Today's Riddles

11

I'm lighter than a feather, yet no one can hold me for very long. What am I?

12

I am a protector. I sit on a bridge. One person can see right through me, while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

6

What goes up the chimney down but can't go down the chimney up?

4

What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire word signifies a great woman?

12

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

7

I can make a blind man see; I can save a ship at sea. I can show the irony, On that fateful roll of dice, That would place me, seated thrice, Onto those denying me. What am I that holds such power?

8

4 in an hour, 3 is 75, 2 in a half, 1's a room for me.

14

I dig out tiny caves and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. Sooner or later, everybody needs my help. What am I?

13

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

12

I am wet when drying. What am I?

20

Used to fix mistakes, I am often referred to as the colour I bleed. What am I?

6

Riddle me this. I am steel, yet still alive. I have emotions, yet I cannot feel. I have movement yet cannot move. I have a skeleton which is not my own. Who am I?

9

I have a face with no eyes, I stretch into the skies, but my adventurous guise leads to grisly demise. What am I?

12

A sundial is the time piece with the fewest moving parts. What time piece has the most moving parts?

14

A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors. A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor. He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide. Why?