Short Riddles and Answers

 

By Martin Gardner

Question: You are in a room with two metal rods and no other metal. One of them is magnetized and the other is not.

How can you determine which one is magnetized and which is not?


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Question: I can fall, I can sink, I can lay underground I can go on, I can go off, I can go up, but not down If you want to stop me: I give you 2 choices The same as Neo had What am I?

Question: A farmer has three fields. One of them has 3 bundles of hay, another has 4, and the last has 5. How many would he have in the first field if he combined all of them in that field?

Question: There are ten children and ten cookies in a jar. Mrs. Suzie needs to give one cookie to each child. The children also want her to keep one cookie in the jar. how is this possible?

By Jane Austen

Question: My first doth affliction denote,
which my second is destined to feel.
And my whole is the best antidote,
that affliction to soften and heal.

What am I?