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1. What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?

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2. What can be felt, yet has neither length, breadth, nor thickness?

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3. The more you take away from it the larger it becomes; the more you add to it, the smaller it becomes.

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4. What always remains down even when it flies up in the air?

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5. What is it that you cannot hold even ten minute, even though it is lighter than a feather

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6. What always weighs the same, whether larger or smaller?

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7. What is it that no one wishes to have yet no one wishes to lose?

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8. What does a woman look for while hoping not to find it?

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9. What is it that you find here, but you never have, yet often give up?

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10. How might you be completely sleepless for 7 days and still not lack any rest?

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11. What are drunk but never intoxicated?

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12. As long as I eat, I live. When I drink, I die

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13. What is it that is put on the table, cut, and passed, but never eaten?

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14. When does a man cease to be a man?

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15. When is a man two men?

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16. When is a woman not a woman?

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17. What is it that every child spends much time making, yet no one can ever see it when it is made?

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18. What is broken without being hit or dropped?

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19. What stays hot longest in the refrigerator?

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20. What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward?

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22. What is always before you, yet you can never see it?

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23. What can be right but never wrong?

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24. What is full of holes and yet holds water?

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25. What is it that we often return but never borrow?

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26. With what do you fill a barrel to make it lighter than when it is empty?

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27. What is always coming but never arrives?

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28. What increases the more you share it with others?

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29. What is broken when you name it?

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30. Why is a crossword puzzle like a quarrel?

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31. What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?

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32. What does everyone have that he can always count on?

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33. What is that of which the common sort is best?

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34. What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself?

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35. What is it that you must keep after giving it to someone else?

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36. What is the best thing to make in a hurry?

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Number Riddles

1. From nineteen take one and leave twenty.

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2. Prove that two thirds of 6 is 9.

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3. If a man should give one son fifteen cents and another ten cents, what time would it be?

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4. If a ton of coal cost $6.50, what will a cord of firewood come to?

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5. If butter is 50 cents a pound in Chicago, what are windowpanes in Detroit?

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6. What is the difference between a new five cent piece and an old fashioned quarter?

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7. Which is better, an old five-dollar bill or a new one?

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8. A brick weighs a pound and half a brick. How many pounds do two bricks weigh?

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9. How many people do you think need to be in a room before there is a fifty/fifty chance that two of them will have the same birthday?

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10. What digits do you get if you use a calculator to divide 100 by 81?

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11. Which American has had the largest number of children?

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12. What is as large as a barn, yet completely weightless?

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13. What is the largest fly swatter?

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14.What is the distance between a stupid person's ears?

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15. What dog is 100 years old?

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16. Why is the longest human nose on record only 11 inches long?

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17. What fish has the lowest voice?

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18. What kind of house weighs the least?

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19. Where can you find the largest diamond in the world?

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20. How did the 800 pound man feel when he lost 250 pounds?

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21. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

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22. If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?

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23. Why is 2 times 10 the same as 2 times 11?

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24. How many times may 20 be subtracted from 100?

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25. If I dig a hole 2 feet square and 2 feet deep, how much dirt is in the hole?

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26. Make five less by adding to it.

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27. Behead forty and leave fifty.

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29. From what number can you take half and leave nothing?

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30. A farmer combined 2 compost heaps with 3 others. How many compost heaps does he have?

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31. Take ten from nine and leave only yourself.

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33. Why is the number 9 like a peacock?

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Ridiculous Riddles

1. What is the best way to get fat?

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2. What kind of doctor would a duck become?

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3. Why is the dentist so unhappy while at work?

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4. What is the best thing to take when you are run down?

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5. Why does your sense of touch suffer when you are ill?

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6. Why does a bald-headed man have no use for keys?

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7. Why do women not become bald as soon as men?

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8. What has fifty heads but can't think?

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9. What has 4 legs, a back, but no body?

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10. If a young boy should lose his knee, where would he go for another?

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11. What did the big toe say to the little toe?

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12. How can a man have 4 hands?

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13. What is most useful when it is used up?

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14. What is the biggest jewel in the world?

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15. How do you keep food on an empty stomach?

