600+ Easy Riddles
Here is an extensive list of relatively easy riddles:
1. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
2. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money
3. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”
4. People buy me to eat, but I cannot be eaten. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
5. What pen should never be used for writing?
Answer: A pig pen
6. What kind of room has no walls, door or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
7. Name a lock no one can pick.
Answer: A lock of hair from a bald head
8. Why can’t you take a turkey to church?
Answer: They use fowl language.
9. There’s a question you can never answer yes to. Do you know what it is?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
10. When are cooks mean?
Answer: When they beat the eggs and whip the cream.
11. What Easter treat can you find at the bottom of the ocean?
Answer: Oyster eggs
12. What letter of the alphabet is the opposite of me?
Answer: U
13. What is the difference between twice twenty-two and twice two and twenty?
Answer: One is 44, the other 24
14. Where does Easter come before Valentine’s Day?
Answer: In the dictionary
15. What did Mrs. Claus say when Santa asked about the weather on Christmas Eve?
Answer: “Looks like rain, dear.”
16. What coat is finished without buttons and put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
17. Why should a horse not be hungry on a journey?
Answer: Because he has a bit in his mouth.
18. What cat said, “The British are coming!”
Answer: Paw Revere
19. Why is a star in the heavens like a window in the roof?
Answer: Because it’s a sky-light.
20. In my hand, I have two coins that are newly minted. Together, they total 30 cents. One isn’t a nickel. What are the coins?
Answer: A quarter and a nickel
21. When the water comes down, I go up. What am I?
Answer: An umbrella.
22. Which man shaves 20 or more times a day?
Answer: A barber
23. Why does Uncle Sam wear red-white-and-blue suspenders?
Answer: To hold up his pants
24. What are the most unsociable things in the world?
Answer: Milestones, because you never see two of them together.
25. What do both a tooth and a tree have?
Answer: Roots
26. Which is the strongest day of the week?
Answer: Sunday; the rest are weekdays.
27. Why did the girl go outside with her purse open?
Answer: She was expecting some change in the weather.
28. Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it?
Answer: Noise.
29. I have ears but I cannot hear and I have flakes but I have no hair. What am I?
Answer: Corn
30. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
31. I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. What am I?
Answer: A clock
32. What is the best and cheapest light?
Answer: Daylight
33. I like to hop around, and I’m a tadpole when I’m young. I am green and I croak and catch flies with my long tongue. What am I?
Answer: A frog.
34. How far is it from March to June?
Answer: A single spring
35. What word, by changing a single letter, becomes its own opposite?
Answer: United (untied)
36. What do you get if you put a mother duck and five ducklings into a box?
Answer: A box of quackers
37. When my father was 30 years old, I was 9 years old. Now, I am 40 years old, so what will be his age now?
Answer: 61
38. I begin and end with E but I only contain one letter. What am I?
Answer: An envelope
39. Three men jump into the water, but only two come out with wet hair. Why?
Answer: The third man was bald.
40. Why did the British cross the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: To get to the other tide
41. How can you keep fish from smelling?
Answer: Cut off their noses.
42. If a red house is made with red bricks, and a blue house is made with blue bricks, and an orange house is made with orange bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Answer: Usually glass, so plants can grow more easily.
43. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
44. How does Santa keep his breath fresh?
Answer: With an orna-mint
45. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
46. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
47. Why does a spider make a good baseball player?
Answer: Because he catches flies.
48. How do you make anti-freeze?
Answer: Take away her blanket.
49. What is the surest way to keep water from getting into your house?
Answer: Don’t pay your water bill.
50. An electric train is heading east at 400mph. How fast will the smoke blow?
Answer: Electric trains do not produce smoke.
51. If it took three people four hours to roast a turkey, how many hours would it take four people to roast the same turkey?
Answer: None! The turkey is already cooked.
52. Where does a dog keep its car?
Answer: In a barking lot
53. What did Paul Revere say when he finished his famous ride?
Answer: “Whoa!”
54. What is the most difficult train to catch?
Answer: The 12:50, because it’s 10 to one if you catch it.
55. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “not.”
56. I can wave my hands at you, but I never say goodbye. You are always cool when with me, even more so when I am high! What am I?
Answer: An electric fan.
57. I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I’m old, and every Halloween, I bring a jack-o-lantern life. What am I?
Answer: A candle
58. Why did the moth eat the rug?
Answer: To see the floor show
59. What can run but can’t walk?
Answer: Water.
60. Who’s bigger? Mr. Bigger or Mr. Bigger’s baby?
Answer: Mr. Bigger’s baby—he’s a little bigger.
61. How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: Two. The inside and the outside
62. Why was the computer so quiet on Christmas Eve?
Answer: Because not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
63. What can a person place in his right hand but not in his left hand?
Answer: His left elbow
64. Why is the Statue of Liberty standing in the New York harbor?
Answer: Because she can’t sit down.
65. Why should you never punish a cat?
Answer: Because it’s already purrfect.
66. What makes a road broad?
Answer: The letter b
67. What should you do if you catch a dog eating your dictionary?
Answer: Take the words right out of his mouth.
68. How is a wedding ring like eternity?
Answer: It has no beginning and no end.
69. I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I?
Answer: Mercury
70. I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Answer: 194
71. What did the duck say when it laid a square egg?
Answer: Ouch!
72. What do you call a carpenter who can’t find his tools?
Answer: A saw loser
73. When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?
Answer: A clock
74. What’s the Easter Bunny’s favorite sport?
Answer: Basketball
75. What has eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
76. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: The letter “C”
77. Why did John’s mother knit him three stockings when he was in the army?
Answer: Because John wrote her that had gotten so tall he had grown another foot.
78. What did the rug say to the floor?
Answer: Don’t move—I have you covered.
79. When is it right to lie?
Answer: When you are in bed.
80. What never uses its teeth for eating?
Answer: A comb
81. Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will! What am I?
Answer: An onion.
