Riddle Me This
I have many keys but cannot open a single lock. I have a space but no room, and you can enter but cannot go outside.
What is a keyboard?
This European country’s flag features a white cross centered on a red background.
What is Switzerland?
Believers in this theory claim our planet is a giant disk rather than a sphere and that Antarctica forms an ice wall around its edge.
What is the Flat Earth theory?
American colonists became angry about taxes and threw an enormous amount of tea into a harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
What are DC superheroes?
The more of me you take, the more of me you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
This country’s green flag contains a large yellow diamond surrounding a blue globe.
What is Brazil?
This theory claims that NASA filmed the Apollo 11 mission on a movie set rather than actually sending astronauts to the Moon.
What is the Moon landing hoax theory?
The people of France decided they were finished with their monarchy and became unusually enthusiastic about the guillotine.
What is the French Revolution?
Kindle, Nook and Kobo.
What are electronic reading devices?
I am taken from a mine and placed inside a wooden case. I am never released from that case, but nearly everyone uses me.
What is pencil lead?
A large white dragon appears across the orange and yellow flag.
What is Bhutan?
According to this theory, the United States government stores crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial technology at a secret military facility in Nevada.
What is the Area 51 alien conspiracy theory?
An Austrian archduke took a poorly planned car ride, was assassinated and helped start a war involving much of the world.
What is World War I?
Java, Python and Ruby.
What are programming languages?
I am a six-letter word. Remove one letter, and twelve remains.
What is dozens?
This African country’s flag includes a book, a hoe and an AK-47 rifle.
What is Mozambique?
This theory claimed that a member of the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike, with supposed clues hidden in album covers and songs.
What is the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory?
Several government officials were thrown out of a castle window in 1618, helping begin a conflict that lasted three decades.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
Athena, Minerva and Saraswati.
What are goddesses associated with wisdom?
I am an eight-letter word. Remove one letter, and I remain a word. Continue removing one letter at a time, and I remain a word until only one letter is left.
What is starting?
This Pacific nation’s diagonally divided flag features the Southern Cross and a yellow bird-of-paradise.
What is Papua New Guinea?
Underground tunnels, unusual artwork and a large blue horse statue have inspired theories that this American airport secretly houses the Illuminati, aliens or a New World Order headquarters.
What is Denver International Airport?
Christian soldiers traveling toward the Middle East changed plans, attacked a Christian city and sacked Constantinople in 1204.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
Big Brother, Room 101 and the Two Minutes Hate.
What are things from George Orwell’s 1984?