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A beautiful succession of sounds.
A big shiny black car nobody wants to be a passenger in.
A blind superhero and Evel Knievel's profession.
A blue house has blue bricks; a yellow house has a yellow bricks. What is a green house made of?
A blue man lives in the blue house. A red man lives in the red house. Who lives in the white house?
A boy had just got out of the shower and getting ready for his prom, shaved, and with cologne and there was going to be an after-party, and his mom, and dad said to be home for the next sunrise and was home for the next sunrise but with a full-grown beard. How can this be?
A canvas full of stars.
A colorful cuisine without flesh
A crafty use of long pieces of wool to make a scarf.
A defendant will go free if a reasonable amount of this exists.
A disposable item to keep your waste organized.
A famous home without color and with wings.
A gentleman whose offspring have successfully produced offspring of their own.
A house where you are brought, If they find you or get caught. If you cross the government, This is where you will be sent.
A job that involves sitting in a highchair, wearing a black gown and smacking things with a mallet
A king wears one on his head.
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn't get wet. How does he do that?
A man had 12 sheep. All but 9 died. How many sheep did he have left?
A man in a car saw a Golden Door, Silver Door and a Bronze Door. What door did he open first?
A man walked in to a bar and asked for a glass of water the bar man took out a gun and poined it at him the man who asked for the glass of water just smiled and walked away happy Why?
A mechanism to discover who is following you.
A natural tattoo on babies
A person who chews the ends of their fingers
A person's greatest asset.
A precious gift, yet it has no end, no beginning, and nothing in the middle.
A prehistoric reptile that lives today and the inspiration for the name of a popular sports drink.
A red house is made out of red bricks. A blue house is made out of blue bricks. What is a green house made out of?
A seasonal fashion statement named for the weather it's worn in.
A section of the calendar dedicated to mother nature.
A setting that proved to be deadly for Abraham Lincoln.
A small hill with seven holes.
A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero. What is it?
A squiggly line tells you when you've done it wrong
A standard dimension for sandwiches and rulers
A stylish winter top that covers your larynx.
A tangly game and a destructive weather phenomenon.
A tasty reward given to well behaved dogs and kids, what is that?
A tiny bead, like fragile glass, strung along a cord of grass.
A tower at the root of all confusion.
A twiggy home
A young man wants to have it, but when he has it he no longer wants it. Blade in hand he attacks it And does his best to remove it. Yet he knows that it is all in vain.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.
Ambitious people will climb the social version of this contraption.
An appropriately loud response to fear, excitement, or your team scoring.
An art-form and its colour-ful result.
An art-form and its colourful result.
An image taken from real life
An utensil used for bread. Also a paper cutter. Used by a thug to take a life, Or wielded by the tamest wife, When used to spread the butter.
Ancient and majestic, great big piles of stones, Used to encase both riches and bones. Seen from certain angles, They look like big triangles.
Angels and pilots earn these.
As strong as love, more dangerous than cancer.
Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means "to leave", it's not heard to see why
Before Google, we actually had to physically look things up in this building full of knowledge.
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Before Mt. Everest was discovered as the highest mountain in the world, which mountain was the highest?
Besides Paris, what is the capital of France?
Blend a teapot shot so the pearlies won't rot! What is it?
Blind but cruel.
Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?
Bobby likes Jimmy but not Joe, apples but not pears, jeeps but not vans, shinny but not hockey, tennis but not squash. Who will he like, Sara or Sally?
Born in the past, but only lives in the present. Sometimes false, always personal.
Both guys and women enhance their visual organs with this item.
Break it and it gets better, immediately set and harder to break again.
Brings celebrities into your home every night.
Brings the sky a lot closer.
Brings you May flowers
Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the man?
Built of metal or wood to divide. It will make us good neighbors, if you stay on your side. What is it?
Can be achieved in a car or as a position during conflict
Can describe a distress signal or flashy accessories.
Can you think of a crime that is punishable if attempted but not punishable if actually committed?
Casper was a friendly one and Demi Moore made a clay pot with one.
Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two well known varieties of this kind of food
Cold head and feet; Round as a ball; Always turning around itself.
Come up and we go, Go down and we stay.
Consuming food would be pretty tough without these chompers
Controlled by your hands and feet. It would be nothing without a street. What is it?
Cut the wrong wire and it goes boom
Cycle Cycle Cycle.
Deep, deep, do they go. Spreading out as they go. Never needing any air. They are sometimes as fine as hair
Defends your noggin from the hard pavement
Doing something of this nature is likely to land you in court
Doing this with your job can be risky but doing it with smoking is always a good idea
Donny was driving his semi under an overpass when suddenly he came to a screeching halt. Donny wasn't paying enough attention and inadvertently drove under the overpass that was just barely as high as his truck. The semi was wedged so tightly that he could not go forward or backward. A fellow trucker came by and told him how he could easily get the semi out from under the bridge. What did he suggest?
Dry though I may be, I am still a sea.
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I follow no matter how fast you run. Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
Edible items purchased in large quantities.
Environmentalists want to keep this from drying.
Even if you throw it away, it still comes back.
Every country has one, though we are not the same. Waving to our citizens, throughout the wind and rain. What is it?
Everybody's got one.
Four kings of whom I am one lord. Often on deck but never on board. Though I have a large heart, I am always seen at war. During which I always wear a suit, but never a suit of armor. Who or what am I?
Glittering points that downward thrust. Sparkling spears that do not rust. What is it?
Godzilla calls this place home.
Goliath, The Jolly Green and Andre are all examples of this.
Gumby and yoga instructors have this in common.
Handy when you need to measure something or run a kingdom.
He died for people's entertainment.
He's small but he can climb a tower.
Hearing something unexpected or touching a live wire can have this effect.
Hot tempered and sometimes it blows its top, making a mess of everything.
How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
How can the letters OWONDER be rearranged to make one word?
How can you be sure the engine in your car isn't missing?
How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs?
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even if it doesn’t bounce off anything?
How do chiropractors swim laps?
How do vampires like their food served?
How do you make a strawberry shake?
How do you spell hard water with only three letters?
How is an escaping prisoner like an airplane pilot?
How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
How many people are dead in a standard grave yard?
Humans have two that shrink in the light and expand in the dark
I am a king but also a common device of measure. What am I?
I am a piece of paper that takes most people 3 or 4 years to get. What am I?
I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I lick will soon turn red.
I am million people's wakeup call. What am I?
I am neither a guest nor a trespasser in this place. I belong that belongs to me. Where is it?
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
I am not alive, though I never die, to no one I've ever told a lie, today I can be god's warrior, and serve him with no horror, but tomorrow I might be devil's knight, for I am what ends the light.
I am partially baked. I am not completely lit. I am a portion of the moon. I am lesser than full wit. I am a divider of the hour. I am not a total lie. I am a sibling through one parent.
I am someone you don't know. Who am i?
I am the first you ever saw, what greets you every morning and what goes out in the end.
I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
I am the thing which everyone has, I consider myself Beautiful and Full of Joy, But the way I am treated Boy O Boy. I am mostly there but no one notices me, I try to prove my worth but nobody’s there to see. They say I Suck, that I resemble Hell, But when I am about to go then it rings their Bell. Some consider me terrible and Hard, But when I am lost they send their Regard. Many don’t realize I’ll not be there Forever, That I will return Never. But it’s already too late to say goodbyes When I flash before their eyes.
I am the yellow hem of the sea's blue skirt.
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?
I call the trees my home, yet I never go inside, and if I ever fall off the tree I will be surely be dead.
I can be as thin as a picture frame but my insides have many things you can see.
I can be found in seconds, minutes and centuries, but not in days, years or decades.
I cannot be felt, seen or touched; Yet I can be found in everybody; My existence is always in debate; Yet there is a style of music named after me.
I change color from time to time. Wear me, and I'll tell you your ____. What am I?
I come across as flat, But theirs more to me than my surface; You climb my moutains from top to bottom, And fall from bottom to top. What am I?
I go around in circles, But always straight ahead Never complain, No matter where I am led.
I have a pet, his body is full of coins
I have a ring, but no hands. I used to be plugged into the wall but now I follow you every where. What am I?
I have a thousand wheels, but move I do not. Call me what I am, call me a lot.
I have eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door? What am I?
I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!
I have one eye, See near and far, I hold the moments you treasure, And the things that make you weep.
I know a word of letters three, add two and less there will be.
I know a word; six letters it contains. And yet if you take one away, twelve is what remains.
I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left
I make billions of dollars selling Windows. Who am I?
I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me
I occur twice in eternity. And I'm always within sight.
I question what lies above, and I’m shared with those you love. At my sound your hands will shake, and oft heard soon after wake. A card not found in a deck.
I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground. Sometimes I leave, but I am always around
I run cold and hot, I look blue but am red. What am I?
I saw the dead bring forth the living. I saw the living bring forth the dead. What did I see?
I shave several times a day, yet I still have a beard. Who am I?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no-body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
I start in little but I end in full, you'll find me in half and complete.
I start with “e” end with “e”. I have whole countries inside me. What am I?
I travel the world and I am drunk constantly. Who am I?
I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat. Who am I?
I'm a god. I'm a planet. I measure heat.
I'm a green veggie that looks like a tiny tree.
I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
I'm a ring of sliced onion dipped in batter and then deep fried.
I'm a small ring shaped fried cake, often with bavarian cream or fruit filling, and sometimes covered in icing and sprinkles.
I'm a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked and eaten fried, such as french fries.
I'm often served as a "rack of ..." I'm often smoked or grilled, with bones in, and slathered in BBQ sauce.
I'm the son of water but when I return to water I die. Who am I?
I'm the source of all emotion, but I'm caged in a white prison.
I'm the start of eternity and the end of space. There are two of me in heaven and one in hell.
If a boy blows 18 bubbles, Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He pops 5 and blows 1. How many are left?
If a stopper and a bottle cost $2.10 and the bottle costs $2.00 more than the stopper. Then what does the stopper cost?
If it is absolute, it will corrupt absolutely.
If someone calls you this, it might be time to consider hot wax
If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow.
If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?
If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
If you agree give me one of these.
If you are to keep it, you must first give it to me. What is it?
If you are unsure how to use one then just ask a flight attendant.
If you blow past your destination, you'll have to throw your car into this.
If you can get this professional's attention you can get where you need to go for a price.
If you drive on this, pedestrians and the police will be pretty upset with you.
If you drop me I'm sure to crack. But give me a smile and I'll always smile back.
If you happen to wake up at dawn, you'll probably find this covering the lawn.
If you have me, you want to tell me. If you tell me, you don't have me.
If you need a night out, call one of these over to take the little ones off your hands for a while.
If you suffer from this, you might wear a wig
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
In 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son that when a little boy he decided to be a doctor by seeing a internet web site about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart so that the puppy would live a normal life. I then thought that I would be a doctor so that I could help people in a similar way. What is the defect in this story?
In a vase, garden, pot or field, these are the homes of this Valentine’s day symbol that comes in many different colors such as red, pink, white, yellow and orange.
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.
In many hallways you would stand, if not with this in hand.
In spring I look gay, Covered in a green array, The warmer it gets the more clothing I wear, As the cold grows, I throw away my clothes.
In the middle of night, I surround the gong. In the middle of sight, I end the song
In the sun it likes to play; In the rain it goes away; Walk or run it always follows; In the mud it always wallows.
In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?
In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
Inside a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it quickly, before the fire's too much to take.
Is always in front of you but cannot be seen?
It belongs to you but you don’t use it. It does not belong to other people but they use it. What is it?
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
It can be clear like water, but it burns like fire.
It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?
It can be done to buttons and shopping carts. What is it?
It can be grown in your yard or bought at the store and is given for love when less is more?
It can be used onstage or to express admiration. What is it?
It carries paper of the most important sort but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
It comes from crystal and melts to a treat. Add it to your tea to make it sweet. What is it?
It comes only before, it comes only after. Rises only in darkness, but rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.
It could make arrows fly and kites soar. What is it?
It covers you, you lose it every day and you'd die without it.
It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.
It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive, What is it?
It has the biggest wall and is also used when drinking tea.
It is a common and favored clothing material among biker gangs and superheroes.
It is a form of plastic money.
It is a gruesome form of betray.
It is a popular afterlife destination where you want to send people when you're mad at them.
It is a symphony of noise, It can produce both grief and joys, It is inspiring and grand, Made by a person or a band.
It is hate and has hate in it, but it isn’t hate.
It is in every mountain, it's not in any hill, it's not in all the world, and yet it's in the mill.
It is something you make after you've weighed your options.
It is something you will never see again.
It is where kings, queens, knights and bishops go to war together.
It keeps you on the ground and stops things from floating around. What is it?
It speaks without a tongue, and listens without ears.
It weighs next to nothing but no one can hold it for long. What is it?
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
It's in your hand though you cannot feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
It's only good if people laugh at it.
It's shorter than the rest, but when you're happy, you raise it up like it's the best. What is it?
It’s so fragile even just saying its name can break it. What is it?
It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
It's tough as nails, Or soft as snow. People use it for their rink, Some just put in their drink.
It's what light turns into in the night
Its days are numbered.
Kids play it and Michelangelo sculpted with it.
Long and thin, red within, with a nail at the end.
Longer than a decade and shorter than a millennium, what is that?
Lots of them make up a word, And lots of words are in them. It's easy when you think about it. A while ago we stamped and mailed them.
Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, Grown in the darkness, a lady’s delight.
Low on cash? Pick out items from this rack.
Made of ten but two we make, When assembled others quake, Five apart and we are weak, Five together havoc wreak. What are we?
Major or minor I can be, when you touch me make sure you that you’re on the right key.
Makes apples fall from trees
Makes arrows fly and kites soar!
Makes dough grow
Man's most important invention.
Many foods can make me strong but give me water and I won't last long.
Maritime marauders
Mary was born on December 25th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
Mary's child slept in one of these
Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried
Men in skirts blow into these.
Most people need it, some ask for it, some give it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
Mostly worn by women or girls, this is sometimes shiny like silver or gold, and sometimes it is made of pearls.
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
Mouth up it gets filled, mouth down it gets empty.
MT_TF_S What are the missing letters? Why?
My family is known to be crazy; I'm good when I'm alone and when spread I am amazing; It's a matter of taste; I'm good for your health, bad for your waist. What am I?
My fleece is white as snow. Everywhere that Mary goes, I go. What am I?
My second is performed by my first, and it is thought a thief by the marks of my whole might be caught.
My tines be long, My tines be short, My tines end ere, My first report., What am I?
Name four days of the week that start with the letter “T.”
Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past; For a child I last forever, for adults I'm gone too fast.
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Noah survived one and it was great
Not a comb or a brush but makes the hair feel plush. What is it?
Not my sister nor my brother but still the child of my mother and father. Who am I?
Nothing specific, but more than a few. This many clustered, together will do.
Of these everyone has ten, part of two wholes at the arms end. What are they?
Often found in doctor's offices and pirate flags
Often wandering the streets, this group of people cannot afford to be choosers.
Old Mcdonald had this, what is that?
Old people and owls are said to be this.
On which side of a church is the graveyard always situated?
Once you have it, you want to share it. Once you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
Once you know it exists, it no longer exists. What is it?
One am I, among six others: Largest, smallest, cold, dark and two brothers
One might hang a locket from this
One more than a duet.
One strand dangles. Two strands twist. Three or more can fashion this.
One who has offended the government and has been detained by it
Other terms for this handy device include doohicky, doo-dad, and whatchyamacallit.
Passed from father to son and shared between brothers, its importance is unquestioned though it is used more by others.
People in love are often bound to this.
People want it, and when they have it, they use it by giving it
Pointing North, South, East, and West it saves the lost and helps the rest. What is it?
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Possibly the word most commonly said before taking a sip
Power enough to smash ships and crush roofs. Yet it still must fear the sun.
Precious stones in a pack of cards.
Prior to smartphones, people used this to record their lives.
Proof you've done your time in school
Raise your right appendage high above your head. Turn your head to the right and you will smell this.
Remove 'Y' and you do this with apparel. Remove 'E' and I am cautious.
Reserved for royalty and damaged teeth
Retired people want these to be large and birds want them to hatch.
Rotten trees and Jack-O-Lanterns have this characteristic in common.
Round and round I go never stopping in a continuous flow. I hang out with numbers each and every day and nothing ever gets on my way. What am I?
Said to have fifty shades
Sally, Lisa, and Bernadette are triplets. But Sally and Lisa share something that Bernandette does not. What is it?
Securing your documents is easy with these trusty metal objects
Sends paper without using the post office.
Serves as a go between in business.
Seven brothers, five work all day, The other two, just play or pray.
Sheets of paper that tell new stories each day.
Sitting down you have it, Standing up you don't.
Slang for the male half in a marriage.
Small, containing light, You'll need it in the dark, It will provide that spark, and shine into the night. Will light up any pyre, 'Cause it can help make a fire.
Soldiers fight it but never changes.
Some adults still use these to count.
Some keep it in a dumpster while others keep it in their trunk.
Something we eat, and misspell as meet.
Something you carry while singing.
Sometimes imaginary and sometimes real, sometimes they are the closest and dearest person outside the family. Who are they?
Sometimes it's silver but also gold. Printed on paper it's a treasure to hold. What is it?
Sometimes you feel it weigh a ton. Yet it is nothing, but somehow still there. Makes you uncomfortable around anyone, But speak its name and it's gone.
Spies and detectives do this to phones and musical shoes make this sound.
Split me in half, and you get me and another me. What word am I?
Take it and you will lose or gain more than all the others.
Take one royal word in the plural and make it singular by adding one letter
Tara has $29.00 dollars. She bought 4 coloring books that cost $3.00 each, 4 boxes of Crayola crayons that cost $2.00 each. She spends the rest of her money on markers. How much money did she spend on markers?
Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!
Temporary evidence of where you've been strolling
Thanks for such treasures as Mariachis, enchiladas and habanero!
The Black Pearl was this type of criminal seafaring vessel
The buyer doesn’t want it, the producer doesn’t need it and the user doesn’t know their using it.
The celebrities of high school were part of this crowd.
The coziest place for Dracula
The day is their night and the night is their day, when I shout and they shout back I run away.
The distance from the top of your head to the floor standing up straight.
The edge of earth and bread.
The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What are we?
The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
The King of Pop's stellar dance move
The land was white the seed was black. It'll take a good scholar to riddle me that.
The letters of the alphabet but only just a few; It's hard to say if I was invented or just discovered by you. What am I?
The line a runner strives to reach
The little pink nub that helps rectify mistakes.
The lunch destination of choice for teenagers and hospital employees.
The main difference between us and zombies
The more I appear The less you see. So riddle me this: What could I be?
The more you have of me, the less you see. Who am I?
The more you look at it, The less you see.
The more you take away, the bigger it gets.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
The most fabulous way to locate pots of gold
The most foreign visitor you could imagine
The negative hero in each story
The part of the bird, that is not in the sky, Which can swim in the ocean and always stay dry. What is it?
The profession of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
The thinkers usually hold this body part
There are 7 birds in a tree. A hunter shoots one bird down. How many birds are left in the tree?
There are four of these, but everyone's favorite seems to be spades.
There is 10 birds on a branch, a man shot 5 of them. How many were left?
There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
There is a man in a 4 story building. He jumps out of the window and is unharmed. He used no padding, and had no harm done. How?
There is a woman in a boat, on a lake, wearing a coat. If you want to know her name, it’s in the riddle I just wrote. What’s the woman’s name?
There is a word of letters three, Add one letter to it and none there’ll be. What is the word?
There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls. What is it?
There is one in every corner and two in every room.
There's one in every deck of cards and in a famous movie
These are believed to be found at the end of rainbows
These are needed to finish a test
These are the bumpy parts of your digits
They are Dark, and always on the run. without the sun, would be none!
They are the group who manages the winged engines of war.
They are the shore's gallant knights.
They are toothy nocturnal immortals.
They are two brothers. However much they run, they do not reach each other.
They can be long or short; they can be grown or bought; they can be painted or left bare; they can be round or square.
They come in many varieties: Red, Black, Dead, and Caspian to name a few.
They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
They come to witness the night without being called, a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to the sight each day without the hand of a thief.
They keep secrets locked away. And you pass through them each day. For each one there is a key, They respond to sesame.
They're big and yet so far away, We see them at the end of day. They're small and they're above. We see them when we close our eyes, Each time we are in love.
This became a fashion statement in the garden of Eden.
This dish is hot frankfurter served in a long, soft roll and typically topped with various condiments. Often served with hamburgers.
This heavy and ancient suit was not worn with a tie, but was always worn in battle.
This is a dead giveaway
This is a dish containing beans, sometimes baked but, despite the name, usually stewed, in a sauce
This is a pearshaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large pit in the center. It is most used in guacamole dip
This is a plant named after a light source. What is it?
This is a shape and a symbol that we literally cannot live without. What is it?
This is meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked, often enjoyed in a sandwich.
This is the drinkable phase of matter
This is the main ingredient in spaghetti and Mac-N-Cheese.
This is your stomach's way of letting you know you've neglected it.
This patch of land stands alone
This small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red, is often served on top of whipped cream on a milk shake.
This sparkling globe can float on water. It is light as a feather, but ten giants can't pick it up.
This type of corn swells up and bursts into a crisp puff when heated.
This type of food, which is a fungus, is often served on supreme pizza, in spaghetti and in a particular "cream of" style soup
Though I should be unique, you've made most of us the same. I would be stronger, if my characters were stranger.
Through me you see through things. What am I?
Tickle with your fingers and a song it will sing. Be careful, though, you may break a string. What is it?
Timid or weak people are said to not have these.
Tomorrow's yesterday. Yesterday's tomorrow. What is it?
Touch this and you'll regret it. But if it's cold, you won't forget it. What is it?
Turns us on our backs, and open up our stomachs. You will be the wisest of men though at start a lummox.
Two year-old children who throw tantrums get this nickname. So did the tsar "Ivan."
Up on high I wave away but not a word can I say.
Used to keep prisoners silent and to make temporary repairs on cars.
Useful term for when you need to start a fire or notice someone with the same shirt as you.
Usually green but can be brown. It's a great place to play or lie down. What is it?
Very helpful if you intend to go gently down a river.
War fought with pieces on a board.
Watches students at the prom to make sure there's no funny business.
We are two brothers on opposite sides of the road, but we never see each other. Who are we?
We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly. How can that be possible?
What 11letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
What age most travelers have?
What always comes into the house through the keyhole?
What are the only 2 states that have their state name in their capital?
What are three things that have eyes, yet can't see?
What bank has no money?
What begins to die on a wedding day?
What body part is pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used?
What Botox will do to your expression.
What breaks in the water but never on land?
What building has the most stories?
What calls for help, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
What can be any size or shape and gets bigger the more you take from it?
What can be broken without being touched?
What can be measured but has no length, width or height?
What can be seen but not touched?
What can be white and yellow at the same time?
What can get you there in eco style, pushed by your legs mile after mile?
What can hold a car but can’t lift a feather?
What can speak without a tongue and listen without ears?
What can touch someone once and last them a lifetime?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
What can you easily break but never touch?
What can you hold in your left hand but can never hold in your right hand?
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?
What can you never get rid of when you lose it?
What can’t you find in European countries like Monaco, Spain, Germany and France that you’ll find in Asian countries like, Brunei, Papua New Guinea and Bhutan?
What can't you see, hear or feel, until it’s too late. What shadows love, and shopkeepers hate?
What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?
What cleans as it gets dirty only to get clean the more you use it?
What comes down but never back goes up?
What comes in many varieties and can't be seen or touched, but it often makes you move?
What comes one time in today, three times in tomorrow and never in the future?
What comes with your car, but travels more than your car?
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
What dentists battle on a daily basis
What devours all and can kill a king. Destroy a town and crushes mountains down?
What do angels sing in the shower?
What do cheetas, dalmatians and appaloosas have in common?
What do ghosts do before they enter a haunted house?
What do people spend a lot of money on every year but never want to use it?
What do roses, chocolates, laces, love knots, the color red and hearts have in common?
What do we see every day, kings see rarely, and God never sees?
What do you call a witch that lives in the sand?
What do you call the mother-in-law of your sister's husband?
What do you have in December that you don't have in any other month?
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
What does a newspaper reporter use to dry himself after his shower?
What does a stone become when in the water?
What does an old tan broken down house wear outside?
What does someone else have to take before you can get?
What does the artist like to draw best?
What eight letter word has "kst" in middle, in the beginning and at the end?
What falls down but is never injured?
What falls down but never breaks?
What falls down but never gets hurt?
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
What fiveletter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?
What flies forever, rests never?
What freezes after it is heated up?
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
What gets broken if it’s not kept?
What gets broken when you don't hold it?
What gets broken without being held?
What gets broken without being hold?
What gets colder as it warms up?
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
What gives life and love, and is there till they die? What can hide you and find you, heal you and feed you but should never give up on you?
What goes inside boots and outside shoes?
What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out?
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
What goes up but never goes down?
What goes up when rain comes down?
What goes up when the rain comes down?
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
What hangs in the sky by day but at night goes away?
What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
What has a foot but no leg?
What has a head and a tail but no body?
What has a head yet it never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but can not walks, and has a bank but not a cent to its name?
What has a hundred limbs, sometimes leaves, but cannot walk?
What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?
What has a neck but can't swallow?
What has a ring but no fingers?
What has been around for millions of years but is never more than a month old?
What has black spots and a white face, is fat not thin, and helps you to win, but tumbles all over the place?
What has feet on the inside but not on the outside?
What has fingers and a thumb but no hand?
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
What has keys but no locks, Space but no room, You can enter but you can’t exit.
What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does you better open up?
What has one hand longer than the other, and goes on all day and night?
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
What has only two words, but thousands of letters?
What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
What has ten letters and starts with gas?
What has thousands of ribs and two backbones?
What has two ends but no beginning?
What hatches without food?
What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
What instrument can make any sound and be heard but not touched or seen?
What instrument can you hear but never see?
What instrument plays from the heart?
What is 1/2 of 1/4 of 2/9 of 3/7 of 84?
What is a bare-faced liar?
What is all over a house?
What is always coming but never arrives?
What is always coming every day, but never arrives until the next?
What is always on its way but never arrives?
What is an acceptable act of violence during saint Patrick's day?
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What is at the end of a rainbow?
What is at the end of every rainbow?
What is between heaven and earth?
What is born on the ground but floats to the sky, to be returned back again from the clouds up high?
What is broken if you say its name?
What is filled with air and sometimes a gas, tied to a string and often seen on your birthday?
What is found over your head but under your hat?
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes, but not in decades, years, or days?
What is in the middle of nowhere?
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
What is it that leaps and runs and yet, has no feet?
What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?
What is it that you must give before you can keep it
What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?
What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?
What is often on the ground getting stepped on by others, but you don’t have to wash it because it never get dirty, in fact you couldn’t wash it even if you tried?
What is often returned, but never borrowed?
What is part of you and all around you but if it entangles you, it will kill you?
What is red and smells like blue paint?
What is red, bloody and smells like an orange?
What is seen in the middle of march and april?
What is seen in the water and in the sky? It is part of the rainbow and can be in your eye
What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
What is something that can go up quite easily, but is not as easy to bring back down?
What is something yet nothing, but if you fill it up it will disappear?
What is something you can give away as many times you want without ever losing it?
What is something you can hold without ever touching?
What is something you will never see again?
What is taken before you can get it?
What is the center of gravity?
What is the end of everything?
What is the ending of all that begins?
What is the middle of water but is not an island?
What is the only common four-letter English word that ends in the suffix -eny?
What is the word that even in plain sight remains hidden?
What is this Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla rolled around a filling, typically of beans or ground or shredded beef?
What is used by man, tossed by trees, everywhere but unseen?
What is used to yell in a text?
What is yours but only used by others?
What kind of apple isn’t an apple?
What kind of cup doesn't hold water?
What kind of money do vampires use?
What kind of nail can be grown?
