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100

What goes up and never comes down?

your age

100

I am as light as a feather, yet no one can hold me for long. What am I?

A BREATH

100

Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? 

 A SHIRT

100

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

A stamp

100

The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?

A HOLE

200


My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Thick, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?


candle


200

No sooner spoken than broken. What am I?

Silence

200

What can you catch but not throw?

A cold

200

What kind of room has no windows or doors?


Mushroom

200

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?


A river

300

I make two people out of one. What am I?

Shadow

300

If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?

A secret

300

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? 


A die

300

What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself.

Your finger

300

I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?

blackboard

400

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

your name

400

When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?

in the dictionary

400

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?

fire

400

I don't have flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet I have fingers and thumbs of my own. What am I?

Glove

400

What room do ghosts avoid?

The living room

500


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

footsteps

500

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?

memories

500

Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?


 he is bald 

500

Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?

There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy, and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.




 



500

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Yesterday, today, tomorrow