Ripped from my mother’s womb,
Beaten and burned,
I become a blood-thirsty slayer,
What am I?

An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
“That eye is like to this eye”
Said the first eye,
“But in low place
Not in high place.”

“Times are hard in a small rural town, business is slowing and people are moving out. It so happens that there are two horse-dealerships in town. Unfortunately there’s only enough people to support one of the dealerships. So the two owners meet and decide that one of them must leave town. Since neither of them [...]

With no wings, I fly. With no eyes, I see. With no arms, I climb. More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe. I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end, I rule all.
What am I?

Within, I clean all that is bad and is old.
I make juice that’s the color of gold.
Should i die, a filter machine would you need assembled
To replace me, and beans I resemble.
What am I?

Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands?

Tool of thief, toy of queen.
Always used to be unseen.
Sign of joy, sign of sorrow.
Giving all likeness borrowed.

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? [...]

How many birth days does the average man have?

Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence.
Quick! What is it?

There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh?

When a virgin gives birth,
She throws away the draper.

There’s a land where there’s mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It’s the land of what?

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
What am I?

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can’t relate.
What am I?

Large as a mountain, small as a pea,
Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.

I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red.

I am never quite what I appear to be. Straight-forward I seem, but it’s only skin deep, for mystery most often lies beneath my simple speech. Sharpen your wits, open your eyes, look beyond my exteriors, read me backwards, forwards, upside down. Think critically and answer the question. What am I?

Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?

There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?

What’s long and thin, covered in skin; red in parts, and put in tarts?

In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995 that same person is 10 years old.
How is this possible?

Always invisible, yet never out of sight. What are they?

Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, felled by three eyes, black as night.
What’s going on here?

What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1,000?