module.exports = [ { question: "I have cities, but no houses live there. I have mountains, but no trees grow there. I have water, but no fish swim there. I have roads, but no cars drive there. What am I?", answers: ["map", "a map"], hint: "You use me to navigate and find your way around." }, { question: "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?", answers: ["footsteps", "steps", "footprints", "footprint"], hint: "Think about what you leave on the ground when you walk." }, { question: "What has hands but cannot clap?", answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch"], hint: "It tells you something important every day." }, { question: "What has to be broken before you can use it?", answers: ["egg", "an egg"], hint: "You might have it scrambled or sunny-side up for breakfast." }, { question: "I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?", answers: ["echo", "an echo"], hint: "Shout in a canyon or large empty room and you will meet me." }, { question: "What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?", answers: ["stamp", "a stamp", "postage stamp"], hint: "You stick me on an envelope before mailing it." }, { question: "What has one eye but cannot see?", answers: ["needle", "a needle", "sewing needle"], hint: "Thread passes through my eye." }, { question: "What gets wetter as it dries?", answers: ["towel", "a towel"], hint: "You use me after a shower or bath." }, { question: "I have a head and a tail, but no body. What am I?", answers: ["coin", "a coin"], hint: "You might flip me to make a decision." }, { question: "What has legs but cannot walk?", answers: ["table", "a table", "chair", "a chair", "desk", "a desk"], hint: "You eat your meals at one of these." }, { question: "I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold me for more than five minutes. What am I?", answers: ["breath", "your breath", "breathing", "air"], hint: "You need me to survive every second of every day." }, { question: "What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?", answers: ["piano", "a piano", "keyboard", "a keyboard"], hint: "You press my keys to make music." }, { question: "What goes up but never comes down?", answers: ["age", "your age"], hint: "Everyone has it, and it only ever increases." }, { question: "I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?", answers: ["future", "the future"], hint: "It is what has not happened yet." }, { question: "What has teeth but cannot bite?", answers: ["comb", "a comb", "saw", "a saw", "zipper", "a zipper", "gear", "a gear"], hint: "You drag me through your hair to style it." }, { question: "What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?", answers: ["river", "a river"], hint: "Water flows through me toward the sea." }, { question: "What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?", answers: ["m", "the letter m", "letter m"], hint: "Look very carefully at the letters in the words of this riddle." }, { question: "What building has the most stories?", answers: ["library", "a library"], hint: "You borrow books for free from here." }, { question: "What word is always spelled incorrectly?", answers: ["incorrectly"], hint: "The answer is hiding inside the riddle itself." }, { question: "What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?", answers: ["left hand", "your left hand", "left elbow", "your left elbow"], hint: "Think physically — what is literally impossible to hold in your right hand?" }, { question: "I can fly without wings. I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?", answers: ["cloud", "a cloud", "rain cloud"], hint: "Look up at the sky on a stormy day." }, { question: "What is full of holes but still holds water?", answers: ["sponge", "a sponge"], hint: "You might use me to wash dishes or a car." }, { question: "What has words but never speaks?", answers: ["book", "a book"], hint: "You read me for stories, knowledge, or entertainment." }, { question: "If you drop me I am sure to crack, but smile at me and I will always smile back. What am I?", answers: ["mirror", "a mirror"], hint: "You look at your reflection in me." }, { question: "What invention lets you look right through a wall?", answers: ["window", "a window"], hint: "Homes and buildings have me in every room." }, { question: "I am tall when I am young, and short when I am old. What am I?", answers: ["candle", "a candle"], hint: "I melt as I give off light and warmth." }, { question: "What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?", answers: ["silence"], hint: "It is the complete absence of sound." }, { question: "The more there is, the less you see. What am I?", answers: ["darkness", "dark", "fog"], hint: "It appears when light disappears." }, { question: "I have no life, but I can die. What am I?", answers: ["battery", "a battery"], hint: "You recharge me or replace me in your phone or remote." }, { question: "What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?", answers: ["road", "a road", "street", "a