Riddles 48
Life Disappears
You get many of me, but never enough.
After the last one, your life soon will snuff.
You may have one of me but one day a year,
When the last one is gone, your life disappears.What am I?
Answer
Your birthday.
Afraid To Go Home
He was afraid to go home because of the man in the mask.
Who is the man in the mask?
Answer
The man in the mask is the catcher.
Father’s Child
A father’s child, a mother’s child, yet no one’s son.
Who am I?
Answer
The daughter.
Wiggle At Will
I have four of these,
With matching extremities.
They can do many things,
And hardly ever bring me pain.
Unless I stick them with a pin,
Or burn them sometimes when…
What is it that I can wiggle at will?
And use in other means still?
Answer
Fingers.
Steady and Strong
Stronger than any beast,
Rougher than any sea.
Steadier than a favorable wind,
and of me none shall be free.
What am I?
Answer
I am Earth.
Twenty Houses
If you counted 20 houses going to school, and then 20 houses on the left, going home, how many houses have you counted?
Answer
20. They’re the same houses going back.
Cannot Be Worn
What dress does everyone have, but no one wears?
Answer
An address.
Heads and Tails
What has fifty heads and fifty tails?
Answer
Fifty pennies.
Sleeping Bull
What is a sleeping bull called?
Answer
A bull dozer.
Hiding Everywhere
I’m hiding in the air,
I’m hiding everywhere.
Under your bed,
In your cupboard,
I’m hiding everywhere.What am I?
Answer
Oxygen.
All Freezes
I have three eyes, all in a line.
When the red one opens, all freezes.What am I?
Answer
Traffic light.
Autumnal Tone
Make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.
What if my leaves fell like its own —
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone.
Answer
The west wind.
No License
A woman with no driver license goes the wrong way on a one-way street and turns left at a corner with a ‘no left’ turn sign. A policeman sees her but does nothing. Why?
Answer
She’s walking.
Cuts The Wind
The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind.What is it?
Answer
A blade of grass.
Numbers
Adored by few,
Feared and hated by many.
Mistress of the entire universal reason,
Master in the art of numbers.
Some may have solved many of your mysteries,
But there still much of them to find.
What are they?
Answer
Mathematics.
Striving
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can’t relate.
What am I?
Answer
Pi.
In Water
What can you see in water, but never gets wet?
Answer
A reflection.
Plane Crash
A plane crashed and every single person on board this flight were killed, yet, there were survivors. Explain how?
Answer
The married people lived; the singles died.
Palestine
I’m always in charge,
I’m never in debt.
I’m known as the first amongst all my kind.
I’m found within cars,
But never in buses.
I’m not used in Mexico, I’m used in Palestine.What am I?
Answer
The letter ‘a.’
Unstoppable
I can kill people, but without me there would be no people.
I was born long ago and will someday die.
I can cause fire and am a magician with water.
I have more brothers than any person.
There is very little that can stop me.What am I?
Answer
A celestial body.