Can you answer these general knowledge quiz questions?  

Saturday, August 2, 2008

S. No. Question Title
1 What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
2 You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
3 What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
4 What can you catch but not throw?
5 I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
6 What's black and white and red all over?
7 What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
8 I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
9 Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
10 The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
11 I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
12 Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
13 What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
14 No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
15 A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
16 You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
17 I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
18 I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
19 I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?
20 I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
21 I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.What am I?
22 I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
23 I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?
24 Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?
25 At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
26 If we say MUMMY, they come together & go apart when we say DADDY. what are they?
27 What goes up & never comes down?
28 Patches over patches but no stitches; What is it?
29 What is that we cannot see, but is always before you?
30 What goes up & down a hill, but never moves?
31 You can never wet it. What is it?
32 What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do?
33 I am the beginning of the end. You can see mee twice in a week but not in a day, once in a year but twice in a decade. What am I?



Here are the answers.
1. Towel
2. Corn on the Cob
3. Railing
4. Cold
6. Newspaper (Red means Read)
7. A Postage Stamp
9. Fire
10. Coffin
11. Shoes/Boots
12. Paper Napkin or Tissue Paper
13. River
14. Silence
15. Suicide
16. Onion
17. Bird's Shadow
18. A Tree
20. Hole
21. Oxygen
22. Breath
23. Smoke
24. Eye
25. Stars in the Sky.
26. Your Lips
27. Age
28. A Cabbage Patch
29. The Future
30. A Road
31. water
32. Your name
33. E letter

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