82. What’s the most dangerous letter in the alphabet?
Answer: The killer B
83. On which side does a chicken have the most feathers?
Answer: The outside
84. Which branch of the military is a bunny’s favorite?
Answer: The hare force
85. What goes up and never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
86. What makes a pair of shoes?
Answer: Two shoes
87. What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
88. What flies all day but never goes anywhere?
Answer: A flag
89. At Thanksgiving dinner, which hand should you butter your roll with?
Answer: Neither—you should use a knife.
90. Bobby’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?
Answer: Bobby.
91. What letter in the Dutch alphabet will name a titled lady?
Answer: Dutch-S
92. If the Pilgrims were alive today, what would they be most famous for?
Answer: Their age
93. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: Plates and cutlery.
94. How many gold coins can a leprechaun throw in an empty pot?
Answer: One. After that, it’s no longer empty.
95. A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?
Answer: His mother
96. When called to investigate, the police found that a man had died in his apartment. When they looked up where he worked, they discovered that he earned $30 for every month he worked with 30 or fewer days and $35 for every month he worked with 31 days. Assuming today is April 1, how much will he earn by the end of December?
Answer: April Fools’! He won’t earn anything. He died.
97. Why should soldiers be tired on the first of April?
Answer: Because they just had to march 31 days.
98. Violet, indigo, and blue. Red, yellow, orange, and green. At the end of this object, a pot of gold can be seen. What is it?
Answer: A rainbow
99. Why is the sun like a good loaf of bread?
Answer: Because it’s light when it rises.
100. When written forward, this word is heavy. When written backward, it is not. What word is this?
Answer: Ton
101. How is your hand like a hardware store?
Answer: It has nails.
102. What state is round at both ends, and high in the middle?
Answer: OHIO
103. I have no doors but I have keys, I have no rooms but I have space, you can enter but you can’t leave! What am I?
Answer: A keyboard
104. How is a nobleman like a book?
Answer: He has a title.
105. What is the last thing you take off before going to bed?
Answer: Your feet from the floor.
106. A man left home sprinting. He ran for awhile 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 people wearing masks. Who were they?
Answer: The umpire and the catcher.
107. No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
Answer: A calendar.
108. Is it possible for a woman to go 10 days without sleeping?
Answer: Yes, she will sleep at night.
109. What has many eyes and never cries?
Answer: A potato
110. I have eyes but I can’t see. I live in the dark until you need me. What am I?
Answer: A potato.
111. I go around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
112. What is filled every morning and emptied every night, except once a year when it is filled at night and emptied in the morning?
Answer: A stocking
113. Where does a snowman keep his money?
Answer: In a snowbank
114. Which fish costs the most?
Answer: A goldfish.
115. I am a strange creature, hovering in the air, moving from here to there, with a brilliant flare. Some say I sing, but others say I have no voice, so I just hum as a matter of choice. What am I?
Answer: A hummingbird.
116. What’s the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer: Smiles. There is a mile between the first and last letters.
117. When you go out in a blizzard and you see a vampire, what do you get?
Answer: Frostbite
118. A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the street. How did the man see her?
Answer: It was a bright, sunny day.
119. What is the hardest kind of bean to raise on a farm?
Answer: Jelly beans
120. Where do sheep go to get their hair cut?
Answer: The baa-baa shop
121. A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?
Answer: A pea
122. What question can never be answered “Yes”?
Answer: “Are you asleep?”
123. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
124. I turn once, so what is out will not get in. I turn again, so what is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key.
125. How is a Bible scholar like a merchant?
Answer: Because he studies the prophets (profits).
126. Why did the golfer put on a second pair of pants?
Answer: He hot a hole in one.
127. What word begins and ends in “E,” but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
128. How can you divide 17 apples equally among 11 boys if four of them are very small?
Answer: By making them into applesauce
129. What is everything doing at the same time?
Answer: Growing older
130. There is a clothing store in San Jose. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using this pattern, how much would a pair of underwear cost?
Answer: $45. The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the item.
131. If you gave one friend 15 cents and another a dime, what time would it be?
Answer: A quarter to two
132. Why was the watchdog spinning around and around?
Answer: He was winding himself up.
133. What tune makes everybody glad?
Answer: Fortune
134. What two keys cannot open any doors?
Answer: Monkey and donkey.
135. Why are fish so smart?
Answer: Because they travel in schools.
136. What flower does a person carry around all year?
Answer: Tulips
137. If the end of the year is on December 31st, then what is the end of Christmas?
Answer: An “S”
138. What it it called when a dinosaur makes a soccer goal?
Answer: A dino-score.
139. What can pass before the sun without making a shadow?
Answer: The wind
140. What has many keys, but cannot unlock a single door?
Answer: A piano.
141. Why can’t the world ever end?
Answer: Because it’s round.
142. What’s the problem with twin witches?
Answer: You never know which witch is which!
143. I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather.
144. What relation is that child to its father who is not its father’s own son?
Answer: His daughter
145. How can parents make Easter easier?
Answer: Replace the “t” with an “i”
146. What did the big toe say to the little toe?
Answer: Don’t look now, but there’s a heel following us.
147. How can you tell which rabbit is the oldest?
Answer: Look for the gray hare.
148. What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?
Answer: They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized.
149. What kind of pie looks the best?
Answer: A Q-T pie
150. What goes uphill and downhill, and always stays in the same place?
Answer: A road
151. What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter “W.”
152. I live in the ocean and move slowly. I eat clams and have five arms. What am I?
Answer: A starfish.
153. When is a blue book not a blue book?
Answer: When it’s read (red).
154. Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: The letter r.
155. What does an iron-clad vessel of war, with four inches of steel plating and all her guns on board, weigh just before starting on a cruise?
Answer: She weighs anchor.
156. A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?
Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.
157. If you toss a coin 10 times and it lands heads up every time, what are the chances it will land heads up if you toss it again?
Answer: There is a 50/50 chance of each toss being either heads or tails. The previous toss does not impact the next toss.
158. I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A Pencil
159. On Calvary, there were three, not six. It’s also known as a crucifix.
Answer: A cross
160. I hide my treasure in the ground, my tail is big and fluffy. If you spot me in a tree, please don’t call me scruffy. What am I?
Answer: A squirrel.
161. How was the snow globe feeling?
Answer: A little shaken
162. Who always goes to sleep with his shoes on?
Answer: A horse
163. Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold, doesn’t matter hot or cold. What am I?