street"], hint: "Cars and trucks drive on me every day." }, { question: "What has a neck but no head?", answers: ["bottle", "a bottle"], hint: "You pour liquids into and out of me." }, { question: "What can you catch but cannot throw?", answers: ["cold", "a cold", "the flu", "flu"], hint: "You might get me from someone who sneezes near you." }, { question: "What has 13 hearts but no other organs?", answers: ["deck of cards", "a deck of cards", "deck", "cards"], hint: "You play poker and solitaire with me." }, { question: "I have cities, mountains, and water, but no living things. You can hold the entire world in your hands with me. What am I?", answers: ["globe", "a globe"], hint: "I am a round model of the Earth." }, { question: "What has a ring but no finger?", answers: ["telephone", "a telephone", "phone", "a phone"], hint: "You pick me up and answer when someone calls." }, { question: "I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?", answers: ["bank", "a bank"], hint: "You deposit and withdraw money here." }, { question: "What can fill a room but takes up no space?", answers: ["light", "sunlight"], hint: "It comes from the sun and lets you see." }, { question: "The more you feed me, the more I grow, but give me water and I will die. What am I?", answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"], hint: "I produce heat and light and consume fuel." }, { question: "What has a bottom at the top?", answers: ["leg", "a leg", "legs"], hint: "You have two of these below your hips." }, { question: "I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. I do not have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?", answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame"], hint: "A bucket of water is my worst enemy." }, { question: "What has four wheels and flies?", answers: ["garbage truck", "a garbage truck", "rubbish truck"], hint: "It comes by your house weekly to collect trash." }, { question: "I go around all the places but always stay in the corner. What am I?", answers: ["stamp", "a stamp", "postage stamp"], hint: "You lick me and stick me on an envelope." }, { question: "What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?", answers: ["promise", "a promise", "silence"], hint: "It is something you give your word about." }, { question: "What is always coming but never arrives?", answers: ["tomorrow", "the future"], hint: "It is the day after today, forever." }, { question: "What has an eye in the center but cannot see?", answers: ["hurricane", "a hurricane", "tornado", "a tornado", "storm"], hint: "It is a powerful spinning weather system." }, { question: "I can be cracked, I can be made, I can be told, I can be played. What am I?", answers: ["joke", "a joke"], hint: "You tell one when you want to make someone laugh." }, { question: "What gets bigger when you take more away from it?", answers: ["hole", "a hole"], hint: "Dig in the ground and you will make one." }, { question: "What has two hands, a round face, always runs but stays in place?", answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch"], hint: "It hangs on the wall or sits on a shelf." }, { question: "I have no wings, but I can fly. I have no eyes, but I can cry. What am I?", answers: ["cloud", "a cloud"], hint: "Look up in the sky and you will see me." }, { question: "What can you keep after giving it to someone?", answers: ["word", "your word", "promise", "knowledge"], hint: "Think about something intangible you give in conversation." }, { question: "What has a face but no eyes, nose, or mouth?", answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch", "coin", "a coin"], hint: "You check it to know what time it is." }, { question: "I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?", answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"], hint: "I am hot and dangerous to touch." }, { question: "What goes up when rain comes down?", answers: ["umbrella", "an umbrella"], hint: "You carry me to stay dry in a storm." }, { question: "What has a spine but no bones?", answers: ["book", "a book"], hint: "You read stories and information inside me." }, { question: "What two things can you never eat for breakfast?", answers: ["lunch and dinner", "lunch or dinner"], hint: "Think about meals you eat later in the day." }, { question: "What is cut on the table but is never eaten?", answers: ["deck of cards", "a deck of cards", "cards"], hint: "You shuffle and deal me in a card game." }, { question: "What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?", answers: ["kangaroo", "a kangaroo"], hint: "This Australian animal carries its young in a pouch." }, { question: "I am a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What am I?", answers: ["few", "the word few"], hint: "The answer is about a small number." }, { question: "What can be seen in the middle of March and April but not at the beginning or end of either month?", answers: ["r", "the letter r"], hint: "Look very carefully at the letters in the month