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Q. What has four legs but cannot walk?
Options: A table · A puppy · A goat · A cat
Answer: A table
A table! It has four legs but stays right where it is.
Q. What has hands but cannot clap?
Options: A monkey · A clock · A glove · A doll
Answer: A clock
A clock! Its hands go round and round.
Q. What has an eye but cannot see?
Options: A potato · A camera · A needle · A fish
Answer: A needle
A needle! The little hole is called its eye.
Q. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Options: A shark · A dog · A saw · A comb
Answer: A comb
A comb! Its teeth are for your hair.
Q. What has a neck but no head?
Options: A bottle · A giraffe · A snake · A scarf
Answer: A bottle
A bottle! You pour from its neck.
Q. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Options: A sponge · A towel · The sun · A shirt
Answer: A towel
A towel! It dries you and gets soaked doing it.
Q. What runs but never walks?
Options: A car · A clock · A river · A horse
Answer: A river
A river! Water runs all day and never takes a step.
Q. What has a bed but never sleeps?
Options: A hotel · A hospital · A baby · A river
Answer: A river
A river! The bottom of a river is called its bed.
Q. What has a mouth but never eats?
Options: A river · A cave · A door · A cup
Answer: A river
A river! Where it meets the sea is called its mouth.
Q. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Options: A basket · A sponge · A net · A sieve
Answer: A sponge
A sponge! Holes everywhere, and still soaking wet.
Q. What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
Options: A janitor · A car · A piano · A map
Answer: A piano
A piano! 88 keys and not one door.
Q. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Options: A cloud · A bird · The wind · A stamp
Answer: A stamp
A stamp! It sits in the corner of the envelope the whole way.
Q. What goes up but never comes down?
Options: Your age · A balloon · A kite · A rocket
Answer: Your age
Your age! It only ever goes one way.
Q. What has words but never speaks?
Options: A parrot · A book · A phone · A radio
Answer: A book
A book! It's full of words and perfectly quiet.
Q. What can you catch but never throw?
Options: A ball · A fish · A cold · A bus
Answer: A cold
A cold! Catch it and you can't throw it back.
Q. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Options: A statue · A robot · A doll · A glove
Answer: A glove
A glove! It's the shape of a hand with nobody in it.
Q. What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
Options: The future · A wall · The wind · Air
Answer: The future
The future! It's always just ahead.
Q. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
Options: A dream · A map · A painting · A story
Answer: A map
A map! Everything is there, and none of it is real.
Q. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Options: A cake · A pile · A hole · A balloon
Answer: A hole
A hole! Dig away and it just grows.
Q. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Options: A snake · A comet · A kite · A coin
Answer: A coin
A coin! Heads or tails?
Q. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Options: A mushroom · A bathroom · A classroom · A bedroom
Answer: A mushroom
A mushroom! Look at the word again.
Q. What has ears but cannot hear?
Options: A rabbit · Corn · A cup · A chair
Answer: Corn
Corn! An ear of corn hears nothing at all.
Q. What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Options: A bell · A dog · A shoe · A frog
Answer: A shoe
A shoe! The flap under the laces is its tongue.
Q. What has a spine but no bones?
Options: A snake · A fish · A cat · A book
Answer: A book
A book! The part that holds the pages is its spine.
Q. What has a ring but no finger?
Options: A telephone · A tree · A hand · A box
Answer: A telephone
A telephone! It rings and rings.
Q. What building has the most stories?
Options: A castle · A library · A tower · A school
Answer: A library
A library! It's stuffed with stories.
Q. What comes down but never goes up?
Options: A bird · A ball · Rain · Smoke
Answer: Rain
Rain! It only falls.
Q. What can fill a whole room but takes up no space?
Options: Water · Air · Sand · Light
Answer: Light
Light! Flick the switch and the room is full.
Q. What flies without any wings?
Options: Time · A bat · A kite · A seed
Answer: Time
Time! It flies whether you like it or not.
Q. What has bark but never bites?
Options: A puppy · A tree · A wolf · A fox
Answer: A tree
A tree! Its bark is on the outside.
Q. What can you keep even after you give it to someone?
Options: A present · A toy · Your word · Money
Answer: Your word
Your word! Give it and you still have it.
Q. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Options: Glass · An egg · Ice · Silence
Answer: Silence
Silence! Say it out loud and it's gone.
Q. What is always coming but never arrives?
Options: Tomorrow · A bus · The mail · A guest
Answer: Tomorrow
Tomorrow! When it gets here, it's today.
Q. What has a neck and no head, and two arms but no hands?
Options: A bottle · A shirt · A snake · A tree
Answer: A shirt
A shirt! Neck, sleeves, and nothing else.
Q. What can you break without ever touching it?
Options: A window · A plate · A promise · A stick
Answer: A promise
A promise! You break it with your actions.
