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Riddles

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?

(a)  

2.

Only one color, but not one size,

Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.

Present in sun, but not in rain,

Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

What is it?

(a)  

3.

Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands?

What is it?

(a)  

4.

If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

(a)  

5.

It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard and can't be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. What is it?

(a)  

6.

What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?

(a)  

7.

I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her.

How old are we now?

(a)  

8.

What has a bottom at the top?

(a)  

9.

During which month do people sleep the least?

(a)  

10.

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?




(a)  

11.

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

(a)  

12.

What is at the end of a rainbow?

(a)  

13.

What room can no one enter?

(a)  

14.

What is always on its way but never arrives?

(a)  

15.

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?

(a)  

16.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

(a)  

17.

What gets broken without being held?

(a)  

18.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

(a)  

19.

A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law.

How come?



(a)  

20.

The more there is, the less you see. What am I?

(a)  

21.

What word looks the same upside down and backward?

(a)  

22.

What type of dress can never be worn

(a)  

23.

How many apples grow on a tree?

(a)  

24.

What has to be broken before you can use it?

(a)  

25.

What has a neck but no head?

(a)  

26.

What word is spelled wrong in all the dictionaries?

(a)  

27.

What comes down but never goes up?

(a)  

28.

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?

(a)  

29.

What’s green, but not a leaf; copies others, but is not a monkey?

(a)  

30.

Joe’s father had three sons: Snap, Crackle and …?

(a)  

31.

What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

(a)  

32.

JWhat begins with an ‘E’ and ends with an ‘E’ but only has one letter?

(a)  

33.

What needs an answer but doesn’t ask a question?

(a)  

34.

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

(a)  

35.

What can be as big as an elephant but weigh nothing?

(a)