Short Riddles

Thanks for such treasures as Mariachis, enchiladas and habanero!

I have a head and a tail but my eyes can never see my tail. What am I?

What animal keeps the best time?

In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.

Very helpful if you intend to go gently down a river.

Edible items purchased in large quantities.

I can be found after you remove 6 letters from BSAINXLEATEARS. What am I?

Rotten trees and Jack-O-Lanterns have this characteristic in common.

Mary's child slept in one of these.

What is part of you and all around you but if it entangles you, it will kill you?

Light me up in backyard gatherings. What am I?

What points the way without a hand.
It floats on water but exists on land?

A nutcracker up in a tree.

One more than a duet.

Men in skirts blow into these.

What is always coming every day, but never arrives until the next?

In the middle of night, I surround the gong.
In the middle of sight, I end the song.

When someone uses this acronym, you know you've got to pick up the pace.

I cannot be used until I have been broken. What am I?

If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?

I'm under your face,
I'm outside your mind;
A biological case,
Pressure brings pain sometimes.
What am I?

What is it that you must give before you can keep it.

It increases and decreases yet no one see it. It is not a fire and yet it can be quenched.

Santa's favorite entrance for home invasion.

You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?

Many hear me, but no one sees me, and I only speak when spoken to.
What am I?

I am nothing really at all, Yet I am easily found;
Ignore me at your own peril, and you might end up crowned!

What was was, before was was was?

What can you always count on?

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea what does it become?

I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?

I am a small paradise surrounded by dryness and heat. What am I?

A colourful bird that talks.

I am black when you buy me, red when you use me.
When I turn white, you know it's time to throw me away.
What am I?

I count time, but have no end. Tick tick, but I am not a clock. What am I?

When we stand up it lies flat. When we lie back it stands up.

For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy sticks.

You get one if you miss one at golf.

Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb.

This type of tempting cuisine is independent of utensils and usually tastes better than it sounds.

Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?

It is not your enemy, yet we still beat it. What is it?

If someone offers you one of these, they had a successful fishing trip or their band just broke up.

They put the heat in pop tarts

This is a baked snack that is traditionally twisted into a unique knot-like shape.

What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?

What is the saddest fruit?

Serves as a go between in business.

I am a kind of coat that can only be put on when wet. What am I?

A life or death skill for gunfighters.

Find me on body builders or in the drink aisle. What am I?

How far will a blind dog walk into a forest?

I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me.

It rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof. What is it?

What kind of fish chases a mouse?

It describes an era in history during which lights was hard to come by.

A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.

What do you do with a dead chemist?

They live only in stories, taller than three storeys.

A standard dimension for sandwiches and rulers.

The distance from the top of your head to the floor –standing up straight.

I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?

It can cause deflation of tires when dropped from the rear of spy cars.

I travel the world and I am drunk constantly. Who am I?

I am a lunch money thief. What am I?

Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome.

I you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?

What can be seen but not touched?

I widen my jaws when you poke two fingers in me. I especially like to devour papers. What am I?

What do you call the mother-in-law of your sister's husband?

What flies forever, rests never?

You can do this with your friends. You can do this with your nose. But don't do it with your friend's nose!

The edge of earth and bread.

I can't go left, I can't go right. I am forever stuck in a building over three stories high. What am I?

Santa shakes his belly like me. What am I?

If two is a company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?

It is in every mountain, it's not in any hill,
it's not in all the world, and yet it's in the mill.

Hold these between your knees if you want to set a Cuban beat.

I can alter the actions of a king and leave puzzled the greatest of philosophers. What am I?

I am expelled from you orally with a sound. What am I?

It is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else. What is it?

I am gold and can be black and white, I'm a symbol for a nation, when freedom took flight. What am I?

Men cut this by attaching a razor to a broom handle or just have their wives do it.

Hard iron on horse. Cow's hide on man.

I'm the source of all emotion, but I'm caged in a white prison.

When this is found in a road you are forced to make a decision.

I have a heart of gold and I smell when I'm old. What am I?

It is where kings, queens, knights and bishops go to war together.

I am neither a guest nor a trespasser in this place. I belong that belongs to me. Where is it?

Many foods can make me strong but give me water and I won't last long.

What do you get if you milk a cow after an earthquake?

Its title means book.

What has four wings but cannot fly and uses the wind but does not know why?

A great mysterious place that the bold have been known to journey into.

I am someone you don't know. Who am i?

The higher I climb, the hotter I engage. I cannot escape from my crystal cage.

I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?

A job that involves sitting in a highchair, wearing a black gown and smacking things with a mallet.

What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?