Q. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Options: A dog · A table · A chair · A bed
Answer: A bed
A bed! A headboard, a foot, and four legs.
Q. What is lighter than a feather, but nobody can hold it for long?
Options: Your breath · A leaf · A balloon · Paper
Answer: Your breath
Your breath! Try holding it and see.
Q. What can go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?
Options: Smoke · An umbrella · Santa · A bird
Answer: An umbrella
An umbrella! Closed it goes down; open it never fits.
Q. What tastes better than it smells?
Options: A cake · A flower · Your tongue · Soup
Answer: Your tongue
Your tongue! It does the tasting.
Q. What is black and white and read all over?
Options: A zebra · A panda · A piano · A newspaper
Answer: A newspaper
A newspaper! 'Read' all over, not 'red'.
Q. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Options: Your brain · A knife · A pencil · Scissors
Answer: Your brain
Your brain! Everything else wears down.
Q. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Options: Right · Wrong · Word · Spell
Answer: Wrong
'Wrong'! It's spelled W-R-O-N-G every time.
Q. What has four eyes but cannot see a thing?
Options: A spider · A fly · Mississippi · A potato
Answer: Mississippi
Mississippi! Count the letter i.
Q. Which month has 28 days?
Options: February · March · Only leap months · All of them
Answer: All of them
All of them! Every month has at least 28.
Q. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T inside it?
Options: A teapot · A tent · A toast · A trout
Answer: A teapot
A teapot! There's tea inside.
Q. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Options: An oak · A palm · A pine · A maple
Answer: A palm
A palm! The palm of your hand.
Q. What has four wheels and flies?
Options: An airplane · A car · A garbage truck · A bus
Answer: A garbage truck
A garbage truck! Flies buzz all around it.
Q. What do you throw away to use, and take back when you're done?
Options: A ball · A rope · A net · An anchor
Answer: An anchor
An anchor! Overboard to use, back up after.
Q. What has a bottom right at the top?
Options: Your legs · A mountain · A cup · A tree
Answer: Your legs
Your legs! Your bottom is at the top of them.
Q. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Options: A river · A road · A train · The wind
Answer: A road
A road! It goes everywhere and stays put.
Q. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Options: A doll · A robot · A clock · A statue
Answer: A clock
A clock! Its hands point at its face.
Q. What is taken before you can get it?
Options: A bus · A gift · A test · A photo of you
Answer: A photo of you
Your picture! Someone takes it, then you have it.
Q. What has a lock that no key can open?
Options: A lock of hair · A door · A box · A safe
Answer: A lock of hair
A lock of hair! Different kind of lock.
Q. What kind of coat is only put on when it's wet?
Options: A raincoat · A coat of paint · A winter coat · A fur coat
Answer: A coat of paint
A coat of paint! You put it on wet.
Q. What has a horn but doesn't make music?
Options: A trumpet · A flute · A rhino · A drum
Answer: A rhino
A rhino! Its horn is for defending itself.
Q. What has a heart but no other body parts?
Options: A dog · A robot · A doll · A deck of cards
Answer: A deck of cards
A deck of cards! Hearts, but no lungs.
Q. Which is heavier: a kilo of feathers or a kilo of stones?
Options: They weigh the same · Feathers · Stones · Neither has weight
Answer: They weigh the same
The same! A kilo is a kilo.
Q. What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right?
Options: A ball · Your right elbow · A cup · A pencil
Answer: Your right elbow
Your right elbow! Give it a try.
Q. What goes up and down but never moves?
Options: A lift · A ball · A staircase · A bird
Answer: A staircase
A staircase! It goes up and down and stays still.
Q. What has legs but never walks?
Options: A horse · A bird · A spider · A chair
Answer: A chair
A chair! Four legs and it never budges.
Q. What gets broken without being held?
Options: A promise · A plate · A glass · A stick
Answer: A promise
A promise! Or a rule.
Q. What can run but never gets tired?
Options: An athlete · A river · A horse · A dog
Answer: A river
A river! It runs forever.
Q. What kind of band never plays any music?
Options: A rock band · A brass band · A rubber band · A school band
Answer: A rubber band
A rubber band! Stretchy, not musical.
Q. What has a bank but no money?
Options: A shop · A wallet · A safe · A river
Answer: A river
A river! Its edges are called banks.
Q. What has a trunk but is not a tree?
Options: An elephant · A bush · A flower · A vine
Answer: An elephant
An elephant! Its nose is a trunk.
Q. What has a crown but is not a king?
Options: A queen · A tooth · A prince · A hat
Answer: A tooth
A tooth! The top of it is the crown.
Q. What has a nail but is not a finger?
Options: A hand · A wall · A hammer · A shoe
Answer: A hammer
A hammer — well, what it hits! A nail goes in wood.
Q. What has a foot but no legs?
Options: A bird · A cat · A horse · A snail
Answer: A snail
A snail! It slides along on one big foot.
