Tricky Questions

1. What is always coming, but never arrives?

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

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

4. What can one catch that is not thrown?

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

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

7.  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?

8.  If Mrs. John’s bungalow is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?

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

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

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11.  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?

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

13. Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?

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

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

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

17. What is it that goes up, but never comes down?

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

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

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

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1. Tomorrow  2. A promise  3. Fire  4. cold  5. A secret  6. Survivors are not buried.  7. The match  8. There are no stairs, because bungalows do not have a second floor.  9. He kicked it up.  10. He was bald.  11. An electric train has no smoke.  12. Day breaks and night falls  13. All the months have 28 days.  14. Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.  15. Seven  16. A widow  17. Age  18. The baby, since he is a little Bigger.  19. No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside.  20 Stairs