
Can You Solve the Riddles
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What has to be broken before you can use it?
An Egg
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What is full of holes but still holds water?
A Sponge
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A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?
His Mother
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First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
A Dandelion
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What goes up but never comes back down?
Your Age
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What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your Name
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What goes up the hill and down the hill, And spite of all, yet stand still?
A Road
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Walks in the wind, stands where there's moist, Counts time, stops clocks, Swallows kingdoms, gnaws rocks
Sand
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What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Wrong
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What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and Dinner
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Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
A Map
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What can run but never walks, Has a mouth and never talks, Has a head but never weeps, Has a bed but never sleeps.
A River
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What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
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If six children and two dogs weren’t under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
Because it wasn't raining
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I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A Candle
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As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.
A Glove
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