2,062 Easy Riddles With Answers - page 19 of 21
What position do pigs play on the baseball field?
'Short-stop' puns on the baseball position and a pig's characteristically short, stout legs.
Why was the chef hired to coach the baseball team?
Wordplay — "batter" means both a baseball hitter and a cooking mixture.
What song was the baseball player singing on third base?
A player on third base is one step from scoring by reaching "home" plate, referencing the famous line from The Wizard of Oz.
What was the spider doing on the baseball team?
Wordplay — "catching flies" is baseball slang for catching fly balls, and also literally what spiders do.
Why was the baseball player's food always dirty?
The pun uses 'plate' as both home plate in baseball and a dinner plate, so stepping on home plate 'dirties' his food's plate.
Where do coal diggers play baseball?
Wordplay — "miner," a coal digger, sounds like "minor," as in the minor leagues.
Why did the baseball coach hire a piano player?
Wordplay — "pitch" means both a musical note and throwing the baseball.
Why is the baseball field hot after a game?
Wordplay