Riddle:
The strangest creature you'll ever find has two eyes in front and a hundred behind. What is it?
Answer: A peacock.
Riddle:
Do not begrudge this, For it is the fate of every man. Yet it is feared, And shunned in many lands. Causes problems, and sometimes gaps, Can hobble the strongest, and make memory lapse. What is this danger we all face? For being a part - of the human race. What is it?
Answer: Growing old.
Riddle:
Shifting, Shifting, Drifting deep. Below me great and mighty cities sleep. Swirling, Scurling, All around. I'm only where no water will be found. What am I?
Answer: The desert.
Riddle:
What has eyes but can't see, a tongue but can't talk, and a soul but can never find love?
Answer: A shoe.
Riddle:
How can you tell if a ghost is about to faint?
Answer: He gets pale as a sheet.
Riddle:
This thing is a most amazing thing. For it can be both as sharp as a knife, Or as flat as a floor. And yet, for all that it can be, It is as natural as a bee. What is it?
Answer: Music.
Riddle:
What is it you have to answer? But to answer you have to ask? And to ask you have to speak? And to speak you have to know, The answer.
Answer: A riddle.
Riddle:
A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?
Answer: You would have to wait 90 minutes between 12:15 and 1:45. Once you had heard seven single chimes, you would know that the next chime would be two chimes for 2 o'clock.
Riddle:
A football player is running to get a net under a lady who looks like she might jump off the balcony of her 20 story apartment building. There is nothing below her except a 20 story fall. The player is still 100 yards away when she falls and can't nearly get there in time. The woman is not hurt more than a bruise.
How is that possible?
Answer: She fell back into her apartment!
Riddle:
The cost of making only the maker knows, Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded. A poor man may give one as easily as a king. When one is broken pain and deceit are assured. What am I?
Answer: A Promise.
