Riddles 1
When you need me you throw me away.
When you don’t need me you bring me back.
What am I?
What is an anchor?
If you throw me out a window, you’ll leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but through the door,
and give someone a new life.
What am I?
What is the letter N?
(Remove the letter “n” from “window” and you get “widow.” Put the “n” in the word “door” and you get “donor.”)
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, five in the middle is seen.
The first of all letters and the first of all numbers take the spaces between.
Now put it together and you will discover the name of a once-famous king.
Who is it?
What is DAVID?
D is the Roman numeral for 500. V is the Roman numeral for 5. A is the first letter. I is the Roman numeral for 1 — the first number.)
Imagine you’re in a dark room with no windows and a locked door.
How do you get out?
What is imagine a key?
You leave home running.
You make a right, then turn left twice.
You turn left one more time and see two men in masks. Who are they?
What is The catcher and the umpire?
(They’re at home plate.)
Forward I'm heavy. Backward I'm not.
What am I?
What is Ton?
A man has a bee in his hand.
What's in his eye?
What is Beauty?
A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn’t know the password, so he watches the bouncer to figure it out. A woman comes up and the bouncer says, “12.” The woman replies, “6.” The bouncer lets her in.
Another woman comes up and the bouncer says, “6.” The woman says “3” and the bouncer lets her in.
The man feels he’s heard enough and goes up to the door. The bouncer says “10,” and the man replies, “5.” The bouncer tells him to get lost.
What should the man have said instead?
What is 3? (The number of letters in the word ten.)
Tear one off and scratch my head.
What once was red is black instead.
What am I?
What is a match?
What tastes better than it smells?
What is a tongue?