Math Riddle
If a zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo, and two pairs of babies are born for each one of the original animals, then (sadly) 23 animals don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?
977 animals (100 x 2 = 200; 200 + 800 = 1000; 1000 – 23 = 977)
A murder is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms.
The first is full of raging fires;
The second, assassins with loaded guns;
and the third, lions who haven't eaten in years.
Which room is the safest?
Of course, the third one. The poor lions already died of starvation.
What do you call a fish with four eyes?
Fiiiish
You are my brother but I am not your brother. Who am I?
Your sister
What when read from right to left is a pet but when read from left to right is a ruler?
dog
What do the numbers 0, 8, 69, 88, and 96 all have in common?
They are all read the same upside down.
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others that are drinking coffee.
A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper when, suddenly, he slips and falls. He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, and yet he is not hurt. How can this be?
He was inside cleaning windows.
When you need me, you throw me away. But when you're done with me, you bring me back.
What am I?
An anchor.
What room in your house do ghost aviod?
The living room
A woman was born in 1948 but only celebrated her 17th birthday quite recently. How can this be?
She was born on Feb. 29th. (leap day)
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left hand
What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered?
Australia- it was still there just not discovered.
I stay in the corner, but travel around the world.
What am I?
A stamp
This five letter word becomes shorter when you add to letters to it.
What is the word?
16,06,68,88,?,98
What is the "?" ?
78. All of the numbers are upside down.
Five people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
CABDE.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?
Water
I come once in today, three times in tomorrow, and never in the future. What am I?
The letter O.
I am the first on earth, the second in heaven. I appear twice in a week, though you can only see me once in a year.
What am I?
Letter E.
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
What is the next number in the sequence?
13112221. Each term describes the previous one. Starting with 1, the second term describes it as 11 (one 1), then the third term describes 11 as 21 ( two 1's). etc.
Two girls ate dinner together.
They both ordered iced tea.
One girl drank them very fast
and had finished five in the time it took
the other to drink just one.
The girl who drank one died
while the other survived.
All of the drinks were poisoned.
How did the girl who drank the most survive?
The poision was in the ice, as she slowly drank her one drink, the melting ice released the poision.
On the first day of school, someone murdered a history teacher. There were four people at the school that the police suspected had done it: the landscaper, a math teacher, a basketball coach, and the principal. These were their alibis:
The landscaper said he was outside mowing the lawn.
The math teacher said he was giving a mid-year test.
The basketball coach said he was running practice drills with his players.
The principal said she was in her office.
After giving their alibies, the police arrested the killer immediately. Who killed the history teacher and how did the police know?
The math teacher killed the history teacher. He claimed that he was giving a mid-year test, but it was the first day of school.
We hurt without moving.
We poision without touching.
We bear the truth and the lies.
We are not to be judged by our size.
What am I?
Words
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
All the people on the boat are married.