I may seem real but it always turns out.
I was never there in the first place...
You only see me during a certain resting stage.
What am I?

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When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day?

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What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

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I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

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Where in the Bible is the first mention of a tennis match?

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Why was the obtuse angle upset?

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Long and slinky like a trout, never sings till it's guts come out.

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I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?

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Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?

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I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear.

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You have it even if there is none.

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I beam, I shine, I sparkle white.
I'll brighten the day with a single light.
I'll charm and enchant all.
I'll bring the best in you all.
What am I?

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Looks like water, but it's heat.
Sits on sand, lays on concrete.
People have been known,
To follow it everywhere.
But it gets them no place,
And all they can do is stare.

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I go in dry and come out wet,
The longer I'm in, the stronger I get.
What am I?

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I look like a tiny trombone. What am I?

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I am sometimes white but usually black. I take you there, but I never bring you back. What am I?

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Once I'm 24. Twice I'm 20. Three times I'm inappropriate. What am I?

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The most beautiful and useless of human acts.

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Why can’t eggs be comedians?

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Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?

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I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet there is a style of music named after me.

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I drive men mad for the love of me. Easily beaten, never free. What am I?

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What starts out in a field and then crashed on a stone. It becomes much more when to the fire it's thrown?

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What do people make that you can't see?

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I can fill a house or fill your mouth but you can never catch me in your hands. What am I?

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What hatches without food?

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Hot tempered and sometimes it blows its top, making a mess of everything.

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I've been argued on my colour. Without me you'll die. So many attempts on your life use me, so make sure you have many of my "White" friends. What am I?

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What can you hold in your left hand and not in your right?

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My love for Eliza shall never know my first; neither shall it be my second; but it shall be my whole.

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Currency that flirted with a British spy.

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What is the largest living ant on earth?

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What has teeth but no mouth?

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I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

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Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting?

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What did the spider say to the fly on Halloween?

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I do not listen to reason, but I hear every siren's song and will try to steer us towards the rocks if you let me take the wheel. Who am I?

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What travels from coast to coast without ever moving?

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I am a good state, there can be no doubt of it; But those who are in, entirely are out of it.

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I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg.
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole.
I can be long like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole.
What am I?

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What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?

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I crawl on the earth and rise on a pillar. What am I?

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I'm the start of eternity and the end of space. There are two of me in heaven and one in hell. What am I?

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Has a tongue, but never talks. Has no legs, but sometimes walks.

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With no hammer or any kind of tool I build my house so quickly. What am I?

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Upon me you can tread, though softly under cover.
And I will take you places, that you have yet to discover.
I'm high, and I'm low, though flat in the middle.
And though a joy to the children, adults think of me little.

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What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?

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What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day?

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You'll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train.

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What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?

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I ride, I ride; No tracks are left. I chop and chop; There are no chips left. He rides and rides; Turns around: There is no road left.

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What has a spine, tail, and leash but isn't a dog?

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Four legs in front, two behind; Its steely armor scratched and dented by rocks and sticks; still it toils as it helps feed the hungry.

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Toss me out of the window. You'll find a grieving wife. Pull me back but through the door, and watch someone give life.

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I am nothing really at all, Yet I am easily found;
Ignore me at your own peril, and you might end up crowned!

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What has ears but can't hear?

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Why did they let the turkey join the thanksgiving band?

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My first is a heir;
My second's a snare;
My whole is the offspring of fancy;
Which I sent, out of play,
Upon Valentine's day,
As a token of love, to my Nancy.

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If you lose me you may cause people around me to lose me too. What am I?

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Who is never hungry during Christmas?

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What do Julius Caesar, Augustus, Constantine and Spartacus have in common?

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A most delicious thing.
It can be given but cannot be kept.
Some awake from it after they've slept.
It is the moistest and softest butterfly wing,
But when it is the last even it can sting.

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What makes my left hand my right?

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It was a gift to the one but poison to the others. It was a favored sign but also a hated symbol. Some say that It was not short. While others talk of two that were far too long. It was stolen and then torn, and became something to mourn. What is it?

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I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

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Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What am I?

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In Paris but not in France, the thinnest of its siblings.

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What snacks do you serve at a robot party?

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A single syllable do I claim,
black was my most famous name;
Fetal to mortals here below,
thousands have I slain in a single blow.

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I follow the orders of only two.
I respect the work of only two.
I am in constant battles with many,
Though one surpassed them all.
With forces joined,
We created hell,
Until our mutual enemy fell.
Who am I?

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Inside a great blue castle lives a shy young maid. She blushes in the morning and comes not out at night.

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I can speak with my hard metal tongue. But I cannot breathe, for I have no lung. What am I?

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It's a game played by serious people that takes place on a global scale.

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A circle of stones, never in rows.
Stacked one on the other, mystery it sows.
What is it?

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Fatherless and motherless. Born without sin, roared when it came into the world. And never spoke again.

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I have six faces but not even one body connected, 21 eyes in total but cannot see. What am I?

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You can only have it once you have given it.

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I have three heads. Cut off one, I become stronger. Cut off two, I become ten. What am I?

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I come in many shapes and colors. I sing in the breeze but only live 7 months. What am I?

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What goes in the water black and comes out red?

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I am very important, but often overlooked. What am I?

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I have a head and a tail but my eyes can never see my tail. What am I?

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For our ambrosia we were blessed,
By Jupiter, with a sting of death.
Though our might, to some is jest,
We have quelled the dragon's breath.
Who are we?

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A shimmering field that reaches far. Yet it has no tracks, And is crossed without paths.

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Shorter than my four siblings, but easily the strongest,
Sometimes I wear a funny hat.

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The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

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Ripped from my mother's womb. Beaten and burned, I become a bloodthirsty killer. What am I?

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I lose my head in the morning and regain back it at night. What am I?

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What age most travelers have?

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We are five little objects of an everyday sort,
You will find us all in a tennis court.

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What is the longest fruit?

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Nothing specific, but more than a few. This many clustered, together will do.

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Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.

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What's the difference between the pope and the president?

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So cold, damp and dark this place. To stay you would refrain, yet those who occupy this place do never complain.

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Black within and red without,
With four corners round about.
What am I?

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What dance was very popular in 1776?

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What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

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Every team needs one of these before hitting the field. Get pumped!

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A spent round or a slimy critter.

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