Today's Riddles

6

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

18

I go up, Though sometimes I am down. I can write, But I don't make a sound. I am the touchstone for lightness, But often I am black. I can help you to hit the sack.

15

What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead?

4

An electric train is heading north. The wind is blowing from the south. Which direction does the smoke blow?

11

What goes from New York to Los Angeles without moving?

4

I am the greatest teacher out of them all, but alas in the end I kill my pupils.

64

I have a spine but no bones, pages but no writing on most of them when new. What am I?

13

A man has travelled to Australia, England and Germany but has never left the USA; how can this be?

14

What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?

9

I turn everything around, but I cannot move. When you see me you see you. What am I?

11

I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?

8

If you have 3, you have 3. If you have 2, you have 2. But if you have 1, you have none. What is it?

13

Until I am measured I am not known, yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?

10

What has cities, mountains, water, but no people?

8

The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?