Riddle:
How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Answer: Once, because after you subtract 5 from 25 it becomes 20.
Riddle:
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
Answer: Roosters don't lay eggs.
Riddle:
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footprints.
Riddle:
What can go up and come down without moving?
Answer: The temperature.
Riddle:
What do you serve that you can't eat?
Answer: A tennis ball.
Riddle:
What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle:
Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white," or "The yolk of the egg is white?"
Answer: Neither, because egg yolks are yellow.
Riddle:
You can't keep this until you have given it. What is it?
Answer: Your word.
Riddle:
What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Answer: "What time is it?"
Riddle:
In a certain city, 5% of all the people in town have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from that city's phone directory, how many people selected will have unlisted phone numbers?
Answer: None. If their names are in the phone directory, they do not have unlisted phone numbers!
