Riddles
I am in the middle of both March and April, but never at the beginning or end. What am I?
The letter "r."
In 1957, the BBC tricked viewers into believing spaghetti grew on these.
What are trees?
In this country, people tape paper fish to others' backs on April Fools' Day.
What is France?
This is a classic joke format with a question and a punchline.
What is a knock-knock joke?
On April Fools’ Day, people often play these harmless jokes on friends and family.
What are pranks?
What can you find when Easter lands on April Fools' Day?
A funny bunny.
In 1996, this fast-food company joked about buying the Liberty Bell.
What is Taco Bell?
In this European country, newspapers often print fake news stories.
What is the UK?
In comedy, timing is everything—especially when delivering this final, humorous twist.
punchline
A classic trick is putting this in someone’s shoes to make them uncomfortable.
What is a pebble?
When written forward this word is heavy, when written backwards this word is not.
Ton
In 2015, Google introduced this fake feature for Google Maps.
What is Pac-Man Mode?
In 1980, the BBC World Service announced that London’s most famous landmark was getting a facelift. The broadcaster told listeners that, to help tourists tell the time, the ____ ____ ________ would be going digital, and would henceforth be known as ‘Digital Dave’.
Big Ben Clocktower
This exaggerated and silly kind of story is meant to be funny.
What is a tall tale?
Kids might fill a salt shaker with this instead to surprise someone at dinner.
What is sugar?
What month has one day?
All of them
This famous singer pranked Jimmy Kimmel by sneaking into his bedroom and waking him up singing one of her songs as full volume.
Rihanna
In this Asian country, pranksters celebrate April Fools’ Day by spreading fake but harmless rumors.
What is Japan?
Comedians often perform live shows using jokes and stories in this form.
What is stand-up comedy?
Flipping this key shortcut makes everything appear upside down on a computer screen as a fun prank.
Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow
A plane crashes exactly on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Half the people on board were American and half the people were Canadian. Where do you bury the survivors?
You don't bury survivors!
This popular toy company once joked about introducing a 'Left-Handed Whopper.'
What is Burger King?
In Greece, people believe playing a successful prank will bring them this.
What is good luck?
This is a humorous drawing often seen in newspapers.
What is a comic or cartoon?
A simple trick could involve pretending there is something behind someone.
What is "Made you look!"