Загадки на английском языке

1. When you do not know what I am, then I am something. But when
you know what I am, then I am nothing. What am I? (A riddle)

2. You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? (A reflection)

3. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? (Footsteps)

4. When I am released to the wind, you look away and you pretend,
but away your friends I will send. What am I? (A fart)

5. What English word has three consecutive double letters? (Bookkeeper)

6. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out? (Stop imagining)

7. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you
take away four of its five letters? (Queue)

8. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share
me, you don't have me. What am I? (A secret)

9. A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a
hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why? (He is playing monopoly)

10. An English word has six letters, remove one letter, and twelve
remains. What am I? (Dozens)

11. What question can you never answer yes to? (Are you asleep?)

12. What invention lets you look right through a wall? (A window)

13. What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man
couldn't hold it for more than a minute? (His breath)

14. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet
never in a thousand years? (The letter M)

15. I never ask questions but am always answered. What am I? (A doorbell)

16. If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take
one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the
same time? ( It's cheaper two friends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets)

17. What gets bigger every time you take from it? (A hole)

18. What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water? (A sponge)

19. Which came first the chicken or the egg? (The egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs before there were any chickens)

20. No matter how much rain comes down on it, it won't get any
wetter. What is it? (Water)

21. I'm flat when I'm new. I'm fat when you use me. I release my gas
when something sharp touches me. What am I? (A balloon)

22. Three times what number is no larger than two times that same
number? (0)

23. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when
you don't want to use it? (An anchor)