ThinkTank Riddles #5
Last updated: Tuesday September 13th, 2022
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Welcome to the fifth edition of ThinkTank Riddles! This edition contains fifteen riddles. If you have the answers, type them out in the comment section.
Question #1
What breaks when you say it?
Question #2
A man went around the world in a ship. Yet he was always in sight of land. How is that possible?
Question #3
How many months of the year have 28 days?
Question #4
One day, John was asked how old he was. He replied as follows: "Yesterday I was 12, but before that I was 11; next year I'll be 14." Based on this information, can you deduce John's birthday and the day he answered the question?
Question #5
What starts with an E and ends in an E, but only has a single letter in it?
Question #6
Most people don't want to have it, but once they have it, they are afraid of losing it. What is it?
Question #7
What is the safest room to be in during a zombie apocalypse?
Question #8
What ancient invention allows people to see through walls?
Question #9
Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day; spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?
Question #10
I am not a holiday. I belong in the month of December, but not in any other month. What am I?
Question #11
What question can someone ask all day long, always get totally different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Question #12
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Question #13
What can you hold in your left hand but can never hold in your right hand?
Question #14
When is a door not a door?
Question #15
A mansion is on fire. There are three rooms: A room full of money, a room full of expensive paintings, and a room full of gold and precious jewels. Which room do the policemen put out first?
1. Silence
2. It was a spaceship
3. All of them
4. His birthday is December 31; he answered the question on January 1 (i.e. the day after his birthday)
5. Envelope
6. Their job (or: lawsuit, argument)
7. The living room
8. The window
9. Live
10. The letter D
11. "What time is it?"
12. Chicago
13. Your right hand
14. When it's ajar
15. None of them: police don't put out fires
2. Rocket ship
3. 12
4. Today, on his birthday
5. Envelope
7. Living room
8. Glass
9. Live
2.Spaceship
3.All of them
4.Today, his birthday
5. ?
6.?
7.?
8.Window
9.?
10.?
11.What time is it?
12.?
13. Your right hand
14. When its ajar
15. ?
12. Chicago
15. Policemen don’t put out fires tho… firemen do.
1. Silence.
2. 'twas a space ship.
3. All of them.
4.
5. An envelope.
6.
7. The Living Room? Less of a riddle and more of a play on words.
8. A window.
9. "Live."
10. The letter "D."
11. "What time is it?"
12.
13. Your right hand.
14. When it's ajar. Once again, not a riddle but rather wordplay.
15. None of them; policemen don't extinguish fires.
2. Spaceship
3. All of them
4. He was asked the question the day after his birthday
5. Envelope
6. A lawsuit or an argument
7. Living room
8. Window
9. Live
10. D
11. What's the time? (or in Tasmania: what's the weather like?)
12. Chicago
13. Your right hand
14. When it's ajar
15. None. The firefighters extinguish fires.
2. He was in a spaceship
3. All of them
4. He was asked on his birthday, idk the date
5. Envelope
6. A lawsuit
7. Mushroom
8. Windows
9. "Live"
10. The letter D
11. What time is it?
12. Chicago
13. Your right hand
14. When it's locked
15. None of them, firefighters put out fires.
2/4 can be properly simplified to 1/2