If you can solve this riddle please tell us all how you did it:
1 door closes, 9 open. When 9 close, 1 door opens. What is it?
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14 comments:
ask king solomon - this is a family blog!!
what does that mean?
correction, this is my blog and i can write what i like...
is it.... a pronoun?
In 1 Kings 10:1-13, the queen of Sheba asked Solomon many questions and riddles. The Bible does not divulge the details of her queries.
Yet, Rabbinical legends (the Targum Sheni, Midrash Mischle, and Midrash Hachefez) claim to offer twenty two of her riddles including the one in question.
Although our above google expert questions the family-friendliness of this discourse, I affirm the autonomy of the national scribe and salute their intellectual curiosity. Therefore, the answer...
"What is it? An enclosure with ten doors; when one is open, nine are shut, and when nine are open, one is shut," Sheba asked Solomon. Solomon answered, "The enclosure is the womb, and the ten doors are the ten orifices of man, namely his eyes, his ears, his nostrils, his mouth, the apertures for discharge of excreta and urine, and the navel. When the child is still in its mother's womb, the navel is open, but all the other apertures are shut, but when the child issues from the womb the navel is closed and the other orifices are open.
oh that's deep. i had no idea i put such a deep question on there.
if only solomon had an ultrasound machine, he would have known that a baby's orifices are not closed in the womb! I think this is why modern people have trouble figuring out this riddle, it doesn't really make sense today. It is figure-out-able through google only - unless of course one is an expert in ancient Hebrew rabbinical legends.
i wonder if that was how the other riddle answers were discovered. maybe we should strip the correct answer credit from Ken Jennings and Ken Jennings Jr. and give it to google.
pondering that is.
i'll sue!
are you saying you figured those answers out on your own? be advised that this is being recorded.
Although the 9 orifices may be open on one level in the womb as your ultrasound has shown, they are closed on another level. The umbilical cord is the one "orifice" that is "open" to directly receive oxygenated blood, antibodies from the mother (of the IgM flavor ), nutrients, pathological organisms, and many other beneficial/unfortunate substances from the baby's outside world. The other 9 orifices do not have direct contact from the outside world and are at the mercy of the 1...in this way they are "closed." Of course, after the gestational period, this scenario is reversed.
Moreover, I take umbrage at the fact that those that have problems with this riddle question my vast array of knowledge. I did not formulate the riddle, I only answered it. Please refer any complaints to the queen of Sheba.
Sincerely,
The wisest ever-Jenning's got nothin' on me-been dead for about 3000 years but I still got it-Solomon
Sorry to all the budding immunologists out there, my scribe mistyped. IgG, not IgM. IgG is the antibody from the mother that helps protect the newborn baby for the first 30 days of life in the outside world until it degrades leaving the baby susceptible to pathogens until they begin to produce enough IgG antibodies. Not to be confused with IgA from the milk.
Of course I figured out the first one on my own... I believe it was Ken Jennings Jr. that answered the other.
Anyway, this conversation has taken a turn for the weird. Bring on another riddle that does not involve orifices and antibodies!
I can vouch for the fact that Ken Jennings did indeed come up with the answer on his own. KJ, Jr. (being a child of the new millenium) may have utilized all the resources at his disposal to figure out the answer. Possibly on our current TV game shows this would be referred to as a "Shout out"? I have no idea who the current answerless riddle solver is, but I doubt the answer being given is the the only possible one. Otherwise, how did the riddle acquire the "answerless riddle" moniker? Perhaps the original riddler was pulling everyone's leg by asking a question which would arouse so much discussion. A riddle that has one true and unquestionable answer would not.
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