RIDDLES

Lindsays Grandma · ‎03-10-2010

Great for parties. Put your thinking caps on...ready, set, gooooo.

1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but come alive with wind. What am I?

Answer: An echo

2. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I'm slow when I'm fat. The wind is my enemy.

Answer: A candle

3. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

Answer: A map

4. You see a boat filled with people, it has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat? Why?

Answer: All the people are married

5. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood, always. Everyone uses me. What am I?

Answer: Pencil lead

6. What disappears as soon as you say its name?

Answer: Silence

7. I have keys, but no locks and space, but you can't go outside. What am I?

Answer: A keyboard

8. How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: There are 11 letters in the words "the alphabet."

9. This belongs to you but everyone uses it

Answer: Your name

10. Which word in the alphabet is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer "Incorrectly"

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam

phoenixbrd · ‎03-27-2010

Fun...I loved #4.

Lindsays Grandma · ‎03-10-2010

Hello Phoenixbrd, I am sitting here laughing because I barely hit the Post button and there you were. The picture in my mind is you sitting with your finger poised over the key and coming down on it before it barely showed up.

The moving finger writes; And having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears Wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayam