Hard Riddles

What do you call a hippie’s wife?

What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?

What flies around all day but never goes anywhere?

Born in an instant. I tell all stories. I can be lost. But I never die. What am I?

Who was awarded as the fastest runner in the race?

Soldiers line up spaced with pride.
Two long rows lined side by side.
One sole unit can decide,
if the rows will unite or divide.

I can never be stolen from you. I am owned by everyone. Some have more, some have less. What am I?

Goes over all the hills and hollows,
Bites hard, but never swallows.

A precious fluid, thicker than water. What is it?

Without coolant, you'll have some trouble with this.

Snake coiled round and round.
Snake deep below the ground.
Snake that's never had a head.
Snake that binds but not with dread.

Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.

How does the Easter Bunny paint all the Easter eggs?

A hundred years I once did live,
and often wholesome food did give,
yet all that time I ne'er did roam,
so much as a half a mile from my home,
my days were spent devoid of strife,
until at last I lost my life.
And since my death – I pray give ear,
I oft have traveled far and near.

I have a tongue, but cannot speak. I have a bed but cannot sleep. I have four legs but cannot walk. Yet I move as you do. What am I?

Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb.

A deep well full of knives

What falls but never breaks?

By the way, what never moves, wears shoes, sandals and boots, but has no feet?

Born of sorrow, grows with age,
You need a lot to be a sage.
What is it?

What weeps without eyes or eyelids, her tears rejoicing sons and fathers; and when she laughs and no tears fall, her laughter saddens all hearts?

What has two spines and a lot of ribs, and carries much but never moves?

What is the smartest state?

Lovely and round, I shine with pale light,
Grown in the darkness, a lady's delight.
What am I?

Has feathers but can't fly. Rests on legs but can't walk.

What's a polygon?

What has everything inside it? Everything you can imagine even god, wind, world, sky, heaven, earth and everything that comes to your mind?

My parents are singers, and while my father has red hair I am pale and completely bald. What am I?

If roses are red, violets are blue, what is stuffed, brown and blue?

I am an English word with 3 consecutive double letters. What am I?

A house full, a yard full, a chimney full, no one can get a spoonful.

What is something yet nothing, but if you fill it up it will disappear?

Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover?

I am slim and tall
Many find me desirable and appealing
They touch me and I give a false good feeling
Once I shine in splendor
But only once and then no more
For many I am to die for.
What am I?

They are two brothers. However much they run, they do not reach each other.

Good for telling the future or racking up in a game.

With head without hair. With mouth without tooth.

I encourage people to run home and steal. What am I?

I make billions of dollars selling Windows. Who am I?

What was Thomas Jefferson’s favorite dessert?

Dies half its life. Lives the rest.
Dances without music. Breathes without breath.

I can be found after you remove 6 letters from BSAINXLEATEARS. What am I?

The older they are the less wrinkles they have.

It had so many locks that don’t need a key.
It was far too many for you to count.
It was never to be shortened, for a vow had been said.
It was a symbol of strength that flowed from the head.
But in a moment of weakness, its secret was out,
it lays all in pieces when she gave the shout.
What is it?

What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite?

You will have this response if you would go salivating at the mention of a cheeseburger.

A hundred brothers lie next to each other;
Each white and fine - they've only one spine.
I am the tongue that lies between two.
Remove me to gather their wisdom to you.

There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30.
Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?

What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?

I have two eyes in the front and a lot of eyes on my tail. What am I?

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

A mile from end to end,
yet as close to as a friend.
A precious commodity, freely given.
Seen on the dead and on the living.
Found on the rich, poor, short and tall,
but shared among children most of all.
What is it?

Responsible for the toupee industry.

It is a part of us, and then replaced.
It escapes our bodies, to a better place.
The world becomes its sizeable home.
Its passions unrestrained, the planet it roams.

What is round on both ends and hi in the middle?

What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?

Begotten, and born, and dying with noise,
The terror of women, and pleasure of boys,
Like the fiction of poets concerning the wind,
I'm chiefly unruly, when strongest confined.

What has a ring but no finger?

What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?

Kills the bad ones and the sad ones. Tightens to fit, so one size fits.

The virgin gave birth to a child and threw away the blanket.

A useful thing, hard, firm, and white, outside in shaggy robe bedight;
Hallowed within right cleverly, it goes to work both white and dry.
When after labor it comes back, you'll find it moist and very black;
for service it is ready ever, and fails the hand that guides it never.

It hisses but it's not a snake.
It holds water but it's not a lake.
When it's done you hear it scream.
Pour from it and add some cream.

How do you catch a rabbit?

What is easy to get into, and hard to get out of?

It can be carried but not touched. It has two on the outside and ten on the inside. Everyone wants to catch a sight of this but it’s kept out of sight. It was lost and found; then found but now it’s lost. What is it?

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

You may have to assure your date's dad that you have these kind of intentions.

What is the chemical formula depicted like the alphabet series, K,L,M,N and O?

What building has the most stories?

What is red and nailed to a wall?

I come in many colors, some are blue and white.
While some people annoy me, I am not much for the fight.
I live where people rarely tread,
but you will find me close to bed.
What am I?

A red house is made out of red bricks.
A blue house is made out of blue bricks.
What is a green house made out of?

I run around the city, but I never move.

This dish consists of a rolled tortilla with a filling typically of beef or chicken and served with a chili sauce.

I am something all men have but all men deny. Man created me but no man can hold me. What am i?

Long legs, crooked thighs, little head, and no eyes.

I saw a man in white, he looked quite a sight.
He was not old, but he stood in the cold.
And when he felt the sun, he started to run.
Who could he be? Please answer me.

Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.

When the creeper passes, all the grass kneels.

What divides by uniting and by dividing?

What do you have when you're sitting down that you don't have when you're standing up?

One of the few times it's encouraged to lock lips with a stranger.

Yellow in color, I can be a laboratory risk. You’ll most often find me used in an explosive. What am I?

What would an apple and a Christmas tree get if they had a baby?

It stands upright and can be quite grand.
Its secret is not hidden but right at hand.
What is it?

What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all,
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Who am I?

This old one runs forever, but never moves at all.
He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call.
What is it?

I am made from an animal,
Although you nickname me after a different one.
You can't eat me; you can only hold me,
And once a year a festival is erected in my honor.
What am I?

I'm an old relative who's hand's can't hold anything and eyes can't see anything. What am I?

Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington?

Where does bad light end up?

Slowly creeping, I am weeping, changing shades, and growing.

What’s has feathers, a bowed head and kneels?

When set loose, I fly away. Never so cursed, as when I go astray. What am I?

I'm so simple I only point,
Yet I guide people all over the world.
What am I?

What is between heaven and earth?

A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?

I know a thousand faces, and count the tailed heads, feasting bright upon the eyes, of many who have died. Wielding well a mighty power, who hath but humble stature. Masses fall upon their knees, to scarce behold my only side. What am I?