Brain Teasers
What has an eye but cannot see?
A needle
The number of rings on the Olympic flag.
What is 5?
This U.S. state is the largest by area.
What is Alaska?
This 1977 space epic directed by George Lucas became a pop culture phenomenon.
What is Star Wars?
This room is used for formal meals.
What is the dining room?
The distance around a circle.
What is circumference?
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
The number of strings on a standard guitar.
What is 6?
This European country is shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
What are the trousers that feature a wide bottom of the leg called, which were synonymous with the 1970’s?
What is Bell Bottoms?
This room in a hospital is used for surgery.
What is the operating room?
A value that does not change.
What is a constant?
The more it dries, the wetter it gets. What is it?
A towel
The number of colors in a traditional rainbow.
What is 7?
This Great Lake is the largest by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
This long-running sketch comedy show premiered in 1975 on NBC.
What is Saturday Night Live?
This room in an office building is used for meetings.
What is the conference room?
A three-dimensional shape with six equal square faces.
What is a cube?
Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Because you can see right through them.
How many soccer players should each team have on the field at the start of each match?
What is 11?
What 4 countries make up the United Kingdom
What is England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
This band released the 1977 album Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Who are the Bee Gees?
This room in a theater is where actors change costumes.
What is the dressing room?
The branch of mathematics dealing with limits and derivatives.
What is calculus?
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Five - each daughter has the same brother
The number of amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
This strait separates Asia from North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
This 1979 nuclear accident occurred at this Pennsylvania power plant.
What is Three Mile Island?
This room is used to conduct trials.
What is the courtroom?
A three-dimensional figure with two parallel circular bases.
What is a cylinder?
What can you keep but cannot share and once you share it, you can’t keep it anymore
A secret
The number of elements in the periodic table.
What is 118?
Which country was the Caesar salad invented in?
What is Mexico
his 1973 oil crisis was triggered by this Middle Eastern organization’s embargo.
What is OPEC?
A room in a stable where saddles, bridles and other equipment is kept.
What is a Tack Room?
Angles that have the exact same measure in degrees or radians, regardless of their orientation, location, or the length of their rays.
What are congruent angles?
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money
How many points win a game of Badminton?
What is 21?
This sea is bordered by Jordan and Israel and is the lowest point on Earth’s surface (land).
What is the Dead Sea?
This U.S. space station launched in 1973 was America’s first.
What is Skylab?
Where secretive, private negotiations are conducted behind closed doors.
What is the Backroom?
A set of numbers that shows a position on a graph.
What is coordinate?
The more you have of it, the less you see
Darkness
The number of Apollo missions that landed humans on the Moon.
What is 6?
This Asian country is bordered by both China and Russia and has Ulaanbaatar as its capital.
What is Mongolia?
This U.S. constitutional amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This shared bathroom between two bedrooms is called this.
What is the Jack-and-Jill room?
The trigonometric ratio adjacent over hypotenuse.
What is cosine?
84% of people reading this will not find the the mistake in this. A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
"the" is repeated
The number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This mountain range separates Europe and Asia in Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This person was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army only to eventually join their cause.
Who is Patty Hearst?
The mess cabin or compartment for commissioned naval officers above the rank of midshipman on a warship or other military vessel.
What is a wardroom ?
The numerical or constant factor that multiplies a variable in an algebraic term.
What is coefficient?
When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?
A clock
How many notes are there on a standard grand piano?
What is 88
The smallest country on mainland Africa, by land area.
What is the Republic of the Gambia?
This 1978 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was brokered by Jimmy Carter.
What are the Camp David Accords?
In coal mines, this room-like chamber where miners gathered before shifts was called this.
What is the lamp room?
The point where medians of a triangle intersect.
What is centroid?