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Riddles II

iddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

Riddles are of two types: Enigma, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that requires ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and Conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.

The answers to questions 11 and 12 are connected together.

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1. What word should not belong to these words? Stop cop mop chop prop shop or crop? .

2. I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I? A .

3. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I? and cutlery.

4. Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I? .

5. What is harder to catch the faster you run? Your .

6. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? .

7. What flies without wings? .

8. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? .

9. What question can you never answer honestly to? Are you ?

10. Why is the letter A most like a flower? Because the is after it.

11. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? Forward I am a ,

12. but backwards I am .

13. I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, none suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I? .

14. What is it that no one wants, but no one wants to lose? A .

15. What English word has three consecutive double letters? .

16. What does December have that the other months do not? .

17. What is that which goes with a car, comes with a car, is of no use to a car, and yet the car cannot go without it? .

18. What is at the end of a rainbow?.