Riddles - Englische Rätsel Fragen & Antworten
Riddle 1
Which has more legs, a cow or no cow?
Answer: No cow; a cow has four legs, but no cow has eight legs.
Riddle 2
Where are kings usually crowned?
Answer: On the head.
Riddle 3
Three large women went walking under one umbrella, but none of them got wet. Why?
Answer: It wasn’t raining.
Riddle 4
Why does a cow go over a hill?
Answer: Because she can’t go under it.
Riddle 5
Is it safe to write a letter on an empty stomach?
Answer: It is safe enough, but it is better to write the letter on paper.
Riddle 6
Why did Adam bite the apple that Eve gave to him?
Answer: Because he had no knife.
Riddle 7
What does a hen do when she stands on one foot?
Answer: Lift up the other.
Riddle 8
What has five eyes, but cannot see?
Answer: The Mississippi River.
Riddle 9
What is that by losing an eye nothing left but a nose?
Answer: The word NOISE
Riddle 10
What is that you brake when you name it?
Answer: Silence
Riddle 11
Who was the fastest runner in the bible?
Answer: Adam, he was first in the human race.
Riddle 12
What kind of an umbrella does the President’s wife carry on a rainy day?
Answer: A wet one.
Riddle 13
What is the best way to keep fish from smelling?
Answer: Cut off their noses.
Riddle 14
What ship is always managed by more than one person?
Answer: Partnership.
Riddle 15
Why do white sheep eat so much more than black ones?
Answer: Because there are so many more of them.
Riddle 16
What’s the difference between a lemon and a white elephant?
Answer: A lemon is yellow.
Riddle 17
Who are the largest two ladies in the United States?
Answer: Miss Ouri and Mrs. Sippi.
Riddle 18
Two Indians are standing on a hill, and one is the father of the other’s son? What relation are the two Indians to each other?
Answer: Husband and wife.
Riddle 19
As long as I eat, I live; but when I drink, I die.
Answer: Fire.
Riddle 20
What were the Chicago gangster’s last words?
Answer: Who put this violin in my violin case?
Riddle 21
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: The highway.
Riddle 22
What is worse than finding a worm in apple?
Answer: Finding half a worm.
Riddle 23
Why has the giraffe such a long neck?
Answer: because his head is so far from his body.
Riddle 24
A man was locked in a room which had nothing in except a piano.
How did he get out?
Answer: He played the piano until he found the right key.
Riddle 25
How long will an eight-day clock run without winding?
Answer: It won’t run at all without winding?
Riddle 26
Which moves faster, heat or cold?
Answer: Heat, for you can catch cold.
Riddle 27
What comes with an auto, is of no use to an auto, and yet the auto cannot run without it?
Answer: Noise.
Riddle 28
What is found in the middle of both America and Australia?
Answer: The letter R.
Riddle 29
I have five noses, six mouths and seven ears. What am I?
Answer: Quite ugly.
Riddle 30
What makes a road broad?
Answer: The letter B.
Riddle 31
Why can we send no more dispatches to Washington?
Answer: Because he is dead.
Riddle 32
Have you ever heard of a baby raised on elephant’s milk?
Answer: Yes, a baby elephant.
Riddle 33
Who is bigger, Mrs. Bigger or her baby?
Answer: The baby is a little Bigger.
Riddle 34
Where can you always find sympathy?
Answer: In the dictionary.
Riddle 35
What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?
Answer: The pavement.
Riddle 36
What is that was given to you, belongs to you exclusively, and yet is used more by your friends than by yourself?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 37
What is full of holes and yet holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 38
What can be right but never wrong?
Answer: An angle.
Riddle 39
What would happen to a man if he swallowed his teaspoon?
Answer: He wouldn’t be able to stir.
Riddle 40
What can be broken without being hit or dropped?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 41
What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
Answer: Time to get a new one.
Riddle 42
What’s the definition of minimum?
Answer: A very small mother.
Riddle 43
How can a man fall off a fifty-foot ladder and not be hurt?
Answer: By falling off the bottom rung.
Riddle 44
What has four legs and flies in the air?
Answer: Two birds.
Riddle 45
What always ends everything?
Answer: The letter G.
Riddle 46
What runs around town all day and lies under the bed at night with its tongue hanging out?
Answer: A shoe.
Riddle 47
What ends with E, begins with P, and has a thousand letters?
Answer: Postoffice.
Riddle 48
Which two letters of the alphabet have nothing between them?
Answer: N and P; they have O between them.
Riddle 49
Where does Friday come before Thursday?
Answer: In the dictionary.
Riddle 50
When was B the first letter of the alphabet?
Answer: In the days of No-A.
