Classic Riddles and Trick Questions
Question: What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
Question: What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
Question: What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
Question: What can be broken but never held?
Answer: A promise
Question: What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
Question: What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
Answer: Fire
Question: What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: Your cellphone
Question: What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
Answer: Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand
Question: What goes up but never ever comes down?
Answer: Your age
Question: What can one catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold
Question: A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt How come?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step
Question: If you have one, you want to share it But once you share it, you do not have it What is it?
Answer: A secret
Question: What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope
Question: If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
Answer: Survivors aren’t buried!
Question: How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?
Answer: She sleeps at night
Question: If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
Answer: No time, because the wall is already built
Question: You spot a boat full of people but there isn’t a single person on board How is that possible?
Answer: Everyone on board is married
Question: If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
Answer: The four you took
Question: How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add a ‘G’ and it’s gone!
Question: If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?
Answer: The match
Question: 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?
Answer: Nothing
Question: If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”?
Answer: E-G-G W-H-I-T-E
Question: A cowboy rode into town on Friday He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday How is that possible?
Answer: His horse is named Friday
Question: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
Answer: No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so
Question: What two keys can’t open any door?
Answer: A monkey and a donkey
Logical Puzzles and Brain Teasers
Question: If Mrs John’s one-story house is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs
Question: What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?
Answer: The letter ‘W’
Question: How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?
Answer: He kicked it up
Question: 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?
Answer: The doctor was the boy’s mom
Question: If a TV series has multiple seasons, which one usually has the most episodes?
Answer: The first season
Question: What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
Question: If Michael Jordan wore the number 23 for most of his career, what other number did he wear briefly?
Answer: 45
Question: If most people are right-handed, which hand do left-handed people tend to use for writing?
Answer: Left Hand
Question: How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?
Answer: The two survivors were married
Question: How many seconds are there in a year?
Answer: Twelve January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc
Question: If Earth's atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, what is the second most abundant gas?
Answer: Oxygen
Question: What can run but not walk?
Answer: Raindrops
Question: Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
Answer: All twelve
Question: If you’re in the United Kingdom, which direction would you travel to reach Ireland?
Answer: West
Question: “The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant But the attorney testified he did not have a brother Who is lying?
Answer: Neither one, because the accountant was his sister
Question: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: Neither They both weigh exactly one pound
Question: In Jurassic Park, how did the park’s dinosaurs manage to reproduce, despite all being female?
Answer: Some changed sex due to amphibian DNA
Question: How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it?
Answer: When the something is a hole
Question: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?
Answer: A widow
Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive?
Answer: A glove
Question: What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush
Question: Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining
Question: What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?
Answer: Stairs
Question: Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it What is it?
Answer: Advice
Question: What happened when the wheel was invented?
Answer: It caused a revolution
Word Play Trivia
Question: What can you hold without touching it at all?
Answer: A conversation
Question: What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
Answer: A coin
Question: I am an odd number Take away one letter and I become even What number am I?
Answer: Seven (take away the ‘s’ and it becomes ‘even’)
Question: Who is bigger, Mr Bigger, Mrs Bigger, or their baby?
Answer: The baby, since he is a little Bigger
Question: I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest girl can hold me for more than 5 minutes What am I?
Answer: Breath
Question: If you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle?
Answer: No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside
Question: 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?
Answer: The group included a grandmother, her daughter, and her daughter’s daughter
Question: A man lives on the 100th floor of an apartment building On rainy days he rides the elevator all the way up However, on sunny days, he goes halfway and takes the stairs the rest of the way Why?
Answer: The man is short and can only reach the button for the 50th floor on the elevator On rainy days, he uses his umbrella handle
Question: What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
Question: A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane Suddenly, a large black car with no lights on comes around the corner and screeches to a halt How did the car’s driver know he was there?
Answer: It was daytime
Question: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Question: Robert, my neighbor, a forty-five-year-old blacksmith is seven feet tall, and eats all day long What does he weigh?