names." }, { question: "What flies without wings?", answers: ["time", "money"], hint: "It passes whether you want it to or not." }, { question: "What has one head, one foot, and four legs?", answers: ["bed", "a bed"], hint: "You sleep on this every night." }, { question: "I have streets but no pavement, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?", answers: ["map", "a map"], hint: "You use me to find your way somewhere." }, { question: "What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?", answers: ["future", "the future", "air"], hint: "It has not happened yet." }, { question: "What runs around the whole yard without moving?", answers: ["fence", "a fence"], hint: "It borders and encloses outdoor spaces." }, { question: "What can be touched but cannot be seen?", answers: ["air", "wind", "heart", "feelings"], hint: "You breathe it in with every breath." }, { question: "What kind of band never plays music?", answers: ["rubber band", "a rubber band"], hint: "You stretch me around a stack of papers." }, { question: "What has one clap but no hands?", answers: ["thunder", "thunderclap"], hint: "It booms loudly during a storm." }, { question: "I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?", answers: ["feather", "a feather"], hint: "I float gently when you drop me." }, { question: "What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you do not want to use it?", answers: ["anchor", "an anchor"], hint: "Ships drop me to stay in place." }, { question: "What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?", answers: ["post office", "the post office"], hint: "You mail packages and letters from here." }, { question: "What question can you never answer yes to?", answers: ["are you asleep", "are you asleep yet", "are you dead"], hint: "If you could answer it, the answer would contradict itself." }, { question: "What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?", answers: ["glove", "a glove"], hint: "You wear me on your hand in cold weather." }, { question: "What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?", answers: ["blackboard", "a blackboard", "chalkboard", "a chalkboard"], hint: "Teachers write lessons on me in classrooms." }, { question: "I start with E and end with E, but I only have one letter. What am I?", answers: ["envelope", "an envelope"], hint: "You seal a letter inside me before mailing it." }, { question: "What has ears but cannot hear?", answers: ["corn", "cornfield", "a field of corn"], hint: "It is a tall yellow crop grown on farms." }, { question: "I shrink smaller every time I do my job. What am I?", answers: ["pencil", "a pencil", "eraser", "an eraser", "soap", "bar of soap"], hint: "You write with me and I get shorter." }, { question: "What runs all day but has no legs?", answers: ["water", "river", "faucet", "tap", "clock"], hint: "It comes out of your tap when you turn it on." }, { question: "I am as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest person cannot hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?", answers: ["breath", "your breath"], hint: "You do it constantly without thinking about it." }, { question: "What is orange and sounds like a parrot?", answers: ["carrot", "a carrot"], hint: "Bugs Bunny loves to munch on this vegetable." }, { question: "What word contains all 26 letters?", answers: ["alphabet", "the alphabet"], hint: "It is a set of all the letters used in a language." }, { question: "What has one horn and gives milk?", answers: ["milk truck", "a milk truck", "dairy truck"], hint: "It is a vehicle that delivers dairy products." }, { question: "I can be long or short. I can be grown or bought. I can be painted or left bare. I can be round or square. What am I?", answers: ["nail", "a nail", "fingernail", "toenail"], hint: "They grow on the tips of your fingers and toes." }, { question: "What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but is not a cat?", answers: ["kitten", "a kitten"], hint: "It is a baby cat." }, { question: "What can you make but not see, feel but not touch?", answers: ["noise", "sound", "music", "decision"], hint: "Clap your hands and you create one." }, { question: "What do you bury when it is alive and dig up when it is dead?", answers: ["plant", "a plant", "seed", "a seed"], hint: "It starts underground and grows upward." }, { question: "I have a golden head and a golden tail, but no golden body. What am I?", answers: ["coin", "a coin", "gold coin"], hint: "You flip me to decide between two choices." }, { question: "What room has no doors, no windows, no floors, and no roof?", answers: ["mushroom", "a mushroom"], hint: "It is a type of fungus you might put on pizza." }, { question: "What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?", answers: ["teapot", "a teapot", "teapot"], hint: "You boil water and brew a warm drink in me." }, { question: "I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?", answers: ["e", "the letter e"], hint: "I am a single letter of the alphabet." }, { question: "What is seen in the middle of a river that is also in the middle of Paris?", answers: ["r", "the letter r"], hint: "Look at the letters in each of those words." }, { question: "What is brown and sticky?", answers: ["stick", "a stick"], hint: "It falls from a tree and you might throw it for a dog." }, { question: "What can you hold without ever touching it?", answers: ["conversation", "a conversation", "breath", "your breath"], hint: "Two people exchange it using their voices." }, { question: "What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?", answers: ["coat of paint", "a coat of paint", "paint"], hint: "You apply it to a wall with a brush or roller." }, { question: "What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?", answers: ["human", "a human", "man", "a man", "person"], hint: "Think about the stages of a human life." }, { question: "I am lighter than air but a hundred people cannot lift me. What am I?", answers: ["bubble", "a bubble"], hint: "You blow me from soapy liquid." }, { question: "What belongs to you but is used more by others?", answers: ["name", "your name"], hint: "Your parents gave it to you when you were born." }, { question: "What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?", answers: ["glove", "a glove", "mitten"], hint: "You wear me on your hand to keep it warm." }, { question: "What gets sharper the more you use it?", answers: ["brain", "your brain", "mind", "pencil", "knife"], hint: "It sits inside your skull and controls everything you do." }, { question: "What can travel around the world in an instant but fits in a corner?", answers: ["stamp", "a stamp"], hint: "You put me on an envelope before posting it." }, { question: "I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. What am I?", answers: ["mirror", "a mirror"], hint: "You look at your reflection in me every morning." }, { question: "What is as old as the earth but is made new every month?", answers: ["moon", "the moon"], hint: "It orbits the Earth and changes shape in the night sky." }, { question: "What is the end of everything?", answers: ["g", "the letter g"], hint: "Look at the last letter of the word everything." }, { question: "What is black and white and red all over?", answers: ["newspaper", "a newspaper"], hint: "You read the daily news in me." }, { question: "What goes up and down stairs without moving?", answers: ["carpet", "a carpet", "rug", "a rug"], hint: "It covers your floor and you walk on it." }, { question: "What can be swallowed but can also swallow you?", answers: ["pride", "water", "ocean", "fear"], hint: "Too much of it can drown you." }, { question: "What has a tongue but cannot taste?", answers: ["shoe", "a shoe", "boot", "a boot"], hint: "You wear me on your foot." }, { question: "What is made of water but dies if water touches it?", answers: ["snowflake", "a snowflake", "ice", "snow"], hint: "It falls from the sky in winter and is made of frozen water." }, { question: "What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never cries?", answers: ["river", "a river"], hint: "It flows from mountains toward the sea." }, { question: "What is the longest word in the dictionary?", answers: ["smiles", "smiles because there is a mile between the s's"], hint: "Think creatively — there is a unit of distance hidden in it." }, { question: "You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?", answers: ["e", "the letter e"], hint: "I am a single letter hiding in those month names." }, { question: "What gets dressed and undressed twice a day?", answers: ["bed", "a bed"], hint: "You make it in the morning and unmake it at night." }, { question: "I am always in your body but you never see me until I come out. What am I?", answers: ["blood", "sweat", "tears", "breath"], hint: "When you get a cut, I appear." }, { question: "What has six faces but does not wear makeup, and twenty-one eyes but cannot see?", answers: ["die", "a die", "dice"], hint: "You roll me in board games to get a number." }, { question: "What starts with a C, ends with a T, is cold, full of meat, and shaped like a cone?", answers: ["corndog", "corn dog", "ice cream cone with meat"], hint: "Actually, think of a pointed winter accessory." }, { question: "What has many rings but no fingers?", answers: ["tree", "a tree"], hint: "Count my rings to know how old I am." }, { question: "What can you catch but not throw?", answers: ["cold", "a cold", "illness", "disease"], hint: "You might get it from someone who is sick." }, { question: "What do you find at the end of a rainbow?", answers: ["w", "the letter w"], hint: "Look at the last letter of the word rainbow." }, { question: "What is harder to catch the faster you run?", answers: ["breath", "your breath"], hint: "After a sprint, you are out of it." }, { question: "What has keys but cannot open locks, space but no room, and you can enter but you cannot go inside?", answers: ["keyboard", "a keyboard", "computer keyboard"], hint: "You type on me to write words on a