Collection of tricky questions

O’.H.MAVLONOVA, D.SH.SHARIPOVA, A.I.JALOLOVA COLLECTION OF TRICKY QUESTIONS BUXORO-2020 Mazkur “Collection of Tricky Questions” nomli o’quv-metodik qo’llanma O’zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidentining 2012 yil 10 dekabrdagi “Chet tillarni o’rganish tizimini yanada takomillashtirish chora-tadbirlari to’g’risida”gi PQ-1875-sonli qarori, Vazirlar Mahkamasining 2017 yil 11 avgustdagi “Ta’lim muassasalarida chet tillarini o’qitishning sifatini yanada takomillashtirish chora-tadbirlari to’g’risida”gi 610 – sonli qarori ijrosini, O’zbekiston Respublikasi Bosh vazirining o’rinbosari A.Abduhakimov tomonidan (04.11.2019y. №14/1-2768) tasdiqlangan Buxoro zaminida yetishib chiqqan ziyoli ajdodlarimizning ilmiy meroslari, ushbu zaminning boy tarixini inobatga olgan holda, kelajakda yetuk olim va ziyolilarni yetishtirishga poydevor bo’luvchi maktab ta’limining “Buxoro tajribasi”ni joriy etish bo’yicha 2020-2021 yillarga mo’ljallangan Yo’l xaritasining 13-bandida umumta’lim maktablari o’qituvchilari uchun qo’shimcha metodik qo’llanmalar yaratish vazifasi ijrosini ta’minlash maqsadida tayyorlangan bo’lib, u o’rta umumta’lim, o’rta kasb-hunar va oliy o’quv yurtlarining nofilologik ta’lim yo’nalishlari talabalari uchun mo’ljallangan.

Mualliflar:

Mavlonova O’g’iloy Hamdamovna – BuxDU Tabiiy yo’nalishlarda chet

tili kafedrasi katta o’qituvchisi

Sharipova Dilnoza Shavkatovna - BuxDU Tabiiy yo’nalishlarda chet

tili kafedrasi o’qituvchisi

Jalolova Aziza Ikromovna - G’ijduvon tumani 60-o’rta umumta’lim

maktabi direktori

Taqrizchilar:

Naimov Sa’di Narziyevich - BuxMTI Xorijiy tillar kafedrasi mudiri,

Filologiya fanlari nomzodi, dotsent

Xodjaeva Dilafruz Izatilloyevna - BuxDU Tabiiy yo’nalishlarda chet tili

kafedrasi mudiri, PhD

Ushbu o’quv-metodik qo’llanma Buxoro davlat universiteti o’quv-metodik kengashining 2020 yil 27 may 7 - sonli bayoni bilan nashrga tavsiya qilingan.

Introduction

We’ve put together more than 380 different mind trick questions for pupils and students that are a lot of fun to ponder over. To help them reconnect with their power of focus and to tap deeper into the wealth of creativity, simply ask one of these tricky questions and give them time to contemplate.

Everyone may believe he or she is smart enough not to be tricked. However, trick questions can stump anyone. Common sense and experience will not help anyone answer these tricky questions. Even though some of the answers are logical or rely on common sense, one’s first thought is quite often incorrect. Some trick questions are funny, some are a play on words, and some involve looking at answering all of our trick questions and share them with friends. Some trick questions provide laughs because they are so silly. Kids especially will love our funny trick questions. We have included a few old favorites to help everyone feel smart. Don’t peek at the answers until you give each question your best guess.

The following list of clever, tricky questions will have anyone scratching his or her head and wondering just how intelligent he or she is. They are fun to use at a party, with the colleagues at work, or in a classroom. Teachers, tutors, camp counselors, and entertainers will love our collection of tricky questions with answers.

Trick questions stimulate the brain and provide fun. They help fill the time and provide relaxation. Additionally, they give one’s brain a workout! All ages love them. Not only teachers can use these trick questions for their pupils or students in the classroom, but everyone can use them and brain teasers for bonding between employees in his or her office, avoiding boredom, and to challenge his or her friends. Have fun with our tricky questions!

Don’t worry about answering the questions incorrectly. There is a lot of fun to be had by hearing some of the questions be answered incorrectly. Often times, trick questions are formulated in a way to solicit wrong answers. Make sure to create a safe, fun place to be wrong.

Try these little mind tricks out when you get a chance with the children, pupils or students in your life, but don’t be surprised if you find yourself scratching your head a little bit with some of the riddles, puzzles, and trick questions we have highlighted below, either!

Trick Questions with Answers

1. Mr. Jones noticed that his pants pockets were totally empty – but that there was still something in it. What was it?
Answer

A hole.

2. What letters are easily found in every single day of the week?
Answer

D – A – Y.

3. Which jungle animal is hiding “inside” these letters – L P H N?
Answer

4. What’s left when you take an ant out of a plantain?
Answer

Something plain.

5. A mouse wants to get in better shape. She’s going to start by climbing stairs. Starting on the fourth floor, she climbs up five stories, down seven stories, up six stories, down three stories, and up for stories again. What floor is she on?
Answer

The ninth floor.

