WHAT AM I?
I get bigger and bigger the more you take away from me. What am I?
What is a hole?
A girl is trapped in a tall tower. To let a friendly prince visit her, she uses this part of her body as a rope.
What is her hair?
If you have five pairs of socks in a drawer and you close your eyes, this is the minimum number of single socks you must pull out to guarantee you have a matching pair.
What is three?
A caterpillar must transform inside this protective casing before it can emerge as a butterfly.
What is a chrysalis (or cocoon)?
I am bigger than a town, but smaller than a state. I have a mayor and my own fire department. Denville is an example of me.
What is a city (or township/borough)?
I have a thumb and four fingers, but I am not alive. What am I?
What is a glove?
A boy trades his family's only cow for some magic beans. This is the giant structure that grows from them, letting him climb to the clouds.
What is a beanstalk?
I am the only month of the year whose number of days changes depending on the year.
What is February?
I am the process of a liquid turning into a gas. It's why a puddle on the sidewalk disappears on a sunny day.
What is evaporation?
I am bigger than a single tree, but smaller than a jungle. Squirrels live in me and Little Red Riding Hood walked through me.
What is a forest (or the woods)?
I am a planet in our solar system, but I am also the Roman god of war. What am I?
What is Mars?
In Greek Mythology, he was the strongest of all mortals. As a punishment, he had to perform 12 great labors, like cleaning the Augean stables.
Who is Hercules (or Heracles)?
I am a number that is only divisible by myself and the number 1. Seven and eleven are examples of me.
What is a prime number?
I am the classification for an animal that eats only plants, like a cow or a deer.
What is an herbivore?
In astronomy, I am a collection of billions of stars held together by gravity. We live in the one called the Milky Way.
What is a galaxy?
I am an element with the symbol Fe. Your body needs me to build the part of your red blood cells that carries oxygen. What am I?
What is Iron?
In Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, this is the name of the one-eyed cyclops who traps Odysseus and his men in a cave.
Who is Polyphemus?
In a right-angled triangle, I am the side opposite the right angle; my length squared is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the hypotenuse?
This is the process, key to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
On the geologic time scale, I am a major division of time that is subdivided into periods. The Mesozoic one is when dinosaurs lived.
What is an era?
I am a logical fallacy where an opponent attacks the person making an argument, rather than the argument itself. What am I?
What is an ad hominem argument?
In Dante's Inferno, this three-headed dog guards the third circle of Hell, reserved for the gluttonous.
Who is Cerberus?
This is the name for the mathematical sequence, starting with 0 and 1, where each subsequent number is the sum of the two preceding ones.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
This is the term for a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected, such as a barnacle on a whale.
What is commensalism?
In computing, I am a unit of information equivalent to one thousand gigabytes, or a trillion bytes.
What is a terabyte?