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What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm!
What can go through glass without breaking it?
Light
It belongs to you, but Others use it more. What is it?
Your Name
It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
A keyboard.
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.
How can the number four be half of five?
IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two letters) of the word five.
What has a bottom at the top?
Your legs
What two keys can’t open any door?
A monkey and a donkey.
I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?
A clock. When it is 9 a.m., adding 5 hours would make it 2 p.m.
There is one of me in every corner, but two of me in every room. What am I?
Letter O
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
All the people were married.
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Pencil
You find me in December, but not in any other month. What am I?
The letter "D.
What has a neck but no head, and wears a cap but has no face?
A bottle
I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
A nose.
Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.
A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?
A is D’s uncle.
First you eat me, then you get eaten. What am I?
A fishhook.
Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?
What time is it?
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
An artichoke.
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Map
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Smiles, because there is a mile between each ‘s’.
How do you spell COW in thirteen letters
SEE O DOUBLE YOU.
What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?
An umbrella
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?
Heroine
What can break, but never fall? What can fall, but never break?
Day and Night
This runs but does not walk. It has a mouth but never speaks. It has a head but never weeps. It has a bed but never sleeps. What is it?
A river
What starts with an e, but only has one letter?
Envelop
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.
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeping
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
ton- not
Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. All four cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible?
They all made right-hand turns.
Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
Railroad
What five-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
SWIMS
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Four sisters and three brothers.
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
E N T (Each letter represents the first letter in the written numbers: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, etc.).