RIDDLES
1. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
2. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
3. Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the
Mustard family?
Answer: There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother,
there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
4. A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus
driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
5. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house Inside the white house there was
a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What am I?
Answer: This is a watermelon.
6. When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer: In the dictionary
7. Re-arrange the letters,
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to spell just one word.
Answer: 'just one word'
8. What has many keys, but can't even open a single door?
Answer: A piano.
9. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.
10. Tall I am young, Short I am old, While with life I glow, Wind is my foe. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
11. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
12. How do you spell candy in 2 letters ?
Answer: c and y c(and)y.
13. What has six faces, But does not wear makeup. It also has twenty-one eyes, But cannot see?
Answer: A die (dice).
14. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
15. They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What
are they?
Answer: Gloves
16. What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer: An egg
17. I am full of holes but I can still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge
18. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick
19. Which one of Santa's reindeer can be seen on Valentines day?
Answer: Cupid
20. This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I?
Answer: Your Breath.
Prepared by:
Clariza A. Reyes