Riddles with answers!

Riddles with answers!

1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An Echo

2. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I'm quick when I'm thin and slow when I'm fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?
Answer: A candle

3. I have cities, but no house. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map

4. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can't be seen at the beginning or the end of either month?
Answer: The letter 'R'.

5. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
Answer: All the people were married.

6. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper

7. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Answer: A pencil lead

8. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence

9. How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is "half" (two letters) of the word five.

10. How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Answer: 11 letters are there in "the alphabet".