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16. What is the worst kind of fare for men to live on?

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17. What is the best key to a good dinner?

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18. In what country were the first doughnuts fried?

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19. Why did the jelly roll?

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20. Why is a promise like an egg?

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21. What is it that someone else has to take before you can get it?

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22. What is the difference between an elephant and a flea?

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23. What is the difference between a hill and a pill?

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24. What is it that everyone requires, everyone gives, everyone asks and that very few take?

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25. Is it safe to write a letter on an empty stomach?

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26. Can you explain how long cows should be milked?

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27. What is the best thing to put into cakes?

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28. What kind of umbrella do most people carry on a rainy day?

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29. What always happens at the end of a dry spell?

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30. When a child stomps through a mud puddle, what is the first thing he does?

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31. Where are kings usually crowned?

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32. What runs all around the yard without moving?

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33. What is all over the house?

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Word Riddles

1. What asks no questions but gets lots of answers?

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2. Ask a question that must be answered "YES".

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3. Ask a question that cannot be answered "yes".

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4. What is the best eavesdropper?

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5. What is a good name for a wig?

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6.What is the best name for the wife of a gambler?

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7. What is the best name for the wife of a lawyer?

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8. What instrument is bound to make false notes?

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9. What is the coldest place in the theatre?

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10. What food is absolutely no good until it's cracked?

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11. This is something that will tickle you.

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12. What is the surest way to double your dollar?

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13. What is the easiest thing to part with?

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14. This man is always wiring for money. Who is he?

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15. What herb cures all ills?

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16. What professional man generally works with a will?

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17. What smells the most in drugstores?

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18. Pull it, it's a cane; push it, it's a tent.

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19. There is a six letter word of which La is the middle, is the beginning, and the ending. What is the word?

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20. What is the difference between here and there?

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Letter Riddles

1.Spell indian tent with 2 letters

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2. How many Peas are there in a pint?

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3. How much is 5Q and 5Q?

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4. Can you spell soft and slow with 2 letters?

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5. Can you spell a composition with two letters?

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6. How can you spell rot with 2 letters?

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7. What girl's name is like a letter?

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8.Can you spell very happy with 3 letters?

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9. What did the kid say when he opened his piggy bank and found nothing?

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10. What Roman numeral can climb a wall?

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11. What letter is nine inches long?

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12. What letter is never found in the alphabet?

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13. What 3 letters make a man of a boy?

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14. Why is the letter A like noon?

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15. Why is the letter E like London?

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16. What ends with E and begins with P and has a thousand letters?

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17. How do we know that S is a scary letter?

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18. What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T?

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19. From a word of 5 letters, take 2 letters and have 1.

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20. When will there be but 25 letters in the alphabet?

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21. Why is T the happiest letter of the alphabet?

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22. Spell mousetrap in 3 letters.

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23. Why should a boy avoid the letter Y?

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24. Why are 2 T's like hops?

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25. Why is the letter U the jolliest letter??

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Animal Riddles

1. What kind of dog can jump as high as the tallest building in the world?

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2. What kind of horse like to be ridden at night?

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3. Why are cards like wolves?

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4. What do you call nervous insects?

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5. What is a foreign ant?

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6. Why are spiders like tops?

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7. What advice can you give a fish so he can avoid being caught?

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8. What animal talk a lot?

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9. How do you know that bees are happy?

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10. What did the porcupine say to the cactus?

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11. What is the best way to catch a squirrel?

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12. What dog never barks no matter what you do to him?

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13. Who was the first to have a mobile home?

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14. What is a dog catcher?

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15. What do people in England call little black cats?

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16. Why do lions eat raw meat?

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17.What do pelicans eat?

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18. Why does a chicken lay an egg?

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19. What is worse than a giraffe with a sore throat?

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20. Why should a turtle be pitied?

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21. What animal drops from the clouds?

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22. What animal doesn't play fair?

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23. Why did the chicken cross the playground?

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24. What do bees do with all their honey?

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25. What is the principal part of a horse?

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26. What makes a Dalmatian dog spotted?

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27. What bird can lift the heaviest weight?

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28. How do we know that one bird is insane?

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