Hard Riddles

What does DNA stand for?

I build up castles. I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind, I help others to see.
What am I?

The stack just might be sent all over. Full of what's new, yet it's nearly obsolete.

I am small, but, when entire,
of force to set a town on fire;
Let but one letter disappear,
I then can hold a herd of deer;
Take one more off, and then you'll find
I once contained all human kind.

When someone uses this acronym, you know you've got to pick up the pace.

I give life for my own, have a beginning, but my end is unknown. What am I?

What quacks, has webbed feet, and betrays his country?

Crooked as a rainbow, and slick as a plate,
Ten thousand horses can't pull it straight.
What am I?

So beautiful and cold,
So young and yet so old,
Alive but always dead,
Still hungry when has fed,
Will die if it is bled,
Or you cut off its head.

It is a gruesome form of betray.

Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, but even a river can't fill it up. What is it?

I chose to climb a sycamore tree to see Jesus and invited him to come to my house, even though other people sneered at me. Who am I?

What goes with a car, comes with a car, is no use to a car, but the car can't move without it?

What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?

First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?

The higher I climb, the hotter I engage. I cannot escape from my crystal cage.

Some are quick to take it. Others must be coaxed.
Those who choose to take it gain and lose the most.

I get stuffed and I get dressed on Thanksgiving. What am I?

Both guys and women enhance their visual organs with this item.

A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you".
What did the prisoner say to save himself?

Plow and hoe, reap and sow,
What soon does every farmer grow?

Is there a 4th of July in England?

What has a mouth but can't talk?

What becomes too young the longer it exists?

I am a protector. I sit on a bridge. One person can see right through me, while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

I stand up tall and made of steel,
with baguettes and garlic at my heel.
I love the colours red, white and blue,
but obviously not as much as you.
I am a marvel for all to see,
though to some I am a monstrosity!
What am I?

What do you get when you cross a vampire and teacher?

What liquid can contain the soul?

What is a cat on ice?

What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter?

What does a rich man needs that a poor man has?

I am not alive and yet I grow. Just put me next to where it grows.
A favorite of the summertime, best with friends when combined.
What am I?

You throw away my outside, you cook my inside. Then you eat my outside and you throw away my inside. What am I?

We are emeralds and diamonds,
Lost by the moon;
Found by the sun,
And picked up soon.

Fighting technique taken from rams.

The older this thing grows the more valued it becomes. It is always much better when its breathing is done.

They cut doors in half and wear wooden shoes.

What food has no beginning, end, or middle?

The more you take of me, the more you leave behind. What am I?

What gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries?

Many shapes, many sizes. Can't be seen, only felt. I bring pain, I bring joy, I bring laughter, I bring happiness. I can tear the mightiest from their thrones, and those who have me are rich. What am I?

Full of dark, filled with everything
Both on my skin they color
With my pack, I am always
Afraid of the cat.
What am I?

Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it. What is it?

When liquid splashes me, none seeps through.
When I am moved a lot, liquid I spew.
When I am hit, color I change.
And color, I come in quite a range.
What I cover is very complex,
And I am very easy to flex.

A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half an hour. How long will the pills last?

What takes hours to pull off
Is most satisfying when it's done
And requires consent from the person you're doing it to?

The shorter I am, the bigger I am. What am I?

With thieves I consort,
With the Vilest, in short,
I'm quite at ease in depravity,
Yet all divines use me,
And savants can't lose me,
For I am the century of gravity.

Before Boaz became married, what kind of guy was he?

If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?

From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?

We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?

It speaks without a tongue, and listens without ears.

It carries paper of the most important sort
but also plastic, I'm glad to report.
What is it?

What do we see everyday, kings see rarely, and God never sees?

An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!

There is someone, and there is always another, for without the other, there wouldn't be one.

Look into my face and I'm everybody. Scratch my back and I'm nobody.

I don't think or eat or slumber.
Or move around or fear thunder.
Just like you I look the same
but I can't harm you or be your bane.

My back and belly is wood,
and my ribs is lined with leather.
I've a hole in my nose and one in my breast,
And I'm mostly used in cold weather.

What is better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing?

What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?

Dragons are known to do this to their gold.

Has its teeth on your head but doesn't bite.

His is no small athletic feat,
Has to stay nimble on his feet,
To fight and his opponents beat,
And taste sweet victory, not grim defeat.

We travel much, yet prisoners are, and close confined to boot.
Yet with any horse, we will keep the pace, and will always go on foot.
What are they?

I have two bodies joined together as one. When standing still, I ran and ran. What am I?

This is your stomach's way of letting you know you've neglected it.

My step is slow, the snow's my breath
I give the ground, a grinding death
My marching makes an end of me
Slain by sun or drowned in sea.

I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

I am the beginning of everything, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place. What am I?

What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?

What is given but kept by the giver?

My head and tail both equal are, my middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heel Is quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, the matter's true, though passing strange directly I to nothing change.

Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.

In the land of the green glass door there are riddles but no answers, sheets but no blankets, and books but no words. Name something found in the land of the green glass door.

What has a tongue but no mouth?

I live above a star who never burns. I have 11 neighbors but they never turn. My initial are p, q, r, and sometimes s. What am I?

Why is 6 afraid of 7?

Downward grows the root. Outward grows the skin.
Upward grows the shoot. What way blows the wind?

I have two hands but cannot clap. What am I?

What hole do you mend with holes?

My rings are not worth much, but they do tell my age. What am I?

Sitting down you have it, Standing up you don't.

How does Juliet maintain a constant body temperature?

At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep.

What work of writing can one never finish?

The floor's on top, the roof's beneath, and from this place I rarely leave. Yet with the passing of each day. A new horizon greets my gaze.

I have three hundred cattle, with a single nose cord.

It happens when something has been cut with H2O.

I can be flipped and broken but I never move. I can be closed, and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?

How come they didn’t play cards on the Ark?

They try to beat me, they try in vain.
And when I win, I end the pain.

If you slash it, It heals at once.

Many people own a copy of me. Without me the world would fall. What am I?

How do you go from 98 to 720 using just one letter?

No thicker than your finger when it folds.
As thick as what it's holding when it holds.

I have a frame but no pictures. I have poles but not standing up. What am I?

It can be repeated but rarely in the same way. It can't be changed but can be rewritten. It can be passed down, but should not be forgotten.