I am looking for riddles that would amuse a smart 10 year old, like
Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
and
How many three-cent stamps are there in one dozen?
Do you have any favorites?
Which Who?
That’s too tough for a ten year old to answer.
If a plane crashes on the border of Canada and the U.S.A., what country will they bury the survivors in?
What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks.
When I was in high school we used to drive past Grants Tomb on the Jersey side of the Hudson River and someone would always ask “Who is buried in Grants Tomb?”
The answer is Ulysses S. Grant and his wife.
BZZZT. Wrong answer. Nobody is buried in Grants tomb. They are entombed in Grant’s tomb.
How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
How long is a piece of string?
Twice as long as half its length.
Haw far can you walk into the woods?
Halfway. After you reach that point, you’re walking out of the woods.
Awesome!
I had a Stats instructor in college who used to like to corner students and bark out, “quick! What is the square root of X squared?” Amazing how many people would be temporarily flummoxed by it.
+X and -X
A red rooster is sitting on top of the blue chicken coop. The coop faces north. It’s a bright sunny day. The is a breeze coming from the east.
…which way will the egg fall…
Don’t forget the classic nursery rhyme…
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had sever kits
Kits, Cats, Sacks, Wives…
How many were going to St. Ives?
No. The square root of a positive number is positive. The answer is |X|.
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In 8th grade our science teacher would put these types of questions on our tests as freebies. What color was Washington’s white horse?
Sort of dated at this point, but “What’s black and white and red/read all over?”
A newspaper, although it’s dated partly because no one reads an actual paper any more and partly because those papers that still exist are printed in color.
How high is up?
"You’re driving a bus.
At the first stop, 5 people get on.
At the second stop, 3 people get on and 2 people get off.
At the third stop, 6 people get on and 4 people get off.
Now… what’s the bus driver’s name?"
A lot of people will have forgotten that the riddle began with the words “You’re driving a bus,” and won’t know to respond with their own names.
Q: Is the capital of Kentucky pronounced “Loo-ee-ville” or “Loo-uh-vull”?
A: Neither- the capital of Kentucky is Frankfort.
Q: How much would a Roman coin be worth if it had the date “64 B.C.” on it?
A: Nothing, it’s a fake. How would the people at the ancient Roman mint have known Jesus would be born 64 years later?