PLC CURIOUS CARDS – ANSWERS
1 Q: If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
A: A promise
2 Q: There are thousands of words in the dictionary, yet only one of them is spelled incorrectly. Which one is it?
A: Incorrectly
3 Q: You’re running a race and right at the very end, you pass the person in 3rd place. What place did you finish the race in?
A: 3rd
4 Q: I have a tail and a head, but no brain. What am I?
A: A coin.
5 Q: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
A: The word ‘short’
6 Q: There are 7 oranges in a bowl and you take away 2. How many oranges do you have now?
A: 2. You took away 2 oranges and left 5 in the bowl.
7 Q: 8I x 9 = 80I. What do you need to do to make this equation true?
A: Turn it upside down. I08 = 6 x I8
8 Q: I travel the world, but never leave my corner. What am I?
A: A stamp
9 Q: What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in one thousand years?
A: M
10 Q:
A: Two steps forward, one step back
11 Q: A: Seven seas
12 Q: Aid ← Aid Aid A: First aid
13 Q: Beeeeeeeeeeee A: Beeline
14 Q: What has two hands but never claps?
A: A clock.
15 Q: What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age 16 Q:
A: Just between me and you
17 Q:
A: Top secret
18 Q: What number is the car covering up?
A: 87
19 Q: What has to be broken before you can use it?
A: An egg.
20 Q: I’m a bird, a person, and a fruit. What am I?
A: A Kiwi.
21 Q: How many eggs would a rooster lay over three weeks, provided it is adequately cared for?
A: Zero. Roosters don’t lay eggs.
22 Q: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
A: Seven
23 Q: There are two in a corner, one in a room, none in a house but one in a shelter. What am I?
A: The letter ‘r’.
24 Q: What tastes better than it smells?
A: Your tongue.
25 Q: What word begins and ends with ‘E’, but only has one letter?
A: Envelope
26 Q: A rainforest without any trees or bees. Can you spell that without any E’s?
A: T-H-A-T