Fractions
Riddles
Mr. N
Definitions
Parts of Speech
100

This number is on the top of a fraction

What is the numerator?

100

This follows you everywhere and disappears when it is dark.

What is your shadow?

100
This is the hand I write with. 

What is the left hand?

100

to test the flavour of something using your mouth.

What is taste?

100

This could be a person, place or thing. 

What is a noun?

200

To add or subtract a fraction you must first find this.

What is a common denominator?

200

If you take away a letter from this odd number it becomes even.

What is seven?

200

I have this many dogs.

What is four?

200

to use a keyboard.

What is type?

200

This represents an action. 

What is a verb?

300

Strangely, doing this to a fraction actually makes it smaller.

What is multiplying it.

300

I can't talk, but I always reply.

What is an echo?

300

I was born in this year. 

What is 1972?

300

to raise and contract your shoulders to express indifference. 

What is shrug?

300

This describes a noun. 

What is an adjective?

400

This number is the simplified version of 45/6.

What is 7 and 1/2?

400

I instantly make two people out of one.

What is a mirror?

400

I attended this university named after a general in the war of 1812.

What is Brock University?

400

to form a mental image of something not actually present to the senses. 

What is imagine?

400

These general words replace proper nouns. 

What are pronouns?

500

This number is the quotient of 2/7 and 1/8.

What is 2 and 2/7

500

This can be asked all day long, always have a different answer, yet always be right.

What is "What time is it?"

500

This happened in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 

What is being struck by lightning?

500

necessary to the completeness of the whole, vital.

What is integral?

500

These words show relationships between words or phrases. eg. on, into, against. 

What are prepositions?