Simple Tricky Questions:

March 30, 2020 Motivational
  1. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
    Answer: It is not a problem, he doesn’t need to sleep during the day, he sleeps at night.
  2. Ten birds were sitting in a tree and a hunter shot one. How birds many were left in the tree?
    Answer: None – After one bird got shot, they all flew away.
  3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
    Answer: Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
  4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
    Answer: None, there is no dirt in a hole.
  5. If a plane crashes on the border of The United States and Mexico, where would the survivors be buried?
    Answer: Nowhere, you don’t bury survivors.
  6. Does England have a 4th of July?
    Answer: Yes they do, and a July 5th and a July 6th.
  7. A man makes a claim that he can predict the exact score of every football game, before it begins. And he’s always right. How’s that possible?
    Answer: He says the score before every football game begins is 0-0.
  8. What two words, when combined hold the most letters?
    Answer: Post Office
  9. How many books can you put in an empty backpack?
    Answer: One! After that, it’s not empty.
  10. A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
    Answer: None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!
  11. How far can you walk into the woods?
    Answer: Half way. After that you are walking out of the woods.
  12. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
    Answer: Meat.
  13. What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name?
    Answer: The.
  14. Spell “Ghost” out loud. Then spell “Most” out loud. Then spell “Roast” out loud. What do you put in a toaster?
    Answer: Bread. Most people will answer “Toast”.
  15. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
    Answer: Wet.
  16. What was the American President’s name in 1990?
    Answer: Exactly the same as it is today.
  17. 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.
  18. Can you name the two days starting with T besides Tuesday and Thursday?
    Answer: Today and tomorrow.
  19. Answer these 4 questions out loud: What’s a common abbreviation for Coca-Cola? What sound does a frog makes? What do you call a funny story with a punch line? What are egg whites made of?
    Answer: Egg whites. Most people will answer “Yolk”.
  20. What looks like half an apple?
    Answer: The other half.
  21. There’s a 1 story house where everything inside and outside of it was PURPLE. So what color were the stairs?
    Answer: There were no stairs because it was a one story house!
  22. How many times can you take 5 from 25?
    Answer: 1, after that, it’s 20.
  23. An old lady in the United States has a heart attack and dials 911. No one came and she died. How could this have happened?
    Answer: She dialed but never actually called.
  24. What can you never eat for breakfast?
    Answer: Dinner.
  25. 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
  26. What the exact middle of America?
    Answer: The letter “r”
  27. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
    Answer: A towel
  28. A man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home there were two masked men. Who were they?
    Answer: The catcher and the umpire.
  29. How do you walk on water?
    Answer: Freeze it first.
  30. What’s the longest word in the English language?
    Answer: sMILEs—Because there’s a mile between the beginning and the end
  31. Spell “Pots” out loud, 3 times in a row. What do you do at a green light?
    Answer: Go. Most people will answer “Stop” (“Pots” spelled backwards).
  32. 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!
  33. A little girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?
    Answer: She kicks the ball straight up in the air.
  34. If there are three apples & you took away two, how many do you have?
    Answer: Two…because YOU took two.
  35. A farmer had 15 sheep, and all but 8 died. How many are left?
    Answer: The 8 sheep that were left.
  36. You want to purchase 3-cent stamps. You’re at the post office and waiting in line for your turn. How many 3-cent stamps you will get in a dozen?
    Answer: 12
  37. A man buys a new car and goes home to tell his girlfriend. He goes the wrong way up a one way street, bumps into seven people, goes on the pavement and takes a shortcut through a public park. He is seen by a policeman but is not arrested. Why?
    Answer: He was walking.
  38. You have a cup placed on a table. You are pointing towards the North and the cup is facing towards the South. On which side is the cup’s handle?
    Answer: No matter in which way the cup is facing, it’s handle will always be on the outside.
  39. What happened when wheel was invented ?
    Answer: It caused a revolution.
  40. Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.
    Answer: This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.
