Description : I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : I am Tree.
Description : An old parchment describes the location of buried treasure: 'On the island there are only two trees, A and B, and the remains of a gallows. Start at the gallows and count the steps required to walk ... when he gets to the island finds the gallows missing. Is there any way he can still get -Riddles
Last Answer : A simple experiment with a ruler and paper shows that any position for the gallows leads to the same point.
Description : Four hang, four sprang, two point the way, two to ward off dogs, one dangles after, always rather dirty. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A cow.
Description : I am both a killer and a savior, it depends on those who wield me. I will bring you from deep water to the shallows, or maybe I could be the one who will hang you in the gallows. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A rope.
Description : It's easy to see me,Not easy to atop me,Clouds hang around me,And people like to slide down me.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Mountain
Description : I can be hairy and itchy all over. I hang on a stick. I can be the scariest thing you have ever seen. I stand in the middle of nowhere. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A scarecrow!
Description : Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Cheese.
Description : A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height? -Riddles
Last Answer : Nine Years.
Description : Why does sexual reproduction result in a genetically unique offspring?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : What scenario will result in offspring that have the greatest genetic diversity?
Description : A policeman bursts through the door, and he finds exactly what the caller described. A man is hanging from the ceiling of the house. There was no furniture, no windows and the man was not psychically ... The only thing the policeman found was a puddle of water. How did the man hang himself? -Riddles
Last Answer : He stood on an ice cube to hang himself, which was slow and painful.
Description : A prisoner is told 'If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you.' What can he say to save himself? -Riddles
Last Answer : You will hang me.
Description : A house has four walls a ceiling and a beam going across the middle. The front door is locked from the inside and there are no windows. There is a man hanging from a rope tied to the beam and there is a puddle of water under him on the floor. How did the man hang himself? -Riddles
Last Answer : The puddle of water under him was a ice cube that he stepped on and waited for it to melt
Description : I bring life and prosperity to those in my reach, but I also damage and take what I preach. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : The sun (damages sight but also gives it by providing light).
Description : My farther is the moon, my mother is the sea, I die when I reach land. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Waves.
Description : You feel me but you do not see, you covet me but you do not reach me, I feed your anger and I sicken your desire to satisfy me, with every look. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Envy.
Description : I am treated with great care until I reach my end by being torn in half. I'm a traveler. I bring both good and bad news. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : An Envelope.
Description : I have legs but walk not, a strong back but work not, two good arms but reach not, a seat but sit and tarry not.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : An Armchair.
Description : Division of labour is the result of - (1) Complicated work (2) excessive pressure (3) excess supply of labour (4) specialization
Last Answer : (4) specialisation Explanation: Division of Labor is the "specialization" of cooperative labor in specific, circumscribed tasks and like roles. It is a process whereby the production process is broken down into a sequence of stages and workers are assigned to particular stages.
Description : Suppose you are an ambitious teacher. You have high ideals for classroom teaching but your hard-labour goes in vain. The reason is that the student's result is not satisfactory. The reason of this ... own level C) Individual differences among the students D) The teaching has no access to students
Last Answer : Individual differences among the students
Description : Division of labour is the result of (1) Complicated work (2) excessive pressure (3) excess supply of labour (4) specialisation
Last Answer : specialisation
Description : Two travellers spend from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock walking along a level road, up a hill and back again. Their pace is 4 mph on the level, 3 mph uphill, and 6 mph downhill.How far do they walk and at what time do they reach the top of the hill? -Riddles
Last Answer : 24 miles half past three.
Description : There are two cliffs. They are each attached by a suspension bridge that takes 5 minutes to walk across, and is the only way to get to the other side. No one is allowed to cross the bridge unless ... the bridge, he'll wake up exactly when you reach the other side, and send you back)? -Riddles
Last Answer : You can't go as he is awake, he'll see you, but go when he doesn't see you. Then, turn back as he is waking up, pretending to go to the side you came from. Then, he'll figure you are unauthorized to set foot on the bridge, and send you to the side you want to get to.
Description : Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They ... too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell.What is his plan? -Riddles
Last Answer : His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape.
Description : a muder had been suspected but the police did not know how the man had been killed since there had been no windows no doors no chairs no desks the was only a puddle left on the floor in the mans ... reach the ceiling with no promt to get hung up on the celing and why was there a puddle -Riddles
Last Answer : the man had waited on a ice cube and the ice cube had melted and left a puddle
Description : Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They ... too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan? -Riddles
Description : Now matter what, I come to you round, Floating up, floating down, A single pop, I'm on the ground, Then comes your unpleasant frown. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : I am a bubble. Bubbles always come out round no matter how you blow it. Bubbles also pop when they touch the ground. Usually bubbles go up and then down. Most of the time you and I will frown when a bubble pops. Therefore, the answer is a bubble.
