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Easy trivias
- What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan? (Answer: Tinker Bell)
- What do you call a baby sheep? (Answer: Lamb)
- What is the skin color of The Grinch? (Answer: Green)
- What is the shape of a stop sign? (Answer: Octagon)
- Which bird is often associated with delivering babies? (Answer: Stork)
- Which fruit is known as the “king of fruits”? (Answer: Durian)
- What is the capital of Brazil? (Answer: Brasília)
- What is the fastest land animal? (Answer: Cheetah)
- What gas do humans breathe in most? (Answer: Oxygen)
- How many basketball players do a team send in one court game? (Answer: Five)
- What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s pet dog? (Answer: Pluto)
- What do you call a baby duck? (Answer: Duckling)
- What breed is Scooby-Doo? (Answer: Great Dane)
- What galaxy is Earth in? (Answer: Milky Way Galaxy)
Moderate-level trivias
- Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic? (Answer: Amelia Earhart)
- Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun? (Answer: Japan)
- What type of rock is formed from lava? (Answer: Igneous rock)
- Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye? (Answer: J.D. Salinger)
- What do bees collect from flowers to make honey? (Answer: Nectar)
- What is the main ingredient in hummus? (Answer: Chickpeas)
- What is the national sport of Canada? (Answer: Lacrosse)
- How many wings does a butterfly have? (Answer: Four)
- Which planet has the Great Red Spot? (Answer: Jupiter)
- What do you call a baby kangaroo? (Answer: Joey)
- What is the tallest mountain in North America? (Answer: Denali)
- Who painted The Starry Night? (Answer: Vincent van Gogh)
- What was the first toy to be advertised on television? (Answer: Mr. Potato Head)
- Which organ in the human body is responsible for filtering blood? (Answer: Kidneys)
- What is the name of the large hat often worn in Mexico to provide shade from the sun? (Answers: Sombrero)
- What does the “F” stand for in FBI? (Answer: Federal)
- What is the universal solvent? (Answer: Water)
Hard trivias
- What element is named after the Greek word for green? (Answer: Chlorine)
- What is the most important of the Christian festivals? (Answer: Easter Sunday)
- Who discovered the theory of relativity? (Answer: Albert Einstein)
- In Christianity and Judaism, what is the name of the Bible’s first book? (Answer: Genesis)
- What is the currency of Switzerland? (Answer: Swiss Franc)
- What was the first video game ever made? (Answer: Pong)
- What is the longest-running Broadway show? (Answer: The Phantom of the Opera)
- What year did the Berlin Wall fall? (Answer: 1989)
- What is the smallest planet in our solar system? (Answer: Mercury)
- What famous ship sank in 1912? (Answer: Titanic)
- Who was the first human to walk on the Moon? (Answer: Neil Armstrong)
- Who is the central prophet in Islam, believed to have received messages from God? (Answer: Muhammad)
- What is the national flower of Japan? (Answer: Cherry Blossom)
- Which painter cut off his own ear? (Answer: Vincent van Gogh)
- What is the capital of Iceland? (Answer: Reykjavik)
- How many taste buds does the average human tongue have? (Answer: Around 10,000)
- What is the longest river in the United States? (Answer: Missouri River)
- Which gas is commonly known as laughing gas? (Answer: Nitrous oxide)
Funny trivia questions
- Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of what? (Answer: The number 13)
- What color is a polar bear’s skin? (Answer: Black)
- What structure was built to reach the heavens but was stopped when people’s languages were confused? (Answer: The Tower of Babel)
- What is a group of flamingos called? (Answer: A flamboyance)
- What is the only number spelled with its letters in alphabetical order? (Answer: Forty)
- What was the original color of Coca-Cola? (Answer: Green)
- What do you call a baby owl? (Answer: Owlet)
- What is the only mammal that can fly? (Answer: Bat)
- Which letter is worth the most points in Scrabble? (Answer: Q and Z)
- What is the main ingredient in peanut butter? (Answer: Peanuts)
