Random riddles

Here you will find 10 random riddles and 30 random topics.

Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door?

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He wanted to win the No-bell prize!

Category: PunsTopics: Scientist

Dare trespass my threshold? Don’t dream you shall flee;
The strongest, the swiftest, cannot evade me.
I’ll seize you and crush you and wrench you apart,
Though no one may gaze on my singular heart.

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Black hole

Category: Poem RiddlesTopics: Dream

At what sport to waiters do really well?

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Tennis, because they can serve so well.

Category: Sporting RiddlesTopics: Tennis

They follow and lead, but only as you pass.
Dress yourself in darkest black,
And they are darker still.
Always they flee the light,
Though without the sun there would be none.

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Shadows

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Darkness

What is more impressive than a talking dog?

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A spelling bee

Category: Animal RiddlesTopics: Bee, Dog

What do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?

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All the angles

Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Geometry

A man shaves several times a day, yet he still has a beard. Who is this man?

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He’s a barber.

Category: Who Am ITopics: Beard, Men, Work

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

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The wind

Submitted by J.R.R. TolkienCategory: Famous RiddlesTopics: The Hobbit

This is a thing that is devoured by all things; flowers, trees, beasts, birds; bites steel, gnaws iron; grinds hard stone to meal; beats mountain down, ruins town and slays king. What is it?

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Time

Submitted by J.R.R. TolkienCategory: Famous RiddlesTopics: The Hobbit

Where was pizza first made in?

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Greece, you know, the place in Italy, and the stuff on top of it.

Category: Riddles for KidsTopics: Greece