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Riddles and Their Clever Answers

This document contains a series of riddles and their answers. The riddles pose questions about common objects, concepts, and situations that have misleading or non-obvious properties, traits, or identities. Some answers include a clock (for an object with a face and two hands but no arms or legs), a towel (for something that gets wetter as it dries), and your name (for something that belongs to you but is used more by others).

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Riddles and Their Clever Answers

This document contains a series of riddles and their answers. The riddles pose questions about common objects, concepts, and situations that have misleading or non-obvious properties, traits, or identities. Some answers include a clock (for an object with a face and two hands but no arms or legs), a towel (for something that gets wetter as it dries), and your name (for something that belongs to you but is used more by others).

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Q. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

A. A clock!
[Link] is the easiest way to double your money?
A. Put it in front of the mirror of course!
Q. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A. A glove.
[Link] has to be broken before you can use it?
A. An egg.
Q. What has a neck but no head?
A. A bottle.
[Link] gets wetter as it dries?
A. A towel.
[Link] goes up and doesn’t come back down?
A. Your age.
[Link] belongs to you but is used more by others?
A. Your name.
[Link] has it and no one can lose it, what is it?
A. A shadow.
Q. It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
A. The moon.
It's been around for millions of years, but is never more than a
month old. What is it?
Reveal Answer
The moon.

Feed me and I will live, but give me a drink and I will die. What am I?
Reveal Answer
A fire.

You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the
inside. What is it?
Reveal Answer
Corn on the cob.
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Reveal Answer
Your word.

What has four fingers and one thumb, but isn't alive?
Reveal Answer
A glove.

What smells bad when living but smells good when dead?
Reveal Answer
Bacon.

What can never be put in a saucepan?


Reveal Answer
It's lid.

I live in my little house all alone. There are no windows or doors,


and if I want to go out I have to break through the wall. What am I?
Reveal Answer
A chick in its egg.

What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?
Reveal Answer
An echo.

Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill said he had no
brothers. Who was lying?
Reveal Answer
No-one. The doctors were Bill's sisters.

Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then
take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?
Reveal Answer
A postman.

The more that there is of this, the less you see. What is it?
Reveal Answer
Darkness.

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet my keys can unlock
your deepest senses. What am I?
Reveal Answer

Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three
people in the car. How is this possible?
Reveal Answer
They are grandfather, father and son.

What has one eye but cannot see?


Reveal Answer
A needle.

I have seas with no waters, coasts with no sand, towns without


people and mountains with no land. What am I?
Reveal Answer
A map.

It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is
it?
Reveal Answer
Your name.

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