Common sense

  1. Question: What is always coming, but never arrives?
    Ans:  Tomorrow
  2. Question: What can be broken, but is never held?
  3. Question: What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
    Ans:  Fire
  4. Question: What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?
    Ans:  Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.
  5. Question: What can one catch that is not thrown?
    Ans:  cold
  6. Question: What is it that if you have, you want to share me, and if you share, you do not have?
    Ans:  secret
  7. Question: If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors?
    Ans:  Survivors are not buried.
  8. Question: If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men?
    Ans:  No time, because the wall is already built.
  9. Question: If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
    Ans:  The 4 you took away
  10. Question: 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?
    Ans:  The match
  11. Question: 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”?
    Ans:  a-l-b-u-m-e-n or e-g-g w-h-i-t-e
  12. Question: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
    Ans:  No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so.
  13. Question: If Mrs. John’s bungalow is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?
    Ans:  There are no stairs, because bungalows do not have a second floor.
  14. Question: How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own?
    Ans:  He kicked it up.
  15. Question: How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
    Ans:  He was bald.
  16. Question: If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow?
    Ans:  An electric train has no smoke.
  17. Question: How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived?
    Ans:  The two survivors were married.
  18. Question: What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?
    Ans:  Day breaks and night falls
  19. Question: Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days, but how many have 28 days?
    Ans:  All the months have 28 days.
  20. Question: “The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?
    Ans:  Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.
  21. Question: Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive?
    Ans:  Seven
  22. Question: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time?
    Ans:  A widow
  23. Question: What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
    Ans:  A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush
  24. Question: What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?
    Ans:  Stairs
  25. Question: What is it that goes up, but never comes down?
    Ans:  Age
  26. Question: What happened when the wheel was invented?
    Ans:  It caused a revolution.
  27. Question: What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
    Ans:  coin
  28. Question: Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?
    Ans:  The baby, since he is a little Bigger.
  29. Question: Of you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle?
    Ans:  No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside.