"Dad" Jokes
Idioms and Expressions
Parts of Speech, Please!
Grammar Gremlins
Eccentric Etymologies
100

Who won the neck decorating contest?

What is "it was a tie"?

100

If something happens "once in a blue moon," it happens this often.

What is rarely?

100

I am eating strawberries today.

What is 3?

100

achilles' grief over Patroclus' death causes his rage.

What is capitalization?

100

Transience, n. - the state or fact of lasting only for a short time

What is Latin?

200

How many months have 28 days?

What are all twelve months?

200

If you "throw in the towel," you're doing this in a competition or challenge.

What is giving in or giving up?

200

I think, therefore, I am.

What is 3?

200

Because she was cold

What is a sentence fragment?

200

Slogan, n. - battle cry used by clans in Medieval Europe

What is Irish?

300

Why is the corner of a room always the warmest place?

What is "it is always 90 degrees"?

300

To "throw down the gauntlet" means to do this in a bold or confrontational way.

What is to challenge or dare someone?

300

How many parts of speech are in this interrogative question?

What is 6?

300

Every where he walked, he was reminded of his family's dog.

What is a misspelling?

300

Angst, n. - neurotic fear, anxiety, guilt, remorse

What is German?

400

What kind of room has no walls and no roof?

What is a mush-room?

400

If someone "burns the midnight oil," they are likely doing this.

What is staying up late studying or working?

400

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

What is seven?

400

He wondered what the decision meant he thought about it all night.

What is a run-on sentence?

400

Analysis, n. – resolution of anything complex into simple elements

What is Greek?

500

What's Irish and comes out in the spring?

What is paddy-o (patio) furniture?

500

To "be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth" originally implied this.

What is being born into wealth or privilege?

500

Which part of speech is missing from the 400-point question?

What are interjections?

500

Beowulf's pride blinded him, his disposition towards the fight with the dragon caused his death.

What is a comma splice?

500

Banana, n. - edible fruit of an endogenous plant of the tropics 

What is Spanish?