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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets is a 2007 film and the sequel to the popular original National Treasure. Although the sequel wasn't originally planned, the first movie of the series did so well that they approved this sequel. The sequel achieved more popularity than the original, out-selling it in just over a month. Ben Gates is back and he has to clear his family's name from their association with the Abraham Lincoln assassination after Mitch Wilkinson reveals an old diary page making t......read more

William Shakespeare is often regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Throughout his career he wrote/co-wrote about 38 plays and acted making a name for himself. Currently his plays are performed more often and in more languages than any other playwright ever. He wrote his plays about a variety of subject matter and themes making them widely relateable. One less known and studied aspects of his plays is the many riddles he tells in them. In many of his plays there are riddles ......read more

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective originally from a literary series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. Since the novels and short stories came out the series has spawned several plays, TV series, and movies. Most recently and famously, Sherlock Holmes was played by Robert Downey Jr in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He is probably the most famous and well known detective of our time . Everything he does and the reason he is so great at solving cr......read more

Every time we are asked a question we naturally give an answer. But what if we give an answer and there is no voice answering back telling us whether we have answered correctly or incorrectly. We are exposed to many hard riddles on a regular basis and usually look to the answer before we solve them ourselves, but there are riddles in existence that were written that have no definite answer that we can point to when we want to solve it. Here are four such riddles that cannot be solved indefini......read more

We encounter riddles on almost a daily basis and think nothing of them, but where did all of these literary gems come from? If we dive into the past it's not that hard to discover the truth of the first riddles in recorded history. With the invention of the internet unlimited numbers of riddles have become accessible to everyone, but it hasn't always been that way. Before the invention of the internet, radio, and television people only came into contact with riddles from direct conversation a......read more

When watching a movie are you more satisfied by Bruce Willis diving from an exploding building while bullets glide by him, or Nicolas Cage moving from clue to clue solving each one using only his wit? If you prefer the latter of the two, you probably enjoy movies with intelligent central characters. These movies all have smart central characters who must use their brains to succeed :National TreasureThe legend writ, the stain affected. The key in Silence undetected. Fifty-five in iron pen, Mr......read more

Starring Nicolas Cage, National Treasure was released in 2004. It is the story of Ben Gates and his journey to find the national treasure hidden by the Freemasons. Along his way, from the very beginning, his path is laden with difficult riddles that he must solve to find the treasure before his enemies do. When he is a kid his grandfather gives him a riddle to spark his interest in the hunt for the treasure:The secret lies with CharlotteEarly in the movie we find out what this means. Ben goes......read more

The Da Vinci Code is a novel from 2003 written by Dan Brown that was adapted into a movie in 2006 starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. The story is about Professor Robert Langdon and his search for the Holy Grail. As it goes in the novel and movie, Leonardo Da Vinci was a part of a secret society that was responsible for keeping the Holy Grail safe, but he left many clues to its location in his art. The novel and movie are full of riddles that the professor must solve in order to fi......read more

Politicians are some of the most important people in our society and they have to make all of the hard decisions with constant pressure on them from the public. But even they have time for some lighthearted fun in their speeches and everyday life. Here we will explore some of the more notable jokes and riddles from Barack Obama.Barack Obama is one of the most easygoing presidents we have ever had. But his administration came under fire in August when the White House Deputy Press Secretary Jos......read more

Since our first Pokémon riddle article was such a success we have decided to make a part two! The first can be found here. In this article we explored the many puzzles and riddles from the Nintendo games, and we didn't forget about the anime.In the 58th episode of the show, entitled "Riddle Me This," Ash, Brock and Misty head to Cinnabar Island to face a gym leader. One of the locals tells them a riddle to find the gym, but when they arrive to the gym it has been shut down. After this disappo......read more

Kids riddles are an excellent way to test the problem solving abilities of kids and can present a fun way to use material taught in science, social studies, math and other core subjects. Kids riddles for animal identification takes traits of animals and asks the students to identify animals based on these characteristics. It is recommended to present a variety of traits in each riddle to give students who may know some facts and not others a chance at solving the riddle. Students can solve th......read more

Doctor Who originally aired on BBC in 1963 and was meant to be a show for the whole family because it dealt with science and history. Since the 26 seasons, 7 series, and one large break of Doctor Who it has gotten countless awards including several BAFTA TV Awards and millions of viewers. The mystery of Doctor Who makes this show a perfect setting for riddles. Here are some of the riddles of Doctor Who.I'm something borrowed, I'm something blue; You stole me, and I stole you; I'm quite old an......read more

Adventure Time, one of Cartoon Network's gems, chronicles Finn and his dog Jake's adventures through the Land of Ooo. It is meant for children but has become popular across many age groups. With the adventures comes some funny riddles that Jake and Finn encounter.Tell me, voyager, what is simple, and yet also a riddle?This riddle comes in the episode "Rainy Day Daydream" when Jake is creating several imaginary monsters, one of them being the Riddle Master. If the riddles are not answered corr......read more

Math and riddles go perfectly together because they are both children of logic. Math riddles combine mathematical theory and techniques with classic word riddles to make a fun and tricky new riddle. These riddles are organized easiest to hardest. How many and how fast can you solve them?There are 11 bananas and you take 4, how many do you have?AnswerYou have 2 coins that add up to 35 cents. One of the coins is not a quarter.What kind of coins do you have?AnswerHow can you add 8 8's to make 10......read more

One of Nintendo's many gems, The Legend of Zelda, has become one of their most important ventures. The story of Link's rescue of Princess Zelda got many gamer's into the world of RPG's. The games ability to save data allowed it to be the first handheld game that relied on a somewhat large amount of saved data. The mystical worlds of Zelda are full of mystery, puzzles, and riddles. Any true fans of the series should be able to identify these riddles:This first riddle comes from the fourteenth ......read more

Like most people know, World of Warcraft is the largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game by subscribers , but the world of Guild Wars 2 boasts numbers about half of that of WoW . Guild Wars 2 also has another very interesting feature for a MMORPG, the world is responsive to a players action. This is very hard to do because of the huge flexibility needed for such a feature in a MMORPG compared to a single-player game. This continuation of the original Guild Wars is a fun and uniq......read more

In the beginning, there was Neverwinter Nights. Since then massively multiplayer online role-playing games have exploded in popularity and come to dominate the world of hardcore gamers. From lands filled with orks and elves to intergalactic battle, almost every world imaginable exists in these games. But which world reigns supreme? For most people this is easy. It not only has the most subscribers but it has become the poster-game for MMORPG's in popular culture, it was even featured in a Sou......read more

Folklore and riddles are often associated because folklore generally involves some character that is perfect or imperfect in some way. These writers of folklore associate the ability to solve and tell riddles with perfection of some sort. They use them as a method of proving wisdom and experience. The story of Samson in the bible and the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx are stories that idealize the ability to solve riddles as a trait of a hero. Whether or not you believe this, it makes for go......read more

The Star Wars saga is one of the greatest collections of movies ever. Through the vast plot and great characters there are a great deal of riddles that are encountered. Some of them are answered, and some are not. Here we are going to take a look at some of the greatest riddles that exist in the Star War movies. Do you know all of the answers?1. The Riddle of Princess Leia's messageThis one is easy. This isn't a riddle for the audience as much as it is for Luke. In the beginning of the first ......read more

Learning is one of the main concerns of society today, along with learning later into life. Information has become infinately available with the expansion of the internet, but this doesn't help when it comes to improving your cognitive ability. But rather than embracing this endless information people waste their time looking through pictures of cats rather than learning everything they can. Luminosity, and sites like it, are useful but they are time-consuming and expensive when their are fre......read more