1. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
2. You can’t keep this until you have given it.
3. Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
4. What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can’t buy it in a bookstore or take it from the library.
5. What can go up and come down without moving?
6. What do you fill with empty hands?
7. What do you serve that you can’t eat?
8. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
9. What goes up and never comes down?
10. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
11. What has to be broken before it can be used?
12. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
13. What question can you never answer “yes” to?
14. What’s the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
15. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white?” or “The yolk of the egg is white?”
16. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

Answers:

1. A secret / 2. A promise / 3. An onion  / 4. A telephone book / 5. The temperature / 6. Gloves / 7. A tennis ball / 8. An anchor / 9. Your age / 10.  A yardstick / 11. An egg / 12.  A coat of paint / 13. “Are you asleep?” / 14. To hold cows together / 15. Neither, the yolks are yellow. / 16.  A telephone

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