Riddles, Page 5

1. I am the only number who's spelling is in alphabetical order. What am I?

2. What is a door when it's not a door?

3. What is so bright in the day and very far away?

4. What is between the sea of night and the land of day?

5. What turns everything around but does not move?

6. Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, lifeless it dies, bodiless it shudders. What is it?

7. Glitters, but is not gold, harder then stone.

8. You'll never touch it, but it will follow you, get ahead of you or be right next to you?

9. What has ears but cannot hear?

10. What goes up and down but never moves?

11. Turn us on our backs and open our stomachs, you will be the wisest of men, though at the start a lummox. What am I?

12. What passes by and never stops?

13. You peel away the outside, then cook the inside. Then you eat the outside, and throw away the inside. What is it?

14. What has an eye open but never sees?

15. What cannot be seen but only heard, and will not speak until spoken to?

16. What english word becomes shorter when you add two letters?

17. What is always coming but never arrives?

18. I once could see, but now I'm blind. I could speak, but I am silent. Now I'm just white and empty.

19. Completely round is fairly rare.
Bright and shiny when I'm there.
When I'm not, they call me new.
But I'm old. Older than you.

20. There was a round green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?