Riveting Riddles

1. When do two and eleven make one?
2. When does ninety minus two equal nine?
3. My first word is yummy on toast; my second is quite annoying.  Taken together, I am the result of a great change.
4. My first word is beneath you; my second moves by the inch.  Taken together, I am an excellent friend in the garden. 
5. What do Texas, French and cinnamon have in common?
6. What do pianos, doors, and music have in common?
7. What do banks, stories, and fortunes have in common?
8. What animal sounds most like you?
9. What has a neck but wears no shirt?
10. Why aren’t dogs good dancers?

Factopia

1. How long is one light year?
2. A chicken’s brain is partially in his ______.
3. A lightning bolt is about ________ wide and heats up to _______ F.
4. The average lightning flash is between ____ and _____ miles long. However, the longest recorded single lightning flash stretched for more than _______ miles over Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas on April 20,2020.
5. A streak of lightning can travel at speeds up to _____ miles per second. 
6. The average lightning flash lasts for _____ seconds.  However, the longest lasting recorded single lightning flash lasted _______ seconds, over Uruguay and northern Argentina in June 2020.
7. The surface of the sun is about ______ degrees Fahrenheit and the core is about _______ degrees Fahrenheit. 
8. Between birds and mammals, which has the higher average body temperature? Which mammal has the lowest body temperature of all mammals?
9. An _____ can run a marathon in 53 minutes; a _______ can run a marathon in one hour and three minutes; a _______ can run a marathon in 2 hours and 30 minutes; the fastest human marathon time is 1 hour and 39 minutes. 
10. A ______can sprint at 70 miles per hour; a ________ can sprint at 55 mph; a ______can sprint at 54 mph; the fastest human sprinter does 27.5 mph. 

Answers

Riddles

1. On a clock, two hours past eleven is one o’clock.
2. When you subtract “ty.”
3. Butterfly
4. Earthworm
5. They are all kinds of toast.
6. They all have keys.
7. They all have tellers.
8. Ewe
9. A guitar
10. Because they have two left feet

Factopia

1. A light year is the distance traveled by light in one year.  It is 186,282 miles per second or 670.6 million mph. 
2. Neck.  One chicken who had his head cut off lasted a whole year after.  Yuck!
3. One inch wide and 50,000 degrees F
4. 2-3, 465 miles
5. 125,000 (2/3 the speed of light)
6. 0.2, 17
7. 10,000 degrees F; 27 million degrees F
8. Birds, 108 degrees F; sloth at 82 degrees F
9. Ostrich, camel, horse
10. Cheetah, pronghorn antelope, springbok