I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
A map
What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short (short+er)
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock
How many months have 28 days?
All 12 of them do
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Wrong
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
A battery
What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother — how many children does Mary have?
Five
What has 88 keys, but cannot open a single door?
A piano
What has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?
A river
What begins with T, finishes with T, and has “T” in it?
A teapot
Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
They weigh the same
Everyone has it and no one can lose it; what is it?
A shadow
What goes up but never goes back down?
Your age
