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What is a word comprise of 4 letters, stills is also made of 5.

Occasionally written with 12 letters and


later with 5. Never written with 5 but happily with 7.
Answer: What, Still, Occasionally, Later, Never, Happily
When you do know me about me, them I am definitely something. You will always search for me. But
when you know me, I am nothing. Who am I?
Answer: I'm a Riddle!!
I have all the knowledge you have. But I am small as your fist that your hands can hold me. Who am
I?
Answer: I'm your brain!
I am the biggest alphabet, as I contain the most water in the world. Who am I?
Answer: Alphabet 'C'
I have 28 days in a month. Which month I am?
Answer: All months in a year have 28 days and many have more than 28 days.
Find me who am I. I am the building with number stories.
Answer: A Library
Scientists are trying to find out what is between earth and heaven. Can you find me?
Answer: AND
What is the word that is spelled incorrectly in all dictionaries?
Answer: Incorrectly
Everyone in the world break me when they speak every time. Who am I?
Answer: Silence

 “Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze.” The answer is traffic
light.
 “What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the
evening?” The answer is man, since he crawls as a child then walks and uses a cane when he gets
older.
 What does “Mill + Walk + Key=” The answer is Milwaukee.
 “What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?” A towel of course. 
 “No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?” It is silence.
 “I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am
I?” A hole.
 What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it? Silence.
 I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I? A coin.
 What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? Night falls and day breaks.
 You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the
inside. What did you eat? An ear of corn.
 I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water.
What am I? A sponge.
 What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a
bed but never sleeps? A river.
 I never was, am always to be,/No one ever saw me, nor ever will,/And yet I am the
confidence of all/To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball./What am I? Tomorrow.
 I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I
give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief,
and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I? Smoke.
 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? An eye.
 A man is on a trip with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He comes upon a stream which he
has to cross, and finds a tiny boat which he can use for the same. The problem though, is that he
can only take himself and either the fox, the goose, or the corn across at a time. It is not possible
for him to leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How can he get all
safely over the stream? Answer: Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox over
and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come back alone to get the goose. Take
the goose over and the job is done!
 A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your
exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you
$50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny
writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50.
How did the man win the bet? Answer: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote 'your
exact weight' on the paper
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What do you fill with empty hands?

Gloves.

 #9 

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

A telephone.

 #8 

If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I?

Silence.

 #7 

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?


A yardstick.

 #6 

What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs in the evening?

Man. In the morning of his life, he crawls on all fours, as he grows to adulthood he walks on 2 legs,
and in old age he uses a cane (3 legs).

 #5 

What's black and white and red all over?

An embarrassed zebra.
A sunburned penguin.
A skunk in a blender.
A newspaper. (read all over)

 #4 

I have streets but no pavement, 


I have cities but no buildings, 
I have forests but no trees, 
I have rivers yet no water. 
What am I?

A map.

 #3 

Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son. Who am I?

The father of "that man".

 #2 

The beginning of eternity,


The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.

The letter e.

 #1 

What can run but never walks,


Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps?

A river.

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  How many months have 28 days?


A: All 12 months.
 Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
A: Silence.
 Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold
it for more than a minute?
A: His breath.
 Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A: A cold.
 Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand
years?
A: The letter M.
 Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A: A stamp.

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