1. I am always hungry; I must constantly be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire
2. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
3. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
4. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire
5. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
6. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
7. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
8. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke
9. I am not alive, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery
10. What is so fragile that even saying its name can break it?
Answer: Silence
11. What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
12. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet almost every person uses me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead/graphite
13. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
14. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but I need water to survive. What am I?
Answer: Fire
15. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office
16. What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name
17. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal
18. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo
19. I am always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future
20. I am an odd number. Take away a letter, and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven (take away the “s” and it becomes “even”)
21. I am not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but I need water to survive. What am I?
Answer: A fire
22. What is something that you will never see again?
Answer: Yesterday.
23. What has a neck but no head and wears a cap but has no hair?
Answer: A bottle
24. What is always before you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
25. I have a heart that doesn’t beat, a mouth that doesn’t speak, and a back that doesn’t bend. What am I?
Answer: A deck of cards
26. What starts with an E, ends with an E, and only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
27. What gets more significant the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole
28. What will you always find before yesterday but never before tomorrow?
Answer: The letter “R.”
29. I have cities but no houses. I have mountains but no trees. I have water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map
30. I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but I need water to survive. What am I?
Answer: Fire
31. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge
32. What starts with “e,” ends with “e” but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
33. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet almost every person uses me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead/graphite
34. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
35. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
36. What is it that goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
37. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
38. What is so light that the wind can carry it, but even the most muscular man cannot hold it for long?
Answer: Breath
39. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
40. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: Artichoke
41. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: Coin
42. I am always in front of you, but you cannot see me. What am I?
Answer: Future
43. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: Joke
44. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: Bottle
45. I am light as a feather, yet the most muscular man cannot hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath
