You are both way to close to the truth. In fact, you are both close enough for me to concede that you have the answer. I loved the experience of seeing how your brains got there!
ManjiB, you outdid yourself with “the block of ice on his head” idea. I got a good laugh at that one.
Ann, the boy didn’t use “equipment”, per se, but I agree the use of the word may have been misleading. But, I didn’t write the riddle.
The complete answer was— He held a glass of water over his head for 10 minutes.
Thanks Jeanne - they are getting harder and harder, yet @Mrs5K continues to solve them. I think her version of the shower or indeed the bucket would have to be given despite the riddler saying it was use of a glass of water over Johnny’s head. The riddler is playing loose with (sorry of this is not good English) words by saying no equipment when in this case surely the glass is equipment.
Anyway, do keep them coming so we can continue to challenge the old grey cells
OK —You asked for it.------- My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
Well that is quite a challenge and one that may require some thinking. Thunder comes before lightning? Lightning comes before clouds and rain dries all land that it touches!
Where to start?
Hat on! The only problem is if the brain were dynamite, the hat would not get blown off!!
Hmmmmmmm now that’s a difficult one. Today my head hurts a lot so I’ll be back tomorrow for a guess.
My initial thought is that rain that dries land must have something to do with heat & I’m currently thinking about a desert but not sure how the rain fits into that one.
Mrs5K–I think it is safe for me to say that you are getting “warm”. (close) But you are still far enough away from the answer that there is time for ManjiB’s hat to get blown off with an explosion of ideas. We shall see.
Mmmmmm so not a desert but i’m warm so i am thinking it must be something else that is hot. That is where I am stumped. Let me think a bit more
So, the only other thing that springs to mind right now is the geysers in Iceland. They’re warm if I remember rightly. So they make a thunderous sound? Probably in some of the larger ones. Maybe they have light displays too & that might be the lightening.
Any warmer?
I’m still thinking as I don’t think that is right.
Oh so I am getting closer but not there yet. Is it the country that is warmer? Or is it that the rain might not be rain as such ?
Thinking about the country Iceland theybare known for volcanoes as well as geysers. If i recall there was an eruption in the recent past that grounded lots of flight. So, coukd the rain be the lava flow / ash clouds raining down. I imagine a volcano is noisy never been near one when it erupted
Am I any warmer…I suspect I would be very warm on a volcano. If not, I concede defeat
OK, so I remembered to read the question this time and it is clear I am looking for a What?
The what has no mouth, ears or body yet it speaks, hears and comes alive and has a relationship with wind.
So we are talking noise or sound of some sort.
This leads to possibly leaves on trees that rustle in the wind or perhaps wind chimes. Unfortunately both these have to be considered as having bodies, assuming a body is physical.
That takes me back to sound or silence or the sound of silence.
Is it then the Sound of Silence that comes alive with the wind having no mouth or ears?
This is all I need to bring in the Sound of Silence by the Disturbed !!
I think you are slightly closer. You’re thinking in the right direction. 
