I killed one fourth of mankind.  Who am I?

No sooner spoken than broken.  What is it?

I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow.  What am I?

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

This old one runs forever, but never moves at all.  He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call.  What is it?

Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call.  What is it?

I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire.  I wept, and then my head was cut off.  What am I?

A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky.  Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing.  What am I?

I am not alive, but I grow.  I don’t have lungs, but I need air.  I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.  What is it?

Black I am and much admired, men seek me until they’re tired.  When they find me, they break my head, and take from me my resting bed.  What am I?

Not born, but from a Mother’s body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone.  I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold.  What am I?

They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone.  Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own.  What are they?

Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?

What can be heard and caught but never seen?

Read my riddle, I pray.  What God never sees, what the king seldom sees, and what we see every day. What is it?

I’m as small as an ant, as big as a whale.  I’ll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale.  By some, I get hit, but all have shown fear.  I’ll dance to the music, though I can’t hear.  Of names I have many, of names I have one.  I’m as slow as [...]

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

I am slim and tall,\r\nMany find me desirable and appealing.  They touch me and I give a false good feeling.  Once I shine in splendor, but only once and then no more.  For many I am “to die for”.  What am I?

What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.”.  The boy looked around and saw no scale so he [...]

In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team?

There are 20 people in an empty, square room.  Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes).  Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?

Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom.  When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor.  The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed.  The house in is a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railway track.  [...]