Riddles
You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
What is: It's a one story house! There are no stairs!
What is the smallest unit of life?
What is: A cell!
Who came up with the telephone?
Who is: Alexander Graham Bell.
What is the literary term for a comparison using like or as?
What is: A simile!
Which is longer: The small or large intestine?
What is: The small intestine.
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
What is: A fence.
What planet is also an insurance company?
What is: Mercury!
What president grew up in a log cabin and has a memorial in Washington DC?
Who is: Abraham Lincoln
What is the literary term for a comparison stating that something IS something else without using like or as?
What is: A metaphor.
Who sings Party in the USA?
Who is: Miley Cyrus.
What can you catch but never throw?
What is: A cold!
What galaxy do we live in that is also a candy bar?
What is: The Milky Way
What state was the golden spike on the transcontinental railroad driven into?
What is: Utah!
What kind of sentence gives a command? (ex: Do the dishes.)
What is: Imperative.
True or false? If the plural form of goose is geese, then the plural form of moose is meese.
What is: False.
Brandon's dad has 3 sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____.
Who is: Brandon!
The third planet from the sun.
What is: Earth
What number president was Abraham Lincoln?
What is: 16.
What is the form a poem is written called?
What is: Verse.
What is 30 divided by 1/2 plus 10?
What is: 70!
You invert and multiply: 30 * 2/1 = 60, and 60 + 10 = 70
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?
What is: He was walking! Just because he's a bus driver doesn't mean he was driving!
What is the difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells/organisms?
What is: Eukaryote has a membrane-bound nucleus, prokaryote doesn't.
What Native American tribe used to live in the present day Ventura County?
Who is: The Chumash.
Who wrote Hamlet?
Who is: William Shakespeare.
What is a group of flamingos called?
What is: A flamboyants.