Riddle: A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
Riddle: Even though the odds are always in favor of the gambling house, why does the establishment insist on a house limit on stakes?
Answer: Every casino in the world would go bankrupt without a house limit on stakes. Without it, gamblers would keep doubling their stakes until they won. No matter how bad a losing streak they were on, they would eventually win.
Riddle: "At the school recently, only the ___ students could solve the ___ equation." Can you complete this sentence using words that are anagrams of each other?
Answer: Brainy and Binary. Or, you can use Reserved and Reversed.
Riddle: A triangle has sides of 13, 18 and 31 inches. What is the triangle's area?
Answer: Zero. The two shorter sides of a triangle, when added together (13+18=31), must be greater than the third or longest side (31) for it to be a triangle by definition. Therefore, the result would be two parallel lines with an area of 0.
Riddle: Many different types of my last seven letters can be found in newspapers, magazines, & journals. Physicists have built devices to get me moving very fast. What am I?
Riddle: What word/phrase is described by the following rebus? Julio Iglesias Lana Turner Dinah Shore John Wayne Nichole Ritchy John Ireland Elizabeth Taylor John Travolta Barbara Eden Jack Nicholson Clue: Paris Hilton has nothing to do with the answer.
Answer: It's written in the stars names (using each star's last name, the initials spell "its written"
Riddle: I know what my job is, The point has been made. You say I have a big head, And you're right, I'm afraid. Put me in my place, And then leave me alone. What I need most, Is someone to drive me home. What am I?