by maypaxvobiscum » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:55 pm
for those who missed the latest score update, its on the previous page. anyway here are some riddles.
1) I 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.
2) What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?
3) What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
4) What walks all day on its head?
5) What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
6) There 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.
7) The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
8) Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
9) I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again. what am i?
10) A 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 I'm the torment of man.
11) Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. what am i?
12) What 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?
13) A 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. what is it?
14) As 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?
15) What fastens two people yet touches only one?
16) Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?
17) Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an @rse, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?