Sphinx Riddle ~ 1: As small as your thumb, I am light in the air. You may hear me before you see me, but trust that I’m here.
Answer: Hummingbird

Sphinx Riddle ~ 2: I create my lair with earthen string, and dispatch my prey with a biting Answer: Spider

Sphinx Riddle ~ 3: Never resting, never still; moving silently from hill to hill; it does not walk, run or trot; all is cool where it is not.
Answer: Sun

Sphinx Riddle ~ 4: What can bring back the dead; make you cry, make you laugh, make you young; is born in an instant, yet lasts a lifetime.
Answer: Memory

Sphinx Riddle ~ 5: What is always old and sometimes new; never sad, sometimes blue; never empty, but sometimes full; never pushes, always pulls?

Answer: Moon

Sphinx Riddle ~ 6: What is large, yet never grows; has roots that cannot be seen; and is taller than trees?
Answer: Mountain

Sphinx Riddle ~ 7: At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
Answer: Stars

Sphinx Riddle ~ 8: 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.
Answer: Tree

Sphinx Riddle 9: This thing all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal.
Answer: Time

Sphinx Riddle ~ 11: I’m alive, but without breath; I’m as cold in life as in death; I’m never thirsty, though I always drink.
Answer: Fish

Sphinx Riddle ~ 10: Some try to hide, some try to cheat; but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might to guess my name.
Answer: Death

Sphinx Riddle ~ 12: What can run, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks; has a head, but never weeps; has a bed, but never sleeps?
Answer: River

After You have completed 3 of the riddles you are rewarded an artifact for Atlantis and the Riddle Me This Trophy or Achievement.