How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I am double, I am single, I am black blue and grey, I am read from both ends, And the same either way.
How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Always in you, Sometimes on you; If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
I don't get anymore wetter, no matter how much rain falls on me.
If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?
Begin with a word, five letters to my name, Remove the first and last but I am the same Take out my middle and still, I remain. What word am I?
In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.