Short Riddles with Answers
What kind of words are the following: Level, civic, madam and eye.
Ans: They are palindromes – they read the same forward and backwards.
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Ans: A Stamp.
What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?
Ans: An umbrella!
I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
Ans: A shoe.
Interesting short riddle
What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?
Ans: I am
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
Ans: Breath.
What always ends everything?
Ans: The letter “g”.
Short riddle
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Ans: A towel.
It regulates our daily movements, but it feels no interest in our lives. It directs us when to come and go, but does not care if we pay attention. What is it?
Ans: Clock.
I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?
Ans: Smoke.
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Ans: Secret.
Q: I’m the part of the bird that’s not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Ans: A shadow.
Riddles with Answers
