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Riddles that not what you expect

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The more you take the more you leave behind what am I?

a)

footsteps

b)

farts

c)

memories

d)

money

2.

What goes up but never comes down?

a)

A rocket

b)

A flight of stairs

c)

Your height

d)

Your age

3.

If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

a)

A friend

b)

A secret

c)

A whisper

d)

A mobile phone

4.

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

a)

An echo

b)

Whispers

c)

A phone

d)

The thought of your mind

5.

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

a)

Your name

b)

Your toys

c)

Your life

d)

Your phone

6.
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?
a)
None
b)
8
c)
9
d)
17
7.
A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
a)
The monkey, obviously!
b)
The squirrel, of course!
c)
The bird - it's got wings!
d)
You can't get a banana from a coconut tree!
8.

Imagine you are in a room with no doors or windows, how do you get out?

a)

shout for help

b)

drill the ground

c)

stop imagining

d)

from the ceiling

9.

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

a)

The letter 's'

b)

The letter 'n'

c)

The letter 'e''

d)

The letter 'a'

10.

Where do fish keep their money?

a)

Under the sea

b)

In the stomach

c)

In seashells

d)

At the riverbanks

11.

What do you call a deer with no eyes?

a)

a special deer

b)

a blind deer

c)

no idea

d)

no such deers

12.

What word is always pronounced wrong?

a)

fatigue

b)

choir

c)

wrong

d)

squirrel

13.

I eat, I live. I breathe, I live. I drink, I die. What am I?

a)

a human being

b)

an animal

c)

water

d)

fire

14.

What English word sounds the same even after you take away four of its five letters?

a)

bees

b)

queue

c)

whee

d)

tease

15.

Tear me off and scratch my head, what once red is now black. What am I?

a)

an apple

b)

a match

c)

an eraser

d)

a watermelon

16.

Where do fish keep their money?

a)

Under the sea

b)

In the stomach

c)

In seashells

d)

At the riverbanks

17.

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

a)

Your name

b)

Your toys

c)

Your life

d)

Your phone