Everyday Objects
What can hold water despite being filled with holes?
Answer: A sponge
What did the ocean say to the sand?
Nothing, it just waved.
If you write this word all capitalized, it is the same right side up and upside down. What word is it?
Answer: SWIMS
When is a person like a piece of wood?
Answer: When they are a ruler / When they are board
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
What has both hands and a face, yet cannot touch or see?
Answer: A clock
Where should you take a sick boat?
Answer: To the dock-tor
Forwards, it is heavy. Backwards, it is NOT. What is it?
Answer: a TON
What is always coming, yet never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow. For when it arrives, it is today
What can go up, but never comes back down?
Answer: Your age
What word starts with E, ends with E, but only holds a single letter?
Answer: An envelope
What kind of room can no man enter?
Answer: A mushroom
How far can you run into a forest?
Answer: Halfway. Because afterwards, you're running out of the forest
What has roads yet no cars, houses but no people, and rivers yet no fish?
Answer: A map
What is is something you own, but everyone else uses more than you do?
Answer: Your name
What do you bury alive, and dig up dead?
Answer: A plant
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: There are 11 letters in "the alphabet"
What can be found in Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, yet never in Venus or Neptune?
Answer: The letter "R"
The poor have it, the rich want it, yet both will die if they eat it. What is it?
Answer: Nothing
What can you catch, yet never throw away?
Answer: A cold
What bats yet never hits, and is near a ball yet never thrown?
Answer: Eyelashes
What always sleeps with its shoes on?
Answer: A horse
We are five items of an everyday sort, and can all be found within "a tennis court." What are we?
Answer: Vowels
Not needed by the person who makes it or buys it, yet the person who needs it can't complain. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
What is strong as steel, yet shattered by a whisper?
Answer: Silence