Riddles and answers
What kind of coat can
only be put on when wet?
Answer: a coat of paint
What goes up a chimney down,
but won't go down a chimney up?
Answer: an umbrella
What letter is next in this sequence?
M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,__
Answer: N
These are the first letters of the months of the year
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: a sponge
What building has the most stories?
Answer: A Library
Why is an island like the letter T?
Answer: It is in the middle of "waTer".
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?
Answer: an eye
My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
Answer: A candle
What other letter fits in the following series:
B C D E I K O X?
Answer: The letter H. All of the letters in the series flipped vertically remain the same.
What is the next letter in the series: "B, C, D, E, G, ..."? And Why?
Answer: The next letter would be P. They all rhyme.
Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?
Answer: There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.The grandmother is also the mother's mother, so there are 2 daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3
people.
What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft?
Answer: A garbage truck
What is the best month for a parade?
Answer: March
What's white when it's dirty?
Answer: A blackboard
Which is faster, hot or cold?
Answer: Hot's faster. You can catch a cold.
Six glasses are in a row. The first three are full of juice; the second three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so empty and full glasses alternate?
Answer: Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth glass.
Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?
