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Riddles

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01It begins just where it ends, and your lovely house there stands.[Show/Hide]
A road
02Houses run upon these rails, over hills and over dales.[Show/Hide]
A railway line and a train
03This young foal looks nice and gay. He eats neither oats nor hay. Firmly grip the. handle-bar, if you want to travel far.[Show/Hide]
A bicycle
04This is a house with one window in it, showing films nearly minute.[Show/Hide]
A TV set
05It is running night and day, but it never runs away.[Show/Hide]
A watch
06Without a tongue, without an ear, I can speak, and sing, and hear.[Show/Hide]
A tape-recorder
07Over fields, and woods, and rivers this voice carries something quivers. It is carried by wires day and night, it never tires.[Show/Hide]
A telephone
08A thousand spades, and shovels, too, can never do what I can do.[Show/Hide]
An excavator
09When I ride, I'm all right. When I stop, I flop.[Show/Hide]
A bicycle
10Have a look at this fine steed. He looks very strange, indeed: eats petrol, and never grazes, fast along the road he races.[Show/Hide]
A motor-car
11I'll dial the proper number, and soon hear the voice of my very best friend.[Show/Hide]
A telephone
12Two little golden horns are sitting on a cloud, floating slowly in the sky, looking very proud.[Show/Hide]
A young moon
13I have no legs, but I can run. I have no tongue, but I tell everyone: "Time to start work!" "Time to go to bed!" "Time to get up again, you, sleepy-head!"[Show/Hide]
An alarm clock
14Seven kids on a ladder are happy and gay. They are swinging their feet They are singing away.[Show/Hide]
The seven notes of the octave
15My hands and face I never wash, but, not a cloven, I look posh! Don't wash them: I'll stop to chime< and you'll never know the time.[Show/Hide]
A clock
16Each dot on this ladder looks like a bird. They're all singing songs that I've never heard.[Show/Hide]
Notes
17My beautiful tail is bushy, and the color of it is red. I hate the idea of it being worn round your neck or upon your head.[Show/Hide]
A fox
18Early at dawn he's the first to awake, and a terrible sound he's ready to make. This shrill, alarming, deafening sound arouses from sleep everybody around. In the distance this sound dies away, ushering in another new day.[Show/Hide]
A rooster
19The black bird spread its wings. Under their canopy lay the wide world, sleeping sound, till the break of next day.[Show/Hide]
Night
20Brother Thin and Brother Thick fasten things, Both small and big.[Show/Hide]
A nail and a hammer
21He doesn't speak, nor does he sing, nor at the door-bell give a ring, but still he lets his master know who wants to see him, friend or foe.[Show/Hide]
Awatchdog
22My sharp steel teeth, in any wood, for cutting trees are very good. So if you want to fell a tree, you'll have to make good use of me.[Show/Hide]
A saw
23On the cooker I'm puffing and puffing. Why are they torturing me for nothing? My lid is tinkling. Do make some tea! Switch off the cooker, and set me free.[Show/Hide]
A kettle
24In our kitchen, all the year round, lives old Jack Frost, all safe and sound.[Show/Hide]
A refrigerator
25If you want to get rid of dust, then I'm surely an absolute must. From every corner and every nook I'll suck it out, by hook it out, by hook or by crook.[Show/Hide]
A vacuum-cleaner
26I irritating all around with its tiresome buzzing sound, it flies, restless, all day long, but at night it drops its song.[Show/Hide]
A fly
27He makes nets and what's more never fishes. Then what for?[Show/Hide]
A spider
28Hopper, hopper in the grass, please doesn't hop and let me pass. But it hops, hops, hops, hops, hops and hops and never stops.[Show/Hide]
A grasshopper
29You hear my song from quite afar. It's in the pebbles ringing. I'm running down to reach the lake. I'm gay, I'm fond of singing.[Show/Hide]
A streamlet
30Brother Rod and brother Hook Went for simpletons. Just look: brother Hook, all tough and firm, fastened to his nose a worm.[Show/Hide]
A fish-tackle
31It never bothers to wake us up, but in any weather and any season, we open our eyes, stretch and yawn, we rise the moment we see it is risen.[Show/Hide]
The sun
32Of our deep river it joins the two banks. When it helped me cross it, I said, "Many thanks!"[Show/Hide]
A bridge
33I was a horn once, a disk I'm now. I know things do happen, But I wonder - how?[Show/Hide]
The moon
34This wingless bird will soar, and soon land quite safely On the Moon[Show/Hide]
A rocket
35Never planted, still it grows. What's the answer? Now, who knows?[Show/Hide]
Hair
36With two sharp blades, assisted by two rings, I'mhandy for cutting paper, fabric and other things.[Show/Hide]
