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LANTERN RIDDLES

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

I’m tall when I’m young, and

I’m short when I’m old.

What am I?

(a)  

2.

What has many keys but

can’t open a single lock?

(a)  

3.

What is always in front of

you but can’t be seen?

(a)  

4.

What can fill a room but

takes up no space?

(a)  

5.

What word is pronounced the

same if you take away four

of its five letters?

(a)  

6.

The more you take, the more

you leave behind. What are

they?

(a)  

7.

What is so fragile that saying

its name breaks it?

(a)  

8.

What can you break, even if

you never pick it up or touch

it?

(a)  

9.

If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?

(a)  

10.

What kind of room has no walls or corners?

(a)  

11.

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

(a)  

12.

When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago.” How old is she?

(a)  

13.

What has a head and tail but cannot walk?

(a)  

14.

What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?

(a)  

15.

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?

(a)  

16.

When I’m used, I’m useless. Once offered, soon rejected. In desperation, I’m often expressed. What am I?

(a)  

17.

You go at red and stop at green. What am I?

(a)  

18.

Take one out and scratch my head. I am now black but once was red. What am I?

(a)  

19.

It’s shorter than the rest, but when you’re happy, you raise it up like it’s the best. What is it?

(a)  

20.

A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How is this possible?

(a)