What goes up and down but doesn't move?

 

What goes up and down but doesn't move?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerStaircase

 

What is placed on the table, cut and passed but never eaten?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA deck of cards. You play card games on a table, cut the deck, then deal (or pass out) the cards, but you only eat the snacks.

 

I am eight letters long and am kept a secret from everyone. Letters two through four spell an animal, letters four to the end make a weapon, letters one, two and eight make what you use in an exam and my third and fourth letters are the same. What am I?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA password. You should keep your password a secret from everyone, letters two through four spell ass, an animal also known as a donkey. Letters four to the end spell sword, which is a deadly weapon and the letters one, two and eight make pad, which is used for writing during an exam. Lastly, the third and fourth letters are both 's'.

 

What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerYour word

 

What gets wet when drying?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA towel

 

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe letter M

 

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA fly

 

A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.
Show Answer            Hide AnswerRain

 

It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe moon

 

What fastens two people yet touches only one?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA wedding ring