Can You Solve These Riddles?

By: Monica Lee
Estimated Completion Time
4 min
Can You Solve These Riddles?
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About This Quiz

Riddles are fun, challenging and usually make you laugh or groan. So put on your thinking cap and see how many of these clever queries you can get through. If you're someone who likes a play on words, a pun, or just something silly, you'll want to spend time guessing the correct answer on every riddle. Go on, memorize a few these and make your friends moan and groan with your relish for riddles. 

We will give you a few tips along the way, like thinking about the keyword in the riddle and figuring out the answer by using its alternate meaning. Take for instance, "What are two things you cannot have for breakfast?" So the keyword is breakfast. Instead of thinking of breakfast foods, think of breakfast in another way, such as the first meal of the day. So, if it's the first meal of the day, the two things you cannot have for breakfast are... lunch and dinner! 

See how it works? Enjoy the brain tease and enjoy how language and logic can make you laugh out loud. Here's your starter riddle: what begins with a Q and ends with a laugh? The answer: this quiz! Your silly riddles await.  

What has a face and two hands but no arms and can run?
A clock
A toaster
A blender
A can opener
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Apple
Bread
Short
Drink
What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter in it?
Ease
Envelope
Edge
Else

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What has a neck but no head?
A faucet
A bottle
A giraffe
A person
Which month has 28 days?
February
January
March
All of them
What type of cheese is made backwards?
Swiss
Cheddar
Blue
Edam

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Why did the boy bury his flashlight?
So he could see in the dark
Because his batteries died
To protect him from "flash" floods
None of the above
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
T
C
B
P
What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
People
Phone
Page
Post Office

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What has to be broken before you can use it?
A saddle
An egg
Shoes
None of the above
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Teapot
Test
Talent
Treat
Three men were in a boat. It capsized, but only two got their hair wet. Why?
One stood on the other guy who was swimming.
One used a paddle to keep himself above the water.
One stayed underneath the boat where there was a pocket of air.
One was bald.

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Where does Friday come before Thursday?
In the calendar
In the work week
In the dictionary
It doesn't.
Bobby throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
It's magic.
Bobby throws it straight up.
A ghost threw it back.
It could never happen.
Tracy's father has five daughters - Tina, Tess, Tammy, Tabatha. What is the fifth daughter's name?
Taylor
Tanya
Tracy
Samantha

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What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
A vase
A whisper
Silence
A spider web
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Pine tree
Birch tree
Palm
Apple tree
If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
North
South
East
It's an electric train, there's no smoke.

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What goes up but never goes down?
A Ferris wheel
An elevator
Your age
Time on a clock
If you threw a white stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?
Pink
Orange
Blue
Wet
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A) An open door
B) A window
C) Glasses
D) A & B

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A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the mango first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
The monkey
The squirrel
The bird
No one; it's a coconut tree, there is are no mangoes.
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Peruse
Unwieldy
Incorrectly
Spelled
Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Because they are always stuffed
Because they are "barely" able to chew
Because they live on hugs and kisses
Because they just grin and bear it

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What do you call a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Short-handed
Tight-fisted
Normal
Handy
Why couldn't the sailors play cards?
They forgot to bring them.
No one had a poker face.
The captain was standing on the deck.
No one wanted to play 52 pick up.
What did the outlaw get when he stole a calendar?
He got the book thrown at him.
He got 12 months.
He got a few hot "dates."
He got away with it.

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Have you heard about the restaurant on the moon?
A) Great food, but no atmosphere.
B) The cuisine is out of this world.
C) It takes light-years to get a reservation.
D) Any of the above.
Why didn't the hot dog star in the movie?
The roll was not good enough.
He didn't relish the roll.
The movie had started filming and he couldn't ketchup.
Any of the above
What are two things you cannot have for breakfast? What's the most appropriate answer for this riddle?
Plate and napkin
Fork and knife
Cat and dog
Lunch and dinner

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What kind of cup can't hold water?
Cupcake
Cupboard
Hiccup
All of the above
I have a tail, a head, but I have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?
A clock
A coin
An amoeba
A beer
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?
Mr. White
Mrs. White
White
The President

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Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Feathers
Bricks
They both weigh the same.
None of these are the correct answer.
Jack rode into town on Friday and rode out two days later on Friday. How can that be possible?
Jack lives in an alternate universe.
Jack's horse is named "Friday."
Jack's watch that shows the time and day is broken. (He really rode out on Sunday.)
None of the above