2,062 Easy Riddles With Answers - page 18 of 21
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
A matchstick's red tip turns black after being struck and burned.
I am white, black, and read all over. What am I?
'Read all over' is a pun on 'red all over', describing a newspaper printed in black and white text that people read.
I'm clean when I'm black, Dirty when white; Get too close, And you might sneeze. What am I?
Chalk dust builds up as white residue (dirty) and the dust itself causes sneezing, while a freshly wiped black surface is 'clean.'
Why is Santa so good at Karate?
'Black belt' puns on the karate ranking and the belt that holds up Santa's suit.
I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
A blackboard is literally black, but chalk dust (dirt) makes it look white/pale, so it's paradoxically 'white when dirty.'
What kind of can never needs a can-opener?
'Pelican' contains the word 'can' but is a bird, not a container, so it never needs opening.
What did the parrot say on the 4th of July?
The joke swaps the classic phrase 'Polly wants a cracker' for a firecracker, fitting the Independence Day theme.
Can one bird change a light bulb?
'Toucan' puns on 'two can', joking that a single bird (one) can't but a toucan (two can) could.
Why are the rates at the bird hotel so much higher than other 4-star hotels?
'Toucan' puns on 'two can', meaning two birds can stay for the price of one, but priced as if it's one high rate.
Why did the eagle not fly over the sea?
'Sea' plus 'gull' sounds like 'seagull', punning on the eagle becoming a different bird by name alone.
What do you get when you cross a parrot with a centipede?
'Walkie-talkie' puns on the parrot's ability to talk and the centipede's many legs for walking.
What do you call two birds that are in love?
'Tweet-hearts' puns on 'sweethearts', replacing 'sweet' with a bird's 'tweet'.
Why do birds fly south?
The joke gives a literal, absurd reason for migration instead of the real biological one.
What kind of bird writes?
'Pen-guin' hides the word 'pen', a writing instrument, inside 'penguin'.
What bird is very rude?
'Mocking' bird puns on the word 'mocking', meaning to make fun of someone rudely.
What do you call a tavern of blackbirds?
'Crowbar' puns on a group of crows and the tool name, reimagined as a bar for crows.
What do you call a sticky crow?
'Vel-Crow' is a pun blending 'Velcro' with 'crow'.
What bird can be heard at mealtimes?
'Swallow' is both a bird and the act of swallowing food, which happens at mealtimes.
What bird is always out of breath?
'Puffin' sounds like 'puffing', as someone out of breath would do.
Why did the scarecrow win so many awards?
'Outstanding in his field' puns on excelling at something and literally standing out in a farm field.
What do you call a flying monkey?
Wordplay — "hot air baboon" sounds like "hot air balloon."
What do you call a guy who sleeps with his pet tiger?
A pun riddle where the punchline is simply the name "Claude," playing on sound association rather than direct wordplay.
What is the monkey's favorite month?
Wordplay — "April" becomes "Ape-bril," fitting a monkey, a type of ape.
What business is King Kong in?
Wordplay — "monkey business" is a phrase for mischief, fitting a giant ape like King Kong.
What key is playful?
Wordplay — "monkey" contains "key" and monkeys are known for playful behavior.
Which species of lions do not hunt?
Wordplay — "dandelion" contains the word "lion" but is actually a flower that doesn't hunt.
How does a penguin build houses?
Wordplay — "igloos it together" sounds like "glues it together," fitting an igloo made of ice.
Where do penguins keep their money?
Wordplay — "snow bank" sounds like a financial "bank," fitting a penguin's icy habitat.
How was the robot gorilla fixed?
Wordplay — a "monkey wrench" is a real tool name that fits a gorilla, a type of ape.
What did Tony the Tiger wear to bed?
Wordplay — "paw-jamas" combines a tiger's "paws" with "pajamas."
How do monkeys make toast?
Wordplay — "gorilla" sounds like "the griller," a toasting appliance.
There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too?
A play on the phrase "monkey see, monkey do," describing imitative behavior.
What did the falling space rock say when it landed on a pig farm?
'Meteor' puns on 'meat here', playing off the space rock landing among pigs destined to become bacon.
Why was the pig a bad teammate?
'Ball hog' puns on someone who selfishly keeps the ball and the animal a pig actually is.
What do you call a car made of pigs?
'Hamborgini' puns on the luxury car brand Lamborghini and ham, which comes from pigs.
