Riddles for Teens

What can stand in place of a country but still fold away in a drawer?

If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?

I can be told and can make you crazy. Most people don't like me and think I'm harmful. What am I?

One strand dangles. Two strands twist.
Three or more can fashion this.

Prior to smartphones, people used this to record their lives.

If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow.

If you have me, you want to tell me.
If you tell me, you don't have me.

What can you keep after giving it to someone?

What is the last thing you take off before bed?

I am the sweetest and most romantic fruit. What am I?

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

I start in little but I end in full, you'll find me in half and complete.

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

How do you know that a vampire loves baseball?

What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?

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

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

What is something that can go up quite easily, but is not as easy to bring back down?

What creature starts yellow inside and white outside, then becomes its first five before becoming the whole?

What has to be broken before it can be used?

I don't exist unless you cut me, but if you stab me I won't bleed. I hate no one yet am abhorred by all. What am I?

I am a term used to confirm. But take away my front, my face, I become known as human avarice.

Fuels backyard get-togethers.

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

I'm unique in one way but you can find two of me in your daily drink. What am I?

It is the time in your life when you simultaneously know everything and nothing at an instance.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J Fox has a small one,
Madonna doesn't have one,
The pope has one but he never uses it,
Bill Clinton has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?

What can be seen but not touched?

What seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?

What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?

What fruit never ever wants to be alone?

I am nothing but holes tied to holes, yet am strong as iron.

What did addition say to subtraction when they found each other on Facebook?

What time of day, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down?

I end and begin the day,
Without me, you'll pay.
With the aid of sheep,
All my benefits you shall reap.
If I make you miss class,
You shall not pass!
What am I?

What happens every second, minute, month, and century. But not every hour, week, year, or decade?

Why is a bunny the luckiest animal?

What fruit can you use to sip water?

What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried.

What travels from coast to coast without ever moving?

I have an eye but cannot see.
I'm faster than any man alive and have no limbs.
What am I?

What can be measured but not seen?

Although I’m not a window
I am something you look through
I’m often on a tripod
Things in space I help you view

I can swim but never get wet. I can run but never get tired. I follow you everywhere but never say a word. What am I?

What has you stop on green and go on red?

The cloud is my mother, my father the wind. The lake is my son and the rainbow my bed. What am I?

Who is never hungry during Christmas?

What type of house weighs the least?

What smells the best at thanksgiving dinner?

I help you carry your books. What am I?

Mary's father has 4 daughters. Three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. What is the fourth daughter's name?

People walk in and out of me. They push and I follow. When they walk out on me, I close up and I stay waiting for the next person to walk into my life when I have a more open mind. What am I?

Besides Paris, what is the capital of France?

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

What has four legs, but can't walk?

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

A deep well full of knives

It may only be given,
Not taken or bought,
What the sinner desires,
But the saint does not.

What is born long, dies short, and spends its life leaving a trail?

What can't you see, hear or feel, until it's too late.
What shadows love, and shopkeepers hate?

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

What is something you will never see again?

Your parents come over for a surprise breakfast while you are sleeping. You get out pancakes toast maple syrup and jam. What do you open first.

A building where people and stories are on stage.

What is at the end of a rainbow?

A single seater best accompanied by circus music and great balance.

Brings celebrities into your home every night.

I wear a green jacket on the outside, white jacket as a second layer, and a red jacket inside. I am pregnant with a lot of babies. What am I?

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

There's one in every deck of cards and in a famous movie.

I am very afraid of doing scary activities. What am I?

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

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

What can you hear but not touch or see?

Is there a 4th of July in England?

What's the largest pencil in the United States?

Why was the Easter Bunny so grumpy?

Poorly behaved children often find themselves sitting in these.

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

I fly away as soon as you set me loose. People around you may slowly move away once they sense my presence. What am I?

Why is 6 afraid of 7?

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.
Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.
What am I?

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

Makeup for finger tips. What am I?

If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

What does the Easter Bunny say when it burps?

I go around all the places; cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?

123=0
4235=0
656=2
5390=2
8890=6
1001=2
19235=1
What is 123456789?

I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me.

Needed to jack, but also to carp. I can’t be used In rust, but can in the grass. What am I?

Before Mt. Everest was discovered as the highest mountain in the world, which mountain was the highest?

What can be found at the beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end?

Not a comb or a brush but makes the hair feel plush. What is it?

The more you take the more you leave behind.

A young child goes up to a wise man and shocks him by asking him "What one thing do I have that God does not?"

What can you throw but not catch?

This heavy and ancient suit was not worn with a tie, but was always worn in battle.

If Mississippi lent Missouri her New Jersey, what would Delaware?