Riddle 2

What can go up and come down without moving?

I’m not alive, but I can die; I’m not solid, but I can melt. What am I?

Why don’t lobsters share?

Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?

What do you fill with empty hands?

Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

What goes up and never comes down?

You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

You can’t keep this until you have given it.