Long Island Towns
Ordinary Scene
What is Plainview?
I am easier to get into than out of
What is Trouble?
I am taller when I'm younger, and shorter when I'm old
What is a Candle?
Rocky Stream
What is Stony Brook?
This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steal; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, and beats mountain down.
What is Time? A riddle from the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien posed to Bilbo by Gollum.
Envious Harbor
What is Greenport?
If you don't keep me, I'll break
What is a Promise?
If I am fed I will grow; But if I drink I will die
What is Fire?
Hairless Victory
What is Baldwin?
Lifeless, life's perfect form I wear; Can show a nose, eye, tongue, or ear; Yet neither smell, see, taste, or hear; All shapes and features I can boast; No flesh, no bones, no blood - no ghost; All colors, without paint, put on; And change like the chameleon.
What is a Reflection/Mirror? A riddle written by Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels.
Mend Swine
What is Patchogue?
Two things you can never eat for breakfast
What are Lunch and Dinner?
Greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die
What is Nothing?
Jump Swine
What is Hauppauge?
There is a house; One enters it blind and comes out seeing
What is a Schoolhouse? This riddle is the Worlds Oldest Riddle and dates back 4,000 years to Ancient Sumer.
Cold Mouth
What is Islip?
What is a Teapot?
Always runs, never walks; Often murmurs, never talks; Has a bed, but never sleeps; Has a mouth, but never eats.
What is a River?
Wine President
What is Port Jefferson?
Mankind it mars; Speech it hinders; Yet Speech it will inspire
What is Alcohol? One of Odin's riddles from the Saga of King Heidrek the Wise.
Old Lamb Village
What is Muttontown?
I come once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years
What is the Letter M?
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters
What is the Wind?
Partially Empty Elevations
What is Half Hollow Hills?
What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?
What is Man? The riddle the sphinx posed to Oedipus in Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex.