English riddles 英语谜语.doc

1I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.A: Pencil lead2What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?A: The Sun3What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?A: :Your word4What walks all day on its head?A: A nail in a horse shoe5What gets wet when drying?A: A towel6What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?A: The letter “M”7What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldnt fill it up?A: A sieve8There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry.A: Body in coffin, and bearers9The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?A: Footsteps10He who has it doesnt tell it. He who takes it doesnt know it. He who knows it doesnt want it. What is it?A: Counterfeit money11Brothers and sisters have I none but that mans father is my fathers son.A: My son12Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?A: A fly13I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.A: A sandal14What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?A: The bark of a tree15I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again.A: A watch16I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.A: A chicken in an egg17Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.A: Fire, smoke18There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.A: Fire, water, earth, wind19A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and Im the torment of man.A: Rain20Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.A: Scissors21What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?A: Noise22It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.A: A cabbage23Its been around for millions of years, but its no more than a month old. What is it?A: The moon24A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.A: Snow melted by the sun 25As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?A: Sawdust26What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?A: Your name27What goes up the chimney down, but cant go down the chimney up?A: An umbrella28What is is that you will break even when you name it?A: Silence29What fastens two people yet touches only one?A: A wedding ring30What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?A: A hole31I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.A: The letter: “S”32What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?A: A pack of cards33Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?A: Eyes34What holds water yet is full of holes?A: A sponge35Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an ass, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?A: A snail36Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.A: An echo37A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.A: Snow on a tree stump38What goes into the water red and comes out black?A: A red hot poker39What goes into the water black and comes out red?A: A lobster40When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.A: A riddle41. A man and his boss have the same parents, but are not siblings. How is this possible?Answer:He is self-employed. He is his own boss.42. A man built his house above a river between two trees. He attaches his house to the middle of the two trees trunks. He does this because the river rises by 2 inches each years, but the trees grow 1 inch each year. If his house is 4 inches above the river how long will it take for water to hit his house?Answer:2 years, his house wont go up at all because trees grow from the top, not the bottom.43. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and Ill make it lighter.What am I?Answer:A hole.44. What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?Answer:Man. He crawls as a baby, walks, then uses a cane in old age.45. A man is walking through the park one day and sees a group of four boys standing in a circle. A smaller boy is holding a large stick and hands it to a larger boy saying I couldnt do it, your turn.The larger boy swings the stick twice and the oth