- What does “DC” stand for in DC Comics? (Answer: Detective Comics)
- What kind of tree produces acorns? (Answer: Oak)
- Why do kindergarten students in Japan wear yellow hats? (Answer: For safety and visibility)
- What is the most popular data collection method? (Answer: Survey and Questionnaires)
- In which country is it traditional for brides to wear red dresses instead of white at weddings? (Answers: China and India)
- What whale is actually a dolphin? (Answer: Orca or Killer Whale)
- What is the technical name for the hashtag symbol (#)? (Answer: Octothorpe)
- What is the name of the longest English word without a vowel? (Answer: Rhythms)
- What is the world’s most expensive spice? (Answer: Saffron)
General knowledge trivias
- What is the name of the garden where Adam and Eve lived, according to the Bible? (Answer: The Garden of Eden)
- Which group was the Great Wall of China originally built to protect against? (Answer: Mongols)
- What is the most spoken language in the world? (Answer: English)
- Who invented the telephone? (Answer: Alexander Graham Bell)
- What is the name of the Greek god of war? (Answer: Ares)
- What is the only country to have won the FIFA World Cup five times? (Answer: Brazil)
- What is the longest-running American animated TV show? (Answer: The Simpsons)
- What is the chemical symbol for water? (Answer: H2O)
- What do you call an animal that only eats plants? (Answer: Herbivore)
- What city is known as “The Big Apple”? (Answer: New York City)
- Who was the first American president to appear on television? (Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- What does “www” stand for in a website address? (Answer: World Wide Web)
- Which type of form has the highest completion rate? (Answer: Application forms)
- What is the hardest natural substance on Earth? (Answer: Diamond)
- What type of currency does the United Kingdom use? (Answer: Pound Sterling)
- What is the most consumed drink in the world after water? (Answer: Tea)
- How many stripes are on the American flag? (Answer: 13)
- How old is the Earth estimated to be? (Answer: About 4.543 billion years)
Kid-friendly trivias

- What is the name of the cowboy in Toy Story? (Answer: Woody)
- What is the color of the sun in most children’s drawings? (Answer: Yellow)
- What do caterpillars turn into? (Answer: Butterflies)
- How many wheels does a tricycle have? (Answer: Three)
- What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend? (Answer: Minnie Mouse)
- What animal says “moo”? (Answer: Cow)
- What is the shape of a snowflake? (Answer: Hexagon)
- What color are strawberries? (Answer: Red)
- How many legs does a dog have? (Answer: Four)
- What sound does a cat make? (Answer: Meow)
- What do you use to brush your teeth? (Answer: Toothbrush)
- What is the capital of the United States? (Answer: Washington, D.C.)
- What fruit do we get from apple trees? (Answer: Apples)
- In the story of David and Goliath, what did David use to defeat the giant? (Answer: A slingshot and a stone)
- What animal is known for hopping and carrying its baby in a pouch? (Answer: Kangaroo)
- What shape is a rugby ball? (Answer: Oval)
Geography and places trivias
- What country has the most islands in the world? (Answer: Sweden – over 267,000 islands!)
- What is the only U.S. state with a one-syllable name? (Answer: Maine)
- What’s the flattest country in the world? (Answer: The Maldives – highest point is just 2.4 meters above sea level!)
- Which city is further west: Reno, Nevada, or Los Angeles, California? (Answer: Reno!)
- What is the only continent without active volcanoes? (Answer: Australia)
- What is the smallest country in the world by land area? (Answer: Vatican City – only 0.49 square kilometers!)
- Which U.S. state has the most ghost towns? (Answer: Texas – over 500!)
- What’s the deepest lake in the world? (Answer: Lake Baikal in Russia – 5,387 feet deep!)
- What country has the most pyramids? (Answer: Sudan – more than Egypt!)
- What is the only sea with no coastline? (Answer: Sargasso Sea – in the Atlantic, surrounded by ocean currents!)
