1. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map.

2. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence.

3. I am taken from a mine, locked up in a wooden case, never released but used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

4. The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.

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

6. What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
Answer: A human (The Sphinx’s riddle).

7. What has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go outside?
Answer: A keyboard.

8. What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
Answer: A stamp.

9. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.

10. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.

11. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

12. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.

13. I have branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.

14. The more you take away, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

15. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

16. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.

17. What begins with an “E,” ends with an “E,” but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.

18. What’s black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.

19. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock.

20. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.

21. I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

22. What can you break, even if you never touch it?
Answer: A promise.

23. What is always moving but never actually goes anywhere?
Answer: Time.

24. What begins without an end and ends without a beginning?
Answer: A circle.

25. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.

26. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.

27. What can fly without wings?
Answer: Time.

28. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.

29. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Answer: A barber.

30. What can one catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold.

31. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.

32. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.

33. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.

34. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E.”

35. What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.

36. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.

37. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.

38. What question can you never answer “yes” to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?

39. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
Answer: Your right elbow.

40. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree.

41. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.

42. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.

43. What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word.

44. What is always hungry and must be fed, but if you give it water, it will die?
Answer: Fire.

45. What’s always running but never gets tired?
Answer: A refrigerator.

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

47. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.

48. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.

49. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove.

50. What goes up and down but stays in the same place?
Answer: Stairs.

51. What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.

52. What starts with “P” and ends with “E,” and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office.

53. What can you serve but never eat?
Answer: A tennis ball.

54. What has an eye but cannot see, and moves very fast?
Answer: A hurricane.

55. What’s easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.

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

57. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.

58. What goes through towns and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road.

59. What type of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.

60. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.

61. What’s always in motion but never moves?
Answer: Time.

62. What’s something that, when shared, becomes smaller?
Answer: A secret.

63. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t?
Answer: An anchor.

64. What’s lighter than a feather, but the strongest man can’t hold it long?
Answer: His breath.

65. What’s something everyone has but no one can lose?
Answer: A shadow.

66. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.

67. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.

68. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.

69. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.

70. What’s something that’s yours, yet other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.

71. What’s a room that you can’t enter?
Answer: A mushroom.

72. What can run but never walks?
Answer: Water.

73. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.

74. What has a lot of eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato.

75. What has many keys but no locks?
Answer: A piano.

76. What kind of dog never bites?
Answer: A hot dog.

77. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.

78. What gets cleaner the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A towel.

79. What is so fragile that even saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.

80. What’s always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.

81. What can you find in the middle of March and April that you can’t find in the beginning or end?
Answer: The letter “R.”

82. What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: A cupcake.

83. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.

84. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A headband.

85. What’s something that gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole.

86. What can be long or short, and can be grown or bought, but can also be painted or left bare?
Answer: Nails.

87. What’s something that everyone can open but no one can close?
Answer: An egg.

88. What’s always right but sometimes wrong?
Answer: A clock.

89. What’s found once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E.”

90. What has four legs but no body?
Answer: A chair.

91. What do you find once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

92. What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather.

93. What’s always at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter “W.”

94. What’s something you can’t see but is always ahead of you?
Answer: The future.

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

96. What gets sharper the more it’s used?
Answer: Your mind.

97. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

98. What’s found in seconds, centuries, and minutes, but not hours?
Answer: The letter “N.”

99. What’s a question you can never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you dead?

100. What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: A phone.