Test of Wits

Pax: Goblin, Froyo, Quatro, Dockers, Guinness, Captain D, Meatsweats

QIC: Neo

8 Pax gathered virtually to get better.

We began with the warm up including : side straddle hops, windmills, cotton pickers, arm circles.

The Thang:

Today was a test of wits.  The Pax was presented with multiple riddles with rewards for correct answers and penalties for the wrong answer.

Riddle #1: What can you hold in your left hand but not your right?

                                                                         Answer: your right elbow

Riddle #2: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

                                                                       Answer: silence

 

Riddle #3: Forward I am heavy.  Backward I am not.  What am I?

                                                                               Answer: ton

 

Riddle #4: What is the end of everything?

                                                                            Answer: g

Riddle #5: I have cities but no houses.  I have mountains but no trees.  I have water but no fish.  What am I?

                                                                              Answer: a map

Riddle #6: I am an odd number.  Take away a letter and I have become even.  What number am I? 

                                                                                Answer: seven

Riddle #7:  Give me food and I will live.  Give me water and I will die.  What am I?

                                                                                 Answer: fire

Riddle #8: You are a bus driver.  8 people get on.  2 people get off.  2 more people get on and 1 gets off.  Finally, 3 more get on and 2 get off.  How old is the bus driver?

                                                                                   Answer: your age

Riddle #9: If you are running a race and pass the person in second place, what place are you in?  

                                                                                 Answer: second place

Riddle#10: From the beginning of eternity to the end of time and space to the beginning of everyone and the end of every place, what am I?

                                                     Answer: the letter E

Riddle#11: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what is four and five?

                                                     Answer: 9

Riddle#12: What is full of holes but still holds water?

                                                      Answer: a sponge

Riddle#13: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ….what’s the name of the third son?

                                                      Answer: David

Riddle#14:A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat did not get a single hair on his head wet.  Why?

                                                           Answer: he was bald

Riddle#15: It happens once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.  What am I?

                                                           Answer: the letter M

Riddle #16: Yellow is my favorite color.  I have a yellow one-story house with yellow bricks, yellow carpet, and even yellow windows.  What color are the stairs? 

                                                             Answer: there are no stairs

Keep your minds and your bodies sharp, men.  

Stay safe.