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What has to be broken before anyone can use it?
Réponse
An egg
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Réponse
A towel
I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?
Réponse
A candle
I have 88 keys, but I cannot open a single door. What am I?
Réponse
A piano
I have a face and two hands. I never stop running, but I have no legs. What am I?
Réponse
A clock
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
Réponse
A map
What can travel all around the world while it stays in one corner?
Réponse
A stamp
The more of these you take, the more of them you leave behind. What are they?
Réponse
Footsteps
Shout into a canyon and I shout back. I have no mouth and no ears. What am I?
Réponse
An echo
I follow you all day, but I vanish in the dark. What am I?
Réponse
Your shadow
If you share me, you do not have me anymore. What am I?
Réponse
A secret
Say my name, and I am gone. What am I?
Réponse
Silence
The more you take out of me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Réponse
A hole
The more there is of me, the less you can see. What am I?
Réponse
Darkness
What goes up every year and never comes back down?
Réponse
Your age
I am full of holes, but I still hold water. What am I?
Réponse
A sponge
What has one eye but cannot see?
Réponse
A needle
What has lots of eyes but cannot see a thing?
Réponse
A potato
What has many teeth but never bites anyone?
Réponse
A comb
What has four legs but cannot walk?
Réponse
A table
What has two banks but not a single coin?
Réponse
A river
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Réponse
A coin
What has a neck but no head?
Réponse
A bottle
What has bark but never bites?
Réponse
A tree
What can you catch but never throw?
Réponse
A cold
What can you break without touching it?
Réponse
A promise
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
Réponse
Your name
Which word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
Réponse
Short
Which word starts with E, ends with E, and holds only one letter?
Réponse
An envelope
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
Réponse
The letter M
What is always coming but never arrives?
Réponse
Tomorrow
I weigh nothing, but even the strongest person cannot hold me for long. What am I?
Réponse
Your breath
Feed me and I grow. Give me a drink and I die out. What am I?
Réponse
Fire
What has lots of money but never spends any of it?
Réponse
A bank
What goes up and down but never moves?
Réponse
Stairs
What goes up when the rain comes down?
Réponse
An umbrella
What has words but never speaks?
Réponse
A book
I have five fingers but no bones and no skin. What am I?
Réponse
A glove
What has ears but cannot hear?
Réponse
Corn
Where does Thursday come before Wednesday?
Réponse
In the dictionary
Rich people need it, poor people have it, and if you eat it, you starve. What is it?
Réponse
Nothing
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Réponse
A teapot
You can stand on me in winter. Warm me up and I turn back into water. What am I?
Réponse
Ice
I am made in winter, I have a carrot for a nose, and I melt in spring. What am I?
Réponse
A snowman
I appear after the rain and wear a stripe of every color. What am I?
Réponse
A rainbow
You cannot see me, but you can feel me, and I make kites fly. What am I?
Réponse
The wind
I have three feet, but I cannot walk. What am I?
Réponse
A yardstick
If you drop me, I may crack. If you smile at me, I always smile back. What am I?
Réponse
A mirror
Black and white, I cannot fly, but I swim very well. What am I?
Réponse
A penguin
I have a trunk that I never pack, big ears, and four thick gray legs. What am I?
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An elephant
I carry my house on my back everywhere I go. What am I?
Réponse
A turtle
I buzz from flower to flower and make something sweet. What am I?
Réponse
A bee
I have the longest neck of any animal. What am I?
Réponse
A giraffe
What wakes you up every morning but never sleeps itself?
Réponse
An alarm clock
I am soft, I live on your bed, and your head rests on me every night. What am I?
Réponse
A pillow
I have bristles, and I visit your mouth twice a day. What am I?
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A toothbrush
I have twelve parts, and each part has its own name. I show you every day of the year. What am I?
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A calendar
You wear me on your foot, but I am not a shoe. One of me often gets lost in the wash. What am I?
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A sock
I am green outside, red inside, and full of black seeds. What am I?
