33 Brain Teaser Questions and Answers

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old, what am I?

What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary?

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

What can run but not walk, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Do you know what you can hold without ever touching it?

Flat as a leaf, round as a ring; Has two eyes, can't see a thing. What is it?

Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees, and cities without houses (without people)?

What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells its owner that he is bankrupt. Why?

When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything?
There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water.
There are no windows or doors.
How do you get out?

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

You are a cyclist in a cross-country race.
Just before the crossing finish line you overtake the person in second place!
What place did you finish in?

With pointed fangs I sit and wait;
With piercing force I crunch out fate;
Grabbing victims, proclaiming might;
Physically joining with a single bite.
What am I?

A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?

What exists when one person has it, but ceases to exist when another person gets it?

A man was driving a black truck.
His lights were not on.
The moon was not out.
A lady was crossing the street.
How did the man see her?

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah.
The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week.
Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
What is it?

You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood.
What color would the stairs be?

You are in a room with 3 monkeys.
One monkey has a banana, one has a stick, and one has nothing.
Who is the smartest primate?

This old one runs forever, but never moves at all.
He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call.
What is it?

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

If you drop a white hat into the red sea what does it become?

One company owner asks another:
"Tell me, Bill, how come your employees are always on time in the mornings?"

What can you hear but not touch or see and yet control?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

In a year, there are 12 months.
Seven months have 31 days.
How many months have 28 days?