Question

- I am made of wood, and sometimes brown, filled with lead, and I'm usually covered in yellow, I help young people advance their future. I was invented by George Washington Carver. Most people prefer me over a pen because I can erase my mistakes. A man in England fell on me and I went into his lung where I stayed at for 5years being two centimeters away from stabbing him in the heart and killing him; but he survived! *

Answer 1

Answer:

Pencil

Explanation:

1. Pencil is actually made or covered with wood.

2. Even it is filled with graphite, many people termed it as lead

3. Oftentimes it is painted in yellow color.

4. Children or young kids often use it at basic level in school

5. George Washington initiated the construction of Obelisk often called Washington Monument and sometimes referred to as pencil

6. A user can use eraser to erase or clean pencil when mistake is made unlike pen.

7. An English man nearly died when he fell on a pencil passing through his lung.

Hence, the correct answer to the riddle is PENCIL