Réponse
A watermelon
You peel me, I am yellow, and monkeys love me. What am I?
Réponse
A banana
I can make you cry, but I never hurt your feelings. What am I?
Réponse
An onion
I have a knob and hinges. You open me and close me every day. What am I?
Réponse
A door
I am small and made of metal, and I open locks. What am I?
Réponse
A key
I run all day when you have a cold, but I have no legs. What am I?
Réponse
Your nose
What disappears as soon as you stand up?
Réponse
Your lap
Which word is spelled with one letter, and the next four letters are silent?
Réponse
Queue
Which word is always spelled wrong in the dictionary?
Réponse
Wrong
I have waves but no hair, and I am full of salt. What am I?
Réponse
The ocean
What flies without wings?
Réponse
Time
What has to be answered, but never asks a question?
Réponse
A phone
What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?
Réponse
A road
What has four wheels and flies?
Réponse
A garbage truck
Which room has no doors and no windows?
Réponse
A mushroom
Which kind of tree can you hold in your hand?
Réponse
A palm
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Réponse
A gummy bear
What has a ring but no finger?
Réponse
A phone
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Réponse
Your brain
What can fill a whole room but takes up no space?
Réponse
Light
I am an odd number. Take one letter away and I become even. What number am I?
Réponse
Seven
Which three numbers give the same answer when you add them and when you multiply them?
Réponse
1, 2 and 3
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
Réponse
Nine
How many months have 28 days?
Réponse
All of them
I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Réponse
194
When Maya was 6, her brother was half her age. Maya is 40 now. How old is her brother?
Réponse
37
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many sheep are left?
Réponse
9
There are 3 apples on a table, and you take 2. How many apples do you have?
Réponse
2
What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?
Réponse
A hole
A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does the egg roll?
Réponse
Roosters do not lay eggs
How far can you walk into a forest?
Réponse
Halfway
What has 13 hearts but nothing else inside?
Réponse
A deck of cards
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Réponse
Ton
Which word holds every one of the 26 letters?
Réponse
Alphabet
I am black when you buy me, red when you use me, and gray when you throw me away. What am I?
Réponse
Charcoal
What has its bottom at the top?
Réponse
Your legs
What weighs more, a kilo of feathers or a kilo of bricks?
Réponse
Neither
What has lots of needles but never sews?
Réponse
A pine tree
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Réponse
A bed
What runs all around a yard but never moves?
Réponse
A fence
Which building has the most stories?
Réponse
A library
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Réponse
Fsh
What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Réponse
A post office
Jo's mom has four children: April, May, June, and who?
Réponse
Jo
Which kind of band never plays music?
Réponse
A rubber band
What is always in front of you, but you can never see it?
Réponse
The future
What can you hold in your left hand, but never in your right?
Réponse
Your right hand
What do people cut on a table but never eat?
Réponse
A deck of cards
I have branches, but no leaves, no trunk, and no fruit. What am I?
Réponse
A bank
What has a spine but no bones?
Réponse
A book
What tastes things better than it smells them?
Réponse
Your tongue
What can you keep after you give it to someone?
Réponse
Your word
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Réponse
Trouble
Cut me open and count my rings to learn how old I am. What am I?
Réponse
A tree
What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Réponse
A carrot
What did the ocean say to the beach?
Réponse
Nothing, it just waved
Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Réponse
Because 7 ate 9
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
Réponse
A dino-snore
What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
Réponse
A person
What has a heart that never beats?
Réponse
An artichoke
Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each one catches a fish, but they catch only 3 fish. How?
Réponse
There are only 3 people: grandfather, father and son
I have keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but never go inside. What am I?
Réponse
A keyboard
What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Réponse
A shoe
What four-letter word reads the same forward, backward, and upside down?
Réponse
NOON
Which English word has three double letters in a row?
Réponse
Bookkeeper
What is at the end of a rainbow?
Réponse
The letter W
What is in the center of gravity?
