowing 15mph to the west, where would the apple fall?
DOWN
Those who have it least don't know that they have it. Those who have it most wish they had less of it, but not too little or none at all. What is it?
AGE
What turns everything around but does not move?
A MIRROR
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
A CANDLE
I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
POPCORN
What gives you ability to walk through walls?
DOORS
When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?
A CLOCK
Where does today come before yesterday?
THE DICTIONARY
I start with M, end with X, and I have any number of letters in me. What am I?
MAILBOX
What can you hold without touching it?
YOUR BREATH