Q: I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
A: A shoe.
Q: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A: A river.
Q: A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
A: Suicide.
Q: What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
A: A Stamp.
Q: I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
A: Breath.
Q: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A: A towel.
Q: I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?
A: Smoke.
Q: I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
A: A dictionary.
Q: I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
A: A shadow.
Q: Why is the longest human nose on record only eleven inches long?
A: Because if it was twelve inches it would be a foot.
Q: You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
A: A telephone.
Q: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
A: If you answer that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
Q: You can't keep this until you have given it.
A: A promise.
Q: Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?
A: Your father.
Q: Past mountain, meadow, field, and hill, it follows a river while standing still.
A: A riverbank.
Q: Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
A: They all do.
Q: Take off my skin -- I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
A: An onion.
Q: The capital of Turkey is a long word. Can you spell it?
A: I-T.
Q: The more it dries, the wetter it gets. What is it?
A: A towel.
Q: What goes up and down without moving?
A: Stairs.
Q: What goes up white and comes down yellow?
A: An egg.
Q: What grows up while growing down?
A: A goose.
Q: What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
A: Fire.
Q: What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
A: The year 1961. It reads the same upside down. This will not happen again until the year 6009 .
Q: What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
A: A yardstick.
Q: What has feet and legs, and nothing else?
A: Pantyhose.
Q: What has four eyes but cannot see?
A: Mississippi.
Q: What has no beginning, end or middle and touches every continent?
A: The ocean.
Q: What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A: A doughnut.
