Trivia Riddles

The answer is our history. Most men are right handed and if the button is on the right, it is easy for them to fasten the buttons if they are on the right side. Hence their button is on the right side.
When shirt with buttons was introduced then it can be afforded only by rich people. Rich lady often has maids and maids face the ladies and it is easier for them to fasten the buttons if the buttons are on the left side.

142857

142857 * 1 = 142857
142857 * 2 = 285714
142857 * 3 = 428571
142857 * 4 = 571428
142857 * 5 = 714285
142857 * 6 = 857142

These number are considered as cyclic numbers.

In a Clock

10

38 chicken = 30 ate chicken (30 ate sounds like 38)
There's 40 Lions in a field, 30 ate chicken

So if you do simple maths 40 - 30 = 10
the answer is 10

We can calculate out how many days there will be for the 13th on each month if we count from the beginning of the year (January 1). Then we divide total days by 7 to get the remainders. We also need to consider the leap year. Through the whole year we had all kinds of remainders, from 0 to 6. The minimum of occurence for all the unique remainders was 1. It means that we have at least one Friday on 13th. In a regular year, the best chance you can get 3 Fridays on 13th, which are in February, March and December because the remainders of these 3 months are 2. In a leap year, the best chance you also can get 3 Fridays on 13th, which are in January, April and July because the remainders of these 3 months are 6.

Throw the ball straight up in the air.

Only twenty-three people need be in the room, a surprisingly small number. The probability that there will not be two matching birthdays is then, ignoring leap years, 365x364x363x...x343/365 over 23 which is approximately 0.493. this is less than half, and therefore the probability that a pair occurs is greater than 50-50. With as few as fourteen people in the room the chances are better than 50-50 that a pair will have birthdays on the same day or on consecutive days.

A man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.

Of course morning, noon, and night are metaphors for the times in a man's (person's) life. Such metaphors are common in riddles. There were two Thebes, apparently this Thebes was the one in Greece. And this Sphinx was apparently not the one at Giza, in Egypt.

1,2, & 3

1 x 2 x 3 = 6 and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6

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