Basic Ridddles
Science Riddles
Common Knowledge
Makes me think
Brain Buster
100

What gets wet while it's drying?

What is A towel

100

I’m not an air plane, but I can fly. I’m not a river, but I’m full of water. What am I?


Cloud

100
Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
Larry! He would be the fifth son
100
How can you make seven even
Take away the S
100
What can you catch but not throw
A cold
200

You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?


a.) soap

b.) towel

c.) a reflection

d.) a rainbow

c.) A reflection

200
With what vegetable do you throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, and throw away the inside?
corn on the cob
200

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short

200
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
The horse's name is Friday
200

A seven letter word containing thousands of letters.


a.) post-office

b.) mailbox

c.) aftershock

b.) mailbox

300
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
Silence
300

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

A skull

300

What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?

a.) whiteboard

b.) towel

c.) rock

d.) chalkboard

d.) Chalkboard

300

A clerk in the butcher shop is 5'10'' tall. What does he weigh?


a.) 5'11"

b.) 180 lbs

c.) there's no way to know

d.) meat


d.) Meat

300

What is brought to the table and cut, but never eaten?

A deck of cards.

400

What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?


a.) roller coaster

b.) your head in the railing

c.) trouble

d.) a box

trouble

400

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die. What am I?

a.) Whale

b.) Fire

c.) Plant

d.) a monkey

b.) Fire

400

What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?

A teapot


400

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

footsteps

400

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A penny

500
I have keys but no locks. I have a space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
A keyboard
500

What has a Heart but no other organs?

A deck of cards

500

What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?

Tomorrow

500

What flies without wings?

Time

500
Brothers and sisters, I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who am I looking at
The man is my son