Puzzles/Riddles

What is yours and unique to you, but everyone uses it?

Your name

What is black and white and red all over?

A book

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

An echo

You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I am quick when I am thin and slow when I am fat, the wind is my enemy. What am I? 

A candle

What is seen in the middle of March and April? 

The letter R

What has cities but no houses, what has rivers but no fish, and what has forests but no trees?

A map

What starts with P and ends with E and has a million letters in it?

Post Office

What is a word in the English language where the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a woman, the first four letters signify a great, and the whole word signifies a great woman? 

Heroine

What starts with the letter T and ends with the letter T and has T inside of it?

A teapot

What disappears as soon as you say its name? 

Silence

I have keys but no locks, I have space but no rooms, and you can enter but you can’t go anywhere. What am I? 

A keyboard

A is the brother of B, B is the brother of C, C is the father of D. What is A to D?

A is D's uncle

You see a boat filled with people but when you look again you don’t see a single person. Why is that?

Everyone on the boat is married

What English word has three consecutive double letters? 

Bookkeeper

A woman shoots her husband, then she holds him underwater for five minutes, then she hangs him, then they enjoy a lovely dinner together. How does this happen?

She was taking a picture of him

A girl has as many brothers as sisters, each boy has half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in this family? 

3 brothers and 4 sisters

How is 7 different from the rest of the numbers between 1 through 10?

7 has two syllables

What occurs twice in a moment, once in a minute, and never in an hour?

The letter m

What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left hand? 

Your left hand

How can you physically stand behind your father while he is physically standing behind you? 

You stand back to back with him

Three different doctors said that Paul is their brother. Paul said that he had no brothers. Who is lying? 

Paul has three sisters who are doctors

What can be touched but can not be seen? 

A heart

What has a head and tail but no body?

A coin