RIDDLES AND BRAIN TEASERS TO TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

(1). What is always in front of you but can't be seen?

(2). What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

(3). I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

(4). What can you catch, but not throw?

(5). What has to be broken before you can use it?

(6). I amd tall when I am young, and I am short when I am old. What am I?

(7). What goes up but never comes down?

(8). The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

(9). What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

(10). What question can you never answer yes to?

(11). What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

(12). What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

(13). What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

(14). What can fill a room but takes up no space?

(15). What has one eye, but can't see?

(16). If you drop me I am sure to crack, but give me a smile and I will always smile back. What am I?

(17). The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

(18). What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

(19). I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

(20). What has one head, one foot and four legs?

(21). The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can nether see nor feel it. What is it?

(22). I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

(23). What has a head, a tail, isbrown, and has no legs? 

(24). Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday? 

(25). What begins with an 'e' and only contains one letter?

(26). What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

(27). What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself.

(28). What has many keys, but can't even open a single door?

(29). A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible? 

(30). What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?

(31). This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I? 

(32). What runs around the whole yard without moving?

(33). The more you take away, the more I become. What am I? 

(34). I have two hands, but I cannot scratch myself. What am I?

(35). Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

(36). What goes up when the rain comes down?

(37). I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What am I?

(38). If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

(39). I am full of holes but I can still hold water. What am I?

(40). I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told. I can be played. What am I?
(41). If you share me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me. What am I?
(42). You are escaping a labyrinth, and there are three doors in front of you. The door in the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right lto a lion that hasn't eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
(43). If I am holding a bee what do I have in my eye? 
(44). An old man dies, leaving behind two sons. In his will, he orders his sons to race with their horses, and the one with the slower horse will receive his inheritance. The two sons race, but since they are both holding their horses back, they go to a wise man and ask him what they should do. After that, the brothers race again - this time at full speed. What did the wise man tell them? 
(45). Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
(46). A farmer needs to take a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain across a river. The only way across the river is by a small boat, which can only hold the farmer and one of the three items. Left un-supervised, the chicken will eat the grain, and the fox will eat the chicken. However, the fox won't try to eat the grain, and neither the fox nor the chicken will wander off. How does the farmer get everything across the river?

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(1). The Future.

(2). A Promise.

(3). A Bank.

(4). A Cold. 

(5). An Egg.

(6). A Candle.

(7). Your Age.

(8). Darkness.

(9). A Stamp.

(10). Are You Asleep Yet?

(11). Silence.

(12). A Deck Of Cards.

(13). A River.

(14). Light.

(15). A Needle.

(16). A Mirror.

(17). Footsteps.

(18). Day And Night.

(19). Fire.

(20). A Bed.

(21). A Coffin.

(22). A Map.

(23). A Penny.

(24). Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

(25). An Envelope.

(26). Your Name.

(27). Your Finger. (28). A Piano.

(29). His Horse Was Called Sunday.

(30). A Dice.

(31). Your Breath.

(32). A Fence.

(33). A Hole.

(34). A Clock. 

(35). Nothing.

(36). An Umbrella.

(37). Smoke.

(38). A Secret.

(39). A Sponge.

(40). A Joke.
(41). A secret.
(42). The door on the right. The lion would be dead after not eating for three months.
(43). This riddle is a play on the proverb, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In this case, you are the 'bee-holder'. Thus, beauty is in your eye. 
(44). To switch horses. After they switch horses, whoever wins the race will get the inheritance because they still technically owb the losing  (i.e., slower) horse. 
(45). The number 8. On its side, the number 8 looks like an infinity symbol. Cut in half, the number 8 becomes two zeroes. 
(46). The farmer must follow these steps: 
-Take the chicken across the river.
-Come back with an empty boat. 
-Take the grain across the river.
-Bring the chicken back.
-Take the fox across the river.
-Come back with an empty boat.
-Take the chicken across the river.

Compiled by Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy, 14th May, 2020 (Thursday).

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