Whether you want to challenge yourself by figuring out a trick question or two, or can't wait to send some hilarious questions to your group chat, this list is full of funny, good questions to ask people.

Some of these questions will get you laughing. Thanks to the play of words, while others are so complex they'll make you see things in a whole new light.

So if you dare, test your wit by seeing how many of these trick questions you can answer—before you start peeking at the answers. 

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

Lunch and Dinner

2. What is always coming but never arrives? 

Tomorrow

3. What gets wetter the more it dries? 

A towel

4. What can be broken but never held? 

A promise

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

Incorrectly

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

Fire

7. What never asks a question but gets answered?

Your cellphone

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

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

9. What goes up but never ever comes down?

Your age

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

She fell off the bottom step

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

A Secret

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

An envelope

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

Survivors aren’t buried!

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

She sleeps at night

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

No time, because the wall is already built

17. You spot a boat full of people but there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Everyone on board is married

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

The four you took

19. How do you make the number one disappear?

Add a ‘G’ and it’s Gone!

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

The match

21. What’s greater than God and more evil than the devil?

Nothing

22. If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”?

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

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

His horse is named Friday

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

A monkey and a donkey

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

The letter ‘W’

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

He kicked it up

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

He is bald

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

An electric train has no smoke

34. How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash die

35. How many seconds are there in a year?

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

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

Day breaks and night falls

37. What can run but not walk?

Raindrops

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

All 12

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

A window

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

Neither one, because the accountant was his sister

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

Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound

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

Seven

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

A glove

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

A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush

47. Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?

Stop imagining

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

Stairs

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

A conversation

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

The baby, since he is a little Bigger.

56. If you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle?

No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside

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

Short

60. A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car with no lights on comes around the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car’s driver know he was there?

It was day time

62. Robert, my neighbor, a forty-five-year-old blacksmith is seven feet tall and eats all day long. What does he weigh?

Iron

69. You are driving a bus. When you begin your route, there is an old woman named Mrs. Smith and a young boy named Raymond are on the bus. At the first stop, the old woman leaves, and a salesman, named Ed, enters. At the next stop, Jack and his sister Jill get on, as well as three women with shopping bags. The bus travels fifteen minutes, then stops and Raymond gets off and a man and his wife get on. Next, a woman with a bird in a cage gets on the bus. What is the name of the bus driver?

It’s you! ?

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

The letter M

71. What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half by hand?

Once

76. If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?

None, coconut trees don’t grow bananas.

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

Four, because calling the elephant’s trunk a leg does not make it one.

89. How many animals did Moses take into the ark?

None because it was Noah who built and loaded the ark

91. If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll?

No eggs would roll, because roosters do not lay eggs

95. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?

No problem, because concrete floors are very hard to crack

99. Where is an ocean with no water?

A map

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

Island

108. Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?

Beth

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

A hole

112. If you were running a race and passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?

Second place

113. If you threw a red rock into a green sea, what would it come back as? 

Wet

115. The teacher asked the two girls who looked exactly alike the following questions: a.) Are you from the same family? b.) Do you have the same parents? c.) Were you born on the same day? They answered truthfully “yes” to those questions, and yet told the truth when they indicated they were not twins. How can this be?

They were triplets

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

Peacocks don’t lay eggs

118. 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?

Never. The boat rises as the tide goes up.

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

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

120. 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 have been taken? 

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

121. Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.

This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.

122. How many times can y

ou subtract 10 from 100? 

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

124. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain on Earth? 

Mount Everest

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