Family Riddles
What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A Stamp
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A Promise
Using only addition and eight 8s, how to you get 1,000?
888+88+8+8+8
What goes through towns and over mountains but never moves?
A Road
I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
Compass
What kind of apples do computers prefer?
Macintosh
What has eyes, a tongue, and a soul but can’t see, taste, or die?
A Shoe
Tom was asked to paint the number of plates on 100 apartments which means he will have to paint numbers 1 through 100. Can you figure out the number of times he will have to paint the number 8?
20 times. (8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98)
What is the laziest mountain in the world?
Mt. Ever-rest.
What belongs to you, but other people use it more?
Your Name
What has many ears but cannot hear?
Corn
If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Glass, all greenhouses are made of glass.
How many sides does a circle have?
Two. Inside and Outside.
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
A map.
If a brother, his sister, and their dog weren’t under an umbrella, why didn’t they get wet?
It wasn’t raining.
When I’m ripe, I’m green, when you eat me, I’m red, and when you spit me out, I’m black. What am I?
A watermelon.
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
What can you put between a seven and an eight so that the result is greater than a seven but less than an eight?
A decimal because 7.8 is greater than seven but less than eight.
I am something people like to climb
But I’m not a tree with branches
I have lots of snow at my summit
So beware of avalanches
Mountain
What do you call a cat who loves to swim?
A catfish
You bought me for dinner but never eat me. What am I?
Cutlery.
Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Stop imagining!
If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes happened?
21
Identify the correct Cardinal Points, if a child moves right turn about-turn left turn
East
Explanation: They will turn 90 degrees in a right turn and then 180 degrees in an about-turn, and finally turn 90 degrees in a left turn. Therefore, the students are now facing east.