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The Sphinx will give you 3 out of 12 possible questions, and the answers
Riddle #1: In Spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows, I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear - A TREE
Riddle #2: Some try to hide, some try to cheat; but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might to guess my name, I promise you’ll know when you I do claim - DEATH
Riddle #3: As small as your thumb, I am light in the air. You may hear me before you see me, but trust that I’m there - A HUMMINGBIRD
Riddle #4: Never resting, never still; moving silently from hill to hill; it does not walk, run, or trot; all is cool where it is not. SUN
Riddle #5: What can bring back the dead; make you cry, make you laugh, make you young; is born in an instant, yet lasts a lifetime A MEMORY
Riddle #6: What can run, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks; has a head, but never weeps, has a bed, but never sleeps - A RIVER
Riddle #7: This thing all things devours: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns; and beats high mountains down TIME
Riddle #8: At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen - THE STARS
Riddle #9: I create my lair with earthen string, and dispatch my prey with a biting sting - A SPIDER
Riddle #10: I’m alive, but without breath; I’m as cold in life as in death; I’m never thirsty, though I always drink - A FISH
Riddle #11: What is large, yet never grows; has roots that cannot be seen; and is taller than trees _ A MOUNTAIN
Riddle #12: What is always old and sometimes new; never sad, sometimes blue; never empty, but sometimes full; never pushes, always pulls - THE MOON