Riddle-De-Dum!
1. Feed me and I live, give me to drink and I die. What am I?
2. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?
3. This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.
4. If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done.
If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after.
5. What may go up a chimney down but cannot go down a chimney up?
6. We are very little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in
glass is set; on e of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and a
fourth is boxed within. If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you.
What are we?
7. Where may you find roads without carts, forests without trees and cities without houses?
8. I have a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but not head; I eat the maid's life.
What am I?
9. Cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind the
stars and beneath the hills. Ends life and kills laughter. What is it?
10. This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands;
lacks a head but has a face. What is it?
11. What builds up castles, tears down mountains, makes some blind, and helps others to see?
12. What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
13. Man walks over;man walks under; in times of war he burns asunder.
14. What has eyes but cannot see?
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