Short Riddles
How many letters are in the alphabet?
What's as big as you are yet doesn't weigh an ounce?
The moon is my father. The sea is my mother. I have a million brothers. I die when I reach land.
Why did the Indian chief wear so many feathers?
what is brown and stiky and goes round and round
As light as a feather, but you can’t hold it for ten minutes.
What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?
What part of the turkey has the most feathers?
I am the yellow hem of the sea's blue skirt. What am I?
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
What do you throw out to use and take in when you're done?
How many animals did Moses take on the arc with him?
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two more letters?
A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.
What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?
What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.
Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.
Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.
Who is he that runs without a leg. And his house on his back?
A man lay dead in a room with 51 bicycles around him. What happened?
David's father has three sons : Snap, Krackel, and _____ ?
Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?
A tiny bead, like fragile glass, strung along a cord of grass.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.
What goes up but never comes down?
I'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?
What has a single eye but cannot see?
I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.
People walk on me day and night. I never sleep...... Who am I?
what is a triangle with 2 sides?
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What does every birthday end with?
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
What is it that has four legs, one head, and a foot?
Forwards I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow? What am I?
Up on high I wave away but not a word can I say.
A house full, a yard full, a chimney full, no one can get a spoonful.
What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What goes all the way around the world but stays in a corner?
When set loose I fly away. Never so cursed as when I go astray.
How is it possible to shave three times a day and still grow a beard?
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