Riddles

Exercise your brain and solve the riddles:

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

2. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not living?

3.Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

4. We hurt without moving.We poison without touching.We bear the truth and the lies.We are not to be judged by our size.

    What are we? 

5. Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die.

    What am I?

6. What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive, and runs when it's dead? 

7. What gets wet when drying?

8. I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay. You may move toward me, yet distant I'll stay.

9. I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?

10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can't go outside.

What am I?

11. I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me.

What am I?

12. Every night I'm told what to do, and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold.

Answers:

1. The letter "M"

2. A glove

3. Incorrectly

4. Words

5. Fire

6. A snow flake

7. A towel

8. The horizon

9. A tree

10. A keyboard

11. A shadow

12. An Alarm clock