6. Can you add one mathematical symbol in between 55555 to equal 500?
Answer

555-55 = 500

7. Adam turned left, right, spun around 360°, stood on his head, and then walked backwards before taking a picture of the sunset. What direction was he pointing?
Answer

West.

8. The Jones family started driving south for their summer vacation, going through five different states along the way. The Bradfords are driving in the opposite direction and only went through three states. What direction are they driving in?
Answer

North

9. Peter the polar bear had a birthday party, with each guest bringing five fish. A nasty little penguin stole two fish but there were still 198 fish left. How many people came to the party?
Answer

40.

10. Ricky the Rabbit eats 1 carrots on Sunday, 2 carrots on Monday, 4 carrots on Tuesday, and so on. How many carrots does he eat every week?
Answer

127 carrots.

11. If five alligators can eat five fish in three minutes, how long will 18 alligators need to eat 18 fish?
Answer

Three minutes.

12. If tomorrow I said “the day before yesterday was Saturday”, which day is today?
Answer

Sunday.

13. Freddie the Frog had an accident and broke one of his legs. He went to the hospital on Monday, November 1 and left on November 30. What day of the week is it?
Answer

Tuesday.

14. Mr. and Mrs. Banjo are eating ice cream. Mrs. Banjo says that if her husband gives her one scoop of his ice cream she’ll have twice as many scoops as him. Mr. Banjo says that if she gives him one of her scoops available have the same amount. How many scoops do they each have?
Answer

Mrs. Banjo has seven scoops and Mr. Banjo has five.

15. Rosie orders six bowls of ice cream with three scoops in each. Tony wants as many scoops as her, but in just two dishes. How many scoops are in each of his dishes?
Answer

Nine scoops in each.

16. Laura says that she can throw a ball so that it flies away from her, will change direction suddenly, and then come right back to her all by itself. Is that even possible?
Answer

Yes, so long as she throws the ball straight up in the air.

17. A bag of gummy bears has three red ones, three green ones, three yellow gluttons, and three white ones. How many gummy bears would you have to take out of the bag to get three of the same color?
Answer

Nine.

18. A cookie jar has 10 chocolate chip cookies and 10 M;M cookies. How many cookies would you have to take out to get two of each kind?
Answer

12 cookies.

19. Lisa is William’s niece, but she isn’t Emily’s niece – even though Emily is William’s sister and William isn’t married. How is that possible?
Answer

Lisa is Emily’s daughter.

20. Can you name three things that are only sold in pairs?
Answer

Gloves, shoes, socks.

21. Three clocks have different times. One a little fast, one a little slow, and one just) one clock says 10: 05, another 9: 56, and another 10: 11. Which is right?
Answer

10: 05

22. Was the smallest amount of coins you can use to get exactly $0.65
Answer

Two quarters, dime, and a nickel.

23. Maggie lives on a street with 10 houses. The houses are numbered 1 to 10. If Maggie adds up all the house numbers that are lower than hers, the total is three times her actual house number. What number is Maggie’s house?
Answer

House number seven.

24. A new movie comes out with the first people showing up an hour before showtime. The audience doubles every 10 minutes, and after 60 minutes the theater is full. When was the theater half full?
Answer

10 minutes before the movie began.

25. Which multiples of four are found between 10 and 19?
Answer

12 and 16

26. What uneven numbers are between 10 and 16?
Answer

11, 13, and 15

27. What’s the biggest number you can make with the numbers three, five, and seven?
Answer

753

28. Every year on Mars is double the length of a year on earth, how old would you be if you lived on Mars?
Answer

Double your age.

29. Seven brothers were born two years apart. The youngest brother is seven. How old is the oldest brother?
Answer

19.

30. Mr. Adams is exactly 5 times as old as his dog Spike. In five years, Mr. Adams will only be three times as old as Spike. How old will he be in five years?
Answer

30.

31. If every month had exactly 30 days instead of some with 29, some with 30, and some with 31 would each year be longer or shorter?
Answer

Shorter (360 days)

32. Which two numbers come out the same whether you multiply or add them together?
Answer

2×2 = 4 and 2+2 = 4.

33. Ricky and Billy find of lettuce with 20 individual leaves. Because Ricky found the lettuce first he gets an extra leaf than his friend. How many leaves does Ricky get?
Answer

10 ½ leaves.

34. If you counted up all of the ears in the country and then divided that number by two, what would you know for sure?
Answer

How many living creatures were in that country.

35. A teacher says that there are fewer than 30 students but more than 20 in a classroom. The children can be divided into groups of two, three, four, six, and eight with no leftovers. How many students are there?
Answer

24 students.

36. Carla leaves New York at eight in the morning, driving 35 mph. Harriet starts driving to New York at a speed of 50 mph. When they meet a which one will be furthest away from New York?
Answer

They will be the same distance from New York when they meet.

