Fifty-year-old Scientist

A Scientist was fifty years old in the year 2000 but he was forty years old in the year 2010. How can this be possible?

PS: It has a logical answer.




Similar Riddles

I sleep during the day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 28 Oct 2025


What does an Island and the letter T have in common?

Asked by Neha on 18 Feb 2023

A mile-long train is moving at sixty miles an hour when it reaches a mile-long tunnel. How long does it take the entire train to pass through the tunnel?

Asked by Neha on 27 Apr 2022


Chocolate costs 6 rupees and a Toy costs 5 rupees. If you have 32 rupees in total, how many chocolates and how many Toys can be purchased with that amount?

Asked by Neha on 02 Mar 2025

Find three whole, positive numbers that have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together.

Asked by Neha on 01 Jan 2021

Role Action
Block Prevents the target player from acting
Redirect Change target player target.
Save Protects the target player from death.
Seer Sees all actions that occurred
Murderer Kills the target player

The following five players are playing:

Andy
Brian
Chris
Daniel
Fred

You are Andy the Seer and you saw the following things:
a) Brian was redirected to Chris.
b) Chris was blocked.
c) Daniel was killed.

Who is the murderer then?

Asked by Neha on 26 Mar 2025


How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?

Asked by Neha on 03 Apr 2022

Different lights make me strange by changing me into different sizes. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 09 Sep 2025

Can you make numbers like 24, using numbers 3,3,7 & 7 with any arithmetic operator?

Asked by Neha on 25 Feb 2023


What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1000?

Asked by Neha on 26 Sep 2021

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in the puzzle game “2048,” achieving a high score of 839,732 and beating the game in only 973 moves without using any undo.