TOP 50 TRICK QUESTIONS

50 Trick Questions

1. What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?

Lunch and Dinner

2. What is always coming but never arrives?

Tomorrow

3. What gets wetter the more it dries?

A towel

4. What can be broken but never held?

A promise

5. What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?

Incorrectly

6. What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?

Fire

7. What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?

Your cellphone

8. What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?

Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.

9. What goes up but never ever comes down?

Your age

10. What can one catch that is not thrown?

A cold

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11. A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come?

She fell off the bottom step

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12. If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it. What is it?

A secret

13. What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?

An envelope

14. If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?

Survivors aren’t buried!

15. How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?

She sleeps at night

16. If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?

No time, because the wall is already built

17. 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

18. If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

The four you took

19. How do you make the number one disappear?

Add a ‘G’ and it’s gone!

20. 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?

The match

21. 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

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22. 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”?

E-G-G W-H-I-T-E

23. A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?

His horse is named Friday

24. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so.

25. What two keys can’t open any door?

A monkey and a donkey

26. 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?

There are no stairs

27. What will you actually find at the end of every rainbow?

The letter ‘W’

28. How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?

He kicked it up

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29. 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

30. How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?

He is bald

31. What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?

A clock

32. If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow?

An electric train has no smoke

33. I start out tall, but the longer I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?

A candle

34. How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?

The two survivors were married.

35. How many seconds are there in a year?

Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.

36. What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?

Day breaks and night falls

37. What can run but not walk?

Rain drops

38. Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?

All 12

39. Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?

A window

40. “The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?

Neither one, because the accountant was his sister

41. Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound

42. Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?

Seven

43. How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it?

When the something is a hole.

44. What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?

A widow

45. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive?

A glove

46. What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?

A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush

47. 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

48. What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?

Stairs

49. Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?

Advice

50. What happened when the wheel was invented?

It caused a revolution