All the Riddles

1. A pair of children who know everything. (Find out more.)
    
   
2. A parrot dancing on a shelf made of cowrie shells. (Find out more.)
    
   
3. A thing you do not wish to enter but into which you must go by force. (Find out more.)
    
   
4. As I was going down the road, I saw the dead carrying the living. What did I see? (Find out more.)
    
   
5. As long as I eat, I live, but when I drink, I die. (Find out more.)
    
   
6. As white as milk but milk it's not; as green as grass but grass it's not; as red as a rose but rose it's not; as black as ink but ink it's not. (Find out more.)
    
   
7. Ask a question that must be answered "Yes." (Find out more.)
    
   
8. England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales; Monkeys, rats, and wiggle-tails. Spell that with four letters. (Find out more.)
    
   
9. Find me an old woman who is only one month old. (Find out more.)
    
   
10. First I am as white as snow; then as green as grass I grow; next I am as red as blood; lastly I'm as black as mud. (Find out more.)
     
    
11. Flies high, low, everywhere, but hasn't got any wings. (Find out more.)
     
    
12. Four legs and a foot but it can't walk; it has a head but cannot see or talk. (Find out more.)
     
    
13. From house to house I go, sometimes narrow, sometimes wide. and whether there's rain or snow I always stay outside. (Find out more.)
     
    
14. Hands she has but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are cold, eyes she has but without sight. (Find out more.)
     
    
15. He makes food for us but we cannot touch him. (Find out more.)
     
    
16. How can a baseball game end in a score of four to two without a man reaching first base? (Find out more.)
     
    
17. How can a cat go into a cellar with four feet and come out with eight? (Find out more.)
     
    
18. How many balls of string would it take to reach the moon? (Find out more.)
     
    
19. How many legs does a mule have if you call a tail a leg? (Find out more.)
     
    
20. How many lions can you put into an empty cage? (Find out more.)
     
    
21. How many peas in a pint? (Find out more.)
     
    
22. How many people fit into an empty stadium? (Find out more.)
     
    
23. How many times can 19 be subtracted from 189? (Find out more.)
     
    
24. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; all the great horses, and all the great men couldn't put Humpty together again. (Find out more.)
     
    
25. I am a beautiful hall, all walled in red velvet, with white armchairs made of bone, and in the middle, a woman dances. (Find out more.)
     
    
26. I am a fish in a pool of water surrounded by warriors carrying spears. (Find out more.)
     
    
27. I am a house without a door. (Find out more.)
     
    
28. I come at the end of life and at the beginning of everything. (Find out more.)
     
    
29. I come out of the earth; I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my tail, takes off my suit of silk, and weeps beside me when l am dead. (Find out more.)
     
    
30. I go on a journey and never return. (Find out more.)
     
    
31. I have a basket full of jewels: in the evening, they are scattered, and in the morning they are gathered up. (Find out more.)
     
    
32. I have a mouth and do not speak; I have a bed and do not sleep. (Find out more.)
     
    
33. I live without a body; I speak without a tongue; everyone can hear me, but no one can see me. (Find out more.)
     
    
34. I never sleep. (Find out more.)
     
    
35. I planted black seeds in the white earth; its harvest cannot be harvested with the hand, but only with the mind. (Find out more.)
     
    
36. I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw: how many s's in that? (Find out more.)
     
    
37. I'm white as snow, and black as coal; I walk but have no feet; I speak but have no mouth. (Find out more.)
     
    
38. If life gets really tough, what do you have that you can always count on? (Find out more.)
     
    
39. In English, what comes after the letter E? (Find out more.)
     
    
40. It conquers tigers, lions, raging bulls, poor men alike and kings; they all fall, overcome, at its feet, and then they rise again. (Find out more.)
     
    
41. It digs about in the deserted village. (Find out more.)
     
    
42. It goes up the hill, and down the hill, and yet it standeth still. (Find out more.)
     
    
43. It is not afraid of people, but it is afraid of water. (Find out more.)
     
    
44. It runs and runs, yet does not run away; it longs for sunlight, and yet never sees it. (Find out more.)
     
    
45. It sits on the stove but is not burnt; it sits on the table and is not ashamed; it goes through a keyhole without having to squeeze. (Find out more.)
     
    
46. Just two hairs grow upon her head, but she wears a flowered gown and dances in the flowerbed, the prettiest creature in town. (Find out more.)
     
    
47. Many lights: no one turns them on, but they shine bright. (Find out more.)
     
    
48. My first 2 are a man; my first 3 a woman; my first 4 a brave man; my whole is a brave woman. (Find out more.)
     
    
49. My first in in take but not in give; my second is in die but also in live; my third is in go but not in stop; my fourth is in raise but not in drop; my last is in where but not in who; my whole is a beast you see at the zoo. (Find out more.)
     
