2,062 Easy Riddles With Answers - page 9 of 21
I am enjoyed with a pot and some pointy sticks. What am I?
Fondue is a melted-cheese or chocolate dish traditionally eaten by dipping food on long skewers into a shared pot.
I'm a pie, but I come with peperoni and cheese.
Pizza is often nicknamed a 'pie,' especially when topped with pepperoni and cheese.
What screams when put in a pot of boiling water?
Lobsters are jokingly said to 'scream' from the sound released when their shells hit boiling water, though they can't actually vocalize.
I am rubber you can eat. What am I?
Jelly-type candy (like gelatin-based sweets) has a soft, rubbery texture, but unlike real rubber, you can eat it.
This dish is usually consumed at breakfast time with milk.
Cereal is a classic breakfast food poured into a bowl with milk.
I'm a small sweet cake, typically round, flat, and crisp. I come in a variety of flavors from chocolate chip to oatmeal raisin.
A round, flat, crisp treat that comes in flavors like chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin is simply a cookie.
Famous for cheese, wine and saying "ooo la la".
France (the French) is renowned worldwide for its cheese, wine, and the playful exclamation 'ooh la la.'
I consist of several parts. Two slices of bread, usually cheese and some kind of lunch meat. What am I?
A sandwich is typically built from two slices of bread with cheese and deli meat layered between them.
If it weren't for these, no one would be aware of Idaho's existence.
Idaho is famously known as 'The Potato State,' and its potato crop is what gives the state its widespread recognition.
A toasty and crunchy cereal would be pointless without this spice.
This points to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, which depends on cinnamon for its signature flavor.
Green on the outside but red and black inside. I am food but mostly liquid. What am I?
A watermelon has green skin outside, with red juicy flesh and black seeds inside, and it's mostly water.
What food has no beginning, end, or middle?
A donut is a ring-shaped food with a hole in the center, so it has no true beginning, end, or middle.
I am edible, pink, and a great summer food. What am I?
A peach has soft pink-blushed skin and is a favorite refreshing fruit during the summer months.
I am sometimes referred to as chips. What am I?
In British English, what Americans call "french fries" are commonly called "chips."
What dish consists of tortilla chips smothered in cheese?
Nachos are the classic Tex-Mex snack of tortilla chips loaded with melted cheese and toppings.
This Mexican dish is a type of flatbread made of crushed flour or cornmeal and is cooked and then enjoyed hot or cold. It is used especially in making quesadillas.
A tortilla is a flatbread of ground corn or flour cooked on a griddle, the base ingredient for quesadillas whether served warm or cold.
I consist mostly of lettuce, along with a variety of other veggies. Ranch is one of my popular dressings. What am I?
A salad is built mainly from lettuce and other vegetables, often finished off with a dressing like ranch.
I'm a food made of flour, water, and yeast or another leavening agent, mixed together and baked. You need me to make a sandwich.
Bread is made from flour, water, and a leavening agent like yeast, and it's the essential base of any sandwich.
This is variety of pasta formed in narrow tubes, often mixed with cheese powder.
Macaroni is the small curved tube pasta most famously paired with powdered cheese in boxed mac and cheese.
I'm a flat circular spongy roll made from yeast dough and eaten toasted and buttered.
An English muffin is a round, spongy yeast bread that's typically split, toasted, and buttered.
I am a candy that looks like a shepherd's staff. What am I?
A candy cane is curved at the top just like a shepherd's traditional crook-shaped staff.
I can be sweet or sour. I do not rhyme with any other word. What am I?
'Orange' famously has no perfect rhyme in the English language, and the fruit itself can taste sweet or tart.
Edible items purchased in large quantities.
'Groceries' refers to the food items typically bought together in quantity at a store.
If you take off my skin, I will not cry, but you will. What am I?
Peeling and cutting an onion releases irritating compounds that make the person cutting it cry, though the onion itself obviously doesn't.
We are a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin that is often sweet or tart in taste. What are we?
This describes peaches precisely: round stone fruit with fuzzy pinkish-yellow skin and juicy flesh.
For this gourmet style of meal you'll need a pot and some pointy sticks.
