English Riddles

1.
Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad?
Answer: Mom is closer because Dad is farther.
2.
What is the poorest bank in the world?
Answer: A river bank
3.
What month do soldiers hate?
Answer: March
4.
What clothing is always sad?
Answer: Blue jeans
5.
Why is an empty purse always the same?
Answer: There is no change in it.
6.
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
7.
Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe?
Answer: They don't want to be hotdogs.
8.
Why shouldn't you lose your temper?
Answer: No one else wants it.
9.
What kind of running means walking?
Answer: Running out of gas
10.
What stays hot even if put in a refrigerator?
Answer: Pepper
11.
What can't be used unless broken?
Answer: Eggs

What two words contain thousands of letters?

Answer: Post office
14.
What do you get if you cross stereo and fridge?
Answer: Very cool music
15.
What has nothing but a head and a tail?
Answer: A coin
16.
Why is 10 x 10 = 1000 like your left eye?
Answer: It's not right.
17.
What did the big chimney say to the little chimney
while working?
Answer: You are too young to smoke.
18.
How do we know the ocean is friendly?
Answer: It waves.
19.
Why should we never ask balloons for advice?

Answer: They are full of hot air.

20.
What has three hands but only one face?
Answer: A clock
21.
Which can move faster, heat of cold?
Answer: Heat, because you can catch cold.
22.
What weather do mice and rats fear?
Answer: When it's raining cats and dogs
23.
Who always drives his customers away?
Answer: A taxi driver

12.
What makes opening piano so hard?
Answer: All the keys are inside.

24.
Who will be your real friend, a poor friend or a rich
one?
Answer: A poor friend, because a friend in need is a
friend indeed.

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25.

Why did banker keep looking up at the sky?

Answer: To see if there was any change in the sky
26.
What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: Smiles, because there is a mile between the
beginning and the end.
27.
Why is the letter E so important?
Answer: It is the beginning of 'everything'.
28.
Why is the letter R absolutely necessary to friendship?
Answer: Without it a friend will become a fiend

When can you have something and nothing at the same

time in your pocket?
Answer: When there is a hole in it
37.
Where can you always find money?
Answer: In the dictionary
38.
"Railroad crossing, look out for the cars." Can you
spell it without any R's?
Answer: I-T
39.
Why do fish live in water?
Answer: Because cats can't swim

29.
What can you tell from Peter's record card with
extremely poor grades?
Answer: He didn't cheat.

40.
What kind of party do prisoners like?
Answer: A going-away party

30.
What has four fingers and a thumb but no flesh and
bone?
Answer: A glove

41.
Which has more legs, a cow or no cow?
Answer: No cow: A cow has 4 legs, but no cow has 5
legs.

31.
Who goes around all day in a car with his bag full of
money?
Answer: A bus conductor

42.
What is black when it is clean and white when it is
dirty?
Answer: A blackboard

32.
Lucky Mouse fell of a 1000-step stair and was not hurt.
Why?
Answer: He fell off the last step.

43.
Why are grandpa's false teeth like stars?
Answer: Because they come out at night

33.
Who works only one day in a year but never gets fired?
Answer: Santa Claus
34.
What do your drop when you need it and take back
when you don't?
Answer: An anchor
35.
What is higher without a head than with a head?
Answer: A pillow
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44.
What word is pronounced wrong, even by the best of
scholars?
Answer: The word 'wrong'
45.
What will make more noise in your house than a dog?
Answer: Two dogs