- What is the capital city with the highest elevation? (Answer: La Paz, Bolivia – 11,975 feet!)
- Which African country has the most languages spoken? (Answer: Nigeria – over 500 languages!)
- What’s the largest island in the Mediterranean? (Answer: Sicily, Italy)
- What’s the longest border between two countries? (Answer: Canada & USA – 8,891 km!)
- Which country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined? (Answer: Canada!)
Science and nature trivias
- What’s the only metal that is liquid at room temperature? (Answer: Mercury)
- Which planet spins the fastest in our solar system? (Answer: Jupiter – one full rotation in about 10 hours!)
- What’s the only letter not in the periodic table? (Answer: J!)
- What is the rarest blood type? (Answer: AB negative – less than 1% of the world!)
- What’s the largest living organism on Earth? (Answer: A massive underground fungus in Oregon!)
- What is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name? (Answer: Q!)
- Which planet has the most moons? (Answer: Saturn – over 80!)
- What’s the only animal that can’t jump? (Answer: Elephants!)
- What’s the fastest bird in the world? (Answer: Peregrine falcon – over 240 mph in a dive!)
- What’s the longest-living insect? (Answer: Termite queens – up to 50 years!)
- What’s the only rock that floats on water? (Answer: Pumice!)
- What’s the world’s fastest-growing plant? (Answer: Bamboo!)
- What’s the most venomous animal on Earth? (Answer: Box jellyfish!)
Trivias on foods and drinks
- What fruit contains more vitamin C than an orange? (Answer: Kiwi!)
- What food never spoils? (Answer: Honey!)
- What’s the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside? (Answer: Strawberry!)
- What’s the most stolen food in the world? (Answer: Cheese!)
- Which nut is used to make dynamite? (Answer: Peanuts – due to nitroglycerin!)
- What’s the world’s most expensive spice by weight? (Answer: Saffron!)
- What is the only U.S. state that grows coffee? (Answer: Hawaii!)
- Which vegetable was once known as “love apples”? (Answer: Tomatoes!)
- What’s the only food astronauts can’t eat in space? (Answer: Bread – too many crumbs!)
- What’s the main ingredient in traditional marzipan? (Answer: Almonds!)
- What soft drink was originally green? (Answer: Coca-Cola!)
- What’s the most widely eaten fish in the world? (Answer: Herring!)
- What popular drink was once banned for being “too addictive”? (Answer: Coffee!)
- What’s the oldest known cultivated crop? (Answer: Barley – over 10,000 years old!)
- What’s the national dish of Scotland? (Answer: Haggis!)
Entertainment & pop culture trivias
- Who was the first Disney princess? (Answer: Snow White!)
- What’s the highest-grossing movie ever (without inflation adjustment)? (Answer: Avatar!)
- What was the first music video played on MTV? (Answer: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles!)
- What’s the longest-running TV show in history? (Answer: The Simpsons!)
- Who was the first actor to play James Bond? (Answer: Sean Connery!)
- What’s the most-covered song in history? (Answer: “Yesterday” by The Beatles!)
- Which video game has sold the most copies ever? (Answer: Minecraft!)
- What’s the best-selling book series of all time? (Answer: Harry Potter!)
- What’s the oldest surviving animated film? (Answer: Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914!)
- What was the first feature animated film? (Answer: El Apóstol by Quirino Cristiani)
- What’s the first movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars? (Answer: Wings, 1927!)
- What’s the longest song ever recorded? (Answer: “The Rise and Fall of Bossanova,” 13 hours!)
- What’s the first film to feature a post-credits scene? (Answer: The Muppet Movie, 1979!)
- What’s the highest-selling video game console of all time? (Answer: PlayStation 2!)
- What’s the first movie ever made? (Answer: Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888!)
