1. What is always before you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future
2. What has a head, and a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny
3. What goes up but never comes down? Answer: Age
4. What gets wet while drying? Answer: A towel
5. What has one eye but cannot see? Answer: A needle
6. 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 live. What am I? Answer: Fire
7. What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter? Answer: Envelope
8. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Silence
9. 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
10. What goes around the world but stays in one spot? Answer: A stamp
11. I am light as a feather, yet the most vital person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I? Answer: Breath
12. What has a heart that doesn’t beat? Answer: An artichoke
13. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? Answer: A glove
14. What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle
15. What has a bottom at the top? Answer: A leg
16. What has a mouth but cannot eat, and what moves but has no feet? Answer: River
17. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Egg
18. What is light as a feather, yet the most muscular man cannot hold it for long? Answer: Breath
19. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: A clock
20. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: Teapot
21. What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge
22. What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? Answer: Man (crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and uses a cane in old age)
23. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footsteps
24. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer: The letter M
25. What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin
26. What goes through cities and fields but never moves? Answer: A road
27. What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold
28. What has a mouth but doesn’t speak, and what runs but doesn’t walk? Answer: River
29. I am always hungry; I must constantly be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I? Answer: Fire
30. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive? Answer: A glove
31. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel
32. What goes through the water but does not get wet? Answer: Sunlight.
33. What begins with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter? Answer: Envelope
34. What has one letter but is not the letter E? Answer: Envelope
35. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters? Answer: Post Office
36. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? Answer: Charcoal
37. What has a mouth but doesn’t speak, and what runs but doesn’t walk? Answer: River.