Fondue involves a shared pot of melted cheese or chocolate, and diners use long pointed forks ("sticks") to dip food into it.
What is the saddest fruit?
This is a pun on "blue," a common word for feeling sad, paired with "berry."
This dish is defined as small pasta envelopes containing ground meat, cheese, or vegetables.
Ravioli are small pockets of pasta stuffed with fillings like meat, cheese, or vegetables.
I am a fruit with seeds on the outside. What am I?
Strawberries are unusual among fruits because their tiny seeds are visible dotting the outside of the flesh, not hidden inside.
This large green melon has red pulp inside and watery juice. Best enjoyed cold on a hot summer day.
This describes a watermelon exactly: green rind, red juicy flesh, and a favorite cold summer treat.
I'm red but I can be green at times and I am even yellow. What am I?
Apples commonly come in red, green, and yellow varieties.
This veggie is characterized of long stalks or shoots taken from the plant. They have a strong odor when cooked and can influence the color or urine.
Asparagus grows as long green stalks, has a distinctive smell when cooked, and is well known for changing the smell (and per this riddle, color) of urine after eating it.
I am a shiny metal sheet that covers BBQ food. What am I?
Aluminum foil is the shiny metal sheet commonly used to wrap and cover food on a grill or BBQ.
This is meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked, often enjoyed in a sandwich.
Ham comes from the pig's hind leg, cured by salting or smoking.
I'm a type of pizza that is folded in half before cooking to contain a filling.
A calzone is essentially pizza dough folded over its filling into a half-moon shape before baking.
The warmer I am, The fresher I am.
Bread is at its freshest right when it comes warm out of the oven, and it grows staler as it cools.
Kids love this bouncy, sugary, treat. It's like colorful rubber that you can eat.
The answer given is jello, whose wobbly, rubbery texture and bright colors match the clue, though the description of being especially "bouncy" fits chewy gummy candy even more closely.
This small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red, is often served on top of whipped cream on a milk shake.
A cherry is a small round stone (pit-containing) fruit, usually bright or dark red, classically placed on top of whipped cream as a garnish.
This is the main ingredient in spaghetti and Mac-N-Cheese.
Both spaghetti and macaroni and cheese are built around pasta as their core ingredient.
I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
This precisely describes a banana: curved, grown in bunches, with soft flesh and yellow ripe skin.
This type of corn swells up and bursts into a crisp puff when heated.
Popcorn kernels have a hard outer shell that traps moisture, causing them to burst into fluffy puffs when heated.
This greek dish is similar to a taco or pita sandwich in appearance. It is made with a fatty meat in a taco shell shaped flatbread with tomatoes, lettuce and other veggies.
A gyro wraps seasoned, fatty meat in warm flatbread with tomato, lettuce, and other toppings, much like a taco or pita sandwich.
What is this Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla rolled around a filling, typically of beans or ground or shredded beef?
A burrito is exactly a rolled tortilla filled with beans, meat, or other ingredients, unlike a taco (folded, not rolled) or enchilada (usually covered in sauce).
What do you call a witch that lives in the sand?
This is a pun combining "sand" and "witch" to form the word "sandwich."
This type of food, which is a fungus, is often served on supreme pizza, in spaghetti and in a particular "cream of" style soup.
Mushrooms are a fungus commonly found as a pizza topping, in pasta sauces, and in cream of mushroom soup.
I'm a green veggie that looks like a tiny tree.
Broccoli's stalk-and-florets shape is famously described as looking like a miniature tree.
This is a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large pit in the center. It is most used in guacamole dip.
The avocado's rough, leathery green skin, buttery flesh, and large central pit make it the key ingredient in guacamole.
What kind of dog has no tail?
A hot dog is a sausage in a bun, not a real animal, so it never had a tail to begin with.
It nukes food at the touch of a button.
A microwave oven heats food quickly using radiation, colloquially called 'nuking' your food, at the press of a button.
Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two well known varieties of this kind of food.
Chicken noodle and cream of mushroom are two classic, well-known varieties of canned soup.
What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
This is a pun: a carrot is orange in color, and 'carrot' sounds almost exactly like 'parrot.'
