Riddle Me This

Here are a few questions to get your brain buzzing. Scroll down to find the answers are below, but try not to cheat!

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

2. What has four fingers and one thumb but is not living?

3.Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

4. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?

5. Give me food and I will live. Give me water and I will die. What am I?

6. What flies when it is born, lies when it’s alive and runs when it’s dead?

7. What goes wet when drying?

8. I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay, you may move toward me, yet distant I’ll stay.

9. I’m a mother and a father but have never given birth. I’m rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?

10. Have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?

11. I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?

12. Every night I’m told what to do, and each morning I do what I’m told. But I still don’t escape your scold.

Answers: 1. The letter M 2. A glove 3. The word ‘incorrectly’ 4. Words 5. Fire 6. A snowflake 7. A towel 8. The horizon 9. A tree 10. A keyboard 11. A shadow 12. An alarm clock