Monday, July 3, 2023

Hardy and Funny Riddles For Adults - How Good Are You??!!

1. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?

2. What gets wet while drying?

3. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

4. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

5. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

6. What can you catch, but not throw?

7. What kind of band never plays music?

8. What has many teeth, but cannot bite?

9. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?

10. What has one eye, but can’t see?

11. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

12. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

13. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

14. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

15. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

16. What is the end of everything?

17. What part of the chicken has the most feathers?

18. What has a bottom at the top?

19. How far can you walk into the woods?

20. What is red and smells like blue paint?

21. When is a door no longer a door?

22. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

23. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?

24. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

25. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

26. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

27. Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?

28. The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

29. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?








From Reader's Digest - sorry I don't have the web site reference.

ANSWERS


1. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
Answer: Time to fix the fence.

2. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel

3. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?
Answer: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells.

4. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella

5. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand

6. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold

7. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band

8. What has many teeth, but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb

9. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato

10. What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle

11. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp

12. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Lunch and dinner

13. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom

14. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Answer: Their middle names.

15. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.

16. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “G”

17. What part of the chicken has the most feathers?
Answer: The outside

18. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs

19. How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Halfway — after that, you’re walking out.

20. What is red and smells like blue paint?
Answer: Red paint

21. When is a door no longer a door?
Answer: When it’s ajar.

22. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”

23. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
Answer: They weren’t. Survivors don’t need to be buried.

24. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing

25. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
Answer: A river

26. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map

27. Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?
Answer: Live

28. The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin

29. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match


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