What hath but three feet, three hands, and three eyes?

In 1209, on a hot summer day there was a man who was ordered to be executed by king. The king was a nice king though, and he said that if the man could prove himself wise, he would let him go. The king filled a room with fake flowers, and only put in one [...]

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it?
You can’t buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.

Where were English kings usually crowned?

What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?

What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?

When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?

At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.

If you divide thirty by 1/2 and add 10 what would you have?

Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown.
What am I?

The day before yesterday, Chris was 7 years old. Next year, she’ll turn 10. How is this possible?

Name the only sport in which the ball is always in possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

I’m not an airplane, but I can fly through the sky.
I’m not a river, but I’m full of water.
What am I?

A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky,
Atop a tender strand,
Rising from the land,
‘Til killed by maiden’s hand,
Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to say goodbye.

Lynn likes grapes but not potatoes. She likes squash but not lettuce, and she likes peas but not onions. Following the same rule, will she like pumpkins or apples?

I’ve measured it from side to side,
‘Tis three feet long and two feet wide.
It is of compass small, and bare
To thirsty suns and parching air.

Draw four rectangles on a piece of paper. Put nine x’s in the four rectangles so that there is an uneven number of x’s in each rectangle.

A man dies of thirst in his own home. How is this possible?

There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

I buried a stone in the ground, and it grew and produced fruit. How is this possible?

Some say we are red, some say we are green.
Some play us, some spray us.
What are we?

Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones:
TABLE – – – – HOUSE

What 7 letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?