Page 15 - Cornice Grade 8

Riddles

Lets try to tease our brain

1. After a train crashed, every single person 1. I speak without a mouth and hear without
died. Who survived? ears. I have no body, but I come alive with
the wind. What am I?

2. This belongs to you, but everyone else uses
it.
3. What gets bigger the more you take away?
2. I am so simple, that I can only point yet I 4. A butcher stands six feet and one inch tall
guide men all over the world. and wears size 12 shoes. What does he
weigh?

5. What word in the English language fulfills
3. What travels around the world but stays in all the following criteria: The first two let-
one spot? ters signify a male, the first three letters
signify a female, the first four letters sig-
4. What is full of holes but still holds water? nify a great person, while the entire word
5. What is easy to get into but hard to get out signifies a great woman.
of? 6. What can run but never walk,have a mouth
but never talk, have a head but never weep,
have a bed but never sleep?

7. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
8. What is greater than God, More evil than
6. You bought me for dinner but never eat the devil, The poor have it, The rich don’t
me. What am I? need it, And if you eat it, you’ll die?
7. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has 9. A man who was outside in the rain without
no legs? an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair

8. What has a neck but no head? on his head wet. Why?
9. I can fill up a room without taking any 10. You see a boat filled with people, yet there
space. What am i? isn’t a single person on board. How is that
possible?
10. What room do ghosts avoid? All the people on the boat are married

Ans 10- living room
All the people on the boat are married Ans 10- =
plates, Ans 7- a penny, Ans 8- bottle, Ans 9- light,
stamp, Ans 4- sponge, Ans 5- Trouble, Ans 6-
Ans 4- Meat, Ans 5- =Heroine, Ans 6- River, Ans
Ans 1- All the couples, Ans 2- compass, Ans 3- A
Ans 1- Echo, Ans 2- Your Name, Ans 3- A hole,
l Larak Yakthumba l 7- Light, Ans 8- Nothing, Ans 9- He was bald, =
l Jemimah George l