Tricky Clever Trivia

100+ Tricky Clever Trivia Questions & Answers

Mike Oberman

Updated: October 17th, 2024

Looking for a fun way to challenge your problem-solving skills? Try our tricky clever trivia! With fun trivia questions and easy trick questions, this trivia game will keep you on your toes. Perfect for trivia quizzes or casual trivia nights, our quiz questions and answers are designed to entertain while sharpening your mind. Ready for the challenge?

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