Missing Dollar Riddle
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
Hint: Make a list of all of the people involved and how much money they ended up with/spent.
The $9 paid by each guest accounts for the $2 that went to the bellhop. So rather than adding $27 to the $2 kept by the bellhop, the $27 accounts for the bellhops money. The $27 plus the $3 kept by the guests does add up to $30. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Died In Office
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Fought For Education Riddle
I saw education as the key to improving the lives of African-Americans in the 1900s, and fought to educate my people. Who am I?
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Last Valentine's Day
Last Valentine's Day, Jimmy and Shelly were looking for just the right card for each other.
Shelly adored the diamonds she got from Jimmy, and it was no surprise when he stole her heart away.
Sadly, their grandmother brought an end to their affair...if only for a moment, for they had the perfect idea to let it go on for as long as they liked.
What were Jimmy and Shelly up to?
Shelly adored the diamonds she got from Jimmy, and it was no surprise when he stole her heart away.
Sadly, their grandmother brought an end to their affair...if only for a moment, for they had the perfect idea to let it go on for as long as they liked.
What were Jimmy and Shelly up to?
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Festival Of Lights Riddle
I am a holiday known as the Festival of Lights. Jewish people light one candle on the menorah each night to remember the miracle of oil. What holiday am I?
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Singing Elf Riddle
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The Turkey Drummer
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How Old Is She?
I asked a woman how old she was, she smiled and said cryptically: "The day before yesterday I was 22, but next year I'll be 25." What is her birthday and when was the date of our conversation?
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We conversed on January 1 and her birthday is on December 31. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Masks I Wear Many
Masks I wear many,
But not many see behind them.
Always rejected
Except by those dark as the one I despise.
I hate and I fear One of whom I will not speak
Yet I throw myself continually at his feet.
I am continual.
When all other hope is gone, I remain.
Those I defend I do not love,
And those I fight I cannot hate.
The one who hates me most
Is the one I will die to protect.
WHO AM I?
But not many see behind them.
Always rejected
Except by those dark as the one I despise.
I hate and I fear One of whom I will not speak
Yet I throw myself continually at his feet.
I am continual.
When all other hope is gone, I remain.
Those I defend I do not love,
And those I fight I cannot hate.
The one who hates me most
Is the one I will die to protect.
WHO AM I?
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The Very First New Year
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Julius Caesar declared January 1 the start of the new year when he established the Julian Calendar. January was named for Janus, the two-faced god who looked both ahead to the new year and back to the previous year. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Shaped Like A Boot Riddle
What is shaped like a boot,
What has the best spaghetti,
What is famous for their capital,
What starts with an I an ends with a y?
What has the best spaghetti,
What is famous for their capital,
What starts with an I an ends with a y?
Hint: It's a country on the eastern hemisphere.
Biggest Island In The World
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Australia was always the biggest island in the world, even before it was discovered. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Sad Lemons Riddle
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The Bloody Child Riddle
The second apparition in "Macbeth", the bloody child, recommends 'be bloody, bold and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'. How was the Thane of Fife able to kill Macbeth in the light of this prophecy?
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His mother had a Caesarean.
A bit of a quibble really but those apparitions did not play fair; Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Presumably this was an early Caesarean. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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A bit of a quibble really but those apparitions did not play fair; Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Presumably this was an early Caesarean. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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The Thane Of Fife Riddle
Macbeth is given three pieces of oracular information by the apparitions. The first apparition, an armed head, states 'beware _____, beware the Thane of Fife'. Who was the Thane of Fife? (He had a wife).
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The answer is Macduff. Only the first apparition answers straightforwardly. Macbeth should have taken notice of such specific information. The other two apparitions present riddles, where the answer is not what it seems. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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