37. If days on Mars are as long as two weeks on Earth, how long is an hour?
Answer

14 Earth hours.

38. Amy is 14 and her mother is 38. How many years ago was her mother exactly 3 times as old as Amy?
Answer

Two years ago.

39. A baker carries a bag of flour that weighs 15 pounds. He takes half of the flour out, but finds the bag weighs 9 pounds. How heavy is the empty bag?
Answer

3 pounds.

40. What does this secret message say? Tha twasn treall ys oh ardaf terall
Answer

That wasn’t really so hard after all.

41. Mrs. Adams tells her neighbor that her son turns 16 today and that next birthday he’ll be 20. How can that be?

Answer

He was born on February 29, leap year.

42. What object doesn’t belong in this list – trumpet, flute, violin, harmonica, tuba?
Answer

The violin.

43. If you rolled a single die just once, would you be least likely to roll an odd number, number larger than three, or a number smaller than three?
Answer

A number smaller than three.

44. 16 players enter into a basketball shootout tournament. How many games have to happen before a winner is announced?
Answer

15.

45. A farmer has both geese and goats. He counted the legs on all of his animals and found that there are exactly 36. How many geese and how many goats does he have?
Answer

Geese to Goats – 2/8, 4/7, 6/6, 8/5, 10/4, 12/3, 14/2

46. If only these letters were written down – J FM AM J JAS OND – what would they mean?
Answer

The first letter of every month in the year.

47. Four friends are racing. Lisa finishes four hours ahead of Tony, with Pete finishing eight hours ahead of Max. Max needed six more hours to finish than Lisa. What order do they cross the finish line in?
Answer

Pete, Lisa, Tony, Max.

48. Mother’s Day is always the second Sunday in the month of May. When is the earliest day it could be?
Answer

May 8.

49. If you were born in odd numbered year will you celebrate your 50th birthday in an odd or even year?
Answer

Odd year.

50. Billy tells his sister Sarah that he is twice as old and twice as smart as her right now. Sarah says that in five years should be twice as old as she is now and that Billy won’t be. How old will they be in five years?
Answer

Billy will be 15 and Sarah will be 10.

51. Put together, Tom and his father away 280 pounds. Tom’s dad weighs three times as much as he does. How much does Tom weigh?
Answer

70 pounds.

52. What two numbers make a one digit number when you multiply them but a two digit number when you add them together?
Answer

One and nine.

53. A city bus sets out for the morning with no passengers on board. At the first stop, two people get on, at the next stop five more. One after that, seven people get on and three people get off. At the following stop, five people get on and six people get off. The last stop has three people getting on and one people getting off. How many stops were made?
Answer

Five stops.

54. How many double-digit numbers are there?
Answer

92.

55. Just how far can a deer run into the woods?
Answer

Halfway!

56. I am an odd number, but if you take away just a single letter I become even. Can you guess my number?
Answer

Seven.

57. What has hands but does not point, does not waive, and will never clap?
Answer

A watch.

58. If you have a red home made out of red bricks and a yellow home made out of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse be made out of?
Answer

Glass!

59. What aren’t you able to use until you break it?
Answer

Eggs.

60. What’s something that goes up and up and up but will never, ever go down?
Answer

Your age.

61. Can you guess a five letter word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer

Short. (Short plus ER equals shorter)

62. Can you think of a word that starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer

A teapot.

63. I’m tallest when brand-new but much, much shorter when I’m worn out. What am I?
Answer

A candle.

64. Do you know the one word spelled wrong in every single dictionary ever made?
Answer

The word “wrong”.

65. Draw a line on a piece of paper. Without touching that line, how can you make it longer?
Answer

Draw a short line right next to it.

66. Can you think of something so delicate that just saying its name will break it immediately?
Answer

“Silence”.

67. What word begins with E but only has one letter in it?
Answer

An envelope.

68. Can you think of something really easy to get into but really hard to get out of?
Answer

Trouble!

69. The entire Brown family wouldn’t stand under an umbrella but still didn’t get wet. How’s that possible?
Answer

It wasn’t raining to begin with.

70. David’s mom and dad had three sons. Their names were Snap, Crackle, and…what?
Answer

David.

71. A woman named Margaret has four different daughters, and each of those daughters has a brother. How many children total does Margaret have?
Answer

Five. Every daughter has the exact same brother.

72. There was a horrific plane crash and every single person died. Who survived?
Answer

Everyone that was married.

73. Can you think of something with four eyes but is completely blind?
Answer

The word “Mississippi”.

74. Can you think of something that travels all over the planet but always stays in the exact same spot?

Answer

A postage stamp.

75. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
Answer

15 – English has seven words and alphabet has eight.

76. There’s a word with six letters that leaves 12 behind when you take away one of them. What word is it?
Answer

Dozens.

77. Can you think of something that is completely full of holes but still hold onto a lot of water?
Answer

A sponge.

78. There’s a question that you can never answer yes to. Do you know what it is?

Answer

Are you asleep yet?

79. If everything goes wrong, completely sideways, what is something you can always count on?
Answer

Your fingers and your toes!