Q. What has a leaf but is not a tree?
Options: A book · A rock · A cup · A shoe
Answer: A book
A book! Each page is called a leaf.
Q. What has a bow but no arrow?
Options: A hunter · A ribbon · A target · An arrow
Answer: A ribbon
A ribbon! Tied in a bow.
Q. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Options: A car · A bed · Trouble · A coat
Answer: Trouble
Trouble! Getting in takes a second.
Q. What can be cracked, made, told and played?
Options: An egg · A nut · A window · A joke
Answer: A joke
A joke! Crack a joke, tell a joke, play a joke.
Q. What goes all around a field but never moves an inch?
Options: A fence · A tractor · A farmer · A cow
Answer: A fence
A fence! All the way around and perfectly still.
Q. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Options: A snake · A penny · A worm · A mouse
Answer: A penny
A penny! Heads, tails, brown, no legs.
Q. What kind of dog never bites?
Options: A puppy · A guard dog · A hot dog · A sheepdog
Answer: A hot dog
A hot dog! It goes in a bun.
Q. What kind of nut has a hole?
Options: A peanut · A walnut · A chestnut · A doughnut
Answer: A doughnut
A doughnut! Hole right in the middle.
Q. What kind of ship never sails on water?
Options: A friendship · A sailboat · A cargo ship · A submarine
Answer: A friendship
A friendship! The best kind.
Q. What kind of pool can't you swim in?
Options: A swimming pool · A car pool · A paddling pool · A rock pool
Answer: A car pool
A car pool! You ride, not swim.
Q. What has a coat but never wears it?
Options: A person · A cupboard · A dog · A shop
Answer: A dog
A dog! Its fur is called a coat.
Q. What sits in a corner but travels the world?
Options: A cat · A plant · A lamp · A stamp
Answer: A stamp
A stamp! It rides in the corner.
Q. What can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or left alone?
Options: Your nails · Your hair · A stick · A rope
Answer: Your nails
Your nails! All of those are true.
Q. What has one letter but isn't a word?
Options: The letter A · A mailbox · An envelope · A postcard
Answer: A mailbox
A mailbox! It holds letters.
Q. What kind of table has no legs?
Options: A dinner table · A coffee table · A timetable · A picnic table
Answer: A timetable
A timetable! It tells you when.
Q. What kind of star is not in the sky?
Options: A shooting star · The North Star · The Sun · A movie star
Answer: A movie star
A movie star! On the screen instead.
Q. What kind of cake can't you eat?
Options: A cake of soap · A pancake · A cupcake · A birthday cake
Answer: A cake of soap
A cake of soap! For washing, not eating.
Q. What has a face that never smiles?
Options: A baby · A clock · A doll · A clown
Answer: A clock
A clock! It just tells the time.
Q. What can you serve but never eat?
Options: Soup · Rice · A tennis ball · Bread
Answer: A tennis ball
A tennis ball! You serve it over the net.
Q. What has a stem but is not a flower?
Options: A rock · A book · A shoe · A glass
Answer: A glass
A wine glass! The thin part is its stem.
Q. What has a wave but no water?
Options: Your hand · A boat · A fish · A beach
Answer: Your hand
Your hand! Wave hello.
Q. What is at the end of a rainbow?
Options: Gold · The letter W · Rain · A cloud
Answer: The letter W
The letter W! R-A-I-N-B-O-W.
Q. What is in the middle of March and April?
Options: Spring · Easter · The letter R · Rain
Answer: The letter R
The letter R! In the middle of each word.
Q. What starts with an E, ends with an E, and has one letter inside?
Options: An egg · An eye · An eagle · An envelope
Answer: An envelope
An envelope! One letter inside it.
Q. What has a hand but can't hold anything?
Options: A clock · A monkey · A glove · A statue
Answer: A clock
A clock! Its hands just point.
Q. What goes around the house but never touches it?
Options: A cat · The fence · The Sun · A car
Answer: The fence
The fence! Around and around, never touching.
Q. What kind of key can't open a door?
Options: A house key · A car key · A monkey · A gold key
Answer: A monkey
A monkey! Or a piano key.
Q. What is white when dirty and black when clean?
Options: A shirt · A plate · A window · A blackboard
Answer: A blackboard
A blackboard! Chalk makes it white.
Q. What has a bill but is not money?
Options: A duck · A wallet · A bank · A shop
Answer: A duck
A duck! Its beak is called a bill.
Q. What has scales but is not a fish?
Options: A snake · A weighing scale · A lizard · A dragon
Answer: A weighing scale
A weighing scale! It tells you how heavy you are.
Q. What has a needle but does not sew?
Options: A tailor · A dress · A pine tree · A button
Answer: A pine tree
A pine tree! Its leaves are needles.
Q. What has an arm but no hand?
Options: A doll · A robot · A coat · A chair
Answer: A chair
A chair! You rest on its armrest.