RAS Activity Fest

Brainstorming Venture for RAS volunteers

ROUND # 1

Riddles Round

1) Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

2) What is full of holes but still holds water?

3) I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

4) What gets wet while drying?

5) What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

6) Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is
that possible?

7) The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

8) What has a head and a tail but no body?

9) What tastes better than it smells?

10) I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

11) What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or
multiplied?

12) Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children
does Mary have?

13) Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

14) Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many
brothers does Bill actually have?

15) The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?

16) A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three
break. How many eggs are left unbroken?

17) What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

18) What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?

19) A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

20) What would you find in the middle of Toronto?

21) Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

22) Frank was born in 1933 and died in 1946 at the age of 75. How can this be?

23) You go at RED and stop at GREEN. What am I?

24) I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a
treat. What am I?

25) I am the beginning of everything and the end of everywhere. I am the beginning
of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

26) What never asks question and is often answered?

27) I had 13 dollars. My mom gave me 10 dollars while my dad gave me 15 dollars.
My aunt and uncle gave me 50 dollars. How much money did I have?

28) What starts main letter T ends with letter T and is filled with T.

29) A father’s child. A mother’s child, yet no one’s son. Who am i?

30) What can me measured but not seen?

(Good Luck)