80. Can you think of something that is always right in front of you but can never be seen or held?
Answer

The future.

81. Do you know where you can find cities and countries, towns and shops, roads and lakes, but absolutely no people whatsoever?
Answer

On a map.

82. Do you know why ghosts and spirits make such terrible liars?
Answer

Because it’s easy to see right through them!

83. Imagine this for a second. You’re in a room and the walls are closing in, the floor is opening up beneath you, and water is pouring in from the ceiling. There are no windows and no doors to escape. How do you get out?
Answer

Stop imagining.

84. Can you name the two things you can NEVER have for breakfast?
Answer

Lunch or dinner.

85. If you through a blue stone or a green stone into the Red Sea, what will they become?
Answer

Soaking wet.

86. What is something people bite to eat but then never actually eat in the first place?
Answer

Silverware and plates.

87. Can you think of something you can serve but shouldn’t ever eat?
Answer

A volleyball.

88. Can you think of something you can always catch but won’t ever be able to throw?
Answer

The flu.

89. Do you know what goes up and down every minute of every day but never actually moves?

Answer

The temperature.

90. Can you think of something that starts with P and ends with E but has thousands of letters in it?
Answer

Postal Office.

91. If Mr. Orange lives in a blue house, Mr. Yellow lives in a green house, and Mr. Red lives in a purple house who lives in the White House?
Answer

The president.

92. In a one-story house that was colored blue there lived a pink person, a green dog, a yellow fish, a purple computer, a silver chair, a gold table, and an invisible telephone. What color were the stairs?
Answer

There aren’t any.

93. Can you think of something that gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer

A towel.

94. Can you think of something that goes all around the woods but never actually goes into the wood at all?
Answer

Tree bark.

95. If you see an electric train headed east at 70 an hour but there is a wind blowing in from the west at 80 miles an hour, which way is the smoke from the train going to blow?
Answer

Electric trains don’t have smoke.

96. I am filled with keys but have no locks. I have space but there are no extra rooms. Sure, you can enter but there is absolutely no exit. What am I?
Answer

A keyboard.

97. Can you think of something that’s as light as a feather but even the world’s strongest human couldn’t hold it for any longer than a minute?
Answer

Your breath.

98. Can you think of something that runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but will never weep, and has a bed but will never sleep?
Answer

A river.

99. Do you know the name of the invention that lets you look instantly right through any wall you want?
Answer

A window.

100. Megan’s mother has five different daughters. One’s name is Peggy, one’s name is Donna, one’s name is Betty, another is named Joan. What’s the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer

Megan.

101. If a plane crashed on the border of England and Scotland, where would they bury the survivors?
Answer

You don’t bury survivors.

102. Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by, each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. How can this be? How can eleven pears be left?
Answer

‘Each’ is a man’s name!

103. If there’s a frog, dead in the center of a lily pad which is right in the middle of the pond, which side would it jump to?
Answer

Neither, the frog is dead!

104. You’re a bus driver. At the first stop 4 people get on. At the second stop 8 people get on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the forth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus driver’s eyes?
Answer

The same as yours, you’re the bus driver.

105. What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
Answer

The sea

106. A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a hair on his head got wet…how come?
Answer

He was bald.

107. David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and _____?
Answer

David

108. What has a mouth but doesn’t eat? A bank with no money? A bed but doesn’t sleep – and waves but has no hands?
Answer

A river

109. A cowboy rode to an inn on Friday. He stayed two nights and left on Friday. How could that be?
Answer

His horse was called Friday

110. If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side where’s the white house?
Answer

Washington DC

111. What two words, when combined hold the most letters?
Answer

Post Office

112. What word when written in capital letters is the same backwards, frontwards & upside down?
Answer

NOON

113. What the exact middle of America?
Answer

The letter “r”

114. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
Answer

A towel

115. How far can a dog run into the woods?
Answer

Halfway-when it gets there, he’s on his way ‘out’.

116. In baseball, how may outs are there in an inning?
Answer

Six-each team has three

117. Ten copycats were sitting in a boat. One jumped out. How many were left?
Answer

None—they were ‘copycats’So they all jumped out!

118. What’s the longest word in the English language?
Answer

sMILEs—Because there’s a mile between the beginning and the end

119. If there are three apples & you took away two, how many do you have?
Answer

Two—because YOU took two.

120. There was a red bungalow. Everything in it was red – the walls, the carpets, the furniture. What color were the stairs?
Answer

There weren’t any stairs. It was a bungalow!

121. What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name?
Answer

The!

122. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer

A coin!

123. If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side where’s the white house?
Answer

In Washington DC

124. How can you make the letters in NEW DOOR, make one word?
Answer

ONE WORD!

125. What happened in 1961 and will not happen again until 6009?
Answer

The year will again be the same upside down

126. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer

Mt. Everest was still the highest mountain-even BEFORE it was discovered

127. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Answer

Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there were chickens!

128. How could the 22nd and 24th U.S. Presidents have the same parents, but weren’t brothers?
Answer

Grover Ceveland was elected twice to become the 22nd and 24th President.

