What gets wetter, the more it dries?
A towel
What’s full of holes but still holds water?
a sponge
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die. What is it?
fire
What goes up but never goes down?
age
If you have it, you want to share it. If you shae it, you don’t have it.
a secret
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
a stamp
What has to be broken before it can be used?
an egg
What doesn’t get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?
water
The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
footsteps
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
a nose
Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
an onion
You answer me, although I never ask you question. What am I?
a telephone
The more there is, the less you see
Darkness
What question can you never answer “yes” to?
“Are you asleep?”
What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
blackboard
Big as biscuit, deep as cup, Even a river can’t fill it up. What’s it?
A kitchen strainer
The maker doesn’t need it, the buyer doesn’t use it, the user uses it without knowing. What is it?
a coffin
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
light
What type of dress can never be worn?
address
What is something you will never see again?
yesterday
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take it in when you don’t want to use it?
an anchor
What do you fill with your empty hands?
gloves
What can go up and come down without moving?
A temperature
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
charcoal
I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?
memory