Riddles
You can ask this question to somebody all day long, and the answer will change every time (while still being true). What is the question?
What time is it?
Hink Pink: What do you call a bashful bug that soars through the air?
Shy Fly
Honey never spoils.
True. Archaeologists have found honey that is over 5,000 years old. Honey can crystalize, and the container it's in can stop being a container, but honey will not rot or grow moldy.
Why do students have to learn math?
1. Everyday skills such as money, cooking, and time management require math
2. When you understand patterns and how data is represented, you can be more informed about things you care about rather than needing to blindly trust someone.
3. Job-specific skills; anyone who ends up working in engineering, research, construction, business, stocking, carpentry, or countless other jobs needs certain math skills, and we want to keep your options open.
4. Learning how to think mathematically helps you be a wiser person. You learn how to be creative, solve problems, and analyze things logically/based on patterns.
Name one spin in ballet.
Pirouette, fouette, pique, attitude, chaine.
What does an island have in common with the letter T?
They're both in the middle of water.
Hinky pinky: What do you call a magical iguana?
A wizard lizard
Carrots are good for your eyes.
True. Vitamin A supports eye health, and carrots have a nutrient that our bodies easily turn into Vitamin A. That nutrient is the same thing that makes them orange!
Why does it rain?
When clouds get too much water in them for the space that they have (which happens a lot when they reach colder air), water vapor turns back into a solid and falls down as rain.
A tripod has three legs, and a triangle has three sides.
A quadruped has four legs, and a quadrilateral has four sides.
If a pentagon has five sides, how many legs does a pentapod have?
5
The prime minister, president, and king
Are all named after this measuring thing.
A ruler
Hinky Pinky: What do you call a cow war?
Cattle battle
A goldfish has a 3-second memory.
False. Their memory can last months.
Why do apples turn brown when you slice them?
Enzymes that break down the apple start working as soon as they are exposed to oxygen.
The stage between a caterpillar and a butterfly or a moth is called a _______
Chrysalis for butterflies, cocoon for moths.
What has four letters, never has five, and sometimes has nine
The number of letters in each word
Spoonerism: There are trail snacks in my garden? A lack of pies!
There are snail tracks in my garden? A pack of lies!
Koalas are bears.
False. They are marsupials, like kangaroos, wombats, and possums.
Why do people wear glasses (or contact lenses)?
When light reaches our eyes, what we see gets reflected before our brain processes it. Some people have eyes that are shaped in a way that doesn't reflect the light correctly. When that happens, things look blurry or fuzzy. Glasses change how the light reflects, so that it reflects the way it is supposed to.
What year did WWII end?
1945
There is a set of twins. The older twin was born on March 3rd, and the younger twin was born a day earlier on March 2nd. How?
Time zones around the world mean that there is one special place called the International Date Line where one side of the line is officially 24 hours ahead of the other side. If one twin is born on March 3rd and then the family crosses the line before the second twin is born, the twin who is born second- the younger twin- is born on March 2nd.
Unscramble: Esbaabll
Baseball
"Arctic" means bear-y, and antarctic means no bears.
True- In Ancient Greek, Arktos meant "Bear". The Arctic circle is named that because of the polar bears, and Antarctica is basically named no-bear-land.
Why is the ocean salty?
Water from rivers carries bits of minerals like salt to the ocean. Over the centuries, salt builds up because it doesn't evaporate away with water, but rivers keep bringing more salt in.
Earth is called an "oblate spheroid", because it's almost a sphere but it's a bit too wide. If the North pole is like its head, and the South pole is like its feet, what is the belt that goes around its middle?
The equator