i come with visions,
a device transilent.
sometimes traumatic,
other times brilliant.
answer:a flashback
my step is slow
the snow’s my breath
i give the ground a grinding death
my marching makes an end of me
slain by sun
or drowned in sea
answer: a glacier
three eyes have i, all in a row;
when the red one opens, all freeze
answer: a traffic light
i am the yellow hem of the sea’s
blue skirt
answer: sand on a beach
the moon is my father,
the sea is my mother;
i have a million brothers,
i die when i reach land.
answer: a wave
what can run but never walks,
has a mouth but never talks,
has a bed but never sleeps,
has a head but never weeps?
answer:a river
when is a door not a door?
answer:when its ajar
i pass before the sun but make no shadow?
answer:the wind
this is light as a feather,yet no
one can hold it for long?
answer: ones breath
what may go up a chimney down but
cannot go down a chimney up?
answer: an umbrella
what kind of bow can never be tied?
answer: a rainbow
hanging securely in mid air,
swaying gently when it is fair.
shining brightly almost day and night,
ever-changing within our sight.
sometimes ignored with deep regret,
sometimes praised when destination is met.
answer: a stoplight
i’m long, slim and slender,
i tickle where its tender.
around the eyes, around the nose,
i tickle where the hair grows.
answer: a razor
the part of the bird that is
not in the sky, which
can swim in the ocean and
always stay dry
answer: shadow
touching one, yet holding two,
it is a one link chain
binding those who keep words true
‘till death rent it in twain.
answer: a wedding ring
a house with two occupants, sometimes
one, rarely three. break the walls,
eat the boarders, then throw away
me. what am i?
answer: a peanut shell
no sooner spoken than broken
answer: silence
if you break me ill not stop
working. if you can touch me,
my work is done. if you lose me
you must find me with a ring soon
after. what am i?
answer: a heart
what is neither fish nor flesh,
feathers nor bone,
but still has fingers, and
thumbs of its own
answer: statue or glove
crooked as a rainbow, slick as a plate;
ten thousand horses can’t pull it straight.
what am i?
answer: a river
what has four legs in the morning,
two legs in the afternoon,
and three legs at night?
answer: a human being who crawls on
hands and feet in childhood,
walks on two legs in adulthood,
goes about with the help of a cane
in old age.
what is worse than the devil,
better than god,
dead people eat it always,
live people who eat it die slowly.
answer: nothing
long kegs, crooked thighs, little head,
and no eyes. what am i?
answer: tongs
nearly bright as the sun, sometimes dark as space.
like a pearl on black velvet,
with diamonds twinkling in a case. what am i?
answer: the moon
i move without wings,
between silken strings,
i leave as you find,
my substance behind.
answer: a spider
a little house full of meat,
no door to go in and eat. what am i?
answer: a nut
what can bring back the dead;
make us cry, make us laugh,
make us young, born in an instant
yet lasts a lifetime.what is it?
answer: a memory
what has four wheels and flies.
answer: a garbage truck
what is the difference between a cat
and a complex sentence?
answer: a cat has its claws at the end of
its paws,
and a complex sentence has its pause at the
end of its clause.
black within and red without.
four corners round about. what am i?
answer: a chimney
what builds up castles,
tears down mountains,
makes some blind,
helps others to see?
answer: sand
what lives in winter,
dies in summer and
grows with its roots upward?
answer: an icicle
man walks over,
man walks under,
in time of war he burns asunder?
answer: a bridge
what has eyes yet cannot see?
answers: needles, storms, potatoes, true
love
i occur once in a minute,
twice in every moment
but not once in a hundred thousand years.
answer: the letter m
what is the one thing the sharpest knife
cannot cut?
answer: itself
alive without breath,
as cold as death,
never thirsty,
ever drinking,
all in mail,
never clinking,
what am i?
a fish
we are very little creatures
all of us have different features.
one of us in glass is set; one of us you will find in jet.
another you may see in tin, and a fourth is boxed within, if the
fifth
you should pursue it can never fly from you?
answer: a,e,i,o,u the vowels
where may you find roads without cars,
forests without trees,
cities without houses?
answer: a map
i have a hundred legs but cannot stand
a long neck but no head
i ease the maids life?
answer:a broom
cannont be seen, cannot be felt,
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, it lies
behind the stars and beneath the hills
ends life and kills laughter. what is it?
answer:the dark
this thing runs but cannot walk
sometimes sings but never talks,
lacks arms but has hands
lacks a head but has a face?
answer: a clock
thirty white horses on a red hill
first they champ,
then they stamp,
then they stand still
answer: teeth
if you break me
i do not stop working,
if you touch me
i may be snared,
if you lose me
nothing will matter.
answer: hope
three lives have i.
gentle enough to soothe the skin.
light enough to caress the sky.
hard enough to crack rocks.
answer: water
a house in the wood in a hidden place
built without nails or glue
high above the earthen ground
it holds pale gems of blue
answer: a nest
i am the black child of a white father,
a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds
of heaven. i give birth to tears
of mourning in pupils that meet
me, and at ounce on my birth i am dissolved into air.
answer: smoke
there is one that has a head
without an eye, and threes one
that has an eye without a head.