screen." }, { question: "What is orange, wears a green hat, and is very popular on Halloween?", answers: ["pumpkin", "a pumpkin", "jack o lantern"], hint: "People carve faces into me in October." }, { question: "What do you call a snowman in summer?", answers: ["puddle", "a puddle", "water"], hint: "That is what happens when snow melts." }, { question: "What grows up while it grows down?", answers: ["goose", "a goose", "duck", "a duck"], hint: "Actually, think of something with feathers added as it matures." }, { question: "I am a fruit. Remove my first letter and I become a crime. What am I?", answers: ["grape", "a grape"], hint: "It is a small round fruit that grows in clusters." }, { question: "What has a bottom at the top of a mountain?", answers: ["footprint", "a footprint"], hint: "Think about someone who climbed to the summit." }, { question: "What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?", answers: ["short", "the word short"], hint: "Add -er to the end of this word." }, { question: "What can fill a house but takes up no space?", answers: ["light", "sunlight", "air"], hint: "It floods every room when you open the curtains." }, { question: "I wave but have no hands. What am I?", answers: ["flag", "a flag"], hint: "I represent a country and blow in the wind." }, { question: "What is big and hairy on the outside and wet and juicy on the inside?", answers: ["coconut", "a coconut"], hint: "It is a tropical fruit with white flesh inside." }, { question: "What do you see once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?", answers: ["e", "the letter e"], hint: "Examine the letters in each of those time words." }, { question: "What is wet when drying?", answers: ["towel", "a towel", "cloth"], hint: "You pat yourself with this after a bath." }, { question: "What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter?", answers: ["hole", "a hole"], hint: "It would let all the water out." }, { question: "What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up up it goes, and yet never grows?", answers: ["mountain", "a mountain"], hint: "Snow caps its peak and climbers attempt to reach its summit." }, { question: "What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?", answers: ["shadow", "an elephant's shadow", "elephant's shadow"], hint: "It follows you everywhere on a sunny day." }, { question: "Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?", answers: ["ton", "a ton"], hint: "It is a unit of weight, and its reverse spells a word too." }, { question: "What can be measured but has no length, width, or height?", answers: ["temperature", "time", "speed"], hint: "A thermometer measures it." }, { question: "I look flat but I am deep. Hidden depths are inside of me. The longer you look, the more you will find. What am I?", answers: ["eyes", "your eyes", "an eye"], hint: "Look into them to see what someone is feeling." }, { question: "What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?", answers: ["name", "your name"], hint: "They say it when they want to get your attention." }, { question: "What can point in every direction but cannot reach the destination by itself?", answers: ["finger", "a finger"], hint: "You use it to indicate a direction or object." }, { question: "What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?", answers: ["same", "they weigh the same", "equal", "neither"], hint: "Both are exactly one pound." }, { question: "What has a lake with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings?", answers: ["map", "a map"], hint: "It is a flat representation of the world." }, { question: "What can you hold in your hand that is still around your head?", answers: ["hat", "a hat"], hint: "You wear it on your head to keep the sun or rain off." }, { question: "I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?", answers: ["chick", "a chick", "baby bird", "egg"], hint: "I hatch from an egg." }, { question: "What has no beginning, end, or middle?", answers: ["doughnut", "a doughnut", "circle", "a circle", "ring", "a ring"], hint: "It is a round baked good with a hole in the center." }, { question: "What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?", answers: ["palm", "a palm tree", "palm tree"], hint: "It is also the flat inside part of your hand." }, { question: "What can travel at the speed of light but still have a shadow?", answers: ["light", "a beam of light"], hint: "Something that moves at light speed and creates darkness when blocked." }, { question: "I have an eye but cannot see, I am stronger than steel but fear the sun. What am I?", answers: ["needle", "a needle", "sewing needle"], hint: "You thread me and use me to sew fabric." }, { question: "What stinks when living and smells good when dead?", answers: ["pig", "a pig", "bacon"], hint: "Think about something that becomes a delicious food after cooking." }, { question: "What has three letters and starts with gas?", answers: ["car", "automobile"], hint: "It has an engine and four wheels." } ];