129. Name the most recent year in which New Year’s preceded Christmas.
Answer

This year, New Year always precceds Chrismas of the same year.

130. If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
Answer

The match

131. If Mr Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones’ yard, who owns the egg?
Answer

No one. Peacocks don’t lay eggs; peahens do.

132. Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies?
Answer

Because 1998 pennies are one more than 1997 pennies

133. Start with three coins: a penny, a nickel and a quarter. Say, “Tommy’s mother has three children. The first child’s name is Penny.” (Hold up the penny while saying this.) “The second child’s name is Nick.” (Hold up the nickel.) What is the third child’s name? (Hold up the quarter.)
Answer

Tommy

134. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
Answer

116 years

135. Which country makes Panama hats?
Answer

Ecuador

136. From which animal do we get catgut?
Answer

Sheep and horses

137. What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?
Answer

Orange of course

138. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
Answer

November

139. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
Answer

Squirrel fur

140. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
Answer

Dogs

141. What was King George VI’s first name?
Answer

Albert

142. What color is a purple finch?
Answer

Crimson

143. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
Answer

New Zealand

144. I am full of keys, but I cannot open any door. What am I?
Answer

A Piano

145. I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water. What am I?
Answer

A Sponge

146. The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?
Answer

A Hole

147. I have hands, but I cannot clap. What am I?
Answer

A Clock

148. You can catch me, but you can’t throw me. What am I?
Answer

A Cold

149. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Answer

Rain

150. I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
Answer

An Eyeball

151. Fill me up with hot or cold. Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold. What am I?
Answer

A Cup

152. A little girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?

Answer

Ever heard of gravity? She kicked it up.

1. A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?

Answer

Never. The boat rises as the tide goes up.

1. A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. How’s that possible?

Answer

B is the daughter you MCP’s!

1. A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car know he was there?

Answer

It was day time.

1. A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?

Answer

It didn’t roll – since when did roosters start laying eggs?

1. A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught?

Answer

Because he was not driving! He’s walking on the sidewalk.

1. An electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph. Which way does the smoke blow?

Answer

There is no smoke with an electric train.

1. How can a man go eight days without sleep?

Answer

By sleeping during the night time.

1. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

Answer

The Egg won’t crack the concrete floor!

1. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

Answer

It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.

1. How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide?

Answer

None, or else it wouldn’t be a hole. 

1. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it take before all the pills had been taken?

Answer

1 hour! Take the 1st pill right away, half an hour later take the 2nd and half an hour after that the 3rd. Total time spent: 1 hour! 

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

Answer

No time at all it is already built.

1. If Mr Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones’ yard, who owns the egg? Answer

Peacocks don’t lay eggs, just peahens.

1. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?

Answer

The 4 you took.

1. If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?

Answer

The match.

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

Answer

No, but since he’s dead it would be kind of difficult.

1. Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days. How many have 28 days?

Answer

All months have 28 days.

1. Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty; Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?

Answer

Larry! He would be the fifth son.

1. There was an airplane crash, every single person on board died, but yet two people survived. How is this possible?

Answer

The two were married.

1. What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?

Answer

Stairs! 

1. How far can you walk into the woods?

Answer

Half way. After that you are walking out of the woods.

1. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?

Answer

It will become Wet. 

1. What can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer

Dinner.

1. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?

Answer

A towel.

1. What goes up and never comes down?

Answer

Age!

1. Which is heavier, 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers?

Answer

They both weigh the same – 100 pounds.

1. What has a head and a tail but no body?

Answer

A coin.

1. If there are 12 fish and half of them drown, how many are there?

Answer

12, fish don’t drown!

1. Imagine you are in a sinking row boat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?

Answer

Stop imagining!

1. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

Answer

Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.

1. How many times does the alphabet ‘a’ appear from 0-100.

Answer

None.

1. What is that, which breaks but don’t fall and that which falls and cannot break?

Answer

The Day breaks then Night falls.

1. You have a single match and are in a pitch black room with a candle, an oil lamp, and a gas stove. Which do you light first?

Answer

The match.

1. If a farmer had 322 cows and took one shot that got all the cows. How did the farmer do it?

Answer

The farmer took a Panorama shot.

1. A certain family used to live in a roundhouse. One day when the father returned from his job, he found his wife dead. One of the children said he had been watching the television, the second one said he has been drawing, and the last born said he had been reading from the corner. Who killed the mother?

Answer

The last born since the house is round and has no corners.

1. Among the alphabet letters, which makes honey?

Answer

B.

1. Can you fill the blank space; 19=8, 6=3, 70=7, 8=5, 4=4, 60=5, 15=7, 16=? 17=?

Answer

16 = 7 and 17 = 9 because the number of letters in the spelling sixteen is 7 and those of seventeen is 9.

1. Could you list numbers which have letter A in their spelling from 1-100?

Show Answer

None.

1. Which is correct? “Penguins flies” or “A penguin flies.”

Answer

None, because penguins don’t fly.