I'm a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked and eaten fried, such as french fries.
The potato is a starchy tuber famously fried into french fries, making it one of the world's most important crops.
Consuming food would be pretty tough without these chompers.
Teeth are the chompers that let us bite and chew food; without them eating solid food is very difficult.
I'm a soft frozen food made with sweetened and flavored milk fat. I'm usually put in a waffle cone.
The description of sweetened, flavored frozen milk fat served in a waffle cone is a straightforward description of ice cream.
One of the few vegetables that is routinely consumed with marshmallows.
Candied yams (or sweet potatoes) topped with marshmallows are a classic Thanksgiving side dish.
This dish is hot frankfurter served in a long, soft roll and typically topped with various condiments. Often served with hamburgers.
A hot dog is a grilled frankfurter tucked into a soft bun and topped with condiments, a cookout staple usually served right alongside hamburgers.
I'm a small ring shaped fried cake, often with bavarian cream or fruit filling, and sometimes covered in icing and sprinkles.
The description of a fried, ring-shaped cake with cream, fruit filling, or icing matches a classic donut.
Something we eat, and misspell as meet.
'Meat' (food) and 'meet' (to encounter) are homophones that are commonly confused in spelling.
This food is a white meat, that often goes with salad. It's poultry.
Chicken, specifically the breast, is a common white poultry meat often added to salads.
A time when they're green. A time when they're brown. But both of these times, cause me to frown. But just in between, for a very short while. They're perfect and yellow. And cause me to smile.
Bananas are unripe and green too early, then brown and mushy too late, with only a brief perfect yellow window in between that makes them worth smiling about.
Sometimes I am light, sometimes I am dark. What am I?
Chocolate comes in light varieties (milk or white chocolate) and dark varieties (dark chocolate).
A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
A potato is covered in a thin skin dotted with 'eyes' (sprouting buds), and tastes great once it's cooked ('done').
I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat. What am I?
A cherry has red skin acting as its 'coat' and a hard pit lodged at its center like a stone.
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Cutting into an onion releases sulfur compounds that make your eyes water, hence the 'weeping' once it's sliced.
It can be done to buttons and shopping carts. What is it?
You push a button to activate it and push a shopping cart to move it along.
Strip the skin under my skin, and my flesh you'll reveal. It tastes sweet and tart, now throw out the peel. What is it?
An orange has a thick outer peel and a thin inner pith ("skin under my skin") to remove before reaching its sweet-tart flesh, with the peel discarded afterward.
What moves across the land but never has to steer? It has delivered our goods year after year. What is it?
A train travels overland fixed to its rails, so unlike a car it never needs to be steered, and it has long been used to haul freight.
Built of metal or wood to divide. It will make us good neighbors, if you stay on your side. What is it?
A fence, built of wood or metal, marks the boundary between neighboring properties -- echoing the saying 'good fences make good neighbors.'
Tickle with your fingers and a song it will sing. Be careful, though, you may break a string. What is it?
Plucking a guitar's strings with your fingers produces music, but pluck too hard and you risk snapping a string.
Controlled by your hands and feet. It would be nothing without a street. What is it?
A car is steered by your hands on the wheel and operated by your feet on the pedals, but it needs roads to actually go anywhere.
Pointing North, South, East, and West it saves the lost and helps the rest. What is it?
A magnetic compass always points toward the cardinal directions, helping travelers find their way when they'd otherwise be lost.
It's equally comfortable in an orchestra and a geometry textbook. What is it?
A triangle is both a percussion instrument played by striking a metal frame and the basic three-sided shape studied in geometry.
Attracted by light but flies at night. It's tiny and hairy but not too scary. What is it?
Moths are famously drawn to light at night, and their small, fuzzy bodies look harmless despite startling people who bump into them in the dark.
Usually green but can be brown. It's a great place to play or lie down. What is it?
Grass covers lawns and fields in green (or dried-out brown), and it's the classic soft surface people play and relax on.
This is a plant named after a light source. What is it?
The sunflower gets its name from the sun, and it's famous for turning its head to follow sunlight across the sky.
It comes from crystal and melts to a treat. Add it to your tea to make it sweet. What is it?
