Short Riddles

What can be grown without sun or soil and can either provide nourishment or deliver poison?

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

I am owned by Old McDonald. What am I?

Maritime marauders.

I am milky white and scares people. What am I?

My life is measured in hours. I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick; Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?

Two year-old children who throw tantrums get this nickname. So did the tsar "Ivan."

I cause involuntary movements in your vehicle. What am I?

What does a stone become when in the water?

Use me to reward good behavior. What am I?

Turkey day. What am I?

What has green hair, a round red head and a long thin white beard?

I can be driven, but have no wheels. I can be sliced, but still remains whole. What am I?

What is the only chain we can eat?

What has two hands, a round face, always runs, but stays in place?

I do not speak, but there is no word I cannot make. What am I?

Has a tongue, but never talks. Has no legs, but sometimes walks.

Dragons are known to do this to their gold.

I am rarely touched but often held, and if you are smart you'll use me well. What am I?

I am easy to waste and unstoppable. What am I?

I am a protector of the scoreboard. What am I?

They try to beat me, they try in vain.
And when I win, I end the pain.

I am always in front of you, but you will never see me.
What am I?

Salty water everywhere but not sea in sight.

It has the biggest wall and is also used when drinking tea.

What cruel person would sit on a baby?

Sauerkraut owes its existence to this head.

What is used to yell in a text?

The weapon of choice to create the biggest shock.

A weighty currency.

It's anything but amusing when this body part gets hit.

An office supply that's shaped like a trombone.

I love to dance and twist and prance. I shake my tail, as away I sail. Wingless I fly into the sky.

What is as big as you are and yet does not weight anything?

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?

If you are a man then your best friend will eat this for dinner.

There is one in every corner and two in every room.

Cycle Cycle Cycle.

Beautiful girls strut and sexy men 'do their little turn' on this.

Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.
What is it?

Diamonds and stress have this to thank for their existence.

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

What can be seen but never found that only hides in the unwound?

What do elves do after school?

What turns from red to black as soon as it touches water?

What must take a bow before it can speak?

This Chocolate baked good is a soft candy made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

Timid or weak people are said to not have these.

I invade your home once a year... but only if you've been good. What am I?

What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?

What always comes into the house through the keyhole?

Rub me and a genie might appear. What am I?

I am brown and sticky. What am I?

I usually wear a yellow coat. I usually have a dark head. I make marks wherever I go.

What rains at the north pole?

It stands upright and can be quite grand.
Its secret is not hidden but right at hand.
What is it?

What build its house with earthen string and ensnares its prey with a biting sting?

The negative hero in each story.

I go around and in the house, but never touches the house. What am I?

When it comes to me, you go on red and stops on green. What am I?

My teeth are sharp, my back is straight, to cut things up it is my fate.

What you become during a workout?

Up on high I wave away but not a word can I say.

You'll have to consult an optometrist if you want to improve this.

A tiny bead, like fragile glass, strung along a cord of grass.

Tickle with your fingers and a song it will sing. Be careful, though, you may break a string. What is it?

What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?

When filled I can point the way. But when empty unmoving I stay. What am I?

In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?

You can read it both ways, I wear; One way it's a number, reversed a snare.

His big belly supposedly has the ability to dispense good fortune.

Plant whose name sounds like a dish full of dairy spread.

If you blow past your destination, you'll have to throw your car into this.

What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?

What odd number becomes even when beheaded?

Spies and detectives do this to phones and musical shoes make this sound.

I shoot but never kill. What am I?

John Lennon sang about being this toothy creature.

I'm a soft, sweet food made from a mixture of flour, shortening, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and often decorated.

They are two brothers. However much they run, they do not reach each other.

I am a delicious way of representing data. What am I?

The artistic vandal's best friend.

Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

A setting that proved to be deadly for Abraham Lincoln.

How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?

What is harder to catch the faster you run?

What has four legs, but can't walk?

I am bigger than elephant but lighter than a feather. What am I?

What is long, pink and wet and is rude to pull out in front of people?

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What are we?

Be sure to shout for its answers are weak, but there is no language it cannot speak.

Neither bought nor sold but more valuable than gold. It is built but not by hand. What is it?

I love to twist and dance. Though wingless, I fly high up into the sky. What am I?

Bumpy form of transportation in desert cultures.

I eat as you turn me, my blade cutting wood.
When I am full, empty me you should.
What am I?

The itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot variety is quite popular.

What is the center of gravity?

I'm a thick slice of beef or other high-quality meat or fish that is often cooked on a grill or fried.

By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found.
Yet I am undone, if there's no light around.

A spent round or a slimy critter.