Answer: A cup.
164. What do we see made, but never after it’s made?
Answer: A noise
165. What is gray, has four legs, big ears, a tail, and a trunk?
Answer: A mouse going on vacation
166. What do you call it when your parachute doesn’t open?
Answer: Jumping to a conclusion
167. After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who lived?
Answer: The couples.
168. Which month has 28 days in it?
Answer: All months
169. What fruit is mentioned most in history?
Answer: Dates
170. It takes me two weeks to digest food, but then again, I’m not noted for being fast. What am I?
Answer: A sloth.
171. I am a number with a couple of friends. What am I?
Answer: Three
172. When Santa sprained his ankle, what did he use to walk?
Answer: A candy cane
173. I live in the woods. I am very big and furry. I like to eat fish and berries. I love honey as much as you do. What am I?
Answer: A bear.
174. What can be stolen, but never leave you?
Answer: Your identity.
175. I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
Answer: An eyeball
176. I can never be thrown but I can be caught. Ways to lose me are always being sought. What am I?
Answer: A cold
177. What will be yesterday but was tomorrow?
Answer: Today
178. What has a neck, but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
179. How do you get down off an elephant?
Answer: You don’t get down off an elephant. You get down off a duck.
180. Sally’s father has five daughters: Sammy, Stella, Sarah and Sadie. Guess the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer: Sally.
181. What do you call a hippie’s wife?
Answer: Mississippi
182. I’m born pink in color but then change to black and white. I’m easy to feed, as my favorite food is bamboo. What animal am I?
Answer: A panda bear.
183. How do shells get around the ocean?
Answer: A taxi crab.
184. What are the most difficult ships to conquer?
Answer: Hard-ships
185. I have wings, I am able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
Answer: A plane.
186. When are words musical?
Answer: When they have a ring to them.
187. How do we know they had fruit onboard the ark?
Answer: Because the animals went in pairs (pears).
188. In a single story house, there is a green chair, green bed, green computer, green couch, green flowers, green carpet and green table. What color is the staircase?
Answer: There is no staircase. It’s a single story house.
189. What does the duck say when he hears his stomach rumble?
Answer: “Oh, I have a stomach quake.”
190. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “G.”
191. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
192. What Jack has a head but no body?
Answer: A jack-o-lantern
193. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint
194. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery.
195. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
196. Which number stays the same no matter what number you multiply it with?
Answer: 0
197. Which side of a grizzly bear has the most fur?
Answer: The outside
198. What has the head of a cat, the tail of a cat—but is not a cat?
Answer: A kitten
199. What asks no questions but requires many answers?
Answer: A doorbell
200. When is a chair like a dress?
Answer: When it is sat-in.
201. Why do birds fly South?
Answer: Because it’s too far to walk.
202. What has holes all over, but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
203. When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
Answer: When it’s military time.
204. Cupid without a bow, Donner with no kebab, one who dances, one who prances, all dragging present-giving dad. What am I?
Answer: A reindeer.
205. What ant is the youngest?
Answer: Infant
206. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: “Short”
207. Amy threw the ball as hard as she could and it came back to her, without anything or anyone touching it. How?
Answer: She threw the ball upward into the air.
208. What do giraffes have that no other animal has?
Answer: Little giraffes
209. What’s 102 stories high, wears a black cape, and has very sharp teeth?
Answer: The vampire state building
210. If 20 dogs run after one dog, what time is it?
Answer: Twenty after one
211. What did Adam do when he wanted sugar?
Answer: Raised Cain
212. Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
Answer: Time
213. What kind of ears do engines have?
Answer: Engineers
214. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map
215. Why did Robin Hood rob only the rich?
Answer: Because the poor had no money.
216. What has cities, but no houses?
Answer: A map.
217. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
218. I am four times older than my son. In 20 years’ time, I will be twice as old as he is. How old are we now?
Answer: 40 and 10
219. What did Santa’s elves learn in school?
Answer: The elf-abet
220. What comes after cheese?
Answer: Mice!
221. What’s black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper.
222. The one who makes me cannot use me. The one who buys me will not use me for themselves. The one who actually uses me, doesn’t know it. What am I?
Answer: A coffin.
223. What’s a cat’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Mice pudding
224. What are crispy and crunchy and sail the ocean blue?
Answer: Potato ships
225. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
226. When is a pig like ink?
Answer: When you put it in a pen.
227. What has a bed, but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
228. Where was the dog when the lights went out?
Answer: In the dark
229. What is as light as a feather, yet no person can hold it for long. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
230. What goes up and never goes down?
Answer: Your age
231. I’m always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future
232. When the Pilgrims landed, where did they stand?
Answer: On their feet
233. Why can’t a woman living in the U.S. be buried in Canada?
Answer: Because she’s still alive!
234. Why is the letter E like London?
Answer: They’re both the capital of England.
235. Why is it useless to send a letter to Washington today?
Answer: Because he died in 1799.
236. What kind of a dot can dance?
Answer: A polka dot
237. Three men were under one umbrella but none of them got wet. How did they do it?
Answer: It wasn’t raining.
238. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
239. What has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A river
240. Why is it that whenever you are looking for something, you always find it in the last place you look?
Answer: Because you stop looking once you find it.
241. What is the smartest state?
Answer: Alabama—it has four A’s and one B!
242. What are King Kong’s favorite cookies?
Answer: Chocolate chimp
243. What did the dirt say when it rained?
Answer: If this keeps up, my name is mud!
244. What’s the worst season of the year for tightrope walkers?
Answer: The fall
245. How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550? There are two possible answers.
Answer: Draw a line on the first plus sign that turns it into a 4! The equation then becomes true: 545+5=550.
246. I move up and down all day but I never actually move. What am I?
Answer: The temperature
247. When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer: When you’re a mouse
248. What has 1,000 legs and no feet?
Answer: 500 pairs of pants
249. The more of this there is, the less you can see. WhatAm I?
Answer: Darkness.
250. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first was named May, the next was named June. What was the name of the third child?
Answer: Johnny.
251. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
Answer: A match
252. I’m the only mammal that can’t jump. What animal am I?
Answer: An elephant.
253. I wear a tuxedo in the snow and skate on my tummy across the ice. What am I?
Answer: A penguin.
254. My life is measured in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
255. What happens when a sheep studies karate?
Answer: A lamb chop.
256. What goes up and down, but never moves?
Answer: The temperature.
257. Where do you take a sick boat?
Answer: To the dock-tor.
258. Why did Babe Ruth make so much money?
Answer: Because a good batter makes good dough.
259. The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
260. How can you know when it’s raining cats and dogs?
Answer: Step into a poodle
261. Why is a pulled tooth like a thing forgotten?
Answer: It’s out of the head.
262. What bus crossed the ocean?
Answer: Columbus
263. Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
264. Why is the music teacher a good teacher?
Answer: Because she is a sound instructor.
265. The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra
266. If 10 birds were sitting on a telegraph wire and you shot one, how many would be left?
Answer: None. The others would all fly away.
267. How do you make the number 7 an even number without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Answer: Take out the “s.”
268. What nation do people dread?
Answer: Condem-nation
269. If Jack’s father is Joe’s son, who is Jack to Joe?
Answer: Joe is his grandfather.
270. A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?
Answer: He took the goose over first and came back. Then, he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.
271. How do you make a banana shake?
Answer: Take it to a scary movie.
272. What happens when a giant walks through your garden?
Answer: All your vegetables turn to squash.
273. How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
Answer: Once. After that you’re subtracting it from 48.
274. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom
275. I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?
Answer: A puzzle piece
276. What is so fragile that saying its name will make it break?
Answer: Silence.
277. Kavita has 3 strawberries and 2 oranges in one hand and 2 strawberries and 4 oranges in the other. How many oranges and strawberries did Kavita have?
Answer: 6 oranges and 5 strawberries.
278. What 10-letter word starts with GAS?
Answer: AUTOMOBILE!
279. How many witches does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: Just one and she’ll change it into a toad.
280. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
281. What does x-p-d-n-c spell?
Answer: Expediency
282. What would you call a man who does not have all fingers on one hand?
Answer: A man, because humans have fingers on both hands.
283. What’s the capital in Washington?
Answer: W
284. What comes before 11 and after 15?
Answer: 10 and 16.
285. A butcher is 6 feet tall and wears a size 12 shoe. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat, of course
286. I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?
Answer: A clock. When it is 9 a.m., adding 5 hours would make it 2 p.m.
287. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
288. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?
Answer: An elephant’s shadow.
289. What can’t you see, even though it’s always before you?
Answer: The future
290. How can you make pants last?
Answer: Make the coats and vests first.
291. What contains more feet in winter than in summer?
Answer: A skating rink
292. What has 88 teeth, but has never brushed them?
Answer: A piano.
293. A green jacket covers my arms. Don’t ever steal my Lucky Charms. Who am I?
Answer: A leprechaun
294. What did the sea say to the sand?
Answer: Nothing, he just waved.
295. What is the most warlike nation?
Answer: Vacci-nation, because it is always in arms.
296. What word becomes shorter when a syllable is added to it?
Answer: The word short
297. What is that which is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Answer: Carpet
298. What age is served for breakfast?
Answer: Sausage
299. In what time do people do all their talking?
Answer: In a lifetime
300. Where will you find Friday before Thursday?
Answer: In a dictionary
301. When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
Answer: When it’s military time
302. Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?
Answer: Your father
303. A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero. What is it?
Answer: Dimensions
304. A zombie, a mummy, and a ghost bought a house. It has all of the usual rooms except for one. What room won’t you find?
Answer: A living room
305. 81 x 9 = 801. What must you do to make this equation true?
Answer: Flip it upside down. 108 = 6 x 18
306. What divides by uniting, and unites by dividing?
Answer: Scissors
307. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
Answer: A baby chick in an egg. \
308. What are the biggest kind of ants?
Answer: Gi-ants
309. There are five holes in the ground and four seeds. A little boy plants one seed in the second hole. Then, a seed exactly to the right of that seed. Next, he plants a seed in the 5th hole, and finally, he plants a seed four holes to the left of that. Which hole did not get a seed?
Answer: The fourth hole.
310. I’m not in Venus or Neptune, but you can find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”
311. Why do we all go to bed?
Answer: Because the bed will not come to us.
312. Why should you take a ruler to bed?
Answer: To see how long you slept
313. What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole?
Answer: All the difference in the world
314. What pets make the sweetest music?
Answer: Trumpets
315. What goes through a door but never goes in or comes out?
Answer: A keyhole
316. When is music like vegetables?
Answer: When there are two beats (beets) to the measure.
317. Three times what number is no larger than two times that same number?
Answer: 0
318. Why are clouds like coachmen?
Answer: They hold the reins (rains).
319. A woman fell from a 30-foot ladder without getting hurt. How?
Answer: She was standing on the bottom rung.
320. I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my substance behind. What am I?
Answer: A spider.
321. Why did the football coach go to the bank?
Answer: He wanted his quarterback.
322. What’s the best way to catch a rabbit?
Answer: Pretend to be a carrot
323. When should a baker quit making doughnuts?
Answer: When he gets sick of the hole business.
324. A woman called her horse from the opposite side of a river. The horse crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a boat or bridge. How?
Answer: The river was frozen.
325. How do you make the number 7 even without adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing?
Answer: Take out the “S.”
326. I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
Answer: A dictionary.
327. Henry’s mother had four kids. The first three were named April, Fools, and Day. What was the fourth one named?
Answer: Henry
328. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
329. What American has had the largest family?
Answer: George Washington, the father of his country
330. I’m an instrument through which sounds are made, and yet, not something that can be played. What am I?
Answer: Your voice.
331. Why is distance at sea not measured by miles?
Answer: Because it’s knot
332. Why is the Stock Exchange a den of wild beasts?
Answer: It’s full of bulls and bears.
333. What driver never gets arrested?
Answer: A screwdriver
334. Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?
Answer: A shadow.
