I fly in the sky but I'm not a kite.
I hold lots of water, but I'm not a pond.
What am I?
*
A cloud *
How do you get rid of varnish?
*
Drop the R and make it vanish *
What has a head and a tail but no body?
*
A coin *
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters. What am I?
*
The wind *
What has fingers but cannot use them?
*
Gloves *
What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
*
The sea *
If a man carried my burden he would break his back.
I am not big but leave silver in my tracks.
What am I?
*
A snail *
What kind of running means walking?
*
Running out of gas *
What lies down a hundred feet in the air?
*
A centipede *
How do you stick down an envelope underwater?
*
With a seal *
What do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?
*
All the angles *
I have lots of letters but no gas. What am I?
*
A computer keyboard *
I have two covers but no bed. What am I?
*
A book *
What's the only nut with a hole in it?
*
A doughnut *
I disappear when you walk away. What am I?
*
Your reflection *
What happens when a body is placed in water?
*
The phone rings *
Which is the fastest, cold or heat?
*
Heat - you can catch a cold *
What works best when it clenches its teeth?
*
A zipper *
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary in the world?
*
Wrong *
What bites without using teeth?
*
Frost *
What kind of tree has hands?
*
A palm tree *
What likes to spend the summer in a fur coat and the winter in a wool bathing suit?
*
A moth *
I'm full of air but can't breathe. What am I?
*
A balloon *
My face turns red when I see you coming. What am I?
*
A stop light *
A class has a top and a bottom. What lies between?
*
The student body *
What kind of sand will you never find at the beach?
*
Ampersand *
What starts with 'E', ends with 'E' and contains only one letter?
*
An envelope *
Gentle enough to soothe the skin.
Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. Who am I?
*
Water *
What has good taste but never wears clothes?
*
A tongue *
What unusual word has three U's in it?
*
Unusual *
What kind of ties can't you wear?
*
Railroad ties *
Why did the Pope cross the road?
*
He crosses everything *
What do you call someone who has just printed 1,000 puns off the Internet?
*
Well e-quipped *
What is something everyone has seen but will never see again?
*
Yesterday *
What does a dog do that a man steps in?
*
Pants *
What is the cheapest way to buy holes?
*
Wholesale *
Who invented fractions?
*
Henry the Eighth *
What kind of poetry can you make up out of your head?
*
Blank verse *
What holds up a solar house?
*
Sunbeams *
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
*
A secret *
In what bed is it perfectly okay to dump manure?
*
A flower bed *
What animal is best at math?
*
Rabbits - they multiply fastest *
Why are misers good math teachers?
*
They know how to make every penny count *
How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
*
Just once. Only during the first calculation do you subtract 5 from 25.
After the first calculation, you will be subtracting 5 from 20,
then 5 from 15, etc. *
You can't keep this until you have given it. What is it?
*
A promise *
Why are bacteria bad mathematicians?
*
Because they multiply by dividing *
How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
*
Only one - the last one *
What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?
*
An umbrella *
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
*
Mount Everest *
What are the next four letters in this series:
Y Y H L Y E Y T ....
*
R R R R
The series is made by taking the last letter of each month of the year in order.
The next 4 months are septembeR octobeR novembeR decembeR. *
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
* The Moon *
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
*
Your name *
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
*
A rug *
There are six flies in the kitchen. Which one is the cowboy?
*
The one on the range *
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
*
Smiles (there's a mile between the two S's) *
What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?
*
A yardstick *
What is the thing which, once poured out, cannot be gathered again?
*
Rain *
When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you happy. When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I?
*
Wine *
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
*
An ear of corn *
If you break me, I do not stop working.
If you touch me, I may be snared.
If you lose me, Nothing will matter.
What am I?
*
One's heart *
How long is a piece of string?
*
Twice the length from the middle to the end *
My teeth are sharp, my back is straight, to cut things up it is my fate. What am I?
*
A saw *
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
*
Light *
Forward and forward I go, never looking back. My limit no one knows, more of me do they lack. Like a river I do flow, and an eagle I fly. What am I?
*
Time *
A word has 9 letters, but only on of these is a vowel. What word am I thinking of?
*
Strengths *
Which month has 29 days in a leap year?
*
Every month *
You heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die, 'till you call me again. What am I?
*
An echo *
I run over fields and woods all day.
Under the bed at night I sit not alone.
My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning.
What is it?
*
A shoe *
What crime is punishable if attempted, but not punishable if committed?
*
Suicide *
I'm mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?.
*
A tree *
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, when I have flown! What am I?
*
Time *
I come in different shapes and sizes.
Part of me are curves, others are straight
You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me.
What am I?
*
A jigsaw puzzle piece *
What odd number becomes even when beheaded?
*
Seven (s / even) *
A farmer combined 2 compost heaps with 3 others. How many compost heaps does he have?
*
One *
If you had one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil burner, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?
*
The match *
The rich men want it, the wise men know it, the poor all need it, and the kind men show it. What is it?
*
Love *
If it takes six people six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one person to dig half a hole?
*
There is no such thing as half a hole *
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
*
Stars or Dreams *
It is said hat some things are improved by death. What stinks while living but in death smells good?
*
A pig *
A man walks into a bar and immediately passes out. Why?
*
It was an iron bar *
A mountain goat attempts to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the goat bounds upward three feet but slips back two.
How long does it take for the goat to reach the top?
*
Fifty eight minutes. His progress each minute is one foot, & he reaches the top on the fifty-eighth minute (just before he would normally slip back two feet) *
What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
*
The letter "R" *
What has 5 hands but is still perfectly normal?
*
A person wearing a watch *
A man lives in a square-shaped house with all four walls facing the South. A bear is outside the house. What colour is the bear?
*
White. The only place where a square-shaped house could have four South facing walls in at the North Pole. The bear would be a polar bear. *
What time is it when the number of minutes since midnight is nine times the number of minutes before noon?
*
10:48 A.M. *
How can you get a fully grown apple inside a bottle?
The bottle must be a normal glass bottle which has no cracks or alternative openings, the entrance of which is too small for the apple to pass through.
The apple must end up in perfect condition.
*
Place the glass bottle over the bud on the apple tree (before the apple begins to grow).
The apple will then grow inside of the bottle *
I am larger than you can imagine, possibly without bounds. My last five letters name something found in poetry. What am I?
*
Universe *
What do you always break by saying it's name?
*
Silence *
Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son. How can this be?
*
"That Man" is my son *
Two policemen walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who had obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't tell how.
There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water.
How did he do it?
*
He stood on a block of ice until it melted *
Why can't you take a photograph of a Chinese woman with hair curlers?
*
You need a camera to take a photograph, not hair curlers *
What is the difference in value between a fresh new $100 bill, and a dirty and torn old one?
*
$99. The second bill is a dirty and torn old 'one'. *
You have died and are in limbo. There are two doors. One door leads to heaven, and the other door leads to hell.
There are two guardians, one by each door. One guardian always tells the truth, and the other guardian always lies.
What one question can you ask a guardian to find out which door leads to heaven?
*
"If I asked the other guardian which door leads to heaven, what would he tell me?" *
I have five letters and five addressed envelopes. If I place the letters in the envelopes at random, what are the chances that only four letters are in their correct envelopes?
*
There is no chance. If four are in the correct place, the fifth must be as well *
You have 10 bags filled with 10 gold coins, each coin should weigh 10 grams. One bag contains coins which weigh 9 grams each as they are fake.
You have a set of scales.
How can you find out which bag contains the fake coins without loading the scales more than once?
*
Put all the coin bags on the scales and remove them one by one, noting the weight lost each time *
At a family reunion were the following people:
One grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law.
But not as many people attended as it sounds. How many were there, and who were they?
*
There were two girls and a boy, their parents, and their father's parents, making a total of seven people *
A farmer has to get a sack of corn, a chicken, and a fox across a river. The farmer is only able to bring one of the above items along with him at a time. The only problem is if he leaves the fox alone with the chicken, the fox will eat the chicken, and if he leaves the chicken along the corn sack, then the chicken will eat the corn sack.
