Tricky questions
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Mushroom
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Candle
How many letters are there in 'the English alphabet'?
18
What word is always pronounced wrong?
WRONG
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
YOUR NAME
What gives you ability to walk through walls?
DOORS
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
David
What do the numbers 11, 69, 88, and 96 all have in common?
They are all read the same upside down
What word can you add letters to make it shorter?
Short
What goes up but never comes down?
YOUR AGE
What turns everything around but does not move?
MIRROR
I am made of metal surrounded by wood. Everyone uses me, what am I?
PENCIL
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
What five-letter word can be read the same upside down or right side up?
HINT: WHEN HE/SHE DOES IT, CAN'T DO IT DRY
SWIMS
If you have me you want to share me, if you share me you won't have me. What am I?
YOUR SECRET
What can you catch but not throw?
Cold
Round and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What am I?
Finger
What can’t talk on its own but will reply when spoken to?
Hint: you are in a cave
Echo
I start with M, end with X, and I have any number of letters in me. What am I?
MAILBOX
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
YOUR BREATH
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
Creeping on its belly, curled into a ring.
Eyes forever open, beware its lethal sting.
Snake
The more you have of it, the less you see
darkness
Where does today come before yesterday?
HINT: (and tomorrow!)
The dictionary
What can you keep after giving to someone?
YOUR WORD