Latest riddles

Latest riddles

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

Answer

A wedding ring.

I take what you receive and surrender it all by waving my flag.
What am I?

Answer

A mailbox.

A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass.
What am I?

Answer

Coconut.

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.
Which room is safest for him?

Answer

The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

I am slim and tall. Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor but only once and then no more for many I am to die for.
What am I?

Answer

Cigarette.

A young man walks through the forest. He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large man carrying an axe. The man says, "If you want to cross this bridge, you must tell me a statement. If I think the statement is true, you will be strangled to death. If I say the statement is false, your head will be chopped off." A few minutes later, the young man walked over the bridge, while the larger man stood pondering. What was the statement the young man had given?

Answer

The man said, "My head will be chopped off."

Guys that laugh and don’t make you frown make you smile and never let you far.
Who is it?

Answer

A clown.

Which is correct "The yolk of the egg is white" or "The egg yolk is white?"

Answer

Neither, egg yolks are yellow.

If it's information you seek, come and see me.
If it's pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.
Who am I?

Answer

A bookkeeper.

A poor man is sitting in a pub. He sees that the man next to him is extremely rich.
Poor man: I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.
The rich man laughs.
Poor man: I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a popular song that includes a lady's name of your choosing.
The rich man laughs again.
Rich man: OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?
The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

Answer

"Happy Birthday." This song can be sang with anybody's name in it.

If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

Answer

Two. The two you took.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Answer

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both of them.

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