Riddle 51
Tommy Tucker took two strings and tied two turtles to two tall trees. How many T’s are in that?
Answer: There are two T’s in that.
Riddle 52
What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of Tea?
Answer: Teapot.
Riddle 53
What do you call an elephant that flies?
Answer: A jumbo jet.
Riddle 54
What is it that one needs most in the long run?
Answer: His breath.
Riddle 55
What do you give an elephant with big feet?
Answer: Plenty of room.
Riddle 56
What would you do if you swallowed a light bulb?
Answer: Use a candle.
Riddle 57
Luke had it first, Paul had it last; boys never have it, girls have it but once; Miss Sullivan had it twice in the same place, but when she married Pat Murphy she never had it again.
Answer: The letter L.
Riddle 58
What’s the difference between a biscuit and an elephant?
Answer: You can’t dip an elephant into your tea.
Riddle 59
How do you get an elephant into a matchbox?
Answer: Take all the matches out first.
Riddle 60
What did the big chimney say to the little chimney?
Answer: You’re too young to smoke.
Riddle 61
How can you tell if there’s an elephant in the refrigerator?
Answer: You can’t shut the door.
Riddle 62
When do elephants have eight feet?
Answer: When there are two of them.
Riddle 63
What do you call a play that’s acted by ghosts?
Answer: A phantomime.
Riddle 64
What did the barman say when the ghost asked for a drink?
Answer: ‘We don’t serve spirits.’
Riddle 65
What do you call a wicked old woman who lives by the sea?
Answer: A sandwich.
Riddle 66
Why does a witch ride on a broom?
Answer: A vacuum cleaner is too heavy.
Riddle 66
What’ a vampire’s favourite tourist spot?
Answer: The Vampire State Building.
Riddle 67
What do seamonsters eat?
Answer: Fish and ships.
Riddle 68
What did the boy octopus say to the girl octopus?
Answer: I want to hold your hand hand hand hand hand hand hand hand.
Riddle 69
Why do people go to bed?
Answer: Because the bed won’t come to them.
Riddle 70
Who invented the five day week?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe. He had all his work done by Friday.
Riddle 71
What’s yellow and black with red spots?
Answer: A leopard with measles.
Riddle 72
What’s the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer: ‘Smile’, because it has a mile between the first and the last letters.
Riddle 73
What’s the difference between a dog and a flea?
Answer: The dog can have a flea, but the flea can’t have a dog.
Riddle 74
When is it bad luck to have black cat follow you?
Answer: When you are a mouse.
Riddle 75
What can you put in the fridge that will stay hot?
Answer: Mustard.
Riddle 76
Should you stir your tea with your left hand or right?
Answer: Neither. You should stir it with a spoon.
Riddle 77
What’s black and white and noisy?
Answer: A zebra with a set of drums.
Riddle 78
Why will television never take the place of newspaper?
Answer: Have you ever tried swatting a fly with a television?
Riddle 80
If a man is born in Turkey, grows up in Italy, comes to America and dies in Chicago, what is he?
Answer: Dead.
Riddle 81
What are the best steps to take when you meet an escaped lion?
Answer: Very long ones.
Riddle 82
What did the skunk say when the wind changed direction?
Answer: ‘Ah, it’s all coming back to me now.’
Riddle 83
What is a bird after he is four days old?
Answer: Five days old.
Riddle 84
On which side does a chicken have most feathers?
Answer: On the outside.
Riddle 85
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
Riddle 86
What grows bigger the more you take from it?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle 87
What can fall on water without of getting wet?
Answer: A shadow.
Riddle 88
What always goes to bed with his shoes on?
Answer: A horse.
Riddle 89
What’s yellow on the inside and green on the outside?
Answer: A banana disguised as a cucumber.
Riddle 90
What did you get when you cross a carrier pigeon with a woodpecker?
Answer: A bird who knocks before he delivers his message.
Riddle 91
Why do birds fly to south in winter?
Answer: Because it’s to far to walk.
Riddle 92
What is a complete waste of time?
Answer: Telling a bald man hair-raising stories.
Riddle 93
How should you dress on a cold day?
Answer: Quickly.
Riddle 94
What’s the best way to keep water out of the house?
Answer: Don’t pay the water rates.
Riddle 95
What is the reddest side of an apple?
Answer: The outside.
Riddle 96
Ask a question that cannot be answered „Yes".
Answer: „Are you asleep?"
Riddle 97
How can you tell which end of a worm is his head?
Answer: Tickle his middle and see which end smiles.
Riddle 98
What does everyone have that can always count on?
Answer: His fingers.
Riddle 99
Why is this riddle the last?
Answer: Because there’s none after it.