Sugar forms as crystals that dissolve when stirred into tea, sweetening it into a treat.
You use this to clean although it is small. If you forget it, your smile will appall. What is it?
A toothbrush is small but essential for cleaning your teeth, and skipping it leaves your smile looking (and feeling) far from its best.
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
The moment you speak, you end the silence -- so silence is 'broken' the instant it's spoken about.
Man walks over, and man swims under. In times of war, it can be burned asunder. What is it?
People walk across a bridge while boats or swimmers pass beneath it, and bridges have historically been burned or destroyed to block advancing armies.
Both a currency and an antlered male. What is it?
'Buck' is slang for a dollar and is also the name for a male deer with antlers.
Sometimes it's silver but also gold. Printed on paper it's a treasure to hold. What is it?
Currency can be minted in silver or gold coins or printed as paper bills, but either way it's treated as a treasured store of value.
Its fleece is warm and wooly white. And when you lie awake at night, count it and you'll fall asleep. What is it?
Counting sheep is the classic trick people use to help themselves fall asleep, and sheep are known for their warm white wool.
It carries paper of the most important sort, but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
A wallet holds important paper money as well as plastic credit and debit cards.
A beacon from home to guide your way. It can be a lifesaver on a stormy day. What is it?
A lighthouse shines its beam from the shore to guide sailors safely, and in a storm its warning light can literally save lives by steering ships away from rocks.
It is yellow and you can serve it but not eat it. What is it?
In tennis, players 'serve' the ball to start a point, but of course you don't eat it the way you'd serve food.
It is a place of play on a sunny day. Winter will come and take all the fun, but we'll be back in May. What is it?
A park is a favorite outdoor spot for warm-weather play that empties out in winter and comes back to life in spring.
Touch this and you'll regret it. But if it's cold, you won't forget it. What is it?
Touching fire burns and you'll regret it instantly; the source's answer is a looser fit for the 'cold' line, which likely refers to the lingering memory of the burn even once the fire has gone cold.
Grown in the ground, it's taller than you. Strip off the outside, the yellow pieces you chew. What is it?
Corn stalks grow taller than a person, and after husking (stripping the outside), you chew the yellow kernels.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?
A bar of soap is used to wash your entire body from head to toe, and it wears down and shrinks the more you use it.
It is not your enemy, yet we still beat it. What is it?
This plays on the double meaning of 'beat': striking a drum is called beating it, even though it's an instrument, not an opponent.
It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?
This plays on the double meaning of the word: to 'season' food means to flavor it, and a 'season' is also one of the four divisions of the year.
It keeps you on the ground and stops things from floating around. What is it?
Gravity is the force that keeps people's feet on the ground and prevents loose objects from drifting into the air.
It could make arrows fly and kites soar. What is it?
A bowstring launches arrows, and a length of string is also what lets you fly and control a kite.
Not a comb or a brush but makes the hair feel plush. What is it?
Shampoo doesn't style hair like a comb or brush, but washing with it leaves hair feeling soft and plush.
It regulates our daily movements, but it feels no interest in our lives. It directs us when to come and go, but does not care if we pay attention. What is it?
A clock dictates our daily schedules, when to wake, work, and sleep, yet it is an unfeeling object indifferent to whether we follow it.
Glittering points that downward thrust. Sparkling spears that do not rust. What is it?
An icicle forms as dripping water freezes into a sharp downward-pointing spike of ice, which can't rust because it isn't metal.
Never swallowed but certainly chewed, tossed in the mouth but it is not food. What is it?
Chewing gum is popped into the mouth and chewed for a long time, but unlike food it is meant to be spit out, not swallowed.
Women don't have and don't want it. Men get it but sometimes they try to get rid of it. What is it?
Beards grow naturally on men's faces; women generally don't grow facial hair, and many men shave their beards off.
This is a shape and a symbol that we literally cannot live without. What is it?
The heart shape symbolizes love, but it's also the literal organ that pumps blood, without which no one can survive.
A device that nearly everyone has that can freeze anyone it sees. What is it?
A camera "freezes" whoever it photographs by capturing a still image of that instant, and nearly everyone now carries one in their phone.