What are some examples of trick questions and answers?
1.How can you lift an elephant with one hand? (Elephants donât have hands.)
2.A little girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible? (Ever heard of gravity? She kicked it up.)
3.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.)
4 A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. Howâs that possible? (B is the daughter you MCPâs!)
5.A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car know he was there? (It was day time.)
6.A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll? (It didnât roll â since when did roosters start laying eggs?)
7 .A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught? (Because he was not driving! Heâs walking on the sidewalk.)
8.An electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph. Which way does the smoke blow? (There is no smoke with an electric train.)
9.How can a man go eight days without sleep? (By sleeping during the night time)
10.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? (The Egg wonât crack the concrete floor!)
11.How can you lift an elephant with one hand? (It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.)
12 .How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide? (None, or else it wouldnât be a hole.)
13.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 had 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. Total time spent: 1 hour! )
14.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall,how long would it take four men to build it? (No time at all it is already built.)
- If Mr Smithâs peacock lays an egg in Mr Jonesâ yard, who owns the egg? (Peacocks donât lay eggs)
- âIf there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have? (The 4 you took)
- âIf 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? (The match)
- âIs it legal for a man to marry his widowâs sister? (No, Thereâs no law against it, but since heâs dead it would be kind of difficult.)
- â There was an airplane crash, every single person on board died, but yet two people survived. How is this possible? (The two were married.)
- âWhat goes up and down, but still remains in the same place? (Stairs! )
- âHow far can you walk into the woods? (Half way. After that you are walking out of the woods.)
- âIf you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become? (It will become Wet. Duhh :P)
- âWhat can you never eat for breakfast? (Dinner)
- âWhat gets wetter & wetter the more it dries? (A towel)
- âName the most recent year in which New Yearâs came before Christmas. (This year. New Yearâs always comes before Christmas of the same year.)
- âWhat goes up and never comes down? (Age!)
- âWhich is heavier, 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers? (They both weigh the same â 100 pounds)
- âWhat has a head and a tail but no body? (A coin)
- âIf there are 12 fish and half of them drown, how many are there? (12, fish donât drown!)
- âImagine you are in a sinking row boat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive? (Stop imagining!)
- âHow many times can you subtract 10 from 100? (Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.)
- âHow many times does the alphabet âaâ appear from 0-100. (None).