Réponse
The letter V
Which word of three letters becomes fewer when you add two letters?
Réponse
Few
You throw me out when you want to use me, and you take me in when you are done. What am I?
Réponse
An anchor
Which bus crossed the ocean?
Réponse
Columbus
Which kind of coat goes on wet?
Réponse
A coat of paint
Which invention lets you look right through a wall?
Réponse
A window
What did one wall say to the other wall?
Réponse
I will meet you at the corner
Why did the bicycle fall over?
Réponse
It was two-tired
What do you call cheese that is not yours?
Réponse
Nacho cheese
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
Réponse
No idea
What becomes dirtier the whiter it gets?
Réponse
A chalkboard
What do you call a boomerang that never comes back?
Réponse
A stick
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Réponse
Your breath
Where do fish keep their money?
Réponse
In the river bank
What do you call a dog that does magic tricks?
Réponse
A labracadabrador
What did the zero say to the eight?
Réponse
Nice belt
Why are fish so smart?
Réponse
They live in schools
How do you make the number one disappear?
Réponse
Add a G to make gone
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Réponse
Chicago
Double me, then add 4, and you get 20. Which number am I?
Réponse
8
Half of me is the same as a quarter of 40. Which number am I?
Réponse
20
I am the only number with as many letters in my name as my value. Which number am I?
Réponse
4
Multiply me by any number, and the answer is always me. Which number am I?
Réponse
0
How many times can you take 5 away from 25?
Réponse
Once
I have six faces and 21 eyes, but I cannot see. What am I?
Réponse
A die
When can you add 5 to 9 and get 2?
Réponse
On a clock
What comes next: J, F, M, A, M, J, J, ?
Réponse
A
What is the end of everything?
Réponse
The letter G
Before Mount Everest was found, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Réponse
Mount Everest
What can you serve but never eat?
Réponse
A tennis ball
An electric train goes north at full speed. Which way does its smoke go?
Réponse
There is no smoke
In a race, you pass the runner in second place. Which place are you in now?
Réponse
Second
A rider came to town on Friday, stayed three days, and left on Friday. How?
Réponse
The horse is named Friday
What has no beginning, no end, and no middle?
Réponse
A circle
What is easy to lift but hard to throw far?
Réponse
A feather
What can you hear, but never see or touch?
Réponse
A sound
Which tire does not move when a car turns right?
Réponse
The spare tire
What is red and bad for your teeth?
Réponse
A brick
Which is faster, hot or cold?
Réponse
Hot
Which key opens a banana?
Réponse
A monkey
What do you call an alligator in a vest?
Réponse
An investigator
What has four eyes but cannot see?
Réponse
Mississippi
What do you call a pig that does karate?
Réponse
A pork chop
What did the big flower say to the little flower?
Réponse
Hi, bud
Why can a nose not be 12 inches long?
Réponse
Then it would be a foot
It has the head of a cat, the feet of a cat, and the tail of a cat, but it is not a cat. What is it?
Réponse
A kitten
Which animal can jump higher than a house?
Réponse
Any animal
Which letter of the alphabet holds the most water?
Réponse
C
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Réponse
Ground beef
Which subject is a witch best at?
Réponse
Spelling
Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
Réponse
It felt crummy
What breaks at dawn, and what falls at dusk without a scratch?
Réponse
Day and night
What appears once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Réponse
The letter E
Lay me on my side and I go on forever. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Réponse
8
What is something you will never see again?
Réponse
Yesterday
What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 have in common?
Réponse
They read the same upside down
I am a two-digit number. My digits add up to 9, and my tens digit is one more than my ones digit. What am I?
Réponse
54
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Réponse
A joke
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Réponse
A battery
You find me in socks, scarves, and mittens, and between the paws of kittens. What am I?
Réponse
Yarn
I fly without wings and cry without eyes. Where I go, darkness follows. What am I?
Réponse
A cloud
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Réponse
A barber
What can be stolen, mixed up, or changed, but never leaves you all your life?
