Riddles (1)

These are some riddles you can try to solve. 
you can use these for discussing with friends..

1.    Why is a black hen smarter than the white hen?

2.    Why does a heron  lift one of its legs when it is standing?

3.    What is there in the middle of Australia?

4.    Why is honey scarce in Borneo?

5.    It grows down.

6.    It has two hands but it cannot hold anything.

7.    It can sing and talk but it does not have a mouth.

8.    It likes to go in dirty places.

9.    It has an eye but it cannot see.

10.  It has a tongue but it cannot talk.

11.  What is always going up?

12.  What belongs to you but your friends use it most?

13.  When an elephant sits on a fence, what time is it?

14.  What has four legs and flies through the air?

15.  Why does Tarzan yell every time he beats his chest?

16.  What is the similarity of a teacher and an optician?

17.   What is taken before we get it?

18.   We buy it in order to destroy it. What is it?

19.   Why do we have to bathe the dead?

20.     It smokes a lot but it never buys cigarettes? What is it?

21.   What time is it when the clock strikes fourteen?

22.  What word begins with "e", ends with "e", and has one letter?

23.     What travels around the world and stays in a corner?

24.  What is white when it's dirty and black when it's clean?

25. What has many keys but can't open any doors?

[ Taken from many unknown sources]