What’s black and white and read all over? A blushing zebra… and this page of riddles! (Answers are on page 283.)
1. A mother has seven children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
2. If there are five rubber duckies on the counter and you take away two, how many rubber duckies do you have?
3. What’s different about the letters on the top row?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
4. How many letters are there in the alphabet?
5. It has holes in its top and bottom, its left and right, and all through its middle. But it still holds water. What is it?
6. How can you throw a ball a short distance and have it stop and then come right back to you? (Hint: You can’t bounce it off anything or tie it to a string.)
7. Where is the ocean the deepest?
8. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
9. What turns everything around but doesn’t move at all?
10. What is big and slimy, smells really bad, has bubbles on its head, 82 eyes, seven mouths, a green shirt, and sings the blues?
Country with the most hospitals: China, with 67,807. (It also has the most people.)