AMTY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, SEC 46, GGN

VOCABATHON

RIDDLES FOR GRADE 4

1. What is the end of everything?

Answer: The letter “g”

2. What gets wet when you get dry?

Answer: A towel

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

Answer: A bank

4. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of
playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn

5. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?

Answer: A staircase

6. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am

I? Answer: Plates and cutlery.

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

Answer: A map

8. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

Answer: A deck of cards.

9. I have eyes but I can’t see. I live in the dark until you need me. What am I?
Answer: A potato.

10. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am
I? Answer: A joke.

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

Answer: An onion.

12. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always
smile back. What am I?

Answer: A mirror.

13. I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am
I? Answer: River.

14. I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when
you look through me. What am I?

Answer: Eye.

15. What is as light as a feather, but the world’s strongest man cannot hold
it for more than a minute?

Answer: his breath

16. What goes up and down stairs without moving?

Answer: carpet

17. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and
a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match

18. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer: A Palm.
19. What falls in winter but never gets hurt?
Answer: Snow
20. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
Answer - A coat of paint
21.What question can you never answer "yes" to?
Answer- "Are you asleep?"
22. What vehicle is spelled the same backwards and forwards?
Answer: Race car

23. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white?" or "The yolk of the
egg is white?"
Answer: Neither, the yolks are yellow.
24. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
Answer - A telephone
25. What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?
Answer: An ice cube.

26. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when
you don't want to use it?
Answer An Anchor
27. What do you fill with empty
hands?
Answer Gloves

28. What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down,
and can still be read from left to right?

Answer: NOON.

29. I break, but never fall. And I fall, but never break. What are we?

Answer: Day and night.

30. Riddle: What two things can you never have for
breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and Dinner

31. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are

they?

Answer: Footsteps

32. Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

Answer: A road

33. A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the
river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?

Answer: The river was frozen.

34. How many months of the year have 28 days?

Answer: All of them! Every month has *at least* 28 days.

35.It’s raining at midnight, but the forecast for tomorrow and the next day
is clear. Will there be sunny weather in 48 hours?

Answer: No, it won’t be sunny because it will be dark out. In 48 hours, it will
be midnight again.

36. What goes away as soon as you talk about

it? Answer: Silence.

37. If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

Answer- A secret

38. A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?

Answer: She fell off the bottom step.

39. What can jump higher than a building?

Answer: Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump, silly!

40. You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or
Neptune. What am I?

Answer: The letter “R.”

41. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

Answer: An umbrella.
42. I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger
but weigh less. What am I?

Answer: Popcorn.

43: I have to be opened, but I don’t have a lid or a key to get in. What am I?
Answer: An egg

44. I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?

Answer: Light.

45. It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday.
Where is it?

Answer: The dictionary.

46. I have teeth, but cannot chew. What am I?

Answer: A comb

47.I am made of water, but I’m not wet. What am I?

Answer – A cloud
48: What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?

Answer: Cupcake or hiccup

49.I have a single eye but cannot see. What am I?

Answer: A needle

50.“What begins with the letter ‘t’, is full of ‘t’ and finishes with
‘t’?”
Answer : a teapot.

51. What can't be put into a saucepan?

Answer: It's lid

52. What starts with the letter P, ends with the letter E and has thousands of
letters?
Answer- The Post Office! .

52. What word begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only has one letter?
Answer- Envelope.

54. What is the longest word in the English language?

Answer- Smiles - Because there is a 'mile' between the
two S's.

55. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment and never in a
thousand years?
Answer- The letter M.

56. Only one colour, but not one size,

Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?
Answer: It's a shadow!
57. What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
Answer: A choice.
58. Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen. What
am I?
Answer: An iceberg.
59. I come in a cone but I am not food;
I will be skewed if you screw with my hue;
I come by the millions but you can probably only name a few.
What am I?
Answer: Colours
60.“If you break me, I’ll not stop working.
If you can touch me, my work is done.
If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after.
What am I?”
Answer- Heart

61. Neither bought nor sold but more valuable than gold. I'm built but not
by hand.

Answer- Trust
62. What tastes better than it smells?

Answer : A tongue

63. I run around the house but never move.

Answer – Fence

64: What kinds of stones are never found in the ocean?

Answer: Stones that are dry.

65. What becomes smaller when you turn it upside down?

Answer -The number nine.

66. What stays where it is when it goes off?

Answer - An alarm clock

67. What can you break without touching?

Answer : A promise

68: I have four legs, I am made from a tree. You stuff your books, inside of
me. You can find me in the classroom ?

Answer: A desk
69: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five
letters?

Answer: Queue.

70.
. I build bridges of silver and crowns of gold.
Answer - Dentist

71. What building has thousands of stories?

Answer - A Library .

72. I touch the Earth I touch the Sky But if I touch you once You'll surely
die
Answer - Lightning

73. What kind of band never plays music.

Answer – A rubber band

74. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in
the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, father, and son.

75. What are moving left to right, right now?

Answer - Your eyes

76. I never ask questions, but always answered. What am I?

Answer - a doorbell

77. Without being called we come out at night Without being stolen we get
lost in the day. Who are we?

Answer- Stars

78. What question can someone ask all day long, always get
completely different answers and yet all the answers could be
correct?

Answer- What time is it?

79: What has four wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage truck.
80. Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last
letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still
sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?

Answer – empty
81. There is always one thing you will always overlook. What is it?
Answer - Your nose

82. I HAVE NO LIFE, BUT I CAN DIE,

WHAT AM I?

Answer : A BATTERY.

83. If you threw a White stone into the Red Sea, what would it
become?

Answer: Wet

84. Turn me on my side And I am everything Cut me in half And I am nothing

What am I?

Answer - The number 8

85. Every living person on Earth has seen me but no one

will ever see me again. Please tell me my name.

Answer- Yesterday

86. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood. Everyone uses me.
What am I?

Answer - A pencil

87. Spelled forwards I'm what you do everyday, spelled backwards

I'm something you hate. What am I?
Answer – Live

88. I make billions of dollars selling Windows. Who am I?

Answer -- Microsoft

89. It neither goes to a river nor comes to shore. It is suspended in air but,
somehow has water in it. What is it?

Answer- A Coconut

90. I sound like one letter but I'm written with three I show you things
when you look through me.
What am I?

Answer - An eye

91. Two bodies have I , though both joined in one ; the longer
I stand the quicker I run.

Answer- Hourglass

92. If you lose me you cause people around me to lose me

too. What am I?

Answer -- Your temper

93. I've been around for millions of years but I am never more than a month
old. What am I?

Answer -- The moon

94. What building has the most stories?

Answer – The library

95. Which is heavier: a ton of

bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer- Neither—they both weigh a ton

96. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

Answer- Glove

97. I fly around all day but never go anywhere.

What am I?

Answer - A flag

98. I have wings and I'm able to fly. I'm not a bird but I soar high in the sky.
What am I?

Answer -- An airplane

99. It loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night What is it?

Answer - A pillow

100. I have a hundred limbs but i can't walk. What am I?

Answer - A tree