RIDDLES
PEOPLE BUY ME TO EAT BUT NEVER EAT ME.
WHAT AM I?
PLATES AND CUTLERY
How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
18
How much will a 38-degree angle measure when looked at under a microscope that magnifies ten times?
The angle won’t change. It will be still 38 degrees.
I am excellent to taste, but horrible to smell. What am I?
A tongue
What do you call bears with no ears?
B
What word does this rebus represents?
meta meta meta meta
Metaphor (Meta 4).
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Answer: Drop the “S”.
What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
RUST
I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
A blackboard
I am the biggest alphabet, as I contain the most water in the world. Who am I?
C
Two fathers and two sons are sitting on a bench, yet there are only three people sitting. How?
They are a grandfather, father, and son.
What is the most uninteresting of all the periodic elements?
BORON
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
The wind
What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
SWIMS.
If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?
11 o’clock plus 2 hours = 1 o’clock
9 o’clock plus 5 hours = 2 o’clock
When two light nuclei become one, I liberate quite a bit of nuclear energy? What am I?
Nuclear fusion
What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?
Human.
Buy me, deliver me or even smell me, I won’t change! I will remain same!
Cent, Sent and Scent.
When my dad was 31, I was just 8 years old. Now his age is twice as old as my age. What is my present age?
When you calculate the difference between the ages, you can see that it is 23 years. So you must be 23 years old now.
I am the toe that every scientist would love to have as their own, yet there has never been a single person who has had a toe that everyone agreed is the best. What kind of toe am I?
Theory of everything (also called a TOE in the scientific community)