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What Is It?

What is red on the inside and green on the outside?

Climb Mountains
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What can climb mountains, cross streams, handle hundreds of feet each day, yet never moves? What is it?
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My Name is...
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My name is two letters. You call many people by this name, but yet their first name is not this. What is it?
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White Bird
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White bird, featherless, flyin' out o' paradise, flyin' over sea and land, dyin' in my hand. What is it?
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Teeth are Sharp
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My teeth are sharp, my back is straight, to cut things up it is my fate. What am I?
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Where in the World?
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Where is the AD before BC, tomorrow before yesterday, and the eight is first?
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Which English Word
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Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?
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Rock and Roll
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Rock and roll, rock and roll. What rocks but does not roll?
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Often Returned
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What is often returned but never borrowed?
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Used to Threaten
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Used to threaten, used to defeat. Sometimes it grows, sometimes it shrinks. Used to conquer, used to protect. It marks your downfall, it marks your success. The true god of war, the creator of mess. What is it?
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Often Held
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Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit. What am I?
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What Has no Hands
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What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does you better open up?
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Never Gets Any Wetter
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What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
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It Goes Up
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It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?
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Marble Walls
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Marble walls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk, in a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple will appear, there is no key to this stronghold, yet theives break in and steal the gold. What is it?
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88 Teeth
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What has 88 teeth but never brushes them?
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Leaves are on the Fruit
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The leaves are on the fruit, The fruits is on the leaves. What is it?
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Glittering Points
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Glittering points that downward thrust, sparkling spears that never rust. What is it?
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Never resting, Never Still
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Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it?
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Up and Down
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What can go up and come down without moving?
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See It Every Day
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You can see it every day, But cannot ever touch it. What is it?
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A beggar’s brother died
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A beggar’s brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could this be?
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What Goes Into the Water
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What goes into the water red, But black when you pull it out?
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I am Born in Fear
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I am born in fear, raised in truth, and I come to my own in deed. When comes a time that I’m called forth, I come to serve the cause of need. What am i?
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Name-Called
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Name-called and favorite to eat, Has only two toes on print of feet, Colors many, Almost any Country child would have seen one. What is it?
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It Comes Only Before
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It comes only before, It comes only after, Rises only in darkness, But rises only in light. It is always the same, But is yet always different. What am I?
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An Arm Points North
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An arm points north, east, south, then west. Ever in circles, never pausing to rest. It passes its brother twenty three times, As the sun passes by and the moon starts to climb. What is it?
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Placed Above
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Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes first. Where others increase it keeps all things the same. What is it?
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If You Break Me
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If you break me, I’ll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?
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Measures Out Time
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What measures out time, Until in time All is smashed to it?
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Cannot Be Seen
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All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held No throat, but can be heard. What is it?
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