Short Riddles

I crawl on the earth and rise on a pillar. What am I?

I am a mountain at night, meadow at day. What am I?

I'm a long, green-skinned fruit with watery flesh, usually eaten raw in salads or pickled.

What can provide food before it is alive, while it is alive and after it's dead?

Some people avoid me, some people count me, some people just consume me. What am I?

A slow, solemn square-dance of warriors feinting. One by one they fall, warriors fainting, thirty-two on sixty-four.

I carry you down a gentle stream. What am I?

I am owned by the poor, the rich does not need me. If you eat me, you will die! What am I?

Has four legs, but is not alive.

Of these everyone has ten, part of two wholes at the arms end. What are they?

What flares up and does a lot of good, and when it dies is just a piece of wood?

I am yellow on the outside, white inside, and very appealing. What am I?

I have no eyes, no legs or ears and I help move the earth. What am I?

When you take away the whole from me, there is always some left. What am I?

Against the sun, I protect your eyes and am often worn on the face of spies. What am I?

What is often returned, but never borrowed?

Disgusting creatures that would survive a nuclear strike.

I am very important, but often overlooked. What am I?

What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?

The most beautiful and useless of human acts.

What can hold all days, weeks, and months but still fit on a table?

Royalty whose bugers are broiled and whose bed is large.

Attracted by light but flies at night. It's wind and hairy but not too scary. What is it?

I have four legs, one head, and a foot.
What am I?

Some adults still use these to count.

A storage facility for criminals and fire-breathing reptiles. What am I?

Six legs, two heads,
Two hands, one long nose.
Yet he uses only four legs
Wherever he goes.

What word has three syllables and twenty six letters?

These are knee-length formal wear for men popular in the highlands.

What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

I have a frame but no pictures. I have poles but not standing up. What am I?

Usually green but can be brown. It's a great place to play or lie down. What is it?

I suck. What am I?

Sing me to a baby about to go to sleep. What am I?

What is drawn by everyone without pen or pencil?

I am a busy worker who is a water mammal. What am I?

A seasonal fashion statement named for the weather it's worn in.

A device for finding furniture in the dark.

People in love are often bound to this.

You're currently trying to solve one.

Angels and pilots work with me. What am I?

Where on earth do the ways always blow from the south?

Looks like a hippo crossed with a unicorn.

What can be heard and caught but never seen?

I tell people to be careful when handling boxes. What am I?

Small and bearded, both in the real world and in stories.

Halo of water, tongue of wood.
Skin of stone, long I've stood.
My fingers short reach to the sky.
Inside my heart men live and die.

What has a bell but isn't a church. Is full of air but is not a balloon?

I mirror your actions. What am I?

I am the most famous dinner. What am I?

What is a witch's favorite school subject?

What needs to be taken from you before you have it?

I'm tall in the morning and short in the noon.
I disappear at night but I will be back soon.

This is a plant named after a light source. What is it?

What must be looked through in order to see?

What comes down but never back goes up?

An accessory sported by many construction workers.

My first is second in line;
I send shivers up your spine;
not quite shining bright
I glitter in the light.

Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, for what is beyond is what he or she seeks.

When I live I cry, If you don't kill me I'll die.

What can be played with no rules and no winners or losers?

If you happen to wake up at dawn, you'll probably find this covering the lawn.

I am an object which is used in baseball, during the day I can't be seen at all. What am I?

What hole do you mend with holes?

I can be the book one can never finish reading. What am I?

Hearing something unexpected or touching a live wire can have this effect.

In two years I know, I'll be twice as old as five years ago, said Tom. How old is Tom?

I love spinach.
Who am I?

What smells the most in the kitchen?

What is easy to get into, and hard to get out of?

What do rich people have that can be changed into the law.

What gets broken when you don't hold it?

I can be found on a present, the front of a boat, or after the rain. What am I?

They're actually great swimmers now, but later they will become excellent hoppers.

Special abilities and brightly colored underwear are all you need to be one of these.

This food is a Thanksgiving tradition.

I only exist when you are here. Where you never were, I can never be. What am I?

What is a foot long and slippery?

It comes from crystal and melts to a treat. Add it to your tea to make it sweet. What is it?

Snow White was friendly with seven of them.

When a doctor hits you with a hammer he is testing this.

I can fill a room but take up no space.
Look out at night, and I am in no place.
What am I?

What makes my left hand my right?

With hands that can't hold and eyes that can't see, she's cherished by some but has no real family. Who is she?

Something you carry while singing.

A tasty reward given to well behaved dogs and kids.

I am cracked by Indiana Jones. What am I?

It is the great nemesis of the lactose intolerant.

You use this to clean although it is small.
If you forget it, your smile will appall.
What is it?

If you slash it, It heals at once.

I have three heads. Cut off one, I become stronger. Cut off two, I become ten. What am I?

I begin your sentences. What am I?

When I'm born I fly. When I'm alive I lay. When I'm dead I run.

What travels from coast to coast without ever moving?

I have no bones and no legs, but if you keep me warm, I will soon walk away. What am I?

In the ground I am nothing, but give me time and I'll be something. What am I?

What is half of two plus two?

A huge mythical animal said to resemble a whale.

I am a nut with a hole. What am I?

I am a mini solar powered computer. What am I?