Play on Words
I am an insect. The first part of my name is the name of another insect. What am I?
A Beetle.
Who was the first human to journey into space?
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961
What has 88 keys but can't open anything?
A piano
I am full of holes but I can still hold water. What am I?
A sponge
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
Why can’t a man living in New York be buried in Chicago?
Because he’s still living!
True or False: in 1825 a fireman sat on the boiler of a train and made it explode.
True. In 1825 a fireman sat on the boiler of Best Friend Charlestown became he tired of listening to the hissing and whistling coming from the boiler and sat on the steam pressure release valve
What do these words have in common: Madam, civic, eye, level?
If you read them all backwards, they make the same word.
The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
A hole
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
A deck of cards
How can a man go eight days without sleep?
He sleeps during the night.
By what nickname is Edward Teach better known?
Blackbeard
Which part of a boat does a shopaholic like the most?
The sail (sale)
I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
A joke
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
An envelope
A man is six feet tall, he's an assistant at the local deli and wears size nine shoes. What does he weigh?
Meat. He weighs meat because he is a butcher.
Where did the Great Fire of London begin, on 2 September 1666?
In Thomas Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane (though technically the bakehouse was not located on Pudding Lane proper, but on Fish Yard, a small enclave off Pudding Lane)
What type of cheese is made backwards?
Edam
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
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
A dice
Two twins sit down at the table and their mother brings them a glass of lemonade apeice. the lemonades are exactly the same with the same amount of ice cubes and lemonade in each cup. one of the twins drinks hers fast the other drinks hers slow the one who drinks hers slow dies. Why ?
Both lemonades were exactly the same with the same amount of ice cubs but the ice cubes had poison in side them so the one who drank her's slow died because the ice cubes melted and the poison drained in to her lemonade and she drank it.
“As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?”
One. This riddle is something of a trick question, throwing all of those sevens in there to make you think you have to do lots and lots of multiplication. But in reality, the speaker was going to St. Ives when he met the polygamous gang, so they all must have been returning from St. Ives, not going.
What's the difference between School and Jail?
The phone number and address.
I can be loud or soft, and I can be more fragrant or less. Everyone makes me, but most people hate me. What am I?
A fart
What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella