Short Riddles

What food lives at the beach?

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be?

Describes universities like Harvard and can be poisonous.

In my life I must bare, my bloodline I must share. What am I?

How do snails travel?

Where are you guaranteed to find gold on St. Patrick's Day?

I make things short, but I am pretty long myself. What am I?

What do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?

A long snake that smokes. What am I?

I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.

How do you spell candy in 2 letters?

What do you get if you cross a bee and a bunny?

Who invented the Round Table?

What must take a bow before it can speak?

What is a ghost's favorite dessert?

If you held me for too long, you would die. What am I?

I'm a god. I'm a planet. I measure heat.

How do you know that a vampire loves baseball?

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

What is lighter than what it is made of?

There are four of these, but everyone's favorite seems to be spades.

He died for people's entertainment.

What comes once a day but leaves every morning?

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

The Black Pearl was this type of criminal seafaring vessel.

Salty water everywhere but not sea in sight.

Tiny creatures that have a special relationship with flowers.

What stays the same size no matter how much they weight?

What kind of street does a ghost like best?

When is it bad luck to see a black cat?

How do you fix a jack-o-lantern?

I can be short and sometimes hot. When displayed, I rarely impress.

Where do turkeys go to dance?

I am a type of weapon for SCI-FI characters. What am I?

Handy when you need to measure something or run a kingdom.

What turns everything around but does not move?

On the day before Christmas, what did Adam say?

Where does a rabbit go for a shampoo?

I produce wool and spit a lot. What am I?

What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?

This food is a Thanksgiving tradition.

How many biologists does it take to change a light bulb?

Which vehicle is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

What bird is always unhappy?

What animal keeps the best time?

Did you hear the one about the Liberty Bell?

Consuming food would be pretty tough without these chompers.

You have to travel far before you turn it over. What is it?

Teenage girls are pros at creating me. Learn me in classes. What am I?

It's held in the hand when going out.

What’s red, white, black and blue?

There is a kind of fish that can never swim. What is that?

You are owed one of these when someone wrongs you.

When we stand up it lies flat. When we lie back it stands up.

Once they sailed the sea, now they surf the web.

I make a living following the wealthy and beautiful. What am I?

I'm lighter than air but a million men can't lift me. What am I?

As strong as love, more dangerous than cancer.

What leaps one time out of four?

Sport olympians use this to get high jump up in the air.

What 11-letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?

What gets bigger the more you take away?

If H2O is the formula for water, what is the formula for ice?

The artistic vandal's best friend.

I'm a pie, but I come with pepperoni and cheese.

What do you call a greedy grumpy holiday hater?

What lives where it cannot breathe and has a hole in its back?

Why do mummies like Christmas so much?

What can hold all days, weeks, and months but still fit on a table?

I'm usually served alongside burgers. I'm crispy golden potato sticks.

Where is the ocean deepest?

What insect does a blacksmith manufacture?

What has to be broken before it can be used?

What was General Washington's favorite tree?

Its title means book.

A wave of white powdery destruction that is a skier's worst nightmare.

What can you fold but not crease?

How can you tell where the Easter Bunny has been?

Why do French people like to eat snails?

It can make rain, but take away one leg and it'll give you pain.

What kind of key do you use on Thanksgiving?

What has a hundred limbs, sometimes leaves, but cannot walk?

It is the transportation of choice for princesses to attend balls.

I am a type of animal that hang out in the mist. What am I?

Reserved for royalty and damaged teeth.

When it comes to me, you go on red and stops on green. What am I?

The warmer I am, The fresher I am.

When I'm born I fly. When I'm alive I lay. When I'm dead I run.

Fuels backyard get-togethers.

What do you call the leader of a biology gang?

Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?

I'm a god, a planet, and measurer of heat. Who am I?

This is a plant named after a light source. What is it?

The French word for 'fun size' in women's clothing.

What starts with an "e" but only has a single letter in it?

I go around and in the house, but never touches the house. What am I?

Both old people and owls are said to be possessing this trait.

This is needed both for courage and hardcover books.

What needs to be taken from you before you have it?