335. What always comes into a house through the keyhole?
Answer: A key
336. If a boy blows 18 bubbles, then pops 6, eats 7, pops 5, and blows 1, how many are left?
Answer: 1
337. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
338. If you threw a black stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?
Answer: Wet.
339. What was Thomas Jefferson’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Monti-jello
340. What is the fastest way to double your money?
Answer: Place it in front of the mirror.
341. What game is dangerous for your mental health?
Answer: Marbles; you don’t want to lose them.
342. Why does a baby pig eat so much?
Answer: To make a hog out of himself
343. I have horns but I can’t beep. I like to bleat but I’m not a sheep. What am I?
Answer: A goat.
344. Why is an island like the letter T?
Answer: Because it’s in the middle of water.
345. Why can’t it rain for two days continuously?
Answer: Because there is always a night in between.
346. How do fish decorate for Christmas?
Answer: They hang reefs.
347. Why is the girl getting a suntan like a small bucket?
Answer: They’re both a little pale.
348. I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a treat. What am I?
Answer: A Coin
349. What four-letter word can be written the same forward and backward, as well as upside down?
Answer: Noon.
350. What two things can never be eaten for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
351. Spell “enemy” in three letters.
Answer: F O E
352. I’m able to turn my head around 270 degrees and I’m noted for being quiet in flight. What bird am I?
Answer: An owl.
353. What is lost and never found again?
Answer: Time
354. What kind of shoes are made of banana skins?
Answer: Slippers
355. A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
356. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Answer: Secret.
357. Why is the letter D like a sailor?
Answer: It follows the C (sea).
358. Why do bees hum?
Answer: Because they don’t know the words.
359. Yellow and blue combined you’ll see; if you don’t want a pinch, be sure to wear me! What am I?
Answer: The color green
360. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
361. Who was older: David or Goliath?
Answer: David, because he rocked Goliath to sleep.
362. Where can you always find “gold,” but there’s no gold at all?
Answer: In the dictionary
363. There is a rooster sitting on top of a barn. If it laid an egg, which way would it roll?
Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs.
364. If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
Answer: A promise.
365. If a tiger had a Christmas music album, what would it be called?
Answer: Jungle Bells
366. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Answer: Rain
367. Where were the first doughnuts fried?
Answer: In Greece (grease)
368. Which is better: an old 10 dollar bill or a new one?
Answer: An old TEN dollar bill rather than a new ONE
369. What loses a head in the morning, but gets it back at night?
Answer: A pillow.
370. What word will, if you take away the first letter, make you sick?
Answer: Music
371. What occurs twice in a moment, once in a minute, and never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
372. If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what is her relation to you?
Answer: She is your mother.
373. What should a man know before trying to teach a dog?
Answer: More than the dog
374. Which burns longer: a wax or tallow candle?
Answer: Neither; both burn shorter.
375. When is an altered dress like a secret?
Answer: When it is let out.
376. What has 18 legs and catches flies?
Answer: A baseball team
377. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A Barber
378. What did the gingerbread man put on his bed?
Answer: Cookie sheets
379. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
380. I’m (usually) white and used for cutting and grinding. When I’m damaged, humans usually remove me or fill me. For most animals I am a useful tool. What am I?
Answer: A Tooth
381. Why does a giraffe eat so little?
Answer: Because a little goes a long way.
382. I have 13 hearts, but no other organs? What am I?
Answer: A deck of cards.
383. What must you add to nine to make it six?
Answer: S (S + IX = six)
384. Lovely and round, I shine with pale light; grown in the darkness, I’m a lady’s delight. What am I?
Answer: A pearl
385. What do you call a group of rabbits marching backward?
Answer: A receding hare line
386. How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
Answer: Just one—after that, it’s not empty anymore.
387. What is used by others, but only belongs to you?
Answer: Your name.
388. I taste better than I smell. What am I?
Answer: A tongue
389. What happens when you cross a bulldog with a Plymouth Rock hen?
Answer: The hen lays pooched eggs.
390. What bird is always sad?
Answer: A blue jay
391. What does the Easter Bunny say when it burps?
Answer: Eggs-cuse me!
392. How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
Answer: Moses didn’t take anything on the ark. Noah did!
393. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of playing cards
394. What letter of the alphabet is a question?
Answer: Y
395. What trembles at each breath of air, but can bear the heaviest burdens?
Answer: Water
396. What word is always pronounced wrong?
Answer: Wrong
397. You won’t see me at all in March, May or January, but catch me once in June and twice in November. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E”.
398. I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I?
Answer: Eye
399. When is a sheepdog most likely to go into a house?
Answer: When the door is open.
400. What do you call a fairy that hasn’t taken a bath?
Answer: Stinker Bell
401. What kind of insect hates Christmas?
Answer: A humbug
402. Where will you find Friday before Thursday?
Answer: A dictionary.
403. What’s the easiest way to double your money?
Answer: Fold it.
404. Why is a riddle like a parrot?
Answer: It is far-fetched and full of nonsense.
405. What did the duckling say when he saw his first colored Easter egg?
Answer: “Ooh, look at the orange marmalade.”
406. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree.
407. Do they have a 4th of July in Australia?
Answer: Yep. It’s right after the 3rd and before the 5th.
408. How do oceans say hello to each other?
Answer: They wave
409. I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am I?
Answer: River
410. What part of London is in France?
Answer: The letter N
411. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
Answer: The bridge of your nose
412. If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
Answer: Because it wasn’t raining.
413. When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
Answer: When it’s a french fry
414. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All months have at least 28 days.
415. My name sounds like something you might use on your hair or eat for dessert. What am I?
Answer: A moose.
416. They fill me up and you empty me, almost every day; if you raise my arm, I work the opposite way. What am I?
Answer: A mailbox
417. How can you find a lost rabbit?
Answer: Make a noise like a carrot.
418. With what two animals do you always go to bed?
Answer: Two calves
419. Who wears shoes while sleeping?
Answer: A horse.
420. What’s the first thing that happens when a boy jumps in the lake?
Answer: He gets wet.
421. I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E”.
422. What is that we often return and never borrow?
Answer: Thanks
423. I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone’s dirty business. What am I?
Answer: A vacuum cleaner
424. What smells the most in a candle store?
Answer: Your nose
425. How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
Answer: Zero. Noah took them.