A pair of scissors
37My teeth are sharp, but I don't bite, and you make use of me all right. My humble duty's plain and fair to help you comb your lovely hair. [Show/Hide]
A Comb
38Who are these twins that bridge a man's nose every morning? Who of you knows?[Show/Hide]
Spectacles
39In a ball of glass their lives this light. It sleeps in the day time and works at night.[Show/Hide]
An electric bulb
40My leaves are white. They never grow. And everything you want to know is stored in those black marks you see on every leaf you find in me.[Show/Hide]
A book
41Brother left, and right, his brother, hardly ever see each other. Mirrors is the only place where they're coming face to face.[Show/Hide]
Eyes
42Bandy legs and Gape-a-grin, I'm leaping in the green. Midges, gnats, Don't try your fate! Stay away each time if gape.[Show/Hide]
A frog
43In the meadow rich in flowers there it works for hours and hours, buzzing songs. It likes to sing. Don't disturb it, it may sting![Show/Hide]
A bee
44The petals of this flower fluttered in the wind, but when i bent to pick it, it suddenly took wing.[Show/Hide]
A butterfly
45It was wings, but it cannot fly. Without legs, it moves swiftly. Do you know why?[Show/Hide]
Because it is a fish
46It runs and runs, But it'll never run out. It flows. Who knows What I'm talking about?[Show/Hide]
A river
47The father and the mother, and all their little kids wear dresses Made of silver coins or little silver lids.[Show/Hide]
Fish
48Here's a rod, here's a line, here's a hook the fish is mine![Show/Hide]
A fishing rod
49This house on wheels is running a race, talking people from place to place.[Show/Hide]
A bus
50The belt stretches, long and wide. Walk along it, run, or ride in a bus, or in a car.[Show/Hide]
A road
51It gently patters on our roof all through the dark, long night! It minutes something, and lulls us to sleep, and asks: "all sleeping? All right!"[Show/Hide]
Rain
52When the rain pat, pat, pat starts its usual talk, its best friend, I'm sure, will be out for a walk.[Show/Hide]
An umbrella
53Webbed red feet, a neck on hinges; with its bill it sometimes pinches.[Show/Hide]
A goose
54There stood a house, all marble-white. One daythere was a knock inside. Broke down those walls of marble, out sprang a yellow marvel.[Show/Hide]
A chick
55Spurs on his boots, he's ready to flight, singing his war songs by day.[Show/Hide]
A rooster
56You may boil it, you may shell it, dress with it a tasty salad, but if left under a cluck, a chick.[Show/Hide]
An egg
57This little mark, all so plump and round, at the end of sentences is to be found.[Show/Hide]
A full stop
58A disgusting, unwanted guest stopped on a page of my notebook to rest. The teacher saw him, and so did the class. I got a poor mark. I deserve it, alas.[Show/Hide]
A blot
59An old gentleman, Bent with age, is asking questions on every page.[Show/Hide]
A question mark
60Kiddies, standing in a row, tell us everything they know.[Show/Hide]
Letters
61If you want to draw a straight line, make use of me, for this business is mine.[Show/Hide]
A ruler
62This colored chalk in a holder of wood for drawing and writing is perfectly good.[Show/Hide]
A pencil
63It is hollow, and it is round. it produces a rattling sound. Sometimes it beats out a loud tattoo. I like, I enjoy it![Show/Hide]
A drum
64Put four tires on her heels, which are round for they are wheels. Give her some petrol to drink: it's a treat for her, I think.[Show/Hide]
A motor car
65Has no legs, but just for fun it is always on the run.[Show/Hide]
A ball
66My face is black, as black as night. On it, with chalk, all pupils write. All right! But it is a disgrace when they forget to wipe my face.[Show/Hide]
A blackboard
67Ten tiny balls on each wire mount. They help little children learn to count.[Show/Hide]
An abacus
68It is blue and green and yellow. It shows rivers cities, mountains, lakes, and seas all are there for him who sees.[Show/Hide]
A map
69Try to drag it by its tail and put it on your back. You'll fail.[Show/Hide]
A ball of string or wool
70I've whiskers, I'm frisky. Whisk, little mice, lest I should catch you! Please stroke my back, I'll purr and won't scratch you.[Show/Hide]
A cat
71It has four legs, either straight or bandy. Though it cannot walk, it comes in quite handy.[Show/Hide]
A chair
72An old fellow has a hundred coats on. There he is, in his bed, half asleep. If you risk to take of all his yellow coats, you're certainly going to weep.[Show/Hide]
An onion
73A young imp, he wore green. Now his age is mature. He wears red. And his conduct now's always demure.[Show/Hide]
A carrot
74This little red lady is hard to be found, as only her green plait sticks out of the ground.[Show/Hide]
A tomato