    
50. My first is in blue but not in glue; my second is in old but not in new; my third is in look but not in see; my last is in ask but not in plea; my whole has leaves but not a flower; 'twill help you pass an idle hour. (Find out more.)
     
    
51. My first is in bottle but isn't in milk, my second's in satin but isn't in silk, my third and my fourth are both in a pair, my fifth is in hope and also despair, my last is in yellow but isn't in pink, my whole contains liquid for people to drink. (Find out more.)
     
    
52. My first is in bread but not in bead, my second is in dig but not in dug, my third is in fled but not in flew, my fourth is in hid but not in hit, my fifth is in held but not in herd, my sixth is in step but not in stop. (Find out more.)
     
    
53. My first is in little, but not in stand; my second is in finger, but not in brand; my third is in big, but not in bite; my fourth is in home, but not in mite; my fifth is in think, but not in hide; my whole is what you need, at night, inside. (Find out more.)
     
    
54. My first is in riddle, but not in little. my second is in think, but not in brink. my third is in thyme, but not in time. my fourth is in mother, but not in brother. my last is in time, but not in climb. (Find out more.)
     
    
55. My first is in window but not in pane; my second's in road but not in lane; my third is in oval but not in round; my fourth is in hearing but not in sound; my whole is known as a sign of peace, and from Noah's Ark won quick release. (Find out more.)
     
    
56. My first is twice in apple but not once in tart; my second is in liver but not in heart; my third is in giant and also in ghost; whole, I'm best when I am roast. (Find out more.)
     
    
57. My house has no light. (Find out more.)
     
    
58. My teeth are sharp; my back is straight; to cut things up it is my fate. (Find out more.)
     
    
59. Name me and destroy me. (Find out more.)
     
    
60. Never planted, still it grows. What's the answer now, who knows? (Find out more.)
     
    
61. On which side of a cup is the handle? (Find out more.)
     
    
62. Six brothers going along; two brothers get their first. (Find out more.)
     
    
63. The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every race. (Find out more.)
     
    
64. The greater it is, the less you see of it. (Find out more.)
     
    
65. There are two brothers: however much they run, they do not reach each other. (Find out more.)
     
    
66. There is a thing is the first to pity and the last to help. (Find out more.)
     
    
67. These two mountains stand closely together but cannot stand upright. (Find out more.)
     
    
68. Thirty white horses upon a red hill; now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still. (Find out more.)
     
    
69. This ox lives in the midst of enemies. (Find out more.)
     
    
70. Though I dance at a ball, yet I am nothing at all. (Find out more.)
     
    
71. To cross the water I'm the way, for water I'm above: I touch it not and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move. (Find out more.)
     
    
72. Tommy Tucker took two strings and tied two turtles to two tall trees. How many Ts in that? (Find out more.)
     
    
73. Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear by which we are bitterly pressed; in truth we may say, we are full all the day, but empty when we go to rest. (Find out more.)
     
    
74. Two sisters sit at the upstairs windows; they look around but cannot see each other, and they never come out. (Find out more.)
     
    
75. We love it more than life, fear it more than death; the poor have it; the rich have need of it. (Find out more.)
     
    
76. What 3 letters are full of power? (Find out more.)
     
    
77. What are two things you cannot have for breakfast? (Find out more.)
     
    
78. What can fall down and doesn't get hurt? (Find out more.)
     
    
79. What can pass before the sun without making a shadow? (Find out more.)
     
    
80. What cheese is made backwards? (Find out more.)
     
    
81. What comes at the end of everything? (Find out more.)
     
    
82. What did the apple say to the orange? (Find out more.)
     
    
83. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? (Find out more.)
     
