1. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A candle!

2. What has keys but can’t open locks?

A piano!

3. What has legs but doesn’t walk?

A chair!

4. What is orange, has a green top, and sounds like a parrot?

A carrot!

5. What can you catch but not throw?

A cold!

6. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter “M”!

7. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

A clock!

8. What has one eye but can’t see?

A needle!

9. What has a head, a tail, but no body?

A coin!

10. What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg!

11. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

A fire!

12. What has to be kept to be given?

A promise!

13. What has teeth but can’t bite?

A comb!

14. What can’t be used until it’s broken?

An egg!

15. I’m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I’m never released. What am I?

A pencil lead!

16. What has words but never speaks?

A book!

17. What goes up but never comes down?

Your age!

18. What’s black and white and read all over?

A newspaper!

19. What starts with “P”, ends with “E”, and has thousands of letters?

A post office!

20. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?

A river!