Riddle Me This
A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 run away. This is how many sheep the farmer has left.
What is 9? (Discussion trap: Kids usually subtract 9 from 17 to get 8, but "all but 9" means 9 remain!)
If a slice of pizza costs $3.00, this is the total cost of buying 7 slices for your friends.
What is $21.00?
In Minecraft, this green, silent hostile mob sneaks up on players and explodes.
What is a Creeper?
Fact or Fiction: Sound travels faster through water than it does through air.
What is Fact? (Sound travels about 4 times faster in water)
What single word can mean both the hard outer covering of a tree and the sound a dog makes?
What is bark?
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
This is the mean (average) of the number set: 4, 8, 12, and 16.
What is 10?
This fictional metal, mined exclusively in Wakanda, powers Black Panther's suit and gear.
What is Vibranium?
Fact or Fiction: Great White Sharks are mammals because they breathe air and give live birth.
What is Fiction? (Sharks are fish with cartilage skeletons)
What single word can mean a place where you keep your money and the side of a river?
What is bank?
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and one more son. What is his name?
Who is David?
This is the perimeter of a square whose sides each measure 6 inches long.
What is 24 inches?
In Inside Out, this blue character represents the emotion that helps Riley process difficult life changes.
Who is Sadness?
Fact or Fiction: Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
What is Fiction? (The Empire State Building is struck ~25 times per year)
If someone tells you to "break a leg" before a performance, they are actually wishing you this phrase.
What is good luck?
You enter a dark room with a single match. Inside the room, there is an oil lamp, a wood-burning stove, and a candle. This is the item you must light first.
What is the match?
If a movie starts at 2:15 PM and lasts for 1 hour and 45 minutes, this is the exact time the movie ends.
What is 4:00 PM?
Before becoming a famous solo artist, Beyoncé was the lead singer of this iconic 1990s/2000s R&B girl group.
What is Destiny's Child?
Fact or Fiction: Avocados, tomatoes, and cucumbers are all technically fruits, not vegetables.
What is Fact? (Botanically, anything with seeds that develops from a flower is a fruit)
This figure of speech directly compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet I am used by almost every student.
What is pencil lead?
If a pizza is cut into 8 equal slices and you eat 2 slices, this simplified fraction represents how much of the pizza you ate.
What is 1/4? (2/8 simplifies to 1/4)
In the Harry Potter series, this is the official name of the magical spell used to disarm an opponent.
What is Expelliarmus?
Fact or Fiction: Bananas are technically classified as berries, while strawberries are not.
What is Fact? (Botanically, bananas fit the definition of a berry; strawberries do not)
This 10-letter word starting with "S" means a word or phrase that has the exact same or very similar meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?