Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
Billy
What animals have black skin underneath their white fur, which helps them absorb heat from the sun?
a. snakes
b. polar bears
c. turtles
polar bears
What is the largest organ in the human body, covering an area of about 1.8 square meters?
a. lungs
b. skin
c. kidneys
skin
adults or babies
The adult human body has 206 bones, while a child’s developing body has 300.
What gets wetter as it dries?
a towel
It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?
breathe
What animals hold hands while they sleep to keep from drifting away from each other?
a. birds
b. sea otters
c. gorillas
sea otters
What is the strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size?
a. tongue
b. legs
c. chest
d. back
the tongue
The majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from where?
a. space
b. oceans
c. trees
because phytoplankton in the oceans make the oxygen
You can catch me, but you can't throw me. What am I?
a cold
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
fog
What is the title of the story about a girl who last her mother because her mother was sick from the rain?
The Mexican Cinderella
The human body contains about how many percentages of water?
a. 60%
b. 100%
c. 40%
60%
On average how many people are born every 16 seconds?
1
I'm full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water. What am I?
a sponge
Which is heavier, lighter or neither a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?
neither- both weighs a pound
Which animal's eye is bigger than its brain?
a. fish
b. ostrich
c. snake
ostrich
All babies are born with blue eyes.
TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE,
Eye color changes later in life due to the production of melanin pigments.
The United States is the _____ largest in size/population in the world?
a. first
b. third
c. second
third
What number can you multiply by any other number and always get the same answer?
0- zero
How far can a dog run into the woods?
Halfway. Once it reaches halfway, it’s running out of the woods.
Which animal taste with their feet?
a. horses
b. birds
c. butterfly
butterfly
What organ in our body can float on the water?
a. heart
b. kidneys
c. lungs
lungs, because our lungs contain 300 million balloon-like structures known as alveoli.
A group of owls is called what?
a. school
b. pod
c. pack
d. parliament
parliament