What Is...? Riddles
What is yours, but is used by others much more than it is used by you?
What is...
Your name.
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
What room would dead people never enter?
What is...
The living room.
A man sees something that is white when dirty and black when clean. What is it?
What is...
A blackboard.
What has six faces, but no facial features. It also has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
What is...
A die (dice).
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
What is...
Pencil lead.
Why is Europe like a frying pan?
What is...
They both have Greece at the bottom.
When does December come before July?
What is...
In the dictionary!
What has 88 keys, but none of them can open doors?
What is...
A keyboard.
This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I?
What is...
Breath!
A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
What is...
An apple a day keeps the doctor away?
There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?
What is...
Place the apple on one person's head.
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
What is...
I am fire!
I make two people out of one. What am I?
What is...
A mirror.
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What am I?
What is...
A watermelon.
Mr. Bob has seven sons, and each son has one daughter. How many kids does Mr. Bob have?
What is...
Mr. Bob has eight kids.
You have me today, tomorrow you'll have more; As your time passes, I'm not easy to store; I don't take up space, but I'm only in one place; I am what you saw, but not what you see.
What am I?
What is...
Memories!
It is more powerful than a star and emptier than a black hole. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. what is it?
What is...
Nothing!
A man challenges the robot that he can't say the alphabet as fast as the man. Somehow, the man wins, even though the robot says the alphabet extremely fast. How?
What is...
The man tricks the robot and says the words "the alphabet" to the robot.
You’re in a room with two doors. There’s a guard at each door. One door is the exit, but behind the other door is something that will kill you. You’re told that one guard always tells the truth and the other guard always lies. You don’t know which guard is which. You are allowed to ask one question to either of the guards to determine which door is the exit. What question can you ask to get out without knowing the doors or guards?
What is...
Ask the guard either what door the other guard would say is the exit, then choose the opposite door.