Riddle

June 19, 2003 - 0:0
*1. How many letters are in the alphabet? *2. What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward? *3. What flies without wings? *4. What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use? *5. What force and strength cannot do, I with a simple touch can do; yet many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand. What am I? *6. You can draw me, fire me or fill me in. What am I?

*7. Name three keys that unlock no doors. *8 What turns everything around, but does not move? *9 While walking across a bridge I saw a boat full of people. Yet on the boat there wasn't a single person. Why? *10. What has four legs, a head, and leaves?

ANSWERS: 1. 11, 2. an icicle, 3. time, 4. soap, pencil, crayon chalk, 5. key, 6. blank, 7. MONkey, DONkey, TURkey, 8. mirror, 9. everyone on the boat are married, 10. a dining table.