How does the farmer get all 3 items across safely?
*
The farmer brings the chicken across. He goes back and brings the fox across, and brings the chicken back with him to the other side of the river and drops off the chicken, then he goes and brings the corn sack across, and finally he goes back for the chicken and brings it across. *
A man took a chance and moved his car from Pall Mall to a hotel on the Strand. He soon realised that the move would bankrupt him. How?
*
He was playing Monopoly and realised he didn't have enough moeny to pay the rent *
I got it in a forest, but didn't want it.
Once I had it, I couldn't see it.
The more I searched for it, the less I liked it.
I took it home in my hand because I could not find it.
What was it?
*
A splinter *
What walks on four legs in the at first, two half way through, and three at the end?
*
A human. As a baby, it crawls and then in old age, it uses a walking stick. *
From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?
*
The letter "E" *
I am a god and a planet, and my name also denotes something used in an instrument for determining how hot you are. Who am I?
*
Mercury *
What is the difference between a gossip and a mirror?
*
A mirror reflects the truth without talking; a gossip talks but doesn't reflect the truth *
Think of words ending in the letters -GRY (i.e. angry and hungry are two of them).
There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day.
*
There are only three words in 'the English language'. The third word is 'language'. *
A hand of cards consists of one Queen, two Diamonds, three Aces, and four Spades.
What is the minimum number of cards the hand could contain?
*
Seven cards *
You can find me in darkness but never in light. I am present in daytime but absent at night. In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight. What am I?
*
The letter "D" *
Although I'm not an insect, some people found me very difficult to exterminate. They called me something like 'insane priest.' The first half of my name means the same as 'scrape', and my last three letters are a metal. Who am I?
*
Rasputin *
A man is awake night after night without getting a wink of sleep, yet he doesn't feel tired, how can this be?
*
He is a night shift worker who sleep during the day *
How can I tie a knot in a piece of string without letting go of either of the ends?
*
By picking up the string with my arms folded and then unfolding them *
A child at school is punished (for being naughty) by being given 100 heavy sand bags to carry from one side of the athletics field to the other.
Suddenly, after having moved 30 of the bags the child realizes he can put something in each of the bags that will make them lighter, what is it?
*
A hole *
A woman gave birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year but were not twins. How is this possible?
*
The woman had triplets *
The Joe-kster's sock drawer contains ten pairs of green socks and ten pairs of yellow socks. If he is only allowed to take one sock from the drawer at a time and he can't see what color sock he's taking until he's taken it, how many socks does he have to take before he is guaranteed to have at least one matching pair?
*
Three. In the worst possible senario, the first two socks he takes out will consist of one green sock and one yellow sock. The next sock he takes out is guaranteed to match one or the other. *
I stand on one leg, with my heart in my head, who am I?
*
A cabbage *
Peter picked one pepper more than Paul. Pat picked one pepper more than Pam. Peter and Paul picked 10 more peppers than Pat and Pam. Peter, Paul, Pat and Pam picked 60 peppers. How many peppers did Peter pick?
*
18 peppers in total *
How can Princess Maria be a one year old and nine month old at the same time?
*
She is a race horse *
There was once an old woman who had very little money.
The only food she had for her ten children was six potatoes.
How did she make sure that each child had an equal share?
*
She mashed the potatoes and then divided them evenly *
While on my way to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks;
Each sack had seven cats;
Each cat had seven kittens.
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives;
How many were going to St. Ives?
*
Just one *
There more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
*
Footsteps *
A horse is tied to a 15 metre rope and there is a bail of hay 25 metres away from him.
Although this is so, the horse is able to eat from the bail of hay. How is this possible?
*
The rope isn't tied to anything *
As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
*
Sawdust *
There is a word in the English language in which:
the fist two letters signify a man,
the first three signify a female,
the first four signify a great man,
and the whole word, a great woman.
What is the word?
*
Heroine *
What is worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?
*
Finding half a worm *
A family has 5 kids. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
*
The other half were boys too *
Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. What is it?
