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  • Okay, Heads up.

  • Would taste better than it smells.

  • What flies without wings doesn't have lungs, but needs air.

  • If you think you know the answers to these questions, welcome to the riddle.

  • Quits.

  • Get at least half of them, right.

  • And you can consider yourself a true logical thinker.

  • Number one.

  • On a sunny, windless day, a ship was in the harbor.

  • There were many people on the shore looking at the vessel.

  • Suddenly, the ship started to sink fast.

  • There was nothing wrong with it.

  • There was no storm and the skies were blue.

  • And yet the ship went down in front of the Spectators.

  • What happened?

  • Nothing unexpected.

  • The submarines captain just ordered the crew to dive two.

  • He has one.

  • Ah, human has to a citizen has three population, has four and personality boasts five.

  • What am I talking about?

  • Syllables.

  • Three.

  • Why is it so easy to away fish?

  • Because they have scales.

  • Yeah.

  • Four.

  • If you take your friends to the movies and you're paying what's cheaper to invite two friends at the same time or to invite one friend twice, it'll cost you less to invite to friends at once.

  • This way, you'll only have to buy three tickets.

  • If you invite one friend twice, you'll pay for four tickets.

  • Five year playing Ping pong when your last ball falls into a one foot deep, narrow metal pipe embedded in the concrete floor, how can you get the ball out of the pipe if all you have is your paddle, a bottle of water and your shoe laces poor the water from your bottle into the hole and the ball will rise to the surface.

  • Six.

  • I'm a number.

  • I have a couple of friends.

  • Quarter a dozen and you'll find me again.

  • What number am I?

  • Three.

  • If you need more time to think a riddle over, you can always pause the video.

  • It won't be counted as cheating, I promise.

  • Seven.

  • Take away my first letter, but I remain unchanged.

  • Rid me of my last letter.

  • I'm still the same.

  • Remove all of my letters and I'm still may.

  • What am I?

  • I'm a mail carrier.

  • Eight.

  • Ah Boy was 12 on his last birthday and will be 14 on his next birthday.

  • How is it possible?

  • Today's his 13th birthday.

  • Nine.

  • It can fly but has no wings.

  • It can cry but has no eyes.

  • Wherever it goes, darkness follows.

  • What is it?

  • It's a cloud 10 in the land of green glass doors, there are books, but no words.

  • Riddles but no answers.

  • Sheets but no blankets.

  • Cherries but no oranges.

  • Can you name something else?

  • You confined in the land of glass green doors anywhere that has double letters in it.

  • 11.

  • I have one, and you have one.

  • If you remove the first letter, a bit is still there.

  • Remove the second.

  • The bit remains.

  • Try again and remove the third, but it's still stakes.

  • What is it we have?

  • Ah, habit.

  • 12.

  • I'm not alive, but I can grow.

  • I don't have lungs, but I need air.

  • What am I?

  • Fire 13.

  • It took seven years to build the world's tallest skyscraper.

  • Every year the builders managed to double its height.

  • How many years did it take the skyscraper to reach half its maximum height?

  • Six years.

  • If the constructors double the building's height every year, the skyscraper had to be half its final height a year before it was completed.

  • 14.

  • Which English Word has three consecutive double letters?

  • Bookkeeper.

  • 15.

  • Which letter of the alphabet contains the most water.

  • The sea.

  • Like that one 16.

  • They could be long and they can be short.

  • They can be grown and they can be bought.

  • They could be painted or they could be left bare.

  • They could be round.

  • They could be square.

  • What are they?

  • Fingernails?

  • 17.

  • Which start with T ends with T and as tea inside a teapot.

  • 18.

  • When you have it you want to share.

  • But if you share it, you don't have it anymore.

  • What is it?

  • It's a secret.

  • 19.

  • What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

  • A cupcake.

  • 20.

  • Be careful.

  • If you eat me, my center will each you?

  • What am I and what are you?

  • I'm a hook and you're a careless fish.

  • 21.

  • The more of them you take, the more you leave behind.

  • What am I talking about?

  • Footsteps.

  • 22.

  • It's lighter than air, but hundreds of people can't carry it.

  • What is it?

  • It's a bubble.

  • 23.

  • What do you throw out when you need it?

  • And take in when you don't use it?

  • An anchor, you know, like on a boat.

  • 24.

  • What did the thief get for stealing a calendar.

  • 12 months.

  • 25 divine 30 by one over to in and 10.

  • What will you get?

  • The correct answer is 70.

  • Most people divide 30 by to add 10 and get 25.

  • But when you divide a number by a fraction, you should actually multiplied by the denominator.

  • The number below the line this way 30 times two plus 10 equals 70 26.

  • There are two in the corner, but one in the room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter.

  • What is it?

  • The letter R 27.

  • You can hear it, but you can't touch it, and still you can control it.

  • What is it?

  • It's your voice.

  • Just silly person.

  • You 28.

  • There's a low rail road bridge in your town with a car tunnel under it.

  • One day you see a large truck sitting right in front of the tunnel and a confused driver walking around.

  • You come up to him and ask What happened?

  • It turns out that the truck is just a couple of inches taller than the allowed height, so if he drives inside, the truck will get stuck.

  • Unfortunately, that's the only way to the driver's destination.

  • How could he get through the tunnel?

  • He has to let air out of the tyres.

  • It'll make the truck lower.

  • 29.

  • It's where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow is in the middle.

  • What is it?

  • It's a dictionary.

  • 30.

  • Even though you can often see me in the water, I never get wet.

  • What am I?

  • I'm a reflection 31.

  • Add me to myself and multiply by four.

  • Then divide me by eight and you'll have me once again.

  • What number am I?

  • It's literally any number 32 would taste better than it smells.

  • You're Tom, 33.

  • John ordered a fishing rod that cost him five bucks.

  • The only problem is that he lives in a country with very strict import rules.

  • They prohibit any objects that are longer than three feet.

  • But John's new fishing rod is a bit bigger than that.

  • Three feet and three inches long.

  • How can it be mailed to the man in one piece without breaking the rules?

  • The fishing rod can be put in a box that's three feet on all sides.

  • Then the ride will easily fit within the diagonal of the box with room to spare.

  • 34.

  • What does no one want?

  • 1/2.

  • But if they have it, they don't want to lose it.

  • It's a lawsuit.

  • 35.

  • I have hands and I wave at you.

  • But not to say goodbye.

  • It's cool for you to be with me when I tell you.

  • Hi.

  • What am I?

  • I'm a fan.

  • 36.

  • Why are teddy bears never hungry?

  • Because they're stuffed.

  • 37 is the only human organ that named itself.

  • What is it?

  • It's the brain 38.

  • You need to send a valuable object to a friend.

  • You can mail it in an unlocked box because the thing will get stolen.

  • You put the object in a box and lock it, but your friend doesn't have the key to this lock.

  • How can you send this valuable object if you aren't allowed to send the key to the lock separately, send the lock box to your friend.

  • They'll attach their own lock and send the box back to you.

  • You'll remove your lock and send the parcel again.

  • Your friend will remove their own lock and finally open the box.

  • Wow, that's a lot of shipping charges.

  • 39 1 woman could Onley use a public telephone to make calls.

  • One day the phone broke.

  • She informed the phone company, but they did nothing.

  • The next day she came there again and said something.

  • The day after that, the phone was fixed.

  • What did she say?

  • She said that people were making calls without paying 40.

  • I'm a fruit.

  • I'm tasty and sweet and can give you a lot of energy.

  • You'll find me in a calendar as well.

  • What am I, a date?

  • And with that, we're all done.

  • How'd you?

  • D'oh!

  • Well done.

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