Brain Shakes (Part 4)

For each riddle, think for 30 seconds and write your answer on a paper. Check at the end and give yourself.

10/10 Excellent

8/10 Very Good

6/10 Good

Below 5 you need to do such exercises more often until you reach 8/10.

1. What goes up and never comes down?

2. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

3. What has to be broken before it can be used?

4. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

5. What question can you never answer “yes” to?

6. What’s the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?

7. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white?” or “The yolk of the egg is white?”

8. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

9. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

10. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

Answers are given below.

Answers

1. Your age
2. A fire.
3. An egg
4. A coat of paint
5. “Are you asleep?”
6. To hold cows together
7. Neither, the yolks are yellow.
8. A telephone
9. Pencil lead (graphite).
10. An echo.