Arts and literature trivias
- What was Vincent van Gogh’s favorite color, which he used in many of his paintings? (Answer: yellow ochre)
- Who was the first known author in history, dating back to 2285 BCE? (Answer: Enheduanna)
- Which famous painter was accused of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911? (Answer: Vincenzo Peruggia)
- What Shakespeare play contains the most words? (Answer: Hamlet with more than 30,000 words)
- What artist created over 50 versions of The Scream? (Answer: Edvard Munch)
- Which famous painter was suspected of being Jack the Ripper? (Answer: Walter Sickert)
- What was the original title of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? (Answer: First Impressions)
- Who was the first poet to be honored with a Grammy Award? (Answer: Maya Angelou)
- What was the first book ever printed using movable type? (Answer: The Gutenberg Bible)
- What color is the most frequently used in Picasso’s Blue Period? (Answer: Blue)
- Which famous writer was a spy during World War II? (Answer: Ian Fleming)
- What novel holds the record for the longest sentence ever written? (Answer: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust)
- What famous artist was also a scientist who dissected human bodies for anatomy studies? (Answer: Leonardo da Vinci)
- Which famous book was banned because it contained a talking pig? (Answer: Animal Farm by George Orwell)
- What famous author wrote a book with a character named Dracula before Bram Stoker’s Dracula? (Answer: Jules Verne in The Carpathian Castle)
- What color was originally banned from being used in paintings by the Catholic Church? (Answer: Green)
- Who is the only artist to have their work displayed in the Louvre while still alive? (Answer: Pablo Picasso)
- What book is the most stolen from public libraries? (Answer: The Guinness Book of World Records)
- What famous artist had synesthesia, allowing him to hear colors? (Answer: Wassily Kandinsky)
Fun trivias about animals

- What animal has the highest blood pressure? (Answer: Giraffe)
- Which mammal can hold its breath the longest? (Answer: Cuvier’s beaked whale)
- What animal has fingerprints nearly identical to humans? (Answer: Koala)
- What is the only known immortal animal? (Answer: Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the immortal jellyfish)
- Which bird can sleep while flying and can fly nonstop for 200 days? (Answer: Alpine Swift)
- What animal can regenerate its heart, brain, and other organs? (Answer: Axolotl, Starfish, Salamander, Mexican tetra, and Sea cucumber)
- Which sea creature has three hearts? (Answer: Octopus)
- What is the only venomous primate? (Answer: Slow loris)
- Which animal can survive being frozen solid? (Answer: Wood frog)
- What mammal is known to laugh when tickled? (Answer: Rats–-aside from humans)
- Which animal can live the longest without drinking water? (Answer: Kangaroo rat)
- What is the only insect that can turn its head? (Answer: Praying mantis)
- Which fish can see both ultraviolet and infrared light? (Answer: Goldfish)
- What animal has the highest pain tolerance? (Answer: Naked mole-rat)
- What is the only animal known to blush? (Answer: Human)
- Which bird can mimic nearly any sound, including chainsaws? (Answer: Lyrebird)
- What is the fastest marine animal? (Answer: Black marlin)
- Which animal has the largest brain-to-body ratio? (Answer: Sperm whale)
- What is the only known venomous mammal? (Answer: Male platypus)
- Which bird lays the largest egg relative to body size? (Answer: Kiwi)
- What insect has been on Earth for over 500 million years? (Answer: Spiders)
- Which mammal has the shortest pregnancy? (Answer: Virginian opossum)
- What is the loudest animal in the world? (Answer: Sperm whale)
- Which creature can live without a head for weeks? (Answer: Cockroach)
- What is the deadliest animal to humans? (Answer: Mosquito)
- What animal was the first to orbit Earth? (Answer: Dog, specifically Laika)
- What species of bird can fly the longest without stopping? (Answer: Bar-tailed godwit)
Worldwide events & history trivias
- What is the shortest war in history? (Answer: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896)
- Who was the first ruler to declare war on drugs? (Answer: Emperor Shen Nung of China)
- What was the first country to grant women the right to vote? (Answer: New Zealand, in 1893.)
- Which ancient civilization had the first recorded police force? (Answer: Ancient Egypt)
- What natural disaster inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? (Answer: The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815)
- What was the deadliest pandemic in history? (Answer: The Black Death)
- Who was the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel? (Answer: Annie Edson Taylor)
- What year did the Titanic sink? (Answer: 1912.)
- Which historical figure died from drinking too much ice water? (Answer: U.S. President Zachary Taylor)
- Who was the first known female pirate? (Answer: Queen Teuta of Illyria)
- What ancient weapon could shoot arrows rapidly like a machine gun? (Answer: The Greek polybolos)
- Who was the youngest U.S. president? (Answer: Theodore Roosevelt)
- What city was the first to be bombed from the air? (Answer: Venice)
- What year was the internet invented? (Answer: 1969)
- Which historical figure survived over 600 assassination attempts? (Answer: Fidel Castro)
- Who was the first human in space? (Answer: Yuri Gagarin)
- What was the first recorded use of biological warfare? (Answer: In 1347 by Mongol forces)
- What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world? (Answer: Damascus, Syria.)
- What empire had the first postal system? (Answer: The Persian Empire)
- Which war lasted the longest in human history? (Answer: The Iberian Religious Wars, lasting 781 years)
- What famous explorer was buried in two places? (Answer: Christopher Columbus)
- What battle is considered the bloodiest in history? (Answer: The Battle of Stalingrad during World War II)
- Who was the first person to discover Antarctica? (Answer: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen)
- What historical event led to the invention of the sandwich? (Answer: The 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu.)
- What was Napoleon’s real height? (Answer: Approximately 5 feet 6 inches (Answer: 1.68 meters), average for his time.)
- Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? (Answer: Marie Curie, in 1903.)
- What year was the Berlin Wall torn down? (Answer: 1989.)
- What was the first Olympic sport ever recorded? (Answer: Stadion race)
- What caused the Great Fire of London in 1666? (Answer: A fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.)
- Which civilization invented the concept of zero? (Answer: The ancient Maya civilization.)
Space & universe trivias
- What is the largest volcano in the solar system? (Answer: Olympus Mons on Mars)
- What was the first animal in space? (Answer: Fruit flies)
- What planet has the fastest winds? (Answer: Neptune)
- What planet has a moon with a thick atmosphere? (Answer: Saturn, with its moon Titan)
- What is the coldest place in the universe? (Answer: Boomerang Nebula)
- What is the biggest star ever discovered? (Answer: UY Scuti)
- What is the only planet that rotates sideways? (Answer: Uranus)
- What moon has more water than Earth? (Answer: Jupiter’s moon Ganymede)
- What is the oldest known galaxy? (Answer: GN-z11)
- What planet rains diamonds? (Answer: Neptune and Uranus)
- What is the name of the first man-made satellite? (Answer: Sputnik 1)
- What star is closest to Earth? (Answer: The Sun)
- Which planet has the most moons? (Answer: Saturn)
- What was the first exoplanet discovered? (Answer: 51 Pegasi b)
Trick questions to stump your friends

‘I am’ riddles
- I am always running but never move. What am I? (Answer: A clock)
- I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I? (Answer: A fire)
- I am tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I? (Answer: A candle)
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I? (Answer: A joke)
- I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I make it lighter. What am I? (Answer: A hole)
- I am a word that’s spelled the same forward and backward. What am I? (Answer: Racecar or radar)
- I am taken from a mine and shut inside a wooden case, never to be released except when in use. What am I? (Answer: A pencil lead)
- I am always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I? (Answer: The future)
- I am sometimes white but mostly black; I am a symbol of intelligence. What am I? (Answer: chalkboard/whiteboard)
- I am the type of room you can’t enter. What am I? (Answer: A mushroom)
- I am something that gets sharper the more you use me. What am I? (Answer: Your brain or a pencil)
- I am something you throw away when you need me and bring back when you don’t. What am I? (Answer: An anchor)
- I am found in socks, scarves, and mittens but not a pool. What am I? (Answer: The letter “s”)
- I am lighter than air but can’t be lifted by the strongest person. What am I? (Answer: A bubble)
- I am a fruit that’s always sad. What am I? (Answer: A blueberry)
- I am easy to get into but hard to get out of. What am I? (Answer: Trouble)
- I am something that everyone in the world does at the same time. What am I? (Answer: Grow older)
- I am always ahead of you but never behind. What am I? (Answer: Your shadow)
- I am a place where today comes before yesterday. What am I? (Answer: A dictionary)
- I am something that has eyes but can’t see. What am I? (Answer: A potato or a needle)
- I am a number that increases but never decreases. What am I? (Answer: Your age)
- I am a vegetable that sounds like I could be a weapon. What am I? (Answer: A squash)
- I am a word with two meanings, one means “to lift,” and the other means “to steal.” What am I? (Answer: Jack)
- I am found in the sky at night but disappear in the day. What am I? (Answer: Stars)
- I am something you can serve but never eat. What am I? (Answer: A tennis ball or a volleyball)
- I am often bought for eating but never eaten. What am I? (Answer: A plate)
- I am a word that means both to create and to destroy. What am I? (Answer: Break)
- I am a type of fish also named by a famous magician. What am I? (Answer: Houdini – sounds like “Who? Dini”)
- I am a question you can never honestly say “yes” to. What am I? (Answer: Are you asleep?)
- I start with “P,” and end with “E,” and have thousands of letters inside me. What am I? (Answer: A post office!)
‘Just for fun’ questions
- If you were running a race and passed the person in second place, what place would you be in? (Answer: Second)
- What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? (Answer: They weigh the same—one pound!)
- If there are 12 fish and half drown, how many are left? (Answer: All 12! Fish don’t drown!)
- How many months have 28 days? (Answer: All 12 months have at least 28 days!)
- If an electric train is going north at 100 mph and the wind is blowing east at 50 mph, which way does the smoke blow? (Answer: Electric trains don’t produce smoke!)
- How much dirt is in a hole 3 feet deep and 6 feet wide? (Answer: None, because it’s a hole!)
- What do you get if you spell “sit in the tub” without any spaces? (Answer: Watch their face as they realize!)
- I have two coins that add up to 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the coins? (Answer: A quarter and a nickel—the trick is that one isn’t a nickel, but the other is!)
- Can you pronounce the word “Gullible” really slowly? (Answer: They’ll either try or realize it’s a setup!)
Classic trick questions
- What goes up but never comes down? (Answer: Your age!)
- What has hands but can’t clap? (Answer: A clock!)
- What has a head and a tail but no body? (Answer: A coin!)
- What can you hold without touching it? (Answer: A conversation!)
- What gets wetter as it dries? (Answer: A towel!)
- What has eyes but can’t see? (Answer: Pineapples!)
- If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become? (Answer: Wet!)
- A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? (Answer: Nowhere, because they’re alive!)
- How many legs does a sheep have if you call a tail a leg? (Answer: Still 4—calling it a leg doesn’t make it one!)
- How do you make the number one disappear? (Answer: Add a “G,” and it becomes “Gone”!)
Math mind tricks
- If three cats can catch three mice in three minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to catch 100 mice? (Answer: Three minutes!)
- If you take 2 apples from a pile of 3, how many do you have? (Answer: Two—you took them!)
- What is half of 8? (Answer: 3 if you cut it vertically (Answer: 3 and 3), 0 if you cut it horizontally (Answer: 0 and 0)!)
- What is heavier: 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers? (Answer: Neither; they weigh the same!)
- A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 run away. How many are left? (Answer: Nine!)
- If it takes 10 men 10 hours to build a wall, how long will it take 5 men? (Answer: None, the wall is already built!)
- A father and son have a total of 66 years. The father is 42 years older than his son. How old is the son? (Answer: 12!)
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? (Answer: The letter “M”!)
- How many times can you subtract 5 from 25? (Answer: Once! After that, it’s no longer 25!)
- You have a basket with 3 apples and take away 2. How many apples do you have? (Answer: Two, because you took them!)
Wordplay puzzles
- What has a neck but no head? (Answer: A bottle!)
- What has 13 hearts but no other organs? (Answer: A deck of cards!)
- What begins and ends with an “E” but only has one letter? (Answer: An envelope!)
- What’s full of holes but still holds water? (Answer: A sponge!)
- If you drop me, I’m sure to crack. But smile at me, and I’ll smile back. What am I? (Answer: A mirror!)
- What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? (Answer: Short!)
- If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I? (Answer: A secret!)
- The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? (Answer: Footsteps!)
- What can you catch but not throw? (Answer: A cold!)
Common sense twists

- How many animals did Moses take on the Ark? (Answer: Answer: None—it was Noah!)
- If a rooster lays an egg on a roof, which way does it roll? (Answer: Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs!)
- If 10 birds are sitting on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left? (Answer: Answer: None—the rest flew away!)
- How far can a dog run into the woods? (Answer: Answer: Halfway—after that, it’s running out!)
- A plane crashes on land between France and Spain. Where do they bury the survivors? (Answer: Answer: They don’t—survivors are alive!)
- What has four wheels and flies? (Answer: Answer: A garbage truck!)
- If you have three oranges and four bananas in one hand and three bananas and four oranges in the other, what do you have? (Answer: Answer: Very big hands!)
- A woman gives birth to two boys on the same day, same time, but they’re not twins. How? (Answer: Answer: They’re triplets!)
- Which weighs more: a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks? (Answer: Answer: Neither, they both weigh a ton!)
- What has cities but no houses, forests, trees, and rivers but no water? (Answer: Answer: A map!)
Brain teasers
- What is always coming but never arrives? (Answer: Answer: Tomorrow!)
- What’s in the middle of Paris? (Answer: Answer: The letter “R”!)
- What comes at the end of everything? (Answer: Answer: The letter “G”!)
- What’s greater than God, more evil than the devil, rich people don’t need it, and poor people have it? (Answer: Answer: Nothing!)
- What has no beginning, middle, or end? (Answer: Answer: A circle!)
- What do you get if you divide 30 by half and add 10? (Answer: Answer: 70! Because 30 ÷ ½ = 60, plus 10!)
- If you have one match and enter a dark room with an oil lamp, a candle, and a wood stove, what do you light first? (Answer: Answer: The match!)
- What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do? (Answer: Answer: Your name!)
- How old would you be if you were born 10 years ago? (Answer: Answer: 10, not 10 years younger!)
Even more fun!
- What comes once in a year but twice in a week? (Answer: Answer: The letter “E”!)
- How do you lift an elephant with one hand? (Answer: Answer: You can’t—elephants don’t have hands!)
- What’s something you can break without touching? (Answer: Answer: A promise!)
- Why can’t a man living in New York be buried in California? (Answer: Answer: Because he’s still alive!)
- If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? (Answer: Answer: Nine!)
- What do you call a bear with no teeth? (Answer: Answer: A gummy bear!)
- The more you use me, the less you have. What am I? (Answer: Answer: Time!)
- Why did the golfer bring an extra pair of pants? (Answer: Answer: In case he got a hole-in-one!)
- What has ears but can’t hear? (Answer: Answer: Corn!)
More brain twisters
- If you have three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other, what do you have? (Answer: Answer: Very big hands!)
- What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot? (Answer: Answer: A stamp!)
- A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every 30 minutes. How long will they last? (Answer: Answer: One hour!)
- What has keys but can’t open locks? (Answer: Answer: A piano!)
- If you take two out of five, how many are left? (Answer: Answer: It depends—are you talking about the number remaining or the number you have?)
- What has a bottom at the top? (Answer: Answer: Your legs!)
- I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I? (Answer: Answer: A barber!)
- What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps? (Answer: Answer: A river!)
- What has words but never speaks? (Answer: Answer: A book!)
- If 10 hens lay 10 eggs in 10 days, how long will 5 hens take to lay 5 eggs? (Answer: Answer: 10 days!)
- What goes through cities and fields but never moves? (Answer: Answer: A road!)
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? (Answer: Answer: Silence!)
- What comes down but never goes up? (Answer: Answer: Rain!)
- If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have? (Answer: Answer: Four, because you took them!)
Last few to trick someone!
- It can be cracked, made, told, and played, but it isn’t a joke. (Answer: Answer: A code!)
- The more layers you peel away, the smaller it becomes. (Answer: Answer: An onion!)
- It has a face but shows no emotions, numbers, or clock hands. (Answer: Answer: A die/dice!)
- The more you feed it, the bigger it gets, yet water will destroy it. (Answer: Answer: A fire!)
- It has a head and a tail, and it is made of metal, but it isn’t a coin. (Answer: Answer: A nail!)
- The more that’s taken away from it, the larger it grows. (Answer: Answer: A hole!)
- It sounds like a single letter but is made up of three. Removing the first letter doesn’t change its sound. (Answer: Answer: A bee / B)
- You can hold it in your left hand but never in your right. (Answer: Answer: Your right hand!)
- It has a ring, but no fingers get answered. It never asks questions. (Answer: Answer: A telephone!)
- The more you walk on it, the smoother it becomes. (Answer: Answer: A path!)
- It has legs but doesn’t walk, and it has a back but never lies down. (Answer: Answer: A chair!)
- It never asks questions but always receives answers. (Answer: Answer: A doorbell!)
- It rises and falls but never moves. (Answer: Answer: A temperature!)
- It can be long or short, grown or bought, painted, or left bare. (Answer: Answer: A nail!)
- The more it’s used, the sharper it becomes, but it isn’t a pencil or a knife. (Answer: Answer: A wit!)
- It isn’t alive, yet it can die. When it runs out, trouble follows. (Answer: Answer: A battery!)
- It has stripes without color and spots without pattern. (Answer: Answer: A barcode!)
- It never stops running but doesn’t have legs. (Answer: Answer: A refrigerator!)
- You can hear but never see it—it only exists when created. (Answer: Answer: An echo!)
- It never blinks, yet it always sees. (Answer: Answer: A camera!)
- You can measure it, but I have no physical form. What am I? (Answer: Answer: A number!)
- You can drop it from the tallest building, and it’ll be fine, but drop it in water, and I’ll break. (Answer: Answer: Paper)
- What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive? (Answer: Answer: A glove!)
- A man was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat, but his hair didn’t get wet. How? (Answer: Answer: He was bald!)
- What can fill a room but take up no space? (Answer: Answer: Light!)
- What gets bigger the more you take away? (Answer: Answer: A hole!)
- If you were in a race and passed the person in last place, what place would you be in? (Answer: Answer: You can’t pass the last person!)
- What has many teeth but doesn’t bite? (Answer: Answer: A comb!)
- What goes up and down but doesn’t move? (Answer: Answer: A staircase!)
- What has many keys but can’t open a lock? (Answer: Answer: A keyboard!)
- A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday. How? (Answer: Answer: His horse’s name is Friday!)
- If you overtake the second person in a race, what position are you in? (Answer: Answer: Second!)
- What has an end but no beginning? (Answer: Answer: A stick!)
- How can you stand behind your friends while they stand behind you? (Answer: Answer: Stand back to back!)
- If it takes six men six hours to dig six holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole? (Answer: Answer: You can’t dig half a hole!)
- What can be broken but never held? (Answer: Answer: A promise!)
- Which month has 28 days? (Answer: Answer: All of them!)
- How old would you be if you were born 10 years ago? (Answer: Answer: 10, not 10 years younger!)
- A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder but wasn’t hurt. How? (Answer: Answer: She fell from the bottom step!)
- A house has four walls facing south, and a bear walks by. What color is the bear? (Answer: Answer: White! It’s at the North Pole!)
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