Riddle:
My first is appropriate, my second 'tis nine to one if you guess it. My whole elevates the sole above the earth. What am I?
Answer: Pat-ten.
Riddle:
What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
Answer: Iron.
Riddle:
There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with a pair of scissors?
Answer: The person slept on a waterbed. His killer used the scissors to cut the bed open and drown him.
Riddle:
Why is the letter F like an incendiary?
Answer: Because it makes ire fire.
Riddle:
I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are the three things?
Answer: Stove, fire, and smoke.
Riddle:
Ripped from my mother's womb, Beaten and burned, I become a blood-thirsty slayer. What am I?
Answer: Iron ore.
Riddle:
My head and tail both equal are, My middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heel Is quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, The matter's true, though passing strange Directly I to nothing change.
What Am I?
Answer: The figure eight.
Riddle:
Why are beautiful women like bread?
Answer: Because they are often toasted.
Riddle:
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations.
What is it?
Answer: War.
Riddle:
A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
Answer: A Minotaur.
Riddle:
Why is a man in debt like a misty morning?
Answer: Because he is surrounded with dues (dews).
Riddle:
What is that which has many leaves, but no stem?
Answer: A book.
Riddle:
Why is a small horse like a young musk-melon?
Answer: Because it makes a man go.
Riddle:
What do we all do when we first get into bed?
Answer: Make an impression.
Riddle:
There's a land where there are mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?
Answer: The land of double letters.
Riddle:
A box without hinges, key or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
What am I?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle:
Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?
Answer: Because his is all net profit.
Riddle:
Why is a parish bell like a good story?
Answer: Because it is often tolled (told).
Riddle:
Why are your nose and chin always at variance?
Answer: Because words are passing between them.
Riddle:
Why is an old man like a window?
Answer: Because he is full of pains (panes).
