Viral riddles

Viral riddles

If a rooster laid an egg on the left side of the house, which way would it roll?

Answer

Roosters don't lay eggs.

How can you make the witch itch?

Answer

Take away "w" (witch ==> itch).

What do you have to do when you want someone to say that you are outstanding?

Answer

Go stand outside!

He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of earth has six.
What am I?

Answer

Syllables.

My skin is green, I am pink inside and have "goat shit" inside me, WHAT AM I?

Answer

Watermelon.

I take what you receive and surrender it all by waving my flag.
What am I?

Answer

A mailbox.

I go up and I go down,
towards the sky and the ground.
I'm present and past tense too,
Let's go for a ride, me and you.

What am I?

Answer

A seesaw.

When the Smith family decided to move, everyone pitched in, including Sybil and her sister. If the girls can carry 2 large objects or 6 small ones each time, how many trips will it take to move 10 large objects and 16 small ones?

Answer

8 trips.

The word STANDARD has eight letters. If you take away two letters and add three numbers, what sequence would you get?

Answer

Take away the first AND second A. You will be left with ST,ND, and RD. Add the number 1 to ST, 2 to ND, and 3 to RD. So, 1ST, 2ND, and 3RD!

I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

Answer

Number 194.

If you have a pound of nails and a pound of feathers which one weighs more?

Answer

There weigh the same because there both are a pound.

Charles walks over a railway-bridge. At the moment that he is just ten meters away from the middle of the bridge, he hears a train coming from behind. At that moment, the train, which travels at a speed of 90 km/h, is exactly as far away from the bridge as the bridge measures in length. Without hesitation, Charles rushes straight towards the train to get off the bridge. In this way, he misses the train by just four meters! If Charles had rushed exactly as fast in the other direction, the train would have hit him eight meters before the end of the bridge.
What is the length of the railway-bridge?

Answer

The railway-bridge has a length of 44 meters.

Let the length of the bridge be x meters.

Running towards the train, Charles covers 0.5x-10 meters in the time that the train travels x-4 meters. Running away from the train, Charles covers 0.5x+2 meters in the time that the train travels 2x-8 meters.

Because their speeds are constant, the following holds:

(0.5x-10) / (x-4) = (0.5x+2) / (2x-8)
which can be rewritten to

0.5x^2 - 24x + 88 = 0
Using the quadratic formula we find that x=44, so the railway-bridge has a length of 44 meters.

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