TWENTY RIDDLES

1 Why did you sleep under your car?
2. Why is a crossword puzzle like a quarrel?
3. What wears shoes but has no feet?
4. Why is it wrong to whisper?
5. What is often given but never returned?
6. Why are crows the best-natured birds?
7. Why is a bowling alley quiet?
8. What has three feet but cannot walk?
9. What's nice in the dark, even though it's wicked?
10. In what job do you start at the top and work your way to the bottom?
11. What did the turtles give each other for Christmas?
12. What did the arithmetic book say?
13. What did the muffler say?
14. What did the broom say?
15. What did the tree say to the woodpecker?
16. What did Mason say to Dixon?
17. Why don't the Swedes export cattle?
18. What time of day do most people go to the dentist?
19. A nickel and a dime were sitting on the pier. The nickel jumped off into the ocean, but not the dime. Why not?
20. What happened when the seagull flew out and landed on the channel marker?

Answers:

1. ''I had to get up oily.''
2. One word leads to another.
3. The sidewalk
4.  It's not aloud.
5 . Your word
6. They never complain without caws.
7. You can hear a pin drop.
8. A yardstick
9. A  candle
10. Hanging wallpaper
11. People-neck sweaters
12. ''I have a lot of problems.''
13. ''I'm exhausted.''
14. ''I know all the dirt.''
15. ''You bore me.''
16. ''We've got to draw the line somewhere.''
17. They want to keep their Stockholm.''
18. 2:30 (tooth - hurty)
19. The dime had more sense.
20. Buoy meets gull.