What do you give a sick pig?
'Oinkment' puns on 'ointment,' a medical treatment, combined with a pig's 'oink' sound.
What do you get when you cross a pig with a dinosaur?
'Jurassic pork' puns on the movie title 'Jurassic Park' and pork from a pig.
What pen should never be used for writing?
A pig-pen is an enclosure for pigs, not a writing instrument, despite sharing the word 'pen.'
What do you get when you cross Santa Claus and a duck?
'Quacker' puns on 'cracker', as in a Christmas cracker, replacing it with the duck's quack.
What does the cow say when he agrees with the duck?
'Mootual' puns on 'mutual' by inserting the cow's 'moo' sound.
Why did the duck get fired from his Easter job?
The pun on 'fired' (losing a job) ties into the duck pun 'quacking' replacing 'cracking' the eggs.
What time does a duck get up?
'Quack of dawn' puns on the phrase 'crack of dawn' using the duck's quack sound.
Why did Mama Duck scold her goslings?
The pun replaces 'crackers' with 'quackers,' referencing duck sounds and the mess of eating in bed.
A duck arrives near a lake. He sees a sign where it is written "No swimming allowed.", but the duck jumps into the water. Why?
The riddle's simple logical twist is that ducks are animals and cannot actually read the sign.
Why did the woolly mammoth cross the road?
The joke plays on the classic 'why did the chicken cross the road' setup but substitutes a mammoth because chickens didn't exist yet.
Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
The joke compares a coop with four doors to a four-door car (a sedan), an absurd pun on 'coupe' having two doors.
What does a chicken say instead of good?
'EGGcelent' puns on 'excellent', replacing the 'ex' sound with 'egg', fitting for a chicken.
Why was the Easter egg hiding?
'Little chicken' puns on being scared (chicken = coward) and the egg literally being a baby chicken.
If a rooster lays an egg on the ridge of a roof, which side will the egg fall on?
The premise is false since only hens lay eggs, never roosters.
A Rooster laid an Egg. Which way did it roll?
Roosters cannot lay eggs biologically, so there is no direction for it to roll.
How do chickens like to dance?
The pun replaces "cheek to cheek," a close dance style, with "chick to chick."
Why was the chicken forbidden from sending e-mails?
'Fowl language' puns on 'foul language' and the bird category 'fowl' that chickens belong to.
Why did the sheriff arrest the chicken?
'Fowl language' puns on 'foul language' (cursing) and 'fowl', the category of bird a chicken belongs to.
If a rooster laid 11 eggs and the farmer took 5 of them and another rooster laid 14 eggs and 5 of them were rotten. How many eggs were left?
The entire math setup is irrelevant because roosters biologically cannot lay eggs.
What do you call a chicken with bad sunburn?
'Fried' plays on being badly sunburnt ('fried' in the sun) and the cooking method for chicken.
What do you get if you cross a hen with a guitar?
"Pluck" means both playing guitar strings and removing a chicken's feathers.
What did the scientist get when he crossed a chicken and a cow?
'Roost beef' puns on 'roast beef', mixing a chicken's roost with beef from a cow.
Why do chickens lay eggs?
The joke twists the phrasing, treating egg-laying like dropping something fragile instead of a biological process.
What do you call a bear which is fast asleep?
"Bearly awake" is a pun on "barely awake," replacing "barely" with "bear" for the animal.
What did the koala say to the bear on the phone?
Wordplay — "koala" sounds like "call ya," as in "I'll call you later."
What did the zombie bring to bed?
'Deaddy bear' puns on 'teddy bear,' fitting the zombie's undead ('dead') nature.
What do you call a little bear who never takes a bath?
Wordplay — "Phew," the sound made when smelling something bad, replaces "Pooh" in Winnie the Pooh's name.
What type of Martial Arts does Winnie the Pooh do?
Wordplay — "Kung Pooh" plays on "Kung Fu," combined with the character's name Winnie the Pooh.
What did the panda ghost say?
Wordplay — "bamboo," a panda's favorite food, is stretched out to sound like the ghostly "boo."
What do goblins sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "Rhythm and boos" sounds like "Rhythm and Blues" (R&B), with "boos" fitting a goblin's spooky nature.
What do angels sing in the shower?
This is a loose pun on 'soul' music, playing on angels' association with the soul, though the joke's exact wordplay is fairly obscure.