1. My Friend, John is a 7 feet tall, 45-year old Blacksmith, who is constantly eating stuff. Can you determine what John eats the most?

Answer

Iron.

1. If you jump off the roof of a three-story building, where would you land?

Answer

Hospital.

1. What is the one thing that if you give someone, the person will most likely return it immediately?

Answer

A slap.

1. Who will become the president if the vice president dies?

Answer

The current president.

1. If a Monkey, bird and squirrel race up a coconut tree. Which one of them is most likely to reach the banana?

Answer

None of them. Coconuts trees don’t grow bananas.

1. If a bird has 7 eggs and dinosaurs ate one of its eggs. How many eggs would the bird have left?

Answer

Dinosaurs are extinct therefore no egg will be eaten.

1. I am something, people work extremely hard to get me every day. When they get me, they give me away. What am I?

Answer

Money.

1. What goes up but never goes down?

Answer

Age.

1. How many fingers do you have?

Answer

1. since your thumbs don’t count.

1. If there are 10 birds on a tree and a hunter shoots 1 of the birds. How many birds would be left?

Answer

None, because the rest of the birds will be scared and fly away.

1. How can you draw a square with three lines?

Answer

You draw a square, and then draw three lines at the center of the square.

1. What has four legs, but can’t walk?

Answer

A table.

1. Why can’t Eskimos eat the penguin egg?

Answer

Because they live on the opposite side of the world!

1. Why did the woman take an elephant instead of a car?

Answer

Due to its bigger trunk.

1. How do you make the number one disappear?

Answer

Add the letter G, and it’s “gone.”

1. What is black and white that gets read over?

Answer

Newspapers – you read it all over.

1. Why don’t horses wear gloves?

Answer

They have no hands.

1. How many times can you take away 2 from 100?

Answer

Once. After taking the first two, you no longer have a 100.

1. What did the mouse say to the cheese?

Answer

Squeak.

1. Which was the tallest Mountain before Mt. Everest was discovered?

Answer

Mt. Everest still existed; it just had not been discovered.

1. What begins with an ‘e’ ends with an ‘e’ and only has one letter?

Answer

An envelope.

1. If a guy has 320 eggs and you take 37 eggs, how eggs do you have?

Answer

1. that you took.

1. Which is heavier, a ton of metal or a ton of feather?

Show Answer

Both are the same.

1. Which two days of the week begins with letter T other than Tuesday and Thursday?

Answer

Today and Tomorrow.

1. Mention something you cannot eat during breakfast?

Answer

Dinner.

1. When a rooster lays eggs on top of a slanted roof, which way will it roll?

Answer

The Roosters do not lay eggs.

1. When there was a blackout, how did the bus driver see a dog on the road?

Answer

It was during the day.

1. What is the common thing between Henry the Eighth and Kermit?

Answer

The same middle name.

1. What is a 10 letter word that has thousands of words in it?

Answer

The Dictionary.

1. What normally stands up and grows down?

Answer

The candle.

1. What becomes of snow when it melts?

Answer

Spring.

1. Why do we drink water?

Answer

Because water cannot be chewed.

1. Why don’t penguins live in England?

Answer

They are scared of Wales.

1. How do you call the people that come from a country of medal?

Answer

Medallions.

1. Why did Cinderella get kicked out of the football team?

Answer

She ran away from the ball.

1. If an electric train is traveling south, what direction is the smoke traveling?

Answer

Electric trains don’t smoke.

1. Think of what will happen if you throw a green rock into the red sea?

Answer

It gets wet.

1. When does 1+1 not equal to 2?

Answer

When you make a mistake.

1. What seven letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

Answer

Mailbox.

1. Is it possible for a man to go for 8 days without sleeping?

Answer

He will sleep at night.

1. You can’t call my name without breaking me? What am I?

Answer

Silence.

1. What will happen when pay and pear are mixed?

Answer

Paper.

1. What happens when you mix the c and the sun?

Answer

Season.

1. Which three letters changes a girl to a woman?

Answer

Age.

1. What increases but never decreases?

Answer

Age.

1. What has a head at night but none during the day?

Answer

Pillow.

1. The more you take it from it, the bigger it gets. What is it?

Answer

A hole.

1. What is the only time Friday comes before Thursday?

Answer

In the dictionary.

1. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer

Palm.

1. What is red and white and can travel the world in one night?

Answer

Santa Claus.

1. Where was a declaration of independence signed?

Answer

At the bottom.

1. What goes up and down and stays in the same place?

Answer

The stairs.

1. If you and I are stupid who is between us?

Answer

And.

1. What did the wall say to the other wall?

Answer

Meet you at the corner.

1. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?

Answer

The letter M.

1. What is the most poisonous snake in the world?

Answer

No poisonous snakes but only venomous ones.

1. What did math eat for dinner?

Answer

Pie.

1. What is green and red and goes 90 miles per hour?

Answer

Frog in a blender.

1. How can you add eight 6s together so that the total adds up to 750?

Answer

666 + 66 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 750.

