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Mystery Man's difficult riddles

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What has to be broken before you can use it?

a)

broom

b)

corn

c)

egg

d)

sword

2.

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

a)

kid

b)

lamp

c)

water

d)

candle

3.

What month of the year has 28 days?

a)

February

b)

All of them

c)

April

d)

August

4.

What is full of holes but still holds water?

a)

Sponge

b)

bucket

c)

furniture

d)

tree

5.

What question can you never answer yes to?

a)

homework

b)

Are you asleep yet.

c)

what is your name

6.

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

a)

the world

b)

space

c)

your future

d)

god

7.

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

a)

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

b)

yellow

c)

red

d)

green

e)

blue

8.

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

a)

vase

b)

friend

c)

food

d)

A promise

9.

What goes up but never comes down?

a)

hair

b)

age

c)

building

d)

tree

10.

My thickness is no more than a few centimeters, yet my depth can span to infinity. Although mundane, I intimidate most animals. When in my presence, you will inevitably follow me. What am I?

a)

human

b)

animal imitator

c)

a mirror

d)

glass

11.

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

a)

steak and a smoothie

b)

eggs and bacon

c)

lunch and dinner

d)

something you hate for breakfast

12.

what looses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

a)

pillow

b)

bed

c)

you

d)

praying mantis

13.

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

a)

he is wearing a raincoat

b)

he is standing somewhere that there is no rain

c)

he is dead

d)

he is bald

14.

What gets wet while drying?

a)

towel

b)

pillow

c)

toy

d)

water

15.

What can you keep after giving to someone?

a)

toy

b)

kid

c)

food

d)

word

16.

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

a)

monster

b)

dead person

c)

bear

d)

barber

17.

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

a)

they are on the other boat

b)

They died

c)

They all are married

18.

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

a)

match

b)

fireplace

c)

candle

d)

kerosene lamp

19.

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

a)

He is not old

b)

He was born on February 29

c)

he is magical

20.

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

a)

tree

b)

government

c)

bank

d)

helicopter

e)

windmill

21.

What is at the end of the rainbow?

a)

gold

b)

leprechaun

c)

W

d)

nothing

22.

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

a)

Coin

b)

Penny

c)

None

d)

Both

23.
Your a bus driver and you pick up and drop kids off after school you drop off Sally, Ted, Alan, and Nate what is the bus drivers name 
a)
Ted
b)
STAN
c)
your name
d)
Alan
24.
How many letters are in the alphabet 
a)
11
b)
22
c)
67
d)
3
25.

Can you name two consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

a)

Sunday

b)

Today

c)

Tomorrow

d)

Nothing

26.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you?

a)

towel

b)

sink

c)

yourself

d)

name

27.

What is brown and sticky?

a)

a brownie

b)

a stick

c)

soil

d)

a baseball glove

28.

How can a pants pocket be empty but still have something in it?

a)

it has a crumb

b)

it has a hole in it

c)

there is no pocket

d)

it has a rock in it

29.

What has hands but cannot clap?

a)

clock

b)

time

c)

person

d)

monkey

30.

What has 4 eyes but can't see?

a)

spider

b)

Mississippi

c)

a needle

d)

a storm