Trick Questions
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
I start out tall, but the longer I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?
A candle.
What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A clock.
What can be caught but never thrown?
A cold.
I have teeth but can't eat. What am I?
A comb.
What can you hold without touching it at all?
A conversation.
What bird can lift the most weight?
A crane.
If I drink, I die. If I eat, I'm fine. What am I?
A fire.
What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole.
What two keys can't open any door?
A monkey and a donkey.
What has one eye but can't see anything at all?
A needle.
What can be broken but never held?
A promise.
What happened when the wheel was invented?
A revolution occurred.
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
A river.
If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?
A secret.
What's full of holes but can still hold liquid?
A sponge.
What travels the world while stuck in one spot?
A stamp!
Forwards I'm heavy but backward I'm not. What am I?
A ton.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?
A widow.
Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?
A window.
What has three feet but can't walk?
A yardstick.
How do you make the number one disappear?
Add the letter G and it's "gone"!
Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
Advice.
How many months have 28 days?
All 12!
If an electric train is moving north at 100 mph and a wind is blowing west at 10 mph, which way does the smoke blow?
An electric train has no smoke.
What starts with "e" and ends with "e" but only has one letter in it?
An envelope.
What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
Beth's mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?
Beth.
I'm light as a feather, but not even the strongest girl can hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
Breath.
First you throw away my outside and cook the inside. Then you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I?
Corn on the cob. Because you throw away the husk, cook the corn. Then you eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.
What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
Day breaks and night falls
You spot a boat full of people but there isn't a single person on board. How is that possible?
Everyone on board is married.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footprints.
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?
Friday was the name of his horse.
How can a man go outside in the pouring rain and not have a hair on his head get wet?
He is bald.
A boy who is alone, kicked his soccer ball ten feet and then it came back to him. How is this possible?
He kicked it up.
What moves faster: heat or cold?
Heat. Because you can always catch a cold.
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
Incorrectly.
What's as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing?
Its shadow.
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and dinner.
What has four eyes but can't see?
Mississippi
The accountant testified "the attorney is my brother," but, the attorney testified that he did not have a brother. Who is lying?
Neither one because the accountant was his sister.
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound.
If two's company and three's a crowd, what do four and five make?
Nine.
If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
No time at all because the wall was already built.
Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
No, but he's also dead so that's impossible.
What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?
Noise.
How much dirt is there in a hole that's 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep?
None.
What would you call a man without all of his fingers on one hand?
Normal, most people have half their fingers on one hand.
What's greater than God and more evil than the devil. Rich people want it, poor people have it. And if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.
What can run but not walk?
Raindrops.
Uncle Ray's farm had a terrible storm hit and now all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are left alive?
Seven
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven (take away the 's' and it becomes 'even').
A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn't get hurt. How come?
She fell off the bottom rung.
How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?
She sleeps at night.
What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short.
I'm so fragile that if you say my name, you'll break me. What am I?
Silence.
What goes up and down but always remains in the same place?
Stairs
Imagine you're in a room that's filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.
If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
Survivors are not buried.
A girl leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two guys wearing masks. Who are the two guys?
The catcher and the umpire.
A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. "This boy is my son," the doctor said. But the doctor wasn't the boy's father. How could this be?
The doctor was the boy's mom.
Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one slice of pizza, yet only three slices were eaten. How's that possible?
The group included a grandmother, her daughter and her daughter's daughter.
We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?
The letter "e"
What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?
The letter "w."
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
The letter M.
A man was outside taking a walk when it started to rain. The man didn't have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat or a hood. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this be?
The man was bald.
If you had only one match and entered a dark doom containing an oil lamp, kindling, and a newspaper, which would you light first?
The match.
If there is a bowl of five apples and you took away three, how many do you have?
The three you took.
How is it possible for every single person to die in a plane crash but two people survived?
The two survivors were married.
If Mrs. Smith's one-story house is entirely decorated in pink (pink walls, furniture, carpet, etc.), what color are the stairs?
There are no stairs.
What does an island and the letter "T" have in common?
They are both in the middle of water.
What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow
Name four days of the week that start with the letter "t"?
Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
How many seconds are there in a year?
Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.
How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it?
When that something is a hole.
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
What goes up but never ever comes down?
Your age.
I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Your bed.
I have all the knowledge you have. But I'm so small, you can hold me in your fist. What am I?
Your brain.
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain.
What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Your cellphone.
What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't actually alive?
Your gloves.
What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
Your name.
If you spell "sit in the tub" as s-o-a-k, and you spell "a funny story" as j-o-k-e, how do you spell "the white of an egg"?
e-g-g w-h-i-t-e
