Riddles 1
I live only where there’s light, but if light shines on me, I die.
Shadow
I’m not alive, but I grow; I have no lungs, but I need air; I have no mouth, and water kills me.
Fire
What city does Batman protect?
Gothman City
What is the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth?
Diamond
A man goes bankrupt, lands in jail, and buys property — all in the same hour.
Where is he?
Monopoly
If you have me, you want to share me; if you share me, you no longer have me.
A secret
The maker sells it, the buyer never uses it, and the user never knows they’re using it.
What law firm does Harvey work at(SUITS)?
Pearson Hardman
What does “HTTP” stand for in a website URL?
HyperText Transfer Protocol
how many bones does a shark have?
ZERO
What can be cracked, made, told, and played
A joke
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river
Name the 2019 film that became the highest-grossing movie of all time, surpassing Avatar.
Avengers: Endgame
This scientist proposed the three laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Newton
A man looks at a portrait and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”
Who is in the portrait?
His son
What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Comb
You see me in water, but I never get wet.
Reflection
In The Little Mermaid, Ursula gives Ariel legs in exchange for what?
Her voice
This tomb discovered in 1922, was nearly intact and sparked worldwide fascination.
Tutankhamun
A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says “thank you” and leaves.
What happened?
Hiccups (the scare cured them)
I have no voice, yet I speak to you. I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves but I am not a tree. What am I?
A book
A man buys a cow for $800, sells it for $1000, buys it back for $1100, and sells it again for $1300. How much profit did he make?
$400
In Interstellar, time moves slower on Miller’s Planet because of its proximity to a massive black hole.
What is this effect called?
Time-dilation
Commissioned by an emperor grieving his beloved, this 17th-century marble masterpiece in Agra unites Persian geometry and Mughal artistry into a symmetrical vision of eternal love.
Taj Mahal
You’re in a room with two identical doors. One leads to freedom, the other to death. Each door has a guard — one always tells the truth, one always lies. You can ask one guard one question to find the safe door. What do you ask?
“If I asked the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would he say?” Then take the opposite.