150 Best Trick Questions for Kids With Their Answers
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Young kids are very inquisitive in nature; they seek answers to a lot of questions. The best way to satiate their hunger to know more is by asking trick questions. Here is a list of funny and thoughtful kids trick questions.
Funny & Challenging Trick Questions for Kids
These questions will definitely engage kids’ minds and tickle their funny bones.
1. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road
2. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Answer: Rain
3. What’s a great name for a lawyer?
Answer: Sue
4. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money
5. You can catch me, but you can’t throw me. What am I?
Answer: A cold.
6. What room has no walls?
Answer: A mushroom
7. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
8. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago
9. I have hands, but I cannot clap. What am I?
Answer: Clock
10. Two waves had a race. Who won?
Answer: They tide.
11. What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
12. The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole
13. What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
Answer: The letter H.
14. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: Pack of cards
15. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library
16. I am full of keys, but I cannot open any door. What am I?
Answer: A piano
17. What only starts to work after it is fired?
Answer: A rocket.
18. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
19. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Answer: Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there were chickens!
20. What is brown and sticky?
Answer: A stick.
21. In baseball, how many outs are there in an inning?
Answer: Six-each team has three
22. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
23. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
24. Just how far can a deer run into the woods?
Answer: Halfway
25. What kind of hair do oceans have?
Answer: Wavy.
26. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
27. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
28. Why did the clown visit the doc?
Answer: Because he was feeling kinda funny.
29. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove
30. What has lots of eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
31. What is the exact middle of America?
Answer: The letter “r”
32. What is the name for a boomerang that does not return when thrown?
Answer: A stick.
33. What two words, when combined, hold the most letters?
Answer: Post office
34. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
35. Where can you find an ocean with no water?
Answer: On a map.
36. David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David
37. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
38. What did the ocean say to the beach?
Answer: Nothing, it just waved.
39. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: Letter “R”
40. What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
Answer: The sea
41. What is round and extremely violent?
Answer: A vicious circle.
42. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
43. What is the biggest problem with snow boots?
Answer: They melt.
44. Can you think of something you can serve but shouldn’t ever eat?
Answer: A volleyball.
45. What did the quilt say to the bed?
Answer: I have got you covered.
46. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath
47. Can you name the two things you can NEVER have for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch or dinner.
48. You can easily touch me but not see me. you can throw me out, but not away. What am I?
Answer: Your back
49. Do you know why ghosts and spirits make such terrible liars?
Answer: Because it’s easy to see right through them!
50. Born of sorrow, grows with age, you need a lot to be a sage. What is it?
Answer: Wisdom
51. Can you think of something that is always right in front of you but can never be seen or held?
Answer: The future.
52. Break it, and it is better, immediately set, and harder to break again.
Answer: A record
53. There’s a question that you can never answer yes to. Do you know what it is?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
54. If you have me, you want to tell me. If you tell me, you don’t have me.
Answer: A secret
55. Can you think of something that is completely full of holes but still holds onto a lot of water?
Answer: Sponge
56. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery
57. Can you think of something with four eyes but is completely blind?
Answer: The word “Mississippi.”
58. April showers bring May flowers. What do may flowers bring?
Answer: Pilgrims
59. Can you think of something really easy to get into but really hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble!
60. The captain took a bath without his belly getting wet.
Answer: Canoe
61. What word begins with E but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope.
62. What is all over a house?
Answer: A roof
63. Can you think of something so delicate that just saying its name will break it immediately?
Answer: “Silence.”
64. I go in dry and come out wet; the longer I’m in, the stronger I get. What am I?
Answer: Teabag
65. I’m tallest when brand-new but much, much shorter when I’m worn out. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
66. What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone
67. Can you think of a word that starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
68. I sit in parliament. You’ll only see me at night. What am I?
Answer: An owl
69. What’s something that goes up and up and up but will never, ever go down?
Answer: Your age.
70. What falls but never breaks and breaks but never falls?
Answer: Night and day
71. What aren’t you able to use until you break it?
Answer: Eggs.
