Short Riddles

What can be broken without being touched?

The most beautiful and useless of human acts.

Why didn't the monster eat the crazy person?

What do rich people have that can be changed into the law.

Flat as a leaf, round as a ring. Has two eyes, can't see a thing.

Only one foot tall but I govern you. What am I?

Why can’t eggs be comedians?

What did the computer eat on the moon?

Talks like this, a green wise man does. Guess my clue, you will.

What has to be broken before you can use it?

It is the most common hour to have a gunfight in a western scene.

What is green, has four legs, no tail, and usually heard at night?

What day of the week does an Easter egg hate the most?

What do people make that you can't see?

What is it that leaps and runs and yet, has no feet?

What hatches without food?

Why did the cow become an astronaut?

I can be found in water but never wet. What am I?

You speak this when you are being sincere.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?

How are politicians like baby diapers?

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

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

A blackbird similar to, but much bigger than a crow.

A toy that requires some string and a breezy day.

What kind of room doesn't have physical walls?

You saw me where I could not be.
Yet, often you see me.
What am I?

What is an acceptable act of violence during saint Patrick's day?

I am a mountain at night, meadow at day. What am I?

What did the femur say to the patella?

People chop this off for a good cause.

Currency that flirted with a British spy.

I am shared by goats, devils, and unicorns. What am I?

What is the largest living ant on earth?

What has teeth but no mouth?

What do you call a dog that sweats so much?

What animal dwells in water and best known for its work ethic?

Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting?

U always follow me but I am rarely seen. What am I?

Which biblical character grew up without parents?

What did the spider say to the fly on Halloween?

Sheets of paper that tell new stories each day.

What month do people sleep the least?

What travels from coast to coast without ever moving?

This dish is usually consumed at breakfast time with milk.

I occur twice in eternity. And I'm always within sight.

What grows bigger the more you contract it?

I flow from the mouth of Homer when he sees doughnuts. What am I?

I am nature's way of applauding lightning. What am I?

I don't forget! What am I?

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

A white horned symbol of purity and grace.

What can be measured but not seen?

What's an insect's favourite sport?

I'm a ring of sliced onion dipped in batter and then deep fried.

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

Where on earth do the ways always blow from the south?

You row in one while you float. What is it?

Gumby and yoga instructors have this in common.

One more than a duet.

Just head and foot yet never tires of dancing.

I never ask questions, but I am always answered. What am I?

Don't forget to do this before blowing out the candles.

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

It's real until the trick is revealed.

I can be sweet or sour. I do not rhyme with any other word. What am I?

I am commonly abbreviated to H. What am I?

What has you stop on green and go on red?

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

Hard iron on horse. Cow's hide on man.

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

What has ears but can't hear?

Why did they let the turkey join the thanksgiving band?

What do you call the mother-in-law of your sister's husband?

It is basically a cake made of cow.

What's at the head of an elephant and at the tail of a squirrel?

What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?

The fans of the pied piper's smooth sound who are feared by elephants.

People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?

Why can’t a woman living in the U.S. be buried in Canada?

When it was young, it had a tail. When it grew up, it had knees.

Who is never hungry during Christmas?

What makes my left hand my right?

When I type I tap these on the keys.

How does a rabbit keep his fur looking good?

Where force can't get through, I with a gentle movement do. What am I?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What can you blow up and keep intact?

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

What snacks do you serve at a robot party?

Thanks for such treasures as Mariachis, enchiladas and habanero!

What traps a star in its belly but can be held in your hand?

Serves as a go between in business.

If you say my name i no longer exist. What am i?

Steals an event or even a mood. Reveals the truth or shatters it.

Although my cow is dead, I still beat her. What a racket she makes!

A setting that proved to be deadly for Abraham Lincoln.

What is the only animal without the ability to fly but still does?

What did one flag say to the other flag?