What’s the only room from which no one can enter or leave?
A mushroom.
A variation of this riddle is as follows.
I am a room with no doors and no windows, what am I?
A mushroom.
A variation of this riddle is as follows.
I am a room with no doors and no windows, what am I?
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Pencil lead. While modern pencils don’t contain lead, that’s still what we call the graphite compound. When real lead was used in pencils it was mined and nearly everyone has used a pencil at some point in their life.
Pencil lead. While modern pencils don’t contain lead, that’s still what we call the graphite compound. When real lead was used in pencils it was mined and nearly everyone has used a pencil at some point in their life.
When pronounced, it sounds nothing like the word.
A sentence.
By Sef Daystrom
A sentence.
By Sef Daystrom
What is the highest product that can be generated by multiplying two numbers while only using each digit once (1 through 9)?
9642 * 87531 = 843,973,902
9642 * 87531 = 843,973,902
I have two backbones and thousands of ribs and I stretch across the land. What am I?
Train tracks.
I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
A bat.
How are these countries ordered?
1. Canada
By kilometers of coastline (according to the CIA World Factbook ).
1. Canada – 202,080 km / 125,567 mi
Note: Greenland has 44,087 km of coastline but it is not yet a fully independent country.
By kilometers of coastline (according to the CIA World Factbook ).
1. Canada – 202,080 km / 125,567 mi
Note: Greenland has 44,087 km of coastline but it is not yet a fully independent country.
What is the answer to this math problem:
8 ÷ 2 (2 + 2)
16 or 1, depending.
According to PEMDAS, parentheses come first: 8 ÷ 2 (4)
Then, even though multiplication is first in PEMDAS, you go left to right: 4 (4) = 16
If you got 1, you’re in good company. That’s what I got at first too but most calculators I’ve tried get 16.
I found this at Popular Mechanics and the debate continues online.
16 or 1, depending.
According to PEMDAS, parentheses come first: 8 ÷ 2 (4)
Then, even though multiplication is first in PEMDAS, you go left to right: 4 (4) = 16
If you got 1, you’re in good company. That’s what I got at first too but most calculators I’ve tried get 16.
I found this at Popular Mechanics and the debate continues online.
Soldiers line up, spaced with pride,
What am I?
A zipper.
What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?
Death or decay.