Braingle: 'What is Risk?' Brain Teaser

What is Risk?

Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.

Puzzle ID:	#31853
Fun:	(3.27)
Difficulty:	(2.28)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	cyberstar5150

There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.

The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.

When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: "What is risk?"

Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!

What did he write?

Hint

What the student wrote showed the professor that he had a good understanding of the material, thus the A.
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Comments

GebbieRose Jul 18, 2006	Clever.
monkeygrl99 Jul 18, 2006	Yeah.
dolphingurl12 Jul 18, 2006	I liked it!
Punk_Rocker Jul 18, 2006	Very clever.
phrebh Jul 18, 2006	I really liked this teaser. Good job!
spazzyjazzy93 Jul 18, 2006	ditto i had to peek at the hint b4 i got it
brainster Jul 19, 2006	Good one! Really interesting and creative!
ragdol13 Jul 19, 2006	ha-ha! i liked that one! =]
Brainy_1 Jul 19, 2006	That was clever indeed! I liked it!
moonsliver86 Jul 20, 2006	very good teaser... reminds me of the story about the philosophy teacher who asked "what is courage?" in his finals and the student who passed a paper with "This" on it...
pianofox Jul 20, 2006	that was cool!
puppygirl1213 Jul 22, 2006	cool, i thought it was "life" my bad
calmsavior Aug 25, 2006	ohhhhhhh
calmsavior Aug 25, 2006	ohhhhhhh
rkaaland Oct 07, 2006	Very Interesting!
blondebookworm Oct 16, 2006	great job! that really is risky. If I were the teacher I probably would have flunked him.
SPUTNIK2 Oct 24, 2006	tricky tricky tricky!! Liked it very much thanx
Winner4600 Nov 24, 2006	easy, fun, thanks!
jsdodgers Jan 11, 2007	great teaser
bgil7604 Jan 29, 2007	I didn't get it, ut my friend did. I was actually thinking "exam," but it was close enough.
solarsistim321 Feb 10, 2007	Bravo
parayik Apr 10, 2007	Very tricky, I liked it!
tintiniscool Apr 15, 2007	Excellent!
cista May 24, 2007	i got it... hehe.. really nice, loved it..
amn22492 May 24, 2007	my uncle, a college proffessor, taught me that and many others. all the same, this is a good one!
desiree1079 Jun 06, 2007	that was hot
tennisfreak4eva Jun 24, 2007	really gd ...really cleaver
Shriya Sep 26, 2007	It was way too easy. I dunno why, just after reading the question, the answer just blurted in my mind on itself. Anyway, nice try!
al111 Nov 03, 2007	VERY clever i loved it sooo much 4739/10
AndrewWalker Dec 23, 2007	GREAT!!!
Writeaway Mar 12, 2008	Haha, brilliant teaser. I'll be looking for more from you. >.
kunju May 25, 2008	great one excellent
sourdough Jun 23, 2008	$ourDough liked this one very much, yes indeedy doo! Risk is This... Very good teaser! Brilliant! $D
Flamey500 Aug 02, 2008	I didn't get it...
gottalovetacsc Sep 21, 2008	genius
soccercow10 Oct 21, 2008	I've heard this in many variations but it's definitely my all time favorite teaser!
devmonster Nov 04, 2008	oh this is good!
blackeve5 Nov 12, 2008	Hot!
Zomg-pie Nov 15, 2008	good one even better everybody liked it! (except that loser that didnt get it but who cares about him right?)
woodrock96 Feb 03, 2010	This was so hard! But I enjoy stuff like that. whoever did this should be proud.
tonjawithaj Mar 19, 2010	Reminds me of a class I took in college. Only one person got the right answer on the final exam...
coinjar876 Apr 26, 2010	My favorite teaser I've seen so far.
princess2007 Mar 08, 2011	luved it!!!
cyberstar5150 Mar 20, 2011	Glad everyone has enjoyed this one
IonicMind10 May 12, 2011	I got it! That's my first answer!
mae1 Jun 01, 2012	Haha. I've read this one somewhere online before. I like this one a lot.
royale-ninja Jul 23, 2012	nice...