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Big Family Originally published on January 23, 2010 I was looking through our family photo album with a friend recently. I pointed to a photo and said “brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” My friend (being no fool) immediately said “it’s your son, that’s an old one.” ”Then how about the [...]  February 20th, 2012 | Category: Real Life, Unsolved Riddles, Word Riddles |  12 guesses |  Email This RiddleConsider an arrow in flight towards a target. At any given moment of time, a snapshot could be taken of this arrow. In this snapshot, the arrow would not be moving. Let us now take another snapshot, leaving a very small gap of time between them. Again, the arrow is stationary. We can keep taking snapshots [...] February 17th, 2012 | Category: Brain Riddle, Mathematical, Real Life, Science | 2 guesses | Email This RiddleA teenage boy smitten with a teenage girl in his high school freshman class makes his feelings known. Overjoyed at finding them reciprocated, he took a pen knife to a young hardwood tree in the vicinity and carved their initials within a heart five feet up on the tree’s trunk, as boys will do. Which is greater, the number of grooves on one side of a vinyl record (if you can remember them!) or the number of days in the year? February 13th, 2012 | Category: Brain Riddle, History, Real Life, Science | 4 guesses | Email This RiddleI am the world’s greatest traveler. I have been transported by camel, dog sled, pony express, bicycle, train, steamship, automobile/car, airplane, airship, and rocket. I have portraits of presidents, kings, queens, princes, princesses, shahs, sultans, tribal chiefs, adventurers, explorers, patriots, martyrs, inventors, pioneers, artists, musicians, architects, poets, aviators, dramatists, novelists, painters, athletes, cardinals, saints, and sinners. February 5th, 2012 | Category: Brain Riddle, Geography, History, Real Life | 4 guesses | Email This RiddleI was on a road trip with a friend when we drove past a very tall radio tower. I told my friend “That thing has to be at least a thousand feet tall!” He looked out the window for a moment, and said “No, it’s actually about 1500 feet.” We stopped at a gas station [...] February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Brain Riddle, History, Real Life, Science | 6 guesses | Email This RiddleMice are famous for their ability to multiply at breakneck speeds. The type of mouse we have here gives birth once a month, birthing 12 babies each time. Baby mice mature and can give birth two months after they are born. You picked up one of these cute baby mice at the pet shop and brought [...] February 1st, 2012 | Category: Animals, Brain Riddle, Real Life, Science | 3 guesses | Email This RiddleWhat was Mister Rogers middle name? Which one of the following does not belong with the others? Binoculars, eyeglasses, goggles, handlebars, jeans, pliers, scissors, shoes, tweezers This is a real story from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” which happened in ancient China almost 2000 years ago: One day, Sun Quan gave king Cao Cao an elephant as a present. Cao Cao was very pleased and he rushed to see the arrival of the elephant with his seven year old son and his [...] December 27th, 2011 | Category: Animals, Brain Riddle, Geography, History, Real Life, Science | 2 guesses | Email This Riddle |
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