1. “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.

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

Answer

Friday was the name of his horse.

1. A farmer had 752 sheep and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?

Answer

He took a panoramic view!

1. A girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?

Answer

She kicked it up. The ball comes back due to gravity.

1. A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How come?

Answer

He was bald.

1. A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?

Answer

It didn’t roll – roosters don’t lay eggs.

1. A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught?

Answer

Because he was not driving his truck! He’s walking on the sidewalk.

258. 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.

1. An electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the east at 10mph. Which way does the smoke blow?

Answer

There is no smoke with an electric train.

1. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Answer

Mount Everest was still the highest even though it had not been discovered.

1. Bob’s father has 4 children. Momo, Meme, and Mumu are three of them. Who’s the fourth?

Answer

Bob.

1. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?

Answer

Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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

Answer

Advice.

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

Answer

She sleeps at night.

1. How can a man go eight days without sleep?

Answer

No problem. He sleeps at night.

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

Answer

When there is a hole in his pocket.

1. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

Answer

The Egg won’t crack the concrete floor!

1. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

Answer

It is not a problem since you will never find an elephant with one hand.

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

Answer

He was bald.

1. How do you make the number one disappear?

Answer

Add the letter G and it’s “gone”!

1. How far can you walk into the woods?

Answer

Half way. After that you are walking out of the woods.

1. How many birthdays does the average person have?

Answer

Just one, all the rest are anniversaries.

1. How many legs does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg?

Answer

Four. Because calling the trunk a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

1. How many sides does a circle have?

Answer

Two. An inside and an outside.

1. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

Answer

Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.

1. How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide?

Answer

None, or else it wouldn’t be a hole.

1. I have all the knowledge you have. But I’m so small, you can hold me in your fist. What am I?

Answer

Your brain.

1. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?

Answer

Your bed.

1. I have teeth but can’t eat. What am I?

Answer

A comb.

1. I have three apples. If you take away two from me, how many do you have?

Answer

2

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

Answer

A candle.

1. If a plane crashes on the border between the US and Mexico, where do they bury the survivors?

Answer

Survivors generally are never buried.

1. If I drink, I die. If I eat, I’m fine. What am I?

Answer

A fire.

1. If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

Answer

A secret.

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

Answer

No time at all it is already built.

1. If Mr. Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr. Jones’ yard, who owns the egg?

Answer

Peacocks don’t lay eggs, just peahens.

1. If Mrs. John’s bungalow 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, because bungalows do not have a second floor.

1. If there are 12 fish and half of them drown, how many are there?

Answer

12, fish don’t drown!

1. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?

Answer

The 4 you took.

1. If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?

Answer

The match.

1. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?

Answer

It will become Wet.

1. Imagine you are in a sinking row boat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?

Answer

Stop imagining!

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. It took 20,000 workers to build the Taj Mahal in 20 years. How many workers would be required to build it in 10 years?

Answer

Sorry, the Taj Mahal cannot be built again.

1. Larry’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty; Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?

Answer

Larry! He would be the fifth son.

1. My neighbor Bob is a blacksmith. He is 45 years old, 7 ft. tall, and eats all the time. Guess! What does he weigh?

Answer

Iron.

1. Name all the numbers from 1 – 100, which have the letter ‘A’ in their spellings?

Answer

None!

1. Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?

Answer

Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.

1. Of 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.

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

Answer

A window.

1. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Answer

Footprints.

1. There was an airplane crash, every single person on board died, but yet two people survived. How is this possible?

Answer

The two were married.

1. 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.

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

Answer

Seven.

1. We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?

Answer

The letter “e”.

1. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer

Short.

1. What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?

Answer

Your name.

1. What breaks and never falls and what falls and never breaks?

Answer

Day breaks and night falls.

1. What can be broken, but is never held?

Answer

A promise.

1. What can one catch that is not thrown?

Answer

A cold.

1. What can you hold without touching it at all?

Answer

A conversation.

1. What can you make that no one—not even you—can see?

Answer

Noise.

1. What can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer

Dinner.

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

Answer

A widow.

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

Answer

A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.

1. What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away from it?

Answer

A hole.

1. What gets sharper the more you use it?

Answer

Your brain.

1. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?

Answer

A towel.

1. What goes up and never comes down?

Answer

Age!

1. What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?

Answer

An umbrella.

1. What happened when wheel was invented?

Answer

It caused a revolution.

1. What has 4 wheels & flies?

Answer

The garbage truck.

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

Answer

A clock.

1. What has a head and a tail but no body?

Answer

A coin.

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

Answer

Your gloves.

1. What has one eye but can’t see anything at all?

Answer

A needle.

1. What is always coming, but never arrives?

Answer

Tomorrow.

1. What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have?

Answer

A secret.

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

Answer

Fire.

1. What looks like half an apple?

Answer

The other half.

1. What moves faster: heat or cold?

Answer

Heat. Because you can always catch a cold.

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

Answer

Your cellphone.

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

Answer

An envelope.

1. What travels the world while stuck in one spot?

Answer

A stamp!

