Today's Riddles

20

Before I was taken I was used to take flight, and my partner's purpose was to help hide from sight. Brought together our function has been made anew, and now any scribe would be happy to have us in their retinue.

17

A man is born in 2000 and dies in 1950. How is this possible without a time machine, using the same calendar as everyone else?

15

I have seas with no water, coasts with no sand, towns with no people, and mountains with no land. What am I?

10

An eccentric queen is giving her great wealth and power to the first person to tell her what phrase it is impossible for her to say. On some days, everything the queen says is truthful. On other days, she tells nothing but lies. There is no pattern to what days she she is truthful or a liar, and you are forbidden to ask her any questions to determine which state she is in today. With this in mind, what phrase could this queen never ever utter?

9

What runs but never walks?

5

I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. So tell me, what must I be?

12

What can be swallowed, and can also swallow you?

17

16 sodium particles walk into a bar, what/who comes next?

7

Red river runs forward, White river runs back. If red river meets white, They both become black.

2

I can whistle. I can howl. I can scream. And I can whisper. But I do not speak. What am I?

5

I can be stolen or given away and you will live, but you can't live without me. What am I?

39

I move without legs, I sting without a mouth, I die giving life. What am I?

12

What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

8

My outer walls reach as far and as straight as the crow flies. My guardians within can walk in crooked lines. My advisors nearby can never touch each other. My army is assembled side by side as brothers. My wife is greater and lesser than I, And though I can be in danger, I technically never die.

4

I am a word that begins with the letter I. If you add the letter A to me, paradoxically I become a new word that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?