Answer: Iron
Question: What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain
Question: Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies?
Answer: Because there is one more penny in 1968 pennies than in 1967 pennies
Question: What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
Answer: Your name
Question: There are eight men sitting on a couch Three legs break and six men leave How many legs are remaining?
Answer: Five; the legs of the two remaining men and the remaining couch leg
Question: You are driving a bus When you begin your route, there is an old woman named Mrs Smith and a young boy named Raymond are on the bus At the first stop, the old woman leaves, and a salesman, named Ed, enters At the next stop, Jack and his sister Jill get on, as well as three women with shopping bags The bus travels fifteen minutes, then stops and Raymond gets off and a man and his wife get on Next, a woman with a bird in a cage gets on the bus What is the name of the bus driver?
Answer: It’s you!
Question: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
Question: What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half by hand?
Answer: Once
Question: I’m so fragile that if you say my name, you’ll break me What am I?
Answer: Silence
Question: On a Sunday morning, the oldest girl in a family was murdered The father was reading the paper, the mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and the girl’s brother was playing video games Uncle George was visiting and was out getting the mail Who murdered the girl?
Answer: Uncle George Mail isn’t delivered on Sundays
Question: What’s full of holes but can still hold liquid?
Answer: A sponge
Question: What two words, when combined, hold the most letters?
Answer: Post Office
Question: If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?
Answer: None, coconut trees don’t grow bananas
Question: I have teeth but can’t eat What am I?
Answer: A comb
Miscellaneous Clever Trivia
Question: Which country’s national animal is a unicorn?
Answer: Scotland
Question: The cheetah is the fastest land animal, but which part of its body helps it maintain balance during a high-speed chase?
Answer: Its tail
Question: What is the longest word in the English language that refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silicate or quartz dust?
Answer: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Question: In Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which dwarf is the only one without a beard?
Answer: Dopey
Question: If you're in the capital city of Egypt, what time is it on the Great Wall of China?
Answer: None, the Great Wall isn’t in Egypt!
Question: If World War I ended in 1918 and World War II began in 1939, how many years passed between the two wars?
Answer: 21 years
Question: If you walked across the smallest country in the world, how long would it take?
Answer: About 20 minutes, as Vatican City is only 02 square miles!
Question: If you're in New Zealand during the height of summer in January, what season is it in Europe?
Answer: Winter, because the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have opposite seasons!
Question: The nickname "Land of the Rising Sun" refers to which country that's actually west of the International Date Line?
Answer: Japan
Question: If the 44th U S president served two terms, who was president between the 43rd and the 45th?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element that makes up most of the sun, but isn't gold?
Answer: H
Question: How many animals did Moses take into the ark?
Answer: None because it was Noah who built and loaded the ark
Question: In Greek mythology, who flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax?
Answer: Icarus
Question: What’s the main ingredient in hummus?
Answer: Chickpeas
Question: Which planet in the solar system is not named after a Greek or Roman god?
Answer: Earth
Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and also the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Answer: Marie Curie
Question: Who was president of the US during the start of the American Civil War?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: What travels the world while stuck in one spot?
Answer: A stamp
Question: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?
Answer: No problem, because concrete floors are very hard to crack
Question: Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?
Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow
Question: In the Harry Potter series, what’s the name of the magical school located in Scotland that you can only find if you're a wizard?
Answer: Hogwarts
Question: In The Lion King, which animal becomes king of the Pride Lands after defeating Scar, even though he ran away as a cub?
Answer: Simba
Question: If the Titanic sink after hitting an iceberg, why didn’t it sink immediately?
Answer: The watertight compartments slowed the process
Question: If New York is known as the "Big Apple," what is the fruit-themed nickname for its neighbor, New Jersey?
Answer: There isn’t one, because New Jersey isn’t fruit-themed!
Question: If the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, which direction would you travel to reach the Atlantic from California?
Answer: East