RIDDLES
What gets wet while drying?
A towel
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp
What is red and smells like blue paint?
Red paint
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
The match
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Bank
What can you catch, but not throw?
A cold
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and dinner
A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
They weren’t. Survivors don’t need to be buried.
What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
Your name
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
A match
What kind of band never plays music?
A rubber band
What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Their middle names.
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
A river
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
A teapot
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown. What am I?
Time
What has many teeth, but cannot bite?
A comb
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
A map
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
They weigh the same
You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
The letter “E.”
What has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle
What is the end of everything?
The letter “G”
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin
How much dirt is in a hole that’s two feet by three feet?
None, it’s a hole.
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?
He’s bald.