Riddle of Ages
1. What do you call a 100 year old ant?
2. What do you call an ant who likes to be alone?
3. What do you call an ant who skips school?
4. Why don’t anteaters get sick?
5. What games to ants play with elephants?
6. What is the biggest ant in the world?
7. What kind of ant is good at math?
8. Amanda, Brian, and Caleb all have their birthday on same day.
At their joint birthday party there is a huge cake with twenty-seven candles on it – representing their combined age.
Amanda is twice the age of Brian and 2 years younger than Caleb.
What ages are Amanda, Brian, and Caleb?
9. A time when they’re green, a time when they’re brown,
But both of these times, cause me to frown.
But just in between, for a very short while,
They’re perfect and yellow, and cause me to smile!
What am I talking about here?
10.I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me.
11. I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated.
12. The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no.
What was the question?
13. A red cap on my head,
a stone in my throat,
if you tell me the answer,
I’ll give you a Groat.
What am I
14. Ten Men’s Strength,
Ten Men’s Length,
Ten Men can’t break it,
Yet a young boy walks off with it
What am I?
15. I begin eternity,
And end space,
At the end of time,
And in every place,
Last in life,
Second to death,
Never alone,
Found in your breath,
Contained by earth,
Water or flame,
My grandeur so awesome,
Wind dare not tame,
Not in your mind,
Am in your dreams,
Vacant to Kings,
Present to Queens.
What am I?
16. I turn my head and you may go where you want.
I turn it again, you will stay till you rot.
I have no face, but I live or die
by my crooked teeth
Who am I?
17.Ten fish I caught without an eye,
and nine without a tail.
Half of eight, and six missing heads,
landed in my pail.
Who can tell me,
as I ask it,
how many fish are in my basket?
18. I can kill people but without me there would be no people.
I was born long ago and will someday die.
I can cause fire and am a magician with water.
I have more brothers than any person.
There is very little that can stop me.
What am I?
19. What can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?
20. In the day or in the night
all people have seen this sight,
On the ocean or on the plain
most people have seen the same,
On this world and on no other
has been shown to me by my brother,
Some leader once generalized it
but many things have been called it.
What am I?
21. Hickory-Dickory-Dock!
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one
and down did come.
Hickory-Dickory-Dock!
What am I?
22. I have rivers without water,
Forests without trees,
Mountains without rocks
Towns without houses.
What am I?
23. I have many tongues but cannot taste
By me, most things are turned to waste
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole
I may take the largest toll
I assisted all of the first men
And I will pay them back again
Around me, people snuggle and sleep
Yet run when I am released from my keep
I jump around and leap and bound
The cold man wishes I he had found
What am I?
24. My first is in wield, sever bones and marrow.
My second is in blade, forged in cold steel.
My third is in arbalest, and also in arrows.
My fourth is in power, plunged through a shield.
My fifth is in honour, and also in vows
My last will put an end to it all.
What am I?
25. My first is foremost legally,
My second circles outwardly,
My third leads all in victory,
My fourth ends twice a nominee
My whole is this gates only key.
What am I?
26. There is one that has a head without an eye,
And there’s one that has an eye without a head.
You may find the answer if you try;
And when all is said,
Half the answer hangs by a thread.
What am I?
27.. Black I am and much admired,
Men seek me until they’re tired;
When they find me, break my head,
And take me from my resting bed.
What am I?
28.. Who becomes pregnant without conceiving?
Who becomes fat without eating?
29. In the dark night flies a many-hued phantom.
It soars and spreads its wings
above the gloomy human crowd.
The whole world calls to it,
the whole world implores it.
At dawn the phantom vanishes
to be reborn in every heart.
And every night it is born anew
and every day it dies!
What am I?
30. Of no use to one
Yet absolute bliss to two.
The small boy gets it for nothing.
The young man has to lie for it.
The old man has to buy it.
The baby’s right,
The lover’s privilege,
The hypocrite’s mask.
To the young girl, faith;
To the married woman, hope;
To the old maid, charity.
What am I?
31. What runs around a city
but never moves?
What am I?
32. What is full of holes and holds water?
What am I?
33. I cut through evil
like a double edged sword,
And chaos flees at my approach.
Balance I single-handedly upraise,
Through battles fought with heart and mind,
Instead of with my gaze.
What am I?
34. It holds most knowledge that has ever been said;
But is not the brain, is not the head.
To feathers and their masters, ’tis both bane and boon. . .
One empty, and one full.
What am I?
35. It comes only before,
It comes only after,
Rises only in darkness,
But rises only in light.
It is always the same,
But is yet always different.
What am I?