Innocent English

I Cut Things Up My teeth are sharp, my back is straight, to cut things up it is my fate.What am I? Answer A Saw. Marks Might Be Caught My second is performed by my first, and, it is thought, a thief by the marks of my whole might be caught. What am I? Answer A Footstep. Volume of Grief My life is...

Past the Equator Sue is traveling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little cabin with a bathroom, but no window. Sue has no compass nor other instruments. Just the general luggage one brings on board a long cruise. Yet, without leaving her room or talking with anyone,...

Lighter Barrel What can be seen, but cannot be touched, and when put in a barrel, will make the barrel lighter? Answer A beam of light! No Space Necessary What can fill a room but takes up no space? Answer Light. Drop It What can you break without hitting or dropping it? Answer A promise. Dead Eat...

Many Words From One There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a...

Untouchable You can see it everyday, But cannot touch it at will. Answer The sky. Leaf is Fruit The leaves are on the fruit, The fruits is on the leaves. What is it? Answer A pineapple. Miraculous Surprise Oh, what a surprise! Oh, what a miracle! It sprouted without a seed, It stood without a...

Egg Spinning Contest You and a friend decide to have an egg spinning contest. What can be done to make sure that your egg spins the longest? Answer Boil your egg first. Unless your friend does the same, you are sure to win. Two Many Canaries? I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary...

When Chuck Norris goes to sleep, he checks its closet for the iphone. Too bad he didn’t look under the bed.  The iphone can taser your enemies so hard that it can actually alter their DNA. Decades from now, their descendants will occasionally clutch their heads and yell “What the hell was...

Unknown Destination When I left, I didn’t know where I was going; when I got there, I didn’t know where I was; when I returned, I didn’t know where I had been. Who was I? Answer Christopher Columbus – when he found the Americas. Parachute Problem Shortly after jumping from an aircraft at 5000 or so...

Pancake Predicament If the only frying pan in the house is large enough to cook two pancakes at a time and pancakes take one minute to brown one side, how can you make three pancakes in three minutes? Answer Pour two pancakes and brown the first side. After the first side is done, flip one, take...

Darn Socks You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair? Answer Four. You will have a pair of one color or another. Cost of the Stopper If a cork and a bottle cost $2.10 and the...

Buried Treasure An old parchment describes the location of buried treasure:”On the island there are only two trees, A and B, and the remains of a gallows. Start at the gallows and count the steps required to walk in a straight line to tree A. At the tree turn 90 degrees to the left and then walk...

Closed Room What kind of room has no windows or doors? Answer A mushroom! Want it, Throw it Out What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it? Answer An anchor. Thousands of Ribs I only two backbones and thousands of ribs. Answer A railroad. Stop Copying...

Water Balloons Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight.”No Fair” cried Robert, “You have 3 times as many as I do!” David said “Fine!” and gave Robert 10 more balloons. “Still not fair!” argued Robert, “You still have twice as many as I do.” How many more balloons must David...

United Bodies Two bodies have I, though both joined in one. The more still I stand, the quicker I run.What am I? Answer An hourglass. Token of Love A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky, Atop a tender strand, Rising from the land, ‘Til killed by maiden’s hand, Perhaps a token of love,...

Drown On Land Alive without breath, As cold as death, Never thirsty, Ever drinking, Clad in mail, Never clinking, Drowns on dry land, Thinks an island, Is a mountain, Thinks a fountain, Is a puff of air. What am I? Answer A fish. Devours Everything! This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts,...

Thirsty! A man dies of thirst in his own home. How is this possible? Answer The man lives in a house boat, and is in the middle of the ocean with no fresh water around. Turn It Off! A man decides to quit his job, so he turns off the lights, and walks out of the room, and 200 people die. Why do 200...

Separation Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof. Answer Fire and smoke. Trapped! You’re in a magical bathroom with no windows and the only way things can get in and out is by an open door. You decide to have a bath so you turn on the tap, you shut...

The Wise Son An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn’t know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to...

Add and Weigh Less A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 20 pounds.What did he put in the barrel? Answer He put a hole in the barrel to make it weigh less. Get Your Facts Straight! How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the...

Massachusetts How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not born a U.S. Citizen? Answer If he was born before 1783, then Massachusetts would still be a British colony. Delicious Riddle A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white...