My wife heard this riddle on the radio but never heard the answer. Does anyone know? (slight chance the wording is messed up )
D.B.Cooper?
Rain?
A rocket-powered car hit by a falling piano.
A large jet airliner would seem to fit this description.
Sniff.
My guess is a sneeze, but I’m 99.9% sure that it’s an old urban legend about sneezes going that fast.
Hmm… a sneeze, but I’d really have to question the commonly claimed figure (on
the net) of 600 mph for a sneeze. It seems an absurdly high speed for a reflex driven explosion of air coming from the human body to travel.
I wasn’t talking about the sneeze, I was just referring to the “What’s green and moves 300 m.p.h. backward” joke, for which the punchline is your loudest grossest sniffle/loogie creation sound you can muster.
google didn’t help much, but I’m going to second this.
In case you’re wondering, rain in the Koran.
A bowl of egg drop soup in a 747?
A Maglev Train?
Sound?
Try going to the radio station’s website and see if they’ve posted the answer.
Well, paratroupers don’t jump at nearly that speed, or typically from planes capable of that speed (because the minimum airspeed of such jets is usually uncomfortably fast for a drop) An air-launched missile deploying (e.g.) “smart” antipersonnel or anti-vehicle canisters might qualify (MIRVed ballistic missiles go considerably faster) but they wouldn’t make much of a joke or riddle – too technical.
Um… landing gear on a jetliner? That’s my best guess.
IIRC sneezes can go in excess of 40 mph but never much more.
Something electronic? Those are speeds a little under Mach 1 and if you drop something electronic it will no longer work.
Or an airplane. Stop on a drop of the airplane wheels. But, then again, 600mph is less than Mach1 and most planes can atleast do that.
Wouldn’t that rather be the answer to “What travels and has over 600 drops?”
Well, he did say the wording might be messed up…
If we’re talking electronics, how about a CD player? The disc spins pretty fast (I admit, I don’t know how fast) and it pretty much stops if you drop it.
A cough stops with a cough drop, and the sound of a cough travels at over 600 mph.
Question answered.
A musical note.