Trick Questions

What is always coming, but never arrives?

• The Sun

• Today

• A Sandwich

• Tomorrow

What can be broken, but is never held?

• A Promise

• A secret

• A something

• A Lemon

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

• Marsh

• A person

• Fire

• A dog

What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?

• Fingerless

• Still chill

• Handless

• Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.

What can one catch that is not thrown?

• The heat

• A cold

• A ball

• Rain

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

• A heart

• A flame

• A secret

• A name

If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?

• 4 hours

• No time, because the wall is already built.

• It would take 5 hours because 5 + 5 = 10

• 6 hours

If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

• You have 2 apples

• You have 10

• You don't have any ;-;

• The 4 you took away

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?

• The oil lamp

• Kindling wood

• The match

• newspaper

If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”?

• e-g-g

• a-l-b-u-m-e-n or e-g-g w-h-i-t-e

• w-h-i-t-e

• o-u-t-e-r-p-a-r-t