426. I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?
Answer: A kangaroo.
427. I’m an animal you might love, but I’m too big to be your pet. I have an extremely long trunk, and it’s said I never forget. What am I?
Answer: An elephant.
428. Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining!
429. If a boy wears his pants out, what will he do?
Answer: Wear them in again.
430. Who is the most impolite and disrespectful of all the reindeer?
Answer: Rude-olf
431. I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: Clouds
432. How do you catch a school of fish?
Answer: A bookworm.
433. I’m spotty and speedy, but not at all greedy. I look like a leopard but don’t try to play me at cards. What am I?
Answer: A cheetah.
434. Where is the largest diamond in Boston kept?
Answer: On a baseball field
435. What is full of holes but holds water?
Answer: A sponge
436. You heard me before, and then again. Afterward, I die, until you call me again. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
437. Why do you always put on your left shoe last?
Answer: Once you put on one, the other is left.
438. I travel all around the world but always stay in the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp
439. Why did Mickey Mouse go to outer space?
Answer: He wanted to visit Pluto.
440. Bill, Judy, and Dane attended a baseball game together and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?
Answer: 3
441. What nationality is Santa Claus?
Answer: North Polish
442. What is the most moral musical instrument?
Answer: An upright piano
443. When Rebecca was 8 years old, her little brother, Bob, was half his age. If Rebecca is 20 years old today, how old is Bob?
Answer: 16
444. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
445. What’s the difference between a nickel and a penny?
Answer: Four cents
446. Give me air and I will live. Give me water and I will die. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
447. I have many teeth but I can’t bite. I’m often used early but rarely at night. What am I?
Answer: A comb
448. How does Easter end?
Answer: With an “r”
449. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
450. How can five people divide five cookies so that each gets a cookie and yet one cookie remains on the plate?
Answer: The last person takes the plate with the remaining cookie.
451. What kind of train has a head cold?
Answer: Achoo achoo train
452. What has every living person seen, but will never see again?
Answer: Yesterday
453. What song do animals in the jungle listen to on July 4th?
Answer: Tarzan Stripes Forever
454. Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Answer: Because you can see right through them.
455. What did one wall say to another?
Answer: Meet you at the corner.
456. You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon. You eat the red part, and you stop eating at the green part.
457. What were the colors of the wind and the waves in a storm?
Answer: The wind blew (blue), and the waves rose.
458. If an athlete gets athlete’s foot, what does an astronaut get?
Answer: Missile toe
459. How many sides does a square have?
Answer: 4
460. What’s in the middle of March and April but never at the beginning or end?
Answer: The letter “R”
461. I’m an animal you might love, but I’m too big to be your pet. I have an extremely long trunk, and it’s said I never forget. What am I?
Answer: An elephant.
462. What is the difference between a howling wind and an umbrella?
Answer: You can shut an umbrella up.
463. A mama robin has two daughters. Each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does the mama robin have?
Answer: She has 3, both of the daughters have the same 1 brother.
464. What dance do bakers prefer?
Answer: A-bun-dance
465. How do kids know Santa is in the house?
Answer: They sense his presents.
466. How far can a fox run into a grove?
Answer: Only halfway—then he’s running out of it!
467. I have two long ears, and I don’t walk, I hop. What am I?
Answer: A rabbit.
468. A plane crashes exactly on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Half the people on board were American and half the people were Canadian. Where do you bury the survivors?
Answer: You don’t bury survivors!
469. Two vampires ran a race and crossed the finish line at almost the same time. How did the race end?
Answer: Neck and neck
470. What’s the last thing you do before you go to sleep?
Answer: Close your eyes.
471. Why was Washington buried standing?
Answer: Because he couldn’t lie.
472. What do the Pilgrims, Indians, and Puritans have in common?
Answer: The letter “I”
473. The height of my legs—usually around 6 feet—is taller than most humans. What animal am I?
Answer: A giraffe.
474. Of what trade is the president of the United States?
Answer: A cabinet-maker
475. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
476. I came to town and met three people; they were neither men, nor women, nor children; what were they?
Answer: A man, a woman, and a child
477. I help you from your head to your toe. The more I work, the smaller I grow. What am I?
Answer: A Bar of Soap
478. How can you make one pound of green tea go as far as five pounds of black?
Answer: Buy both in New York and send them to Maine.
479. How can Sarah go 8 days without sleep?
Answer: She only sleeps at night.
480. What do you call a cat who drinks lemonade?
Answer: A sourpuss
481. How much fur can you get from a skunk?
Answer: As fur as possible
482. How do you spell candy with two letters?
Answer: C and Y (C-and-Y)
483. How can 8 + 8 = 4?
Answer: When you think in terms of time. 8 a.m. + 8 hours = 4 o’clock.
484. Rachel goes to the supermarket and buys 10 tomatoes. Unfortunately, on the way back home, all but 9 get ruined. How many tomatoes are left in a good condition?
Answer: 9
485. What plant stands for four?
Answer: Ivy (IV)
486. Who is never hungry on Thanksgiving?
Answer: The turkey, because it’s always stuffed
487. Why is “A” like twelve o’clock?
Answer: Because it is in the middle of the day.
488. When does a public speaker steal lumber?
Answer: When he takes the floor.
489. Though I dance at a ball, I am nothing at all. What am I?
Answer: A shadow
490. Why do some monkeys sell potato chips?
Answer: Because they’re chip monks.
491. What state is famous for tiny beverages?
Answer: Mini-soda
492. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why not?
Answer: They’re all married.
493. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
494. I am a bow that can’t be tied.
Answer: A rainbow.
495. What is taken from you before you get it?
Answer: Your picture
496. What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest woman couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
Answer: Her breath.
497. I am so delicate that just saying my name will cause me to break. What am I?
Answer: Silence
498. Where was Solomon’s temple?
Answer: On the side of his head
499. Which bird is very rude?
Answer: The mocking bird
500. Which is faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heat. You can catch a cold.
501. Why did Johnny get bad grades after Thanksgiving?
Answer: Because everything is marked down after the holidays!
502. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
503. What peels like an onion but still remains whole?
Answer: A lizard.
