Riddles to stump your students!

1.  I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?          

A jigsaw puzzle piece

2.  A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?     

 Parrot is deaf

3.  Why can't Kevin Laroche, who is now living in Canada, not be buried in the USA?  

He is still alive!!

 4.  What month has 28 days?                          

All of them

5.  What gets wetter the more it dries?                    

  A towel

6.  What building has the most stories?                     



 A library

7.  What is in the middle of Paris?                          

The letter “r”

8.  What goes up, but never goes down?                

 Your age

9.  What 11-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?  

         “Incorrectly”

10.  What do you call your father-in-law’s only child’s mother-in-law?                   

Mom

11.  What kind of soda must you NOT drink?                  



Baking soda

12.  What does a cat have that no other animal has?          

Kittens

13.  What animal sleeps with its shoes on?                       

A horse