  41. In baseball, how may outs are there in an inning?
    Answer: 6. Each team has 3.
  42. 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.
  43. What goes up and never comes down?
    Answer: Your age.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. Two men play 7 games of checkers. Each wins an equal number of games and yet, there are no ties. How is this possible?
    Answer: They didn’t play against each other
  47. Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1964 pennies?
    Answer: Because 1968 pennies are four more than 1964 pennies
  48. A man wearing black clothes, black shoes and a black hat is walking down a street. The street lamps are all off. A black car, with its headlights off, comes speeding down the road, but screeches to a halt, just before hitting the man. How did the driver see the man?
    Answer: It was daytime.
  49. Ten copycats were sitting in a boat. One jumped out. How many were left?
    Answer: None, they were “copycats” so they all jumped out!
  50. 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.
  51. An airplane crashed into a field. Every single person in the aircraft died. But two people survived. How come?
    Answer: They were married.
  52. How many birth days does the average person have?
    Answer: Just one, all the rest are anniversaries of their date of birth.
  53. This is a trick question you will have to ask to somebody else, because it only works verbally (say it out loud): There are sixty cups on a table. If one falls down, how many are left on the table?
    Answer: They will say the answer is 59, but it is really 5. Tell them you said “six tea cups”, not “sixty cups”.
  54. I asked the assistant in the hardware store, “How much will one cost?” “Twenty cents” she replied. “And how much will twelve cost?” I asked. “Forty cents.” she replied. “OK, I’ll take one hundred and twelve.” How much did I pay?
    Answer: Only 60 cents. I needed 3 numbers for my house number….112.
  55. 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.
  56. John’s father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty…Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
    Answer: John, of course.
  57. 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.
  58. What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?
    Answer: Stairs.
  59. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
    Answer: Incorrectly.
  60. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?
    Answer: Billie lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
  61. In South Africa you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
    Answer: You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg, you need to use a camera.
  62. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
    Answer: You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in 2nd place, not 1st.
  63. Is it legal for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina?
    Answer: No, because he is alive.
  64. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
    Answer: One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
  65. A guy is condemned to death. He has to choose a room. Room #1: A fiery inferno. Room #2: 50 Assassins with loaded guns. Room #3: A room full of hungry lions that didn’t eat in 3 months. Which room is the safest?
    Answer: Room #3 because the lions would be dead if they didn’t eat in 3 months.
  66. Eskimos are very good hunters, but they never hunt penguins. Why not?
    Answer: Eskimos live in the North Pole, Penguins live in the South Pole.
  67. Which is heavier, 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers?
    Answer: They both weigh the same (100 pounds).
  68. Would it be ethical for a man to marry the sister of his widow?
    Answer: It doesn’t matter, it would be impossible. Since he has a widow, he must be dead himself.
  69. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”
    Answer: Neither is correct. Egg yolks are yellow, not white.
  70. What has a head and a tail but no body?
    Answer: A coin!
  71. An electrician and a plumber were waiting in line for admission to the “New England Home Show”. One of them was the father of the other’s son. How could this be possible?
    Answer: They were husband and wife.
  72. Some months have thirty days while others have thirty-one days? Which month has twenty-eight days?
    Answer: All months have 28 days in them.
  73. A woman shoots her husband. She then puts him underwater for 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. 5 minutes later, they both go and enjoy a nice dinner. How is this possible?
    Answer: She is a photographer.
  74. When do you stop at green and go at red?
    Answer: When you’re eating a watermelon
  75. If there are 12 fish and half of them drown, how many are there?
    Answer: 12, fish don’t drown!
  76. When does 10 + 3 = 1?
    Answer: On the clock.
  77. Can you spell eighty in two letters?
    Answer: A-T.
  78. What question must always be answered, “Yes”?
    Answer: “What does Y-E-S spell?”
  79. How many sides does a circle have?
    Answer: Two. An inside and an outside.
  80. Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?
    Answer: Stop imagining.