504. What goes up, but never comes down?
Answer: Age.
505. My teddy bear is never hungry. Why?
Answer: He’s stuffed.
506. Why is a traffic cop the strongest man in the world?
Answer: Because he can hold up a 10-ton truck with one hand
507. How can you make five less by adding one to it?
Answer: IV
508. 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
509. How is a cat on a beach like Christmas?
Answer: They both have sandy claws.
510. Why is a room full of married folks like an empty room?
Answer: Because there is not a single person in it.
511. How many times can you subtract 10 from 25?
Answer: Once. After you subtract 10 from 25 the first time, it becomes 15.
512. What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Answer: A remark.
513. No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
Answer: A calendar
514. What room can no one enter?
Answer: A mushroom
515. On which side of a church does a tree grow?
Answer: On the outside
516. Imagine you are in trapped in a closet with a locked door. How will you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining.
517. If two kids share eight pieces of cherry pie, and one kid only gets to eat one piece, what does the other get?
Answer: A stomach ache
518. I have a face and arms, but no legs. What am I?
Answer: A clock.
519. First I am dried, then I am wet. The longer I swim, the more taste you get. What am I?
Answer: Tea
520. What is the difference between a coat and a baby?
Answer: The one you wear, the other you were
521. Which five-letter Irish name can be spelled with just two?
Answer: KC
522. What sentence did Adam use when he introduced himself to Eve, which reads the same backward and forward?
Answer: “Madam, I’m Adam!”
523. I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
Answer: A piano
524. What birds have 4 feet and yellow feathers?
Answer: Two canaries
525. I can be driven, but I don’t have wheels. I can be sliced, but I stay whole. What am I?
Answer: A golf ball
526. When are houses like books?
Answer: When they have stories.
527. A man and a dog were going down the street. The man rode, yet walked. What was the dog’s name?
Answer: Yet
528. What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?
Answer: The pavement
529. You can’t keep this until you have given it.
Answer: Your promise
530. What kind of paper tells you who you are?
Answer: Tissue (‘tis you)
531. A cub, a bunny, and a gosling are taking a walk. One of them sneezes. It’s not the animal that hops, and it’s not the animal that flies. Which animal sneezed?
Answer: The cub.
532. What is always answered without being questioned?
Answer: A doorbell.
533. If you go to the movies and you’re paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?
Answer: It’s cheaper to take two friends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets.
534. How is Ireland like a bottle of wine?
Answer: It has a Cork in it.
535. What would you say if everyone in the country sneezed at the same time?
Answer: God bless America!
536. A boy fell off a 20-foot ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?
Answer: He fell off the bottom step.
537. What gets wet as it dries?
Answer: A towel
538. I am known as a king, and the jungle’s where I reign. It is hard to tame me, and I have a large mane. What am I?
Answer: A lion.
539. How can you keep an elephant from charging?
Answer: Take away its credit card
540. What does a person usually grow in a garden if he works hard?
Answer: Tired
541. When does a ship fool you?
Answer: When it lies at the wharf.
542. Add 10 to nothing. What animal does it make?
Answer: O X (ox)
543. I have a mane but I’m not a lion and I wear my shoes to bed. What am I?
Answer: A horse.
544. What did the baseball glove say to the ball?
Answer: Catch you later!
545. Where does the Easter bunny eat breakfast?
Answer: IHOP
546. My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
547. I’ve got lumps on my back and I live on the sand. I’m strong and I carry you over the land. What am I?
Answer: A camel.
548. What vegetable is unpopular on a ship?
Answer: A leek (leak)
549. When is the worst time to build a snowman?
Answer: Summertime
550. What has neither flesh nor bone, but has fingers and a thumb?
Answer: A glove
551. Why are lobsters like politicians?
Answer: Because they change color when they get into hot water.
552. What do tarantulas drink?
Answer: Apple spider
553. A teacher and a student were counting puddles. The student was the teacher’s daughter, but the teacher was not the girl’s mother. Who was the teacher?
Answer: Her father.
554. How do you keep a skunk from smelling?
Answer: Hold its nose.
555. Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, and gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
Answer: Advice
556. If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?
Answer: 9!
557. What is the highest building in your city?
Answer: The library has the most stories.
558. How far can you go into the woods?
Answer: As far as the center, and then you’ll be going out.
559. Why is a bad pin like a broken pencil?
Answer: Because it has no point.
560. I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
561. What has to be broken before you can eat it?
Answer: An egg.
562. What did Santa pay for his sleigh?
Answer: Nothing. It was on the house.
563. What is small, round, and colorful and gets hidden over and over again?
Answer: An Easter egg.
564. What did the turkey say to the computer?
Answer: Google, google!
565. I have a hole in my back and legs I lack. I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth. What am I?
Answer: A whale.
566. An American living in England came home to the United States on the 4th of July, celebrated for three full days, and returned to England on the 4th of July. How is this possible?
Answer: He traveled on a ship called The 4th of July.
567. What is the best thing to take before singing?
Answer: A breath
568. What chins are never shaved?
Answer: Ur-chins
569. What is the difference between fog and a falling star?
Answer: One is mist on earth and the other is missed in heaven.
570. What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick
571. What’s the best way to catch a fish?
Answer: Have someone throw it to you.
572. What’s the best present for a deaf goldfish?
Answer: A herring aid
573. How many months have 28 days?
Answer: All 12.
574. Why are the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?
Answer: Because there were so many nights (knights).
575. How do you make the word “one” disappear?
Answer: Add a “G” in front and it’s gone
576. Always in you, Sometimes on you; If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Answer: Water.
577. Why did the Easter Bunny have to fire the duck?
Answer: He kept quacking all the eggs!
578. What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A stool.
579. Play me with a ball and bat or hear me chirp in a top hat. What am I?
Answer: A cricket.
580. What are eight 8s that add up to 1,000?
Answer: 8 + 8 + 8 + 88 + 888 = 1,000.
581. What word has six letters, but if you remove one letter, you’ll be left with 12?
Answer: Dozens.