    
84. What do you always get on your birthday? (Find out more.)
     
    
85. What do you call a bear missing an ear? (Find out more.)
     
    
86. What flies but never goes anywhere? (Find out more.)
     
    
87. What four days of the week start with T? (Find out more.)
     
    
88. What gets wetter the more it dries? (Find out more.)
     
    
89. What goes around a garden but never moves? (Find out more.)
     
    
90. What goes moo! baa! oink! woof! quack! (Find out more.)
     
    
91. What goes out, and never comes back? (Find out more.)
     
    
92. What goes up but doesn't come down? (Find out more.)
     
    
93. What goes up but never comes down? (Find out more.)
     
    
94. What grows bigger the more you take away? (Find out more.)
     
    
95. What has 2 arms, 2 wings, 2 tails, 3 heads, and 8 legs? (Find out more.)
     
    
96. What has a bed but never sleeps? (Find out more.)
     
    
97. What has a hundred legs but cannot walk? (Find out more.)
     
    
98. What has a spine but no bones? (Find out more.)
     
    
99. What has eyes but cannot see? (Find out more.)
     
    
100. What has four legs and flies in the air? (Find out more.)
      
     
101. What has four legs but only one foot? (Find out more.)
      
     
102. What has four legs, is big, green, and fuzzy, and if it fell on you from a tree would kill you? (Find out more.)
      
     
103. What is always before you yet you can never see it? (Find out more.)
      
     
104. What is as big as a dinosaur and doesn't weigh an ounce? (Find out more.)
      
     
105. What is everyone in the world doing at the same time? (Find out more.)
      
     
106. What is found in the middle of both America and Australia? (Find out more.)
      
     
107. What is full of holes but can hold water? (Find out more.)
      
     
108. What is it that by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose? (Find out more.)
      
     
109. What is it that even the ostrich with its long neck and sharp eyes cannot see? (Find out more.)
      
     
110. What is soft and flat but you cannot sleep on it? (Find out more.)
      
     
111. What is the difference between an elephant and a flea? (Find out more.)
      
     
112. What is the difference between here and there? (Find out more.)
      
     
113. What kind of bow is impossible to tie? (Find out more.)
      
     
114. What kind of fish can't swim? (Find out more.)
      
     
115. What letter travels the greatest distance? (Find out more.)
      
     
116. What letter will set one of the heavenly bodies in motion? (Find out more.)
      
     
117. What month of the year has 28 days? (Find out more.)
      
     
118. What must you always do first before getting off a bus? (Find out more.)
      
     
119. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a day? (Find out more.)
      
     
120. What parts of Nevada are in France? (Find out more.)
      
     
121. What room has no walls, floor, ceiling, or windows? (Find out more.)
      
     
122. What runs but never walks? (Find out more.)
      
     
123. What should you do when you see a big lion? (Find out more.)
      
     
124. What travels the world but always stands in the corner? (Find out more.)
      
     
125. What usually loses its head by day but gets it back at night? (Find out more.)
      
     
126. What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered? (Find out more.)
      
     
127. What will soon be yesterday and was tomorrow? (Find out more.)
      
     
128. What word is always pronounced wrong, even by the best scholars? (Find out more.)
      
     
129. What word of only three syllables combines in it all twenty-six letters? (Find out more.)
      
     
130. What's green but not a lizard, white without being snow, bearded without being a man? (Find out more.)
      
     
131. What's in the church but not the steeple? The parson has it, but not the people. (Find out more.)
      
     
132. What's more risking than being with a fool? (Find out more.)
      
     
133. What's the difference between a fly and a bird? (Find out more.)
      
     
134. When does the cart come before the horse? (Find out more.)
      
     
135. When you tell him to go, he goes, but when you order him to return, he refuses. (Find out more.)
      
     
136. Where can you always find sympathy? (Find out more.)
      
     
137. Which had should you use to stir your tea? (Find out more.)
      
     
138. Which hand should you use to grab a poisonous snake? (Find out more.)
      
     
139. Which letters are jealous of all the others? (Find out more.)
      
     
140. Which side of a chicken has the most feathers? (Find out more.)
      
     
141. Who always stands and never sits down? (Find out more.)
      
     
142. Who can leap and run but has no feet? (Find out more.)
      
     
143. Who can trust his money to a monkey? (Find out more.)
      
     
144. Why did the elephant paint its feet yellow? (Find out more.)
      
     
145. Why didn't the Apollo 10 astronauts land on the moon? (Find out more.)
      
     
146. Why do bees hum? (Find out more.)
      
     
147. Why do birds fly south in winter? (Find out more.)
      
     
148. Why do giraffes have such long necks? (Find out more.)
      
     
149. Why do seagulls fly over the sea? (Find out more.)
      
     
150. Why do storks stand on one leg? (Find out more.)
      
     
151. Why do tall people have long arms? (Find out more.)
      
     
152. Why is a promise like an egg? (Find out more.)
      
     
153. Why is a snail stronger than an elephant? (Find out more.)
      
     
154. Why is an elephant large, grey, and wrinkled? (Find out more.)
      
     
155. Why is B the hottest letter of the alphabet? (Find out more.)
      
     
156. Why is the letter G scary? (Find out more.)
      
     
157. Why is the sky so high? (Find out more.)
      
     
158. Why is there always a shortage of honey in Brooklyn? (Find out more.)
      
     
159. Why was six scared of seven? (Find out more.)
      
     
160. Would you rather an elephant attacked you or a gorilla? (Find out more.)