1. What two keys can’t open any door?

Answer

A monkey and a donkey.

1. What two words, when combined hold the most letters?

Answer

Post Office.

1. What was the American President’s name in 1960?

Answer

Exactly the same as today.

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

Answer

The letter “w.”

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

Answer

Incorrectly.

1. 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.

1. What’s as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing?

Answer

Its shadow.

1. Which is heavier, 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers?

Answer

They both weigh the same – 100 pounds

1. Which letter of the English alphabet flies, sings, and stings?

Answer

‘B’ bee.

1. Which one is correct?

Answer

“Penguins flies” or “A Penguin flies” Neither. Penguins don’t fly.

1. Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?

Answer

The baby, since he is a little Bigger.

1. Why is it against the law for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina?

Answer

Because he’s not dead yet.

1. You have a match and you enter a wagon with a candle, a lamp and a fireplace. Which one do you light first?

Answer

Your match.

1. 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.

1. Which letter of the English alphabet we drink?
   Answer

‘T’(TEA).
351. On Which letter of the English alphabet we travel
Answer

‘C’ (SEA).

1. Ten pears hanging high ten men come passing by Each took a pear and left nine hanging there. How is this possible?

Answer

Each is the name of one of the men and he’s the only one who took a pear.

1. Why does a soup stand have small holes in it??
   Answer

Because, if it is a big hole the soap will fall.

1. If there are 6 birds on a branch of tree one hunter shoot one how many left??
   Answer

None, because all will fly …

1. The age of ninny was 2 and her sister age is half of ninny age ! then what will be the age of her sister when ninny age is 99 ?

Answer

98.

356. When is a car not a car?

Answer

When it turns into a garage.

1. Peter saw John in a bus. Who was in the bus?

Answer

John and Peter.

1. How can a door be not a door?

Answer

When it is a jar. (ajar = “open”)

1. What word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle?

Answer

Island.

1. Why do you always find a mushroom at a party?

Answer

Because he is a fungi (“fun guy”).

1. Do you want to hear a joke about potassium?

Answer

K! (K is the symbol for potassium.)

1. Do you know any good jokes about sodium?

Answer

Na! (Na is the symbol for sodium.)

1. What should one do with a dead chemist?

Answer

Barium (“Bury him”.)

1. What’s a great name for a lawyer?

Answer

Sue

1. What do you call a man in a hole?

Answer

Doug (“dug”.)

1. Which is the fastest country in the world?

Answer

Russia (“rush ya”.)

1. What do you get if you throw a million books into the ocean?

Answer

A title wave.

1. What is the coldest country in the world?

Answer

Chili

1. Why did the house go to the doctor?

Answer

Because it had a window pane (“pain”).

1. On which roads do ghosts linger?

Answer

Dead ends.

1. What do you call a woman standing on a tennis court?

Answer

Annette (“a net).

1. What is round and extremely violent?

Answer

A vicious circle.

1. What happened to the tiny fortuneteller that escaped from jail?

Answer

He was a small medium at large.

1. What is green and sings?

Answer

Elvis Parsley.

1. What happened when the magician got angry?

Answer

He pulled his hare (“hair”) out.

1. What common eleven-letter word is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer

Incorrectly.

1. What did the person who invented the door-knocker win?

Answer

The no-bell (“Nobel”) prize.

1. What happened to the woman who fell into the upholstery machine?

Answer

She was fully recovered.

1. Did you hear what happened to the origami store?

Answer

It folded.

380. Why did the banker quit his job?

Answer

He lost interest.

1. What do you find in the middle of nowhere?

Answer

The letter H.

1. Why was everyone so tired on the April first?

Answer

Because they just completed a March of 31 days.

1. What did one commode say to the other commode?

Answer

You look flushed.

1. A neutron walks into a café, orders breakfast, and asks the waiter, “How much will that be?”

Answer

The waiter replies, “For you? No charge!”

1. A photon checks into a hotel. What is her reply when she is asked if she needs any help with her luggage?

Answer

No thank you, I am traveling light.

1. If George’s father has four children – Eenie, Meenie, Miney – what is the name of his fourth child?

Answer

George.

Closing Thoughts

Hope we gave a good exercise to your brain for some time while trying to solve these trick or tricky questions. You can use these questions and challenge your fellows at school, Institute or office in order to get a break from your tiresome schedule. These trick questions will surely keep you energetic and your brain muscles to be engaged and more fit. You will get stuck at times and want to beat yourself up but the feeling is enthralling for sure and you will be more relaxed eventually.

Now, be honest how many of these questions tricked you while you were reading them to others? Did you get any correctly on the first try?

We hope that you had as much fun with these trick questions, what am I riddles, and mind puzzles for your pupils or students as we have had.

There’s no better way to stretch the minds of young people than by challenging them with fun puzzles, quizzes, and trick questions. Help them think a little harder and tap deeper and deeper into their creativity.

Try a couple of these out on the young ones in your life and see just how much fun they have trying to figure them out!

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