Riddle 2

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?

What do you fill with empty hands?

What can go up and come down without moving?

You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

I’m not alive, but I can die; I’m not solid, but I can melt. What am I?

You can’t keep this until you have given it.

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

What goes up and never comes down?

What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

Why don’t lobsters share?

Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?

Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?