Short Story - What is the answer to your question? Who is smarter?

Short Story – What is the answer to your question?
By Rethelyn

A smart student is so popular in their school, he’s admired by everyone even by his teachers. The teacher was humble and very patient while the student was very proud because he received hundreds of gold medals from winning first prize (quiz bee in Math, English, Science, and History). He thought, he can easily answer all the questions anyone would ask him.
Then one day, the student challenged the teacher and said, "Teacher, I can answer all your questions and I even think I'm better than you! And I can prove that to you today!"

"Really?", the teacher replied.

"Yes, in fact I will challenge you to ask me any question and if I cannot answer you, I will pay you $1,000.00, you have nothing much to lose, because if I ask you a question and you cannot give an answer, you will pay me $1.00"

The teacher agreed and the student gave him the first question.
"Ok Teacher, This is described as the large scale motions of Earth’s Lithosphere, what is it called?"
The teacher hands over a $1.00 to the student because he could not remember the answer (tectonic plate)

"Ok its my turn to ask", said the teacher. "What do you call the creature that crawls only at day time and makes a sound of a lizard at night time, it has feathers and a tail of a reptile. It only eats small insects and hibernates every 6 months. It can fly and can lay more than 30 eggs at one time".

The student spent hours and hours of thinking, he was even given the chance to research, but he failed to give an answer, so he paid $1,000.00 to the teacher. After paying the teacher he asked what is the answer to the teacher's difficult question...

The teacher smiled and gave the student $1.00
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