Short riddles
What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood?
Clock
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
A grandfather, two fathers, and two sons went to the movie theater together and everyone bought one movie ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?
3 (the grandfather is also a father and the father is also a son)
Mr. Taylor has four daughters and each has a brother. In total, how many children does Mr. Taylor have?
Five children because all of his daughters have the same brother.
The more there is the less you see.
Darkness
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
Raj has 2 books. One of the books is faced upside-down and the second book is rotated which makes the top of the book facing Raj. Then what will be the total sum of the 1st page in each of these books?
Irrespective of how the books are oriented the first page of every book is page number 1 thus 1+1 = 2.
What is inanimate, yet can stand up,
Can start out copper and end up as steel,
So fragile, a child could break one,
But many have the strength to lift a man?
What is it?
A human hair
You hear me once, you heard me again, and then I die until I am called again.
Echo
What month of the year has 28 days
All of them
I have a pound of feathers and a pound of iron? Can you please tell me which one weighs more?
Both of them remain the same weight as Pound is Pound irrespective of the object.
Looks like water,
But it's heat.
Sits on sand,
Lays on concrete.
People have been known,
To follow it everywhere.
But it gets them no place,
And all they can do is stare.
A mirage
White and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What is it?
Finger
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?
Zero
I have three feet, but I can't stand without leaning.
To make matters worse I have no arms to lean with.
Please be good so that I'm not called into use.
What am I?
A Yardstick
Come up and we go, Go down and we stay.
Anchor
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
If you buy a rooster for the purpose of laying eggs and you expect to get three eggs each day for breakfast, how many eggs will you have after three weeks?
Zero, roosters do not lay eggs
I'm not really more than holes tied to more holes; I'm strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole.
Chain