Riddles and Puzzles
1. Two brothers we are,
Great burdens we bear,
On which we are bitterly pressed;
The truth is to say,
We are full all day,
And empty when we go to rest.
2. What is white when it is dirty and
green when it is clean?
3. What's black and white and read all over?
4. If you have it, you want to share it.
If you share it, you do not have it. What is it?
5.What of us goes up and never goes down?
6.The strangest creature
you'll ever find
two eyes in front and many
many more behind
7What has roots as nobody sees
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes
And yet never grows?
8. Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
9. Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
10.It cannot be seen, cannot be felt .
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
11. Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail, never clinking
12. Screaming, soaring, seeking sky
Flowers of fire, flying high
Eastern art, from ancient time
Name me now, and solve this rhyme
13. My step is slow, the snow's my breath
I give the ground a grinding death
My marching makes an end of me
Slain by sun or drowned by sea.
14. A slow, solemn square - dance
Of warriors feinting.
One by one they fall,
Warriors fainting,
Thirty - two on sixty - four.
15. What do you get, when you cross
an automobile with a household animal?
16. I am the red tongue of the Earth,
that buries cities.
17.The more of them you take,
the more you leave behind.
What are they?
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