Riddles with Answers

Downward grows the root. Outward grows the skin.
Upward grows the shoot. What way blows the wind?

I may be made of metal, bone, or wood and have many teeth. My bite hurts no one and the ladies love me. What am I?

I work hard most every day, Not much time to dance and play,
If I could reach what I desire, all like me would now retire.
What am I?

You will always find me in the past.
I can be created in the present,
But the future can never taint me.
What am I?

An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?

Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get?

How can the letters OWONDER be rearranged to make one word?

There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

According to many students, dogs have an appetite for this paper item.

Tomorrow's yesterday. Yesterday's tomorrow. What is it?

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?