582. What types of roads do ghosts like to drive on?
Answer: Dead ends
583. What is black and white and has 16 wheels?
Answer: A zebra on roller skates
584. Where did Noah strike the first nail in the ark?
Answer: On the head
585. What table has no legs to stand on?
Answer: A multiplication table
586. What is so brittle that even to name it is to break it?
Answer: Silence
587. An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents, and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?
Answer: 40 cents. The price of each fruit is calculated by multiplying the number of vowels by 20 cents.
588. What nation always wins?
Answer: Determi-nation
589. A taxi driver is going down a one-way street the wrong way, and passes at least 10 cops.
Answer: Why is she not caught? She was walking.
590. I fall, but I don’t get hurt. I pour, but I’m not a jug. I help plants grow, but I’m not the sun. What am I?
Answer: Rain.
591. What is the difference between a tuna fish and a piano?
Answer: You can’t tune a fish.
592. What do you call a very, very young robin?
Answer: An egg
593. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Answer: Once, because after you subtract 5 once, it’s not 25 anymore.
594. Carrie’s birthday is in April, which is in the fall. How is this possible?
Answer: Carrie lives in Australia.
595. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom
596. What is at the end of dinner?
Answer: The letter R
597. What did King George think of the American colonists?
Answer: He thought they were revolting.
598. Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Answer: The number 8
599. Where can happiness always be found?
Answer: In the dictionary
600. How long is a shoe?
Answer: A foot long
601. You walk into a room that has a match, a candle and a fireplace. Which should you light first?
Answer: The match.
602. I live upside down. I see with my ears and don’t use my eyes, and on Halloween, I’ll give you a big surprise. What am I?
Answer: A bat.
603. How do you look at a hippo’s teeth?
Answer: Very carefully
604. Imagine that you are in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining.
605. What goes “Ha, ha, ha, THUD?”
Answer: A zombie laughing his head off
606. On what day of the year do women talk least?
Answer: On the shortest day of the year
607. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg (egg-cept on Easter!)
608. My voice is tender, my waist is slender, and I’m often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?
Answer: A violin
609. I’m hidden, but I’m not buried. I hold treasure, but no gems. Leprechauns protect me, but I’m not Lucky Charms. What am I?
Answer: A pot of gold
610. What three-letter word is a mousetrap?
Answer: Cat
611. What can you put between 4 and 5 so that the result is more than 4, but less than 5?
Answer: A decimal.
612. What did the near-sighted porcupine say when it backed into a cactus?
Answer: “Pardon me, honey.”
613. If there are three lollipops and you take away two, how many do you have?
Answer: If you take two, then you have two.
614. How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: Two; outside and inside.
615. What month has one day?
Answer: All of them!
616. I have wings but I am not a bird. I am small, colorful, and beautiful. I live in gardens and fields and forests. I used to be a caterpillar. What am I?
Answer: A butterfly.
617. Racoons are racing around the tree. Can you spell that without any “r’s”?
Answer: T-H-A-T
618. What has a head and tail but no body? .
Answer: A coin
619. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”
620. Why did the coconut go out with a pineapple?
Answer: He couldn’t get a date.
621. Why does the giraffe have such a long neck?
Answer: Because its head is so far from its body.
622. I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four. Served small, white, and round. You’ll love some, and that’s part of the fun. What am I?
Answer: A ping-pong ball.
623. What is the difference between a greyhound and a locomotive?
Answer: One is trained to run and the other runs a train.
624. The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
625. Where is a sneeze usually pointed?
Answer: Atchoo!
626. I will fill a room, but take up no space. What am I?
Answer: Light.
627. Mike was born on March 31st and he’s the easiest person to pull an April Fools’ joke on. Why?
Answer: Because he was born yesterday.
628. How many soft-boiled eggs could the giant Goliath eat on an empty stomach?
Answer: One, after which his stomach would not be empty.
629. In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
Answer: The person was born in 2005 B.C. Therefore, he was 5 years old in 2000 B.C, 10 in 1995 B.C, and 15 in 1990 B.C.
630. Take away my first letter, I remain unchanged; take away my second letter, I’m still the same; take away all my letters and I still continue unchanged. What am I?
Answer: A mailman
631. I am worn to mark a successful victory, I am also made of flowers and leaves formed into a circle, and I vary in size from big to tiny. What am I?
Answer: A wreath
632. How can we become wiser from a box of pins?
Answer: It will give us many good points.
633. When does New Year’s Day come before Christmas?
Answer: Every year
634. What can’t run, even though it has three feet?
Answer: A yardstick
635. What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover?
Answer: A rash of good luck
636. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
637. What kind of dog can tell time?
Answer: A watchdog
638. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
639. You might be called this animal if someone thinks that you’re afraid. This is something that you might eat, as well as its eggs that it laid. What animal am I?
Answer: A chicken.
640. Where does Monday come before Sunday?
Answer: In the dictionary
641. What is the largest rope in the world?
Answer: Europe
642. If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?
Answer: 9
643. What is something brown with a head and tail, but no legs?
Answer: A penny.
644. What does a witch do when she goes to a hotel?
Answer: She orders broom service.
645. What is full of holes and still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
646. What was the largest island before Australia was discovered?
Answer: Australia was always the largest.
647. Where do Santa and his elves like to go for a swim?
Answer: The North pool
648. What comes once a minute, twice every moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”
649. What’s a frog’s favorite game?
Answer: Leapfrog.
650. You’re in a room and there is a ghost in the room, but you’re the only one in the room. How is this possible?
Answer: You’re the ghost.
651. What animal drops from the clouds?
Answer: The rain, dear
652. What is always in front of you but invisible?
Answer: The future.
653. What did Adam never have, but give his children?
Answer: Parents
654. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
655. What time of the day was Adam created?
Answer: Just a little before Eve
656. Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Answer: The number 8.
657. What word contains 26 letters, but only three syllables?
Answer: Alphabet.
658. What is too much for one, enough for two, but nothing at all for three?
Answer: A secret
659. Why is your nose not 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it would be a foot.
660. What is white, but smells like blue paint?
Answer: White paint.
661. What was the difference between Noah’s ark and Joan of Arc?
Answer: One was made of wood and the other was Maid of Orleans.
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