Riddles Quiz Part 2: 30 Riddles From Easy to Insane

Riddles Quiz Part 2: 30 Riddles From Easy to Insane: questions and answers

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1. What comes next: 1, 4, 9, 16...? 20 · 25 · 32

   25 – They are square numbers: one times one, two times two... so next is five times five, twenty-five!

2. What has legs but never walks? A fish · A table · A tree

   A table

3. What can you catch but never throw? A cold · A ball · A fish

   A cold

4. What kind of room has no doors or windows? A classroom · A bathroom · A mushroom

   A mushroom

5. A baker's dozen is twelve.

   False – It's thirteen! Bakers added one extra so they were never short.

6. What is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty? A sock · A cat · A chalkboard

   A chalkboard

7. What goes up and down but never moves? An elevator · Stairs · A yo-yo

   Stairs

8. Where does today come before yesterday? In a dictionary · In a calendar · In a diary

   In a dictionary – T for today comes before Y for yesterday, alphabetically!

9. What starts with T, ends with T and has T in it? A teapot · A tunnel · A tower

   A teapot

10. What can you break without ever touching it? A plate · A pencil · A promise

    A promise

11. What has thirteen hearts but no other organs? A jellyfish · A deck of cards · An octopus

    A deck of cards – Each suit has thirteen cards, and one suit is hearts!

12. What goes through towns and fields but never moves? A river · A road · A train

    A road

13. Which number does NOT fit: 2, 4, 7, 8? 2 · 4 · 8 · 7

    7 – Seven is the only odd number!

14. If you have me, you want to share me. Share me and I'm gone. A secret · A cake · A toy

    A secret

15. Which letter of the alphabet holds the most water? W · C · O

    C – C sounds like sea!

16. What can be cracked, made, told and played? An egg · A code · A joke

    A joke

17. What runs around the whole yard without moving? A dog · A hose · A fence

    A fence

18. Before Mount Everest was found, what was the tallest mountain? K2 · Mount Everest · Kilimanjaro

    Mount Everest – It was still the tallest, people just hadn't measured it yet!

19. A cowboy rides in on Friday, stays three days and leaves on Friday. How? His horse is named Friday · He stayed a whole week · It was a leap year

    His horse is named Friday

20. If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five? A party · A team · Nine

    Nine

21. Which word is NOT a palindrome? Level · Radar · Robot · Kayak

    Robot – A palindrome reads the same backwards. Robot becomes tobor!

22. How can you drop a raw egg on concrete without cracking it? Drop it gently · Concrete won't crack · Use a boiled egg

    Concrete won't crack

23. What's the last thing you take off before bed? Your feet off the floor · Your socks · Your glasses

    Your feet off the floor

24. What comes next: J, F, M, A, M, J, J...? S · A · J

    A – They're the first letters of the months. August is next!

25. Which word sounds the same after you remove four of its five letters? Queue · Eight · Aisle

    Queue – Queue without u, e, u, e is just Q, and it sounds the same!

26. What goes up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? Smoke · A broom · An umbrella

    An umbrella

27. Which four-letter word reads the same forwards, backwards and upside down? DEED · PEEP · NOON

    NOON – Turn NOON upside down and it still says NOON!

28. What must be fed, but dies if you give it water? Fire · A plant · A fish

    Fire