Description : What goes up, but at the same time goes down, up to the sky and down to the ground, my present tense and my past tense too, lets go for a ride just me and you...what am i? -Riddles
Last Answer : A see-saw
Description : My first is not bent around. My second means 'lift her up' or 'cut her to the ground.'What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A straight razor.
Description : What is the objective of the Kyoto Protocol? (1) To abolish child labour (2) To eliminate nuclear weapons (3) To increase ground water levels (4) To reduce greenhouse gases
Last Answer : (4) To reduce greenhouse gases Explanation: The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 19992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhourse gas emissions.
Description : Look at me I want to play. I'll move like you in every way. Be tricky, but the result is always a draw. Why? Because I'm an expert at response and call. Be tricky, but the result is always What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Your Reflection!
Description : You can use me to stop,You take me to smoke;Not only do I stop, But I am a stop,And the result of pool's first stroke.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Brake/ Break
Description : If someone were to write a biography about us, the following could be reported: #1 - All athletes, to reach their peak performance, must do me. #2 - Behind a groom is a best man, but behind a ... me in the town of Hooterville. Based on the biographical information above --- Who/what are we? -Riddles
Last Answer : We are Trains.
Description : You are walking to the city of Truth but don't know where to go. You reach an intersection and you know that one of them leads to the city of Truth and the other to the city of Lies but you don't ... either cities, you don't know but he offers to help you, what do you ask or demand of him? -Riddles
Last Answer : 'Take me to your home!' You say.
Description : A man was found dead next to a 13 story building. The police say it was a suicide, but you say it was a homicide (someone killed him). To prove this, you go to each floor on the building, open ... 13th floor, open the window, and toss a penny out. How does this prove it wasn't a suicide? -Riddles
Last Answer : If the man committed suicide, he would've left the window open and you wouldn't have had to open it.
Description : The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 100 million miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, and light takes eight minutes to reach the Earth from the Sun. Let's say the ... of light is suddenly doubled to 372,000 miles a second.What time will the Sun rise tomorrow? -Riddles
Last Answer : 6am again. After all, what diffrence does the speed of light make to the answer? It's irrelevant- only the speed of the roation of the Earth matters here.
Description : Twelve flags stand equidistant along the track at the stadium. The runners start at the first flag. A runner reaches the eighth flag 8 seconds after he starts. If he runs at an even speed, how many seconds does he need altogether to reach the twelfth flag? -Riddles
Last Answer : Not 12 seconds. There are 7 segments from the first flag tot the eighth, and 11 from the first to the twelfth. He runs each segment in 8/7 seconds; therefore, 11 segments take 88/7= 12 4/7 seconds.
Description : If a dog is tied to a piece of rope that is 6m long, how can he reach a bone that is 7m away? -Riddles
Last Answer : The other end is not tied to anything.
Description : What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself. -Riddles
Last Answer : Your finger.
Description : A horse was tied to a rope 5 meters long and the horses food was 15 meters away from the horse. How did the horse reach the food? -Riddles
Last Answer : The rope wasn't tied to anything so he could reach the food.
Description : A hiker comes to a fork in the road and doesn't know which way to go to reach his destination. There are two men at the fork, one of whom always tells the truth while the other always lies. The ... the men only one question to find his way. Which man does he ask, and what is the question? -Riddles
Last Answer : Either man should be asked the following question: 'If I were to ask you if this is the way I should go, would you say yes?' While asking the question, the hiker should be pointing at either of the directions going from the fork.
Description : If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door? -Riddles
Last Answer : You will never reach the door! If you only move half the distance, then you will always have half the distance remaining no matter how small the number.
Description : While mixing sand, gravel, and cement for the foundation of a house, a worker noticed a small bird hopping along the top of the foundation wall. The bird misjudged a hop and fell down one of the holes ... . What would be the easiest way to get the bird out of the hole without injuring it? -Riddles
Last Answer : Since they had plenty of sand available, they could pour a little at a time into the hole. The bird would constantly keep shifting its position so that it stood on the rising sand.
Description : What is red and blue, and purple and green? No one can reach it, not even the queen? -Riddles
Last Answer : A Rainbow.
Last Answer : Infinity! Technically you will never reach the door, as you can only move half the distance, no matter how small.
Description : In shattered peace I find release. In death, I do delight. Where blood is spilled upon the ground, And men begin to fight. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : War.
Description : My veins of green may go unseen, Til on the ground I lay around. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Leaves' - Reasoning: Leaves contain veins to transport water through the leaf, and as people would need to be up close to see them. Hence, these veins go unseen as they spend most of their time up in trees attached to branches. You only really get to see them when they fall to the ground.
Description : I lie in the earth, and under the ground; A map may reveal me for journey's abound; I can be found in squares, to reduce down to size; Or at the end of a strand, where attachment lies. What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Roots
Description : I grow on trees, I make some people wheeze. I can be brown or black, I can be used as a snack. Some animals bite me, some animals hide me. They save me for Winter deep in the ground, the start ... For humans I have a very good taste, sometimes they throw out a part in the waste! What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A nut!