What kind of room doesn't have physical walls?
What leaps one time out of four?
What loses its head every morning only to get it back every night?
What must be looked through in order to see?
What must you give before you can keep it?
What never asks questions but is often answered?
What never asks questions but receives a lot of answers?
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day?
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
What pulls you down and never lets go?
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
What sevenletter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
What ship has no captain but two mates?
What shoes should you wear when your basement is flooded?
What should you do when you see a green man?
What smells the most in the kitchen?
What sphinxes employ and players enjoy.
What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?
What starts with a T ends with a T and is full of T?
What starts with an "e" but only has a single letter in it?
What starts with the letter T, is filled with T and ends in T?
What stays in one corner but travels around the world?
What ten letter word starts with gas?
What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
What time of day, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down?
What time starts and stops with an “n”?
What tire doesn’t move when a car turns right?
What travels around the world without leaving the corner?
What travels from coast to coast without ever moving?
What two letters in the alphabet say goodbye?
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
What type of dress can never be worn?
What type of drink is usually added to cereal in the morning?
What type of house weighs the least?
What was the first man made invention that could see through a wall?
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
What word becomes smaller when you add 2 letters to it?
What word do all dictionaries spell wrong?
What word in the dictionary is weird?
What word is always pronounced wrong?
What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?
What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
What you become during a workout?
What you do to determine the length of something
What's always coming, but never arrives?
What's that 7 letter word with thousands of letters in it?
What's the word inside the riddle?
When a doctor hits you with a hammer he is testing this
When I type I tap these on the keys
When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
When is a bump like a hat?
When is a door not a door?
When it's dirty this should never be aired in public.
When may a man call his wife "honey"?
When someone uses this acronym, you know you've got to pick up the pace
When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day. What are they?
When this is found in a road you are forced to make a decision.
When will water stop running down hill?
Where can you add 2 to 11 and get 1?
Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?
Where humans breathe liquid.
Where is the ocean deepest?
Where jewelry pierces your head.
Where on earth do the ways always blow from the south?
Which is the oldest tree?
Which is the oldest tree?
Which one of Santa's reindeer can be seen on Valentines day?
Which popular cheese is made backwards?
Which weighs more? A pound of iron or a pound of feathers?
Which word contains all 26 letters?
Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
White and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What is it?
Who has married hundreds but always been single?
Who plays when he works and works when he plays?
Why are 1999 ten pound notes worth more than 1993 ten pound notes?
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Why is a dirty rug like a bad boy?
Why is coffee like an axe with a dull edge?
Why is it that Snoop Dogg needs an umbrella?
Why was the fisherman arrested?
Why were outlaws the strongest men in the Old West?
With sharp edged wit and pointed poise. It can settle disputes without making a noise.
Without coolant, you'll have some trouble with this.
Without this, H2O would just be 2O
Without what would everyone lose their head?
Women don't have and don't want it. Men get it but sometimes they try to get rid of it. What is it?
Would you rather have a tiger or lion eat you?
You are owed one of these when someone wrongs you
You can break it or drink water from it.
You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?
You can do this with your friends. You can do this with your nose. But don't do it with your friend's nose!
You can draw me, fire me or fill me in.
You can have it, and be at it, But it never lasts forever.
You can tumble in it, Roll in it, Burn it, Animals eat it, Used to cover floors, Still used beyond stall doors. Freshens whatever it is placed on, Absorbs whatever is poured into it. What is it?
You can't keep this until you have given it. What is it?
You could do this to a motion, see it on a watch, or place this in a race.
You do this into someone's ear when you want to be discreet.
You feel this sensation when you are dehydrated.
You fill it and it empties, A metaphor for plenty, Depending on what half you see, It's either full or empty
You have it even if there is none.
You might accuse someone living with a stolen identity of being this.
You roll it or you buy it, People say you shouldn't try it, Because you may get a stroke, From inhaling all that smoke.
You row in one while you float.
You speak this when you are being sincere.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?
You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
You'll have to consult an optometrist if you want to improve this.
You're currently trying to solve one
Your computer's version of white-out.
Your reflection can be seen here, as long as you’re not moving.

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