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  • I have many keys but no locks. I have space but no rooms. You can enter but not go outside. What am I
    Keyboard or piano.
  • I spin once every 24 hours, but different places see sunrise at different times. What am I?
    Earth
  • Two identical ice cubes are placed on a wooden table. One is sprinkled with salt, the other left plain. Which melts faster and why?
    The salted ice melts faster because salt lowers the freezing point, causing faster melting.
  • I start with “e” and end with “e” but usually contain only one letter. What am I?
    Envelope
  • You are in a room with three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs in the next room. You may flip the switches any way you like but can open the door only once. How can you figure out which switch controls which
    Turn on switch A for several minutes, then off; turn on switch B and leave switch C off. Go inside: • Bulb that is on = switch B. • Bulb that is off but warm =
  • Sound travels fastest through which: air, water, or steel?
    Steel
  • A moving car has two main forms of energy. Name them.
    Kinetic energy (motion) and potential/chemical energy (fuel).
  • What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
    Short
  • A burning candle is covered with a glass jar. After a short time the flame goes out. What gas is being used up?
    Oxygen—the flame stops when the jar’s oxygen is used up.
  • Why is the sky blue during the day but red/orange at sunrise and sunset?
    Scattering of light (Rayleigh scattering)—short blue wavelengths scatter more; at sunrise/sunset light travels farther so reds/oranges dominate.
  • A paperclip made of steel sinks in water. But you can make it “float” without glue or tape. What property lets this happen?
    Surface tension of water can hold the paperclip if placed gently.
  • A farmer has a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He can take only one of them at a time across a river. If the wolf is left with the goat, the wolf eats the goat. If the goat is left with the cabbage, the goat eats the cabbage. How can the farme
    Take the goat first, return alone, take the wolf, bring the goat back, take the cabbage, then finally the goat.
  • What metal is strongly attracted to a magnet but is not itself magnetic unless treated?
    Iron
  • I’m a square number between 30 and 60. My digits add to 9. What am I?
    36 explanation (6 × 6 = 36; 3 + 6 = 9.)
  • At noon you measure your shadow: it’s shorter than you. Later in the afternoon it’s much longer. What changed—the Sun’s brightness, the Sun’s distance, or something else?
    The angle of the Sun in the sky changes as Earth rotates.
  • A clock loses 10 minutes every hour. It is set correctly at midnight. When the clock shows 6:00 a.m., what is the actual time?
    For every real hour, the clock shows 50 minutes. Ratio = 50/60 = 5/6. If clock shows 6:00 (6 hours), real time = 6 × (6/5) = 7:12 a.m..
  • Name a number between 10 and 100 that looks the same upside down on a calculator display.
    69 or 96
  • Multiply me by 3 and add 12, you get 39. What’s my number?
    9 explanation (9 × 3) + 12 = 39.
  • I’m a two-digit number. My digits add to 11, and if you reverse them you get a number 27 bigger than the original. What number am I?
    47 explanation: 4 + 7 = 11, and 74 – 47 = 27.