Riddle #52

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.

What room do ghosts avoid?

What man cannot live inside a house?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What can run but can't walk?

Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. How is that possible?

I am alive without breath and cold as death. I am never thirsty but always drinking. What am I?

I always come down and never ever go up? Think, think and think! We all just love it.

A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?

A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. A little while later, they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?