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1. What has keys but can't open locks?
A piano.
2. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps.
3. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.
4. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
An echo.
5. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
6. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
7. What can you catch but not throw?
A cold.
8. What has many teeth but can't bite?
A comb.
9. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river.
10. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
A map.
11. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M.
12. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
13. What has one eye but can't see?
A needle.
14. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
Your name.
15. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
16. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
17. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light.
18. The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows. What is it?
A coffin.
19. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short (shorter).
20. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
A ton (backward it is 'not').