What did the faucet say to the shower?
Wordplay — "drip" describes both a leaking faucet and an insult for an annoying or foolish person.
What do computer programmers sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "Disc-o" combines a computer "disc" with the music genre "disco."
What do bumblebees sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "BeeBop" combines "bee" with the music genre "bebop."
What does a newspaper reporter use to dry himself after his shower?
It's a pun on 'paper' -- since a reporter works with the paper, he dries off with paper towels.
Why did the shower bar turn red?
Wordplay — like a person blushing when caught without clothes, the bar "turns red" when its towel falls off, exposing it.
What kind of sandwich sinks to the bottom of the tub?
Wordplay — a "submarine" sandwich shares its name with a submarine vessel, which dives underwater.
What do fathers sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "Pop" is both a music genre and a nickname for "father."
How did the chimp fix the leaky faucet?
Wordplay — a "monkey wrench" is a real tool name that fits a chimp, a type of monkey, fixing something.
What do you call a ghost who ran out of toilet paper?
Wordplay — a ghost's "sheet," its costume, sounds like the phrase "out of luck," toned down to "sheet out of luck."
What did one toilet say to the other?
Wordplay — "flushed" means both reddened in the face and the toilet flushing.
What do steel workers sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "Heavy Metal" is both a music genre and a description of the steel workers' trade.
Why do criminals shower so often?
Wordplay — a "clean getaway" describes both a successful escape and being physically clean.
Each day many people come and visit me, however, they usually only stay for a few minutes...What am I?
People use a toilet briefly and regularly throughout the day, then leave.
The more you dry yourself with me the more I get wet. What am I?
A towel absorbs the water it wipes off you, so drying you off makes the towel wetter.
Why can't the toilet paper cross the road?
Wordplay — "crack" refers to both a crack in the road and slang for a part of the body toilet paper is used near.
Why did the prisoner take a shower before he broke out of jail?
Wordplay — a "clean getaway" means an escape without getting caught, punning on being physically clean from the shower.
Imagine you are on a sinking raft in the middle of the Pacific with great white sharks surrounding you...How do you stop this predicament?
A trick question — since the scenario is only imagined, you can escape it simply by stopping the imagining.
What does the Easter Bunny do after it takes a shower?
Wordplay — "Hare dryer" sounds like "hairdryer," and "hare" is another word for rabbit.
Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill?
Wordplay — "bottom" means both the base of the hill and the part of the body toilet paper is used for.
Which rock singer really, REALLY needs a shower?
The pun combines 'mud' with the singer's name Madonna to form 'Mud-donna,' implying she's covered in mud.
Why didn't the skeleton use a towel?
"Bone dry" is an idiom for being completely dry, punned here because a skeleton is literally made of bone.
How can people without noses smell?
Wordplay — "smell" here means giving off an odor, not the sense of smell, since skipping showers makes a person smell bad.
You go in me for brushing, For flushing, For rushing; But please go in me one at a time...What am I?
Brushing teeth, flushing the toilet, and rushing in and out are all bathroom activities.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
The more a towel dries something else, the more moisture it absorbs itself.
What happened to Einstein when he took a shower?
Wordplay — "brain-washed" literally means washing in the shower and figuratively means having your mind changed.
I am wet when drying. What am I?
A towel gets wetter the more it dries something else off, since it absorbs the moisture.
If two snakes marry, what will their towels say?
Wordplay — "Hiss," a snake sound, replaces "His" in the classic "His and Hers" towel set.
In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team?
Each NBA team fields five players on the court at a time — "ten" would be both teams combined.
What do you call a basketball game with no ball?
Removing "ball" from "basketball" simply leaves "basket," describing a ball-less basket game.
What did the hoop say to the basketball?
A play on the wish "may all your dreams come true," swapped for "swishes," the sound of a clean basketball shot.
What is a good restaurant for a basketball team?
Wordplay — "Dunkin'" sounds like "dunking," a basketball slam dunk.
Why don't chickens play baseball?
Wordplay — "fowl," a bird, sounds like "foul," a baseball term for a ball hit outside the field of play.
Why can't turtles play baseball?
Turtles are famously slow, so they'd struggle to run all the way to home plate.
Where do great dragon baseball players go?
Wordplay — "Hall of Flame" sounds like "Hall of Fame," fitting for a fire-breathing dragon.