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  • As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
    glove
  • Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside
    corn
  • I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
    echo
  • Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white?” or “The yolk of the egg is white?”
    neither yolk is yellow
  • Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
    A kitchen strainer
  • I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
    pencil lead, graphite
  • A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
    holes
  • What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can’t buy it in a bookstore or take it from the library.
    a telephone book
  • He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
    priest
  • What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
    anchor
  • Why don’t lobsters share?
    They’re shellfish.
  • They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
    stars
  • What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
    a stamp
  • I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn’t find it.
    splinter
  • Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
    a match
  • Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
    railroad
  • Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
    Jack and Jill are goldfish.
  • What goes up and down stairs without moving?
    carpet
  • I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
    nose
  • You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
    telephone
  • I am always hungry. I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
    fire
  • What can fill a room but takes up no space?
    light, air
  • I am a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be. What am I?
    few
  • It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is this object?
    ring