you may find the answer if you try;
and when all is said,
half the answer hangs on a thread.
answer: pin and needle
gold in a leather bag, swinging on a tree,
money after honey in its time.
ills of a scurvy crew cured by the sea,
reason in its season but no rhyme.
answer: orange
he who has this is angry,
he who loses it is angrier,
he who wins it is still angry,
and he who solved it is happy.
answer: dispute or argument
two bodies have i,
though both joined in one.
the more still i stand
the quicker i run....
answer: hourglass
in a marble hall as white as milk,
lined with skin as soft as silk,
within a fountain crystal clear,
a golden apple, doth appear,
no doors there are to this stronghold,
yet thieves break in to steal the gold...
answer: an egg
from the beginning of eternity,
to the end of time and space,
to the beginning of every end,
and the end of every place...
answer:the letter e
what flares up and does
a lot of good, and when it
dies, is just a piece of wood?
answer: a torch
what is weightless,
can’t be seen by the naked eye,
and if you put it in a barrel
of water it will make the
barrel lighter?
answer: a hole
be it political
or simply wooden;
its used for filing
or for councils
and has many heads.
answer: a cabinet
i touch your face
im in your words
im lack of space
and beloved of birds
answer: air
you can see nothing else
when you look in my face
i will look you in the eye
and i will never lie.
answer: a mirror
screaming, soaring seeking sky
flowers of fire flying high
eastern art from ancient time
name me now and solve this rhyme
answer: fireworks
this creature, part man and part tree,
hates the termite as much as the flea.
his tracks do not match,
and his limbs may detach,
but he’s not a strange creature to see.
answer: man with a wooden leg
i have legs but walk not
a strong back but work not
two good arms but reach not
a seat but sit and tarry not
answer: a chair
he who makes it needs it not
he who buys it wants it not
he who uses it feels it not
answer: a coffin
i drink the blood of the earth,
and the trees fear my roar,
yet a man may hold me with his hands
answer: a chainsaw
i am so simple,
that i can only point
yet i guide men
all over the world.
answer: a compass
a beggar’s brother went out to sea and
drowned. but the man who drowned had
no brother. what was the relationship
between the man who drowned and the beggar?
answer: his sister
he who makes it does not keep it
he who takes it does not know it.
he who knows it does not want it.
he who gathers it must destroy it.
answer: counterfeit money
one tooth to bite,
he’s the forest foe.
one tooth to fight,
as all norse know.
answer: an ax
fatherless and motherless,
born without sin,
roared when it came into the world,
and never spoke again.
answer: thunder
i go around in circles,
but always straight ahead
never complain,
no matter where i am led.
answer: a wheel
my life can be measured in hours,
i serve by being devoured.
thin, i am quick
fat, i am slow
wind is my foe.
answer: a candle
keys without locks
yet i unlock the soul.
answer: piano
i am used to build,
i am used to clean,
i am used to test,
and i am used to close.
i can be bought or taken for free?
answer: a toothpick
spelled forward i howl upward,
spelled backward i pour
easily downward?
answer: wolf/flow
forwards i’m heavy;
backwards i’m not.
answer: a ton
two moons orbit a ball from
the sky, together they fall,
divided the fly. what can i be?
answer:water- orbiting moons
are hydrogen atoms and the
ball from the sky is an oxygen atom.
seperate and both are gases,
but combined they make h20
what word in the english language
has five letters, but if you take
away two, you get six?
answer: eight or sixty,sixth
sixes or sioux
sometimes short, sometimes long
sometimes bad, sometimes with a song.
down is more, up is less
harder to find, what a mess.
what am i?
answer: a breath of air
where does today meet yesterday?
answer: in a museum
what begins with t, ends with t,
and has t in it?
answer: a teapot
WHAT WORD IN THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
IS THE SAME WORD WHETHER IT’S
SPELLED FORWARD, BACKWARDS OR
UPSIDE DOWN?
ANSWER: NOON
WHAT COMMON ENGLISH VERB BECOMES
ITS OWN PAST TENSE BY MERELY
REARRANGING ITS LETTERS?ANSWER: EAT/ATE
WHAT GROWS UP WHILE
GROWING DOWN?
ANSWER:A GOOSE
IT IS WITH US NIGHT AND DAY
A SELECT FEW ESCAPE IT
WHEN THEY DO
THEY NEVER ESCAPE IT FOR LONG
ANSWER:GRAVITY
I CAN BE AS BIG AS A BUILDING,
OR TINY, AS I’M OFTEN FOUND.
I CAN CAUSE A BIG CRASH,
OR MAKE HARDLY A SOUND.
ANSWER: A WAVE
WHAT HAS FOUR LEGS BUT ONLY
ONE FOOT?
ANSWER: A BED
I AM A HORN THAT MAKES NO NOISE.
ON NO ANIMAL HAVE I ECER POISED.
ANSWER: A SHOEHORN
I HAVE A SPINE, AND EASILY I CAN STAND,
I’M NEITHER ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR A MAN.
ANSWER: A BOOK
IT’S ALWAYS IN SPACE,
AND DEEP IN SPACE.
ON THE TABLE, IT’S THE BEST,
BETTER THAN ALL THE REST.
ANSWER: AN ACE