Physics
Chemistry
Math
Riddles
Common Sense
100

Q: Newton's Third Law of Motion

A: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

100

Q: The chemical name for water

A: Hydrogen Monoxide (H2O) or Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O)

100

Q: If tan(x) = y/5


What is sin(x) ?

sin(x) =

100

Q: “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?”

A: Man's not hot

100

Q: Do they have a 4th of July in Great Britain?

A: Yes, of course they do - they use the same calendar, they just don't celebrate it the way it is celebrated in the USA.

200

Q: Momentum is found by multiplying the ____ and ____ of an object

A: velocity and mass

200

Q: On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1, and liquid drain cleaner as a 14

A: The pH scale

200

Find the cross product:


( 1i + 2j + 3k ) x ( 4i - 5j - 6k) = 

3i + 18j -13k

200

Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

A: Silence

200

Q: A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the USA, 60 people die.  Where do they bury the survivors?

(a)  Canada  (b)  Split 50/50  
(c)  USA  (d)  Neither

A: Neither, you don't bury survivors!

300

Q:The resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion

A: Inertia

300

Q: Name three of the six recognized noble gases

A:

  • Helium (He)

  • Neon (Ne)

  • Argon (Ar)

  • Krypton (Kr)

  • Xenon (Xe)

  • Radon (Rn)


300

Q: If the polynomial x5-1=0 can be factored into the form:

(x-1)(x-a)(x-b)(x-a*)(x-b*)=0 where * is complex conjugate operation.


What is the value of (1+a+a*+b+b*)?

A: (1+a+a*+b+b*)=0

300

Q: It’s shorter than the rest, but when you’re happy, you raise it up like it’s the best. What is it?


Thumb

300

Q: “If a doctor gives you three pills with instructions to take one every half hour, when will you take the last one?”

Q: One hour later!

You take the first pill, wait 30 minutes and take the second one. Thirty minutes more and you take the third one.

400

Q: The amount of power required to overcome aerodynamic drag at 2*v, if 10 horsepower is required to overcome aerodynamic drag at velocity v

A: 80 Horsepower

400

Q: Organic chemistry is primarily the study of compounds containing this element.

A: Carbon (C)

400

Q: Find: Int[cos(x)*(1+sin2(x))]

A: Int[y(x)]=sin(x)+1/3sin3(x)+C

400

Q: When it comes to me, you go on red and stop on green. What am I?

A: Watermelon 

400

Q: Assume you have an old fashioned analog alarm clock. If it is currently 6 pm and you want to wake up at 7 am tomorrow and you set your clock accordingly. The clock will go off 13 hours later. True or False?

A: False, with an analog clock, there is no way to differentiate between AM and PM, so the clock will go off 1 hour later.

500

Q: A motorist traveling at 10m/s was able to bring his car to rest in a distance of 10m.  If he had been traveling at 30m/s, in what distance could he bring his cart to rest using the same breaking force?

A: 90 Meters

500

Q: This halogen element has the highest electron affinity.

A: Fluorine (F)

500

Q: The sum of the area of the purple squares:

A: Total Area = 1/3

(Geometric Series)

500

Q: 

I am a five-letter word. I sound the same when you remove my first letter. I sound the same when you remove my third letter. I sound the same when you remove my last letter. I sound the same when you remove my first, third, and last letter. 

Which word am I?

A: 

Empty,

mpty,

emty,

emp-t,

m t.

500

Q: 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 am I?

A: That man's father is the grandfather. Therefore, I am the son of the grandfather.

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