72. I’m so simple I only point, yet I guide people all over the world. What am I?
Answer: A compass
73. What always ends everything?
Answer: Letter G
74. Although my cow is dead, I still beat her. What a racket she makes!
Answer: A drum
75. You can only have it once you have given it.
Answer: Respect
76. Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
77. You can have it, and be at it, but it never lasts forever.
Answer: Peace
78. A deep well full of knives.
Answer: Mouth
79. What kind of street does a ghost like?
Answer: Deadend
80. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Answer: Letter V
81. I am nothing but holes tied to holes, yet I am strong as iron.
Answer: A chain
82. He’s small, but he can climb a tower.
Answer: An ant
83. What is bought by the yard is worn by the foot?
Answer: Carpet
84. What ship has no captain but two mates?
Answer: Courtship
85. Although I’m far from the point, I’m not a mistake. I fix yours. What am I?
Answer: An eraser
86. I have three hundred cattle, with a single nose cord.
Answer: Beads
87. Which bow can’t be tied?
Answer: Rainbow
88. Poorly behaved children often find themselves sitting in these.
Answer: Corners
89. Which popular cheese is made backward?
Answer: Edam
90. In my life, I die twice, once wrapped in silk, once covered in dust.
Answer: A caterpillar
91. What letters are easily found in every single day of the week?
Answer: D-A-Y
92. What’s left when you take an ant out of a plantain?
Answer: Something plain.
93. Where Is 11 2=1?
Answer: In watches
94. What happens when you throw a blue rock into the yellow sea?
Answer: It sinks
95. What runs around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence
96. Tires a horse, worries a man. Tell me this riddle if you can.
Answer: A saddle
97. I’m in cooper but not in a dog. I’m in percent but not in money. What am I?
Answer: Letter C
98. What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Answer: Wholesome
99. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: A tongue
100. He has married many women but has never been married. Who is he?
Answer: A priest
101. What happens if you throw a white hat into the black sea?
Answer: The hat gets wet
102. What kind of umbrella do most people carry on a rainy day?
Answer: A wet one
103. What type of son does no parent want?
Answer: An arson
104. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree
105. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Answer: A Kangaroo
106. A father’s child, a mother’s child, yet no one’s son?
Answer: A daughter
107. What travels the world while stuck in one spot?
Answer: A stamp
108. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?
Answer: Concrete floors are hard to crack.
109. What’s as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing?
Answer: Elephant’s shadow
110. What word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle?
Answer: Island
111. What moves faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heat because you can always catch a cold.
112. Forwards I’m heavy, but backward, I’m not. What am I?
Answer: A ton
113. Can you add one mathematical symbol in between 55555 to equal 500?
Answer: 555-55 = 500
114. What made the lady run around her bed?
Answer: So as to catch up on her sleep.
115. Why can’t a woman living in the U.S. be buried in Canada?
Answer: Because she is still alive.
116. If five alligators can eat five fish in three minutes, how long will 18 alligators need to eat 18 fish
Answer: Three minutes
117. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
118. What bird can lift the most weight?
Answer: A crane
119. What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella
120. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: The footprints
121. If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll?
Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs
122. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
Answer: You cannot because the elephant does not have hands.
123. I have teeth but can’t eat. What am I?
Answer: A comb
124. People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: The plate
125. What always goes to bed with its shoes on?
Answer: A horse
126. What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you?
Answer: Your name
127. Why is the math book sad?
Answer: Because it has problems
128. It can be cracked, it can be made, it can be told, it can be played. What is it?
Answer: A joke
129. If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
Answer: The four you took
130. How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add a ‘G,’ and it’s gone!
131. How can you go 25 days without sleep?
Answer: Sleep in the night.
132. What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: A telephone
133. What is it that lives if it is fed and dies if you give it a drink?
Answer: A fire
134. What is a tornado’s favorite game?
Answer: Twister
135. I’m where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
Answer: Dictionary
136. What type of dress can never be worn?
Answer: Address
137. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle
138. What can’t be used until it is broken?
Answer: A Coconut
139. What is the end to which we all like to come?
Answer: Dividend
140. When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
Answer: Military time
141. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
142. Why are movie stars always cool?
Answer: Because they have so many fans.
143. What do you call a man in a hole?
Answer: Doug.
144. Are there any good jokes about sodium?
Answer: (Na!)
145. Why did the banker quit her job?
Answer: She lost interest.
146. What happened to the lion when he ate the clown?
Answer: He felt funny, of course.
147. What did the inventor of the door-knocker win?
Answer: The no-bell prize.
148. I can be as thin as a picture frame, but my insides have many things you can see.
Answer: A television
149. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
150. How many double-digit numbers are there?
Answer: 92
These tricky questions for kids are definitely going to help you improve your kid’s creative thinking skills. Spend some fun time with your kids with these exciting questions and answers.
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