I cook without a flame and spin your plate in slow circles. Somehow I leave the middle frozen while the edges turn to lava, and hand me a fork, and I'll throw a fit full of sparks. What am I?
Hint: Don't put metal in me.
AnswerA microwaveMicrowaves heat without fire, rotate food on a turntable, heat unevenly and spark when metal is inside.
I keep the wind off your face at 60 miles an hour. You stare through me for hours and only notice me when I'm dirty, and on winter mornings you have to scrape me before you can go anywhere. What am I?
Hint: Bugs love me.
AnswerA windshieldA windshield blocks wind while driving, you look through it constantly, and it needs scraping when frosted.
I have two faces and an edge. I'm worth very little, yet one spin of me in the air decides who kicks off a football game and which friend gets the front seat. What am I?
Hint: Call it in the air.
AnswerA coinA coin has two sides and an edge, and coin tosses decide NFL kickoffs and everyday arguments.
I'm a two-digit number. My digits add up to 9, and if you swap them, I get 27 bigger. What number am I?
Hint: Swapping the digits changes a number by 9 times the gap between them.
Answer36Swapping changes the number by 9 times the difference of the digits, so the digits differ by 3 and add to 9: that's 3 and 6. Check: 63 - 36 = 27.
Multiply me by any number and you get me back. Divide me by any other number and you still get me. Add me to anything and nothing changes at all. What number am I?
Hint: Think nothing of it.
AnswerZeroAny number times 0 is 0, 0 divided by any nonzero number is 0, and adding 0 leaves a number unchanged.