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Question 1: What has hands but can’t clap?
A) Chair
B) Robot
C) Clock
D) Tree
Explanation: A clock has hands that tell time, not hands that clap.
Question 2: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
A) Ghost
B) Fire
C) Cloud
D) Echo
Explanation: An echo repeats sound but has no physical form.
Question 3: What has to be broken before you can use it?
A) Egg
B) Pencil
C) Lock
D) Window
Explanation: An egg must be broken to get to what’s inside.
Question 4: What gets wetter the more it dries?
A) Sponge
B) Towel
C) Water
D) Soap
Explanation: A towel dries things but gets wet in the process.
Question 5: What has a neck but no head?
A) Shirt
B) Bottle
C) Snake
D) Tree
Explanation: A shirt has a neck hole but no actual head.
Question 6: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
A) Time
B) Footsteps
C) Air
D) Sand
Explanation: Each step leaves a mark behind — footsteps.
Question 7: I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
A) Pencil
B) Person
C) Candle
D) Tree
Explanation: A candle burns down over time.
Question 8: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A) Tent
B) Teapot
C) Target
D) Toast
Explanation: “Teapot” starts and ends with T, and holds tea.
Question 9: What has one eye but can’t see?
A) Cyclops
B) Storm
C) Needle
D) Hurricane
Explanation: The eye of a needle is the hole — it doesn’t see.
Question 10: What can travel around the world while staying in one spot?
A) Moon
B) Email
C) Satellite
D) Stamp
Explanation: A stamp stays on an envelope as it travels.
Question 11: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
A) Time
B) Letter "M"
C) Light
D) Sound
Explanation: “M” appears once in “minute,” twice in “moment,” none in “thousand years.”
Question 12: Which month has 28 days?
A) February
B) All of them
C) June
D) December
Explanation: All months have at least 28 days.
Question 13: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A) Map
B) Keyboard
C) Diary
D) Car
Explanation: A keyboard has keys, but not for locks.
Question 14: What comes down but never goes up?
A) Temperature
B) Age
C) Rain
D) Time
Explanation: Rain falls down, never up.
Question 15: What has four wheels and flies?
A) Plane
B) Garbage truck
C) Train
D) Helicopter
Explanation: A garbage truck has 4 wheels and “flies” refers to insects.
Question 16: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
A) Air
B) Light
C) Water
D) Music
Explanation: Light fills a room but doesn’t take space.
Question 17: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
A) Mirror
B) Egg
C) Balloon
D) Mask
Explanation: A mirror reflects your smile, but breaks if dropped.
Question 18: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
A) Phone
B) Name
C) House
D) Money
Explanation: Others say your name more often than you do.
Question 19: What can’t be used until it’s broken?
A) Pencil
B) Egg
C) Toy
D) Cookie
Explanation: Classic riddle — an egg must be broken to be used.
Question 20: Which weighs more — a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
A) Feathers
B) Bricks
C) Both
D) Depends
Explanation: Both weigh exactly one pound.
Question 21: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
A) Rock
B) Light
C) Heavy
D) Lead
Explanation:“Not” backward is “ton.”
Question 22: The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?
A) Hole
B) Shadow
C) Cloud
D) Bag
Explanation: A hole gets bigger as you remove more.
Question 23: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
A) Radio
B) Echo
C) Parrot
D) Computer
Explanation: An echo repeats your voice.
Question 24: What has legs but doesn’t walk?
A) Table
B) Dog
C) Parrot
D) Computer
Explanation: A table has four legs but no movement.
Question 25: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
A) Spider
B) Human
C) Bed
D) Chair
Explanation: A bed has a headboard, footboard, and four legs.
Question 26: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A) Bathroom
B) Classroom
C) Mushroom
D) Ballroom
Explanation: A “mushroom” is not an actual room.
Question 27: Which word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
A) Wrong
B) Misspelled
C) Incorrect
D) Incorrectly
Explanation: “Incorrectly” is literally in the dictionary, spelled that way.
Question 28: What is full of holes but still holds water?
A) Bowl
B) Sponge
C) Basket
D) Bag
Explanation: A sponge soaks water despite being porous.
Question 29: You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
A) Full moon
B) Letter “E”
C) Holiday
D) Leaf
Explanation: "E" appears once in “June,” twice in “November,” none in “May.”
Question 30: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
A) Mirror
B) Silence
C) Ice
D) Glass
Explanation: If you say “silence,” it’s no longer silent.
Question 31: What can run but never walks?
A) River
B) Dog
C) Clock
D) Robot
Explanation: A river “runs” but doesn’t walk.
Question 32: What has a bottom at the top?
A) Cloud
B) Leg
C) Cup
D) Clock
Explanation: Legs have a bottom (buttocks) at the top.
Question 33: What has words but never speaks?
A) Book
B) Dog
C) Mirror
D) Door
Explanation: Books contain words, but don’t speak.
Question 34: If you throw a red stone into the blue sea, what happens?
A) It floats
B) It turns purple
C) It sinks
D) It dissolves
Explanation: Stones sink.
Question 35: What invention lets you look through a wall?
A) Camera
B) Hole
C) Mirror
D) Glasses
Explanation: A hole in the wall lets you see through.
Question 36: What can you catch but not throw?
A) Ball
B) Cold
C) Shadow
D) Glove
Explanation: You “catch” a cold.
Question 37: What comes up but never goes down?
A) Balloon
B) Smoke
C) Age
D) Sun
Explanation: Your age increases but never decreases.
Question 38: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
A) Past
B) Air
C) Future
D) Shadow
Explanation: You can’t see the future.
Question 39: What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A) Tree
B) Thermometer
C) Light
D) Flag
Explanation: A thermometer’s reading goes up/down.
Question 40: What gets bigger the more you share it?
A) Food
B) Secret
C) Love
D) Problem
Explanation: Love multiplies when shared.
Question 41: What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A) Donut
B) Circle
C) Zero
D) Ring
Explanation: A circle is continuous with no start or end.
Question 42: What is easy to lift but hard to throw far?
A) Feather
B) Rock
C) Ball
D) Paper
Explanation: Feathers are light but can’t be thrown far.
Question 43: What comes in pairs but you use only one side?
A) Shoes
B) Headphones
C) Scissors
D) Pants
Explanation: You wear both pant legs but sit on just one.
Question 44: What has a spine but no bones?
A) Snake
B) Book
C) Fish
D) Worm
Explanation: Books have spines — no bones..
Question 45: What flies without wings?
A) Plane
B) Time
C) Arrow
D) Bird
Explanation: Time flies — metaphorically.
Question 46: The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
A) Water
B) Darkness
C) Clouds
D) Dust
Explanation: The darker it is, the less you can see.
Question 47: What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
A) Raincoat
B) Paint
C) Jacket
D) Soap
Explanation: You apply paint when wet.
Question 48: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
A) A party
B) Nine
C) Trouble
D) Ten
Explanation: 4 + 5 = 9 — math twist!
Question 49: What has ears but cannot hear?
A) Dog
B) Corn
C) Pillow
D) Tree
Explanation: “Ears of corn” is a farming term.
Question 50: What is always coming but never arrives?
A) Future
B) Train
C) Light
D) Email
Explanation: The future is always ahead, never here yet.
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