*
A railroad *
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
*
Silence *
To unravel me you need a key. No key that was made by locksmith's hand, but a key that only I will understand. What am I?
*
A cipher *
When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. What is it?
*
A riddle *
What light did Noah bring onto the ark?
*
Floodlight *
What always goes to bed with his shoes on?
*
A horse *
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
*
Ton *
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
*
A postage stamp *
I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
*
A dictionary *
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
*
Counterfeit money *
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?
*
The letter "M" *
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
*
A river *
Yellow and white. Hard outside. Stolen from life. What is it?
*
An egg *
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
*
Breath *
Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
*
A tissue *
What is the noblest musical instrument?
*
An upright piano *
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
*
An onion *
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
*
Fire *
What is full of holes and yet holds water?
*
A sponge *
Three large people try to crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?
*
It wasn't raining *
Hiding under a table at his sisters birthday party, Joe can see eight pairs of legs walking around in the living room. After a while, he watched everybody go into the adjoining room to get some food. How is it that there are still six legs in the living room?
*
There are Joe's legs, plus the four table legs *
I am the center of gravity, hold a capital situation in Vienna, and as I am foremost in every victory, am allowed by all to be invaluable. Though I am invisible, I am clearly seen in the midst of a river. I could name three who are in love with me and have three associates in vice. It is vain that you seek me for I have long been in heaven yet even now lie embalmed in the grave. What am I?
*
The letter "V" *
What animal keeps the best time?
*
A watchdog *
No legs have I to dance. No lungs have I to breathe. No life have I to live or die. And yet I do all three. What am I?
*
Fire *
Lighter than what I'm made of, more of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?
*
An iceberg *
What runs around the garden without moving?
*
A fence *
Why is the letter "E" like London?
*
Because 'E' is the capital of England *
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
*
Stars *
I'm a word that's hardly there. Take away my start, and I'm an herbal flair. What am I?
*
Sparsley (Take away 'S' = Parsley) *
Who succeeded the first Prime Minister of Australia?
*
The second *
How may letters are there in the alphabet?
*
11: T=1 H=2 E=3 A=4 L=5 P=6 H=7 A=8 B=9 E=10 T=11 *
I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
*
Number 194 *
Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail, never clinking. What am I?
*
A fish *
What gets wetter the more it dries?
*
A towel *
What happens when you park a frog illegally?
*
It gets toad away *
I cannot be felt, seen or touched. Yet I can be found in everybody. My existence is always in debate. Yet I have my own style of music. What Am I?
*
I'm a Soul *
What is it that has four legs and one back, yet can't walk?
*
A chair *
What Does This Mean?
"Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E"
*
Too wise you are, Too wise you be; I see you are, Too wise for me *
You can find me in darkness but never in light. I am present in daytime but absent at night. In the deepest of shadows, I hide in plain sight. What am I?
*
The letter "D" *
Take one out and scratch my head. I am now black but once was red. What am I?
*
A match *
I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be?
*
Start with "few" & add "er" ==> it becomes fewer *
Plant the setting sun and what will come up?
*
Morning glory *
What asks no questions but requires many answers?
*
A doorbell *
What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
*
The wind *
What did Adam and Eve wear?
*
Bare skin *
What do we often return but never borrow?
*
Thanks *
What do you keep even after giving it to somebody else?
*
Your word *
What falls but never breaks, and breaks but never falls?
*
Night and day *
What goes up and never comes down?
*
Your age *
What has a mouth but never eats?
*
A river *
What increases its value by one half when turned upside down?
*
The number 6 *
What is so brittle that even to name it is to break it?
*
Silence *
What is the hardest thing to deal with?
*
An old pack of cards *
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
*
The bridge of your nose *
What is yours, and used by others more than yourself?
*
Your name *
What time of day was Adam created?
*
Just a little before Eve *
When is a door not a door?
*
When it's ajar *
Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?
*
Each weighs one pound *
Which is the strongest day of the week?
*
Sunday - the rest are week days *
Why is your nose not 12 inches long?
*
Because it would then be a foot *
With what two animals do you always go to bed?
*
Two calves *
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