@rblat,
The answer to that riddle isn’t “No”. I'm at a loss as to how "No" has been accepted and circulated as the correct answer all these years. All riddles have an answer or means to solve them. Otherwise they’re not riddles, they’re a paradox. And, until the answer is revealed, a person is “guessing” at the answer albeit making the best guess possible.
In addition, to say the answer is “No” is a paradox because a person CAN "guess" or "solve" this riddle AND answer the last question. But let’s reason it through step by step. If the answer to the riddle is indeed “No” and if someone correctly guesses that “No” is the answer, then the answer to the riddle should be “Yes” because he/she IS ABLE to guess "No" as the answer to the last question. But, if he/she answers “Yes”, sharers of the riddle are saying it’s the wrong answer…another paradox. So the only way to avoid a paradox is to say that “No” is NOT the answer to the whole riddle, only the last question. So, all of those kindergarten students didn’t answer the riddle either, they just guessed or "answered" the last question at the end.
This riddle has been around a long, long time and the correct answer is "pressure” because:
“I turn polar bears white” indicates the increased pressure and heat (climate change) that is melting polar ice in the artic. Pressure makes people cry under stress. Pressure causes the guys to pee. Pressure causes the girls to comb their hair. Pressure causes stress for celebrities. Pressure causes normal people to look like celebrities (game shows, reality shows, heros on the news, etc). Pressure causes heat which turns pancakes brown. Pressure sqeezes CO2 into a champagne bottle for bubbles. Pressure, or squeezing something like a balloon will make it pop, but If you look at a handsome man or prettty woman, “you’ll pop!”, a playful distractor and play on the word "pop."
