Riddles
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
A secret.
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it?
You can’t buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.
A telephone book.
What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
A chalkboard
What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
The year 1961 can be read upside down and that won’t happen again until 6009!
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A doughnut.
What has to be broken before it can be used?
An egg.
What does no man want, yet no man wants to lose?
Work - Employment
How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
Only one, the last one.
What is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else?
Your mind.
Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
A kitchen strainer.
What goes up and never comes down?
Your age.
What’s the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
To cover cows.
What’s long and thin, covered in skin; red in parts, and put in tarts?
Rhubarb.
What has feet and legs, and nothing else?
Stockings
What is the moon worth?
$1, because it has 4 quarters.
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
A candle.
What stays where it is when it goes off?
An alarm clock
You heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die, ’til you call me again. What am I?
An echo
I never was, I am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball
What am I?
I am Tomorrow
Question
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place
Answer
The letter ‘e’.
Riddle
I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?
Answer
A snake.
