1. What 7-letter word becomes longer when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Longer
2. What word begins and ends with an E but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
3. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
4. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
6. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
7. 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
8. What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Answer: A human – crawling as a baby, walking as an adult, and using a cane in old age.
9. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
10. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
11. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: Teapot
12. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: Artichoke
13. What word looks the same upside down and backward?
Answer: SWIMS
14. What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
15. What has a neck but no head, and wears a cap?
Answer: Bottle
16. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
17. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
18. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
19. 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 a firm surface, or I’ll die. What am I?
Answer: Mushroom
20. What has a mouth but can’t chew?
Answer: River
21. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
Answer: Glove
22. What is so light that even the strongest man can’t hold it for long?
Answer: Breath
23. What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
Answer: NOON