Réponse
Your identity
I am an instrument that you can hear but never see or touch. What am I?
Réponse
Your voice
I can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or bare. What am I?
Réponse
Fingernails
What is black and white and read all over?
Réponse
A newspaper
What do you call a can opener that does not work?
Réponse
A can't opener
Why was the broom late?
Réponse
It overswept
Which game does a tornado like best?
Réponse
Twister
What do you call a dinosaur that knows a lot of words?
Réponse
A thesaurus
Which shoes do frogs wear?
Réponse
Open-toad shoes
What do you call a pile of kittens?
Réponse
A meowntain
Which month do soldiers dislike?
Réponse
March
What do you call a bee that cannot decide?
Réponse
A maybe
Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
Réponse
To reach the high notes
Which part of a computer does an astronaut like best?
Réponse
The space bar
Why do skeletons never fight each other?
Réponse
They do not have the guts
What do you call a bull that is sleeping?
Réponse
A bulldozer
How do astronauts plan a party?
Réponse
They planet
Why should you never trust an atom?
Réponse
They make up everything
What do clouds wear under their clothes?
Réponse
Thunderwear
Which kind of music scares balloons?
Réponse
Pop
What kind of dog never bites?
Réponse
A hot dog
What do you call a train that sneezes?
Réponse
An achoo-choo train
What do you get when you cross a vampire with a snowman?
Réponse
Frostbite
What is the hardest part of learning to ride a bike?
Réponse
The ground
What do you call a fake noodle?
Réponse
An impasta
How does a penguin build its house?
Réponse
Igloos it together
What do you call a bear caught in the rain?
Réponse
A drizzly bear
What do you call an elephant that does not matter?
Réponse
An irrelephant
What is brown and sticky?
Réponse
A stick
What can you hold without ever touching it?
Réponse
Your breath
Which letter is a vegetable when you say it?
Réponse
P
Which seven-letter word becomes longer when you take away its third letter?
Réponse
Lounger
Which word starts with IN, ends with AND, and has KST in the middle?
Réponse
Inkstand
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Réponse
Smiles
Which ship has two mates but no captain?
Réponse
A friendship
What is a cat's favorite color?
Réponse
Purr-ple
Why did the scarecrow win a prize?
Réponse
He was outstanding in his field
I have a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands. What am I?
Réponse
A shirt
What do you call a snowman in July?
Réponse
A puddle
What falls all the time but never gets hurt?
Réponse
Rain
Which animal is always at a baseball game?
Réponse
A bat
Why did the math book look sad?
Réponse
It had too many problems
What is a math teacher's favorite dessert?
Réponse
Pie
What did the triangle say to the circle?
Réponse
You are pointless
Why do plants hate math?
Réponse
It gives them square roots
What do you call a hen that counts her eggs?
Réponse
A mathemachicken
What do you get when you divide the distance around a pumpkin by its width?
Réponse
Pumpkin pi
What has six legs but walks on four?
Réponse
A horse with a rider
A father's child and a mother's child, but nobody's son. Who am I?
Réponse
A daughter
Which two meals can you never eat for breakfast?
Réponse
Lunch and dinner
The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?
Réponse
Friday
What comes next: M, T, W, T, F, S, ?
Réponse
S
What comes next: O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, ?
Réponse
N
What comes next: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ?
Réponse
36
What comes next: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ?
Réponse
13
A doctor gives you 3 pills and says to take one every half hour. How long do the pills last?
Réponse
One hour
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Réponse
11
Which word looks the same upside down and backward when you write it in capitals?
Réponse
SWIMS
Where can you find a dog with no legs?
Réponse
Right where you left it
I point north all day, but I never walk there. What am I?
Réponse
A compass
What always goes to bed with its shoes on?
Réponse
A horse
I have six letters. Take one away, and twelve is left. What am I?
Réponse
Dozens
I am a word of three letters, and I am also a small green seed. Take away my last two letters, and I still sound the same. What am I?
Réponse
Pea

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