Post by Silent' on Feb 21, 2007 16:46:24 GMT -5
These are meant to tease your brain...see how many you can get right. Please post riddles if you know any ;D ;D.
1. What does a diamond become when it is placed in a glass of water?
2. What two words have the most letters in them?
3. What is it that doesn't ask questions, but must be answered?
4. What does a chicken do when it stands on one foot?
5. What has neither flesh nor bones but four fingers and a thumb?
6. How many of each animal did Moses bring on the ark?
7. What is it that grows larger the more you take from it?
8. Poke its eye out and it has nothing but a nose. What is it?
9. What runs all day and never walks~~Often murmurs but never talks~~Has a bed and never sleeps~~Has a mouth and never eats?
10. Which side of a picture is the handle on?
11. What is the difference between here and there?
12. What fruit do you find on a dime?
13. What is no larger when it weighs 20 pounds than when it weighs 1 pound?
14. No sooner spoken than broken. what is it?
15. What falls but never breaks?~~What breaks but never falls?
16. Two men walk into a bar sit down and both order scotch on the rocks. One drinks it fast and walks out no problem, the other drinks it slowly and dies. Why is this?
17. If you start out 8 feet away from a wall and every step cut your distance in half how long before your feet will touch the wall?
18. I sit in a corner all day but travel the world what am I?
Installment 2!!!
19. What can you see in water, but never gets wet?
20. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
21. Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
22. Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?
23. 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?
24. Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
25. This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
26. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?
27. You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
28. What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?
29. How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number.
30. 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?
31. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Those are just a few I'll try to add more every week.
1. What does a diamond become when it is placed in a glass of water?
2. What two words have the most letters in them?
3. What is it that doesn't ask questions, but must be answered?
4. What does a chicken do when it stands on one foot?
5. What has neither flesh nor bones but four fingers and a thumb?
6. How many of each animal did Moses bring on the ark?
7. What is it that grows larger the more you take from it?
8. Poke its eye out and it has nothing but a nose. What is it?
9. What runs all day and never walks~~Often murmurs but never talks~~Has a bed and never sleeps~~Has a mouth and never eats?
10. Which side of a picture is the handle on?
11. What is the difference between here and there?
12. What fruit do you find on a dime?
13. What is no larger when it weighs 20 pounds than when it weighs 1 pound?
14. No sooner spoken than broken. what is it?
15. What falls but never breaks?~~What breaks but never falls?
16. Two men walk into a bar sit down and both order scotch on the rocks. One drinks it fast and walks out no problem, the other drinks it slowly and dies. Why is this?
17. If you start out 8 feet away from a wall and every step cut your distance in half how long before your feet will touch the wall?
18. I sit in a corner all day but travel the world what am I?
Installment 2!!!
19. What can you see in water, but never gets wet?
20. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
21. Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
22. Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?
23. 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?
24. Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
25. This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
26. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?
27. You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
28. What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?
29. How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number.
30. 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?
31. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Those are just a few I'll try to add more every week.