English Brain Teasers

Question 1

What's always coming but yet never arrives?

Accepted Answer

Tomorrow

Question 2

When I was born I was big but the older I get the smaller I am. What am I?

Accepted Answer

a candle

Question 3

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

your age

Question 4

What can you break without touching it?

Accepted Answer

A promise

Question 5

What do you have to give before you can keep it?

Accepted Answer

Your word

Question 6

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Accepted Answer

Footsteps

Question 7

What is so fragile that sound can destroy it?

Accepted Answer

Silence

Question 8

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

Accepted Answer

an anchor

Questions 8