165 medium riddles
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What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
Hint: What can bring back the dead; make us cry…
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
What do you serve that you can’t eat?
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do, And many in the street would stand were I not a friend in hand.
Hint: What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do…
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What goes into the water red and comes out black?
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?
What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?
What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn’t fill it up?
Hint: What is round as a dishpan…
What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
Hint: What is that which goes with a carriage…
What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?
Hint: What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his c…