this inane, puerile riddle is often falsely attributed to Paul Harvey, and is often presented this way:
"When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?
Send this to 10 people and then press shift and you will get the answer.
P.S. You won't believe this, but this really does give you the answer!!!!
The claims regarding "80% of kindergarten kids" and "17% of Stanford University seniors" are inserted merely to dress out the leg-pull — no one went about testing the riddle on either of those two groups, let alone comparing one set of results against the other. Yet although the statistic is made up, its underlying truth is not: Small children would have a much easier time working out the correct riddle than would adults. As with most riddles, the answer to this one is mind-numbingly simple, yet many will not think of it because to do so requires a literal view of language, something many youngsters start out with yet lose somewhere in their childhoods as words come to have myriads of meanings rather than one.
The answer is "Nothing." As in nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the rich need nothing, the poor have nothing, and if you eat nothing, you will die. So yes, if you do forward the riddle to ten people, you will get the answer because (and we groan as we say this) nothing will happen.
2006-12-08 00:30:22
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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NOTHING is greater than God
there is NOTHING more evil than the devil
the poor have NOTHING
the rich need NOTHING
if you eat NOTHING you will die
so the answer to the riddle is NOTHING
2006-12-08 00:30:02
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answer #2
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answered by tulip 2
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Nothing - is greater than God
Nothing - is more evil than the devil
Nothing - is what the poor have
Nothing - is what the rich need
Nothing - to eat will make you die
2006-12-08 02:51:45
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answer #3
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answered by SNT76 2
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NOTHING is greater then God
NOTHING is more evil then the devil
the poor have NOTHING
the rich need NOTHING(else)
if i eat NOTHING i'll die
so, put it together & u get the answer...
NOTHING
2006-12-08 00:31:53
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answer #4
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answered by Vicky_Icky 3
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Zip, Nada, Absolutely Zilch.
2006-12-08 00:25:20
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answer #5
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answered by Paul R 5
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Nothing
2006-12-08 09:42:57
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answer #6
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answered by scourgeoftheleft 4
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Nothing
2006-12-08 00:34:31
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answer #7
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answered by bellefire016 4
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Nothing
2006-12-08 00:23:51
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-11-24 22:52:00
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answer #9
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answered by ? 4
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Something
2006-12-08 01:13:33
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answer #10
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answered by worldenvy5000 2
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