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Student CHALLENGES other teachers, and get more SIGNATURES to win in the race!

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MIND-BENDING Riddles

Where do frogs keep their money?

Answer: In the river bank

What kind of key cannot open a lock?

Answer: monkey

What falls often but never gets hurt?

Answer: Snow or rain

What belongs to you but others use it more often than you do?

Answer: Your name

What never asks questions but everyone answers it?

Answer: The telephone

What gets broken every time you say its name?

Answer: Silence

What can a circle do that a square can't?

Answer: Look round

What animal doesn't play fairly?

Answer: A cheetah

What odd number becomes even when you remove the first letter?

Answer: Seven

What has four wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage truck

What has a head and tail but no legs and body?

Answer: A coin

Why does the ocean seem friendly?

Answer: Because it waves

What flowers do people always have with them?

Answer: Tulips

In what month do people talk the least?

Answer: February

A boy fell off of a 100 foot ladder, but he did not get hurt. How is this possible?

Answer: He was only on the first step.

81 x 9 = 801. What must you do to make this equation true?

Answer: Turn it upside down (108 = 6 x 18 )

"I spy with little eye", something beginning with M. It curls its tail around the stalk and eats the wheat at Harvest. It rhymes with house. "What am I"?

Answer: A mouse

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

Answer: STARTING - starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.

The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I"?

Answer: Footsteps

David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ________?

Answer: David

I start with the letter e, I end with the letter e. I contain only one letter, yet I am not the letter e! What am I?

Answer: An envelope

I make two people out of one. What am I?

Answer: A mirror

I am as light as feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I?

Answer: Breath

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

Answer: Mount Everest

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?

Answer: A candle or a pencil

You have me today, and tomorrow you'll have more. As your time passes, I'm not easy to store. I don't take up space, but I'm only in one place. I am what you saw, but not what you see. What am I?

Anwer: Memories

No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

Answer: A Calendar

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

Answer: Queue

I am not alive, but I can grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

Answer: Fire

What can you catch but never throw?

Answer: A cold

A bus driver was heading down a street in Manama. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

Answer: He was walking, not driving

Where does tomorrow come before yesterday, and where does today come before yesterday?

Answer: Dictionary - where words and letters are organized alphabetically

I am only one color, but in different sizes. I am stuck at the bottom, yet I can move and fly. I am ever present in sun, but not in rain. I do no harm and feel no pain. What am I?

Answer: A shadow

I have a neck but not head, I got two arms but no hands. What am I?

Answer: A Shirt

There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too?

Answer: Monkey see monkey do

How do you make the number 7 even, without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?

Answer: Drop the "S"

How do you write down eight eights so that they add up to One Thousand?

Answer: 888+88+8+8+8 = 1000

How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?

Answer: Remove the 2 letters F and E from FIVE.

You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?

Answer: No color as there are no stairs in One-Story house

What building has the most stories?

Answer: A library

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?

Answer: A dice

Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

Answer: The number 8

There is an English word in which its first 2 letters signify a MALE; the first 3 letters signify a FEMALE, the first 4 letters signify a GREAT MAN; and the whole word a GREAT WOMAN. What is the word?

Answer: Heroine

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