1. Black I am and much admired, men seek me until they're tired. When they find me, they break my head, and take from me my resting bed. What am I? (one material)
2. If there're 3 oranges and you take away 2, how many will you have? (one number)
3. I'm so fast you can't see me. Though everyone sees straight through me, I don't stop until the day you die. What am I? (a movement)
4. I can spell yet I have no mouth. I can speak to animals but can't speak to humans. I'm fierce but small. What am I? (an activity)
5. What question can you never answer yes to? (an action)
6. What has a skin and more eyes than one? It's very nice when it's done (a vegetable)
7. There're 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There're 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There're 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there? (a number)
8. I'm the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I'm considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I'm sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more. What am I? (a material)
9. What can be heard and caught but never seen? (a sign)
10. 10 pears hanging high, 10 men come passing by. Each took a pear and left 9 hanging there. How could that be? (a reason)
11. I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I've many, of names I have 1. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I? (a material)
12. What can you catch but not throw? (an illness)
13. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over? (an English word)
14. I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I? (one thing)