Good Riddles

 

Question:

You have a large number of friends coming over and they all get thirsty. Your first friend asks for 1/2 a cup of water. Your second friend asks for 1/4 a cup of water. Your third friend asks for 1/8 a cup of water, etc.

How many cups of water do you need to serve your friends?

Question: 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 seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

Riddle #278 (medium)

Question: At the beginning of the first day of school there was a dead boy found inside of a classroom. They found 3 suspects: The janitor, the teacher and one of the boy's classmates. The janitor claims that he was just cleaning the room, the teacher said that she was computing her student's grades and the boy's classmate claims that he was listening to music.

Who committed the crime?

Riddle #392 (medium)

Question: I stand in one place yet I fill a whole room.
I can be filled with molten rock and come in every hue.

What am I?

Riddle #516 (medium)

Question: Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?