Shorter ones
What has hands but doesn't clap?
A clock
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother — how many children does Mary have?
Five, each daughter has the same brother.
A man shaves many times during the day, but at the end of the day, he still has a beard. How is this possible?
What is the man is a barber?
You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?
He took the goose over first and came back. Then, he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.
You throw away my outside, eat my inside, then throw away the inside. What am I?
What is corn on the cob?
Where do cows go for entertainment?
To the moo-vies
What goes up but never comes back down?
Your age
You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?
What is your word?
I’m the rare case when today comes before yesterday. What am I?
An Uber driver is going the opposite way down a one-way street. He passes five policemen along the way, none of which stops him. Why not?
What is because he was walking?
This vehicle is spelled the same from the front as well as from the back. What is it?
What is a racecar?
What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive?
What is a glove?
There was a green house. Inside the green house, there was a white house. Inside the white house, there was a red house. Inside the red house, there were lots of babies. What is it?
a Watermelon
What goes all the way around the world but stays in a corner?
What is a stamp?
What has 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach?
What is a deck of cards?
You are in a dark room with a box of matches. Nearby are three things: a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. Which do you light first?
What is the match?
What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
What is a human?
What gets bigger the more you take away?
What is a hole?
How many months have 28 days?
All 12 months.
If you have it, you don’t share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
What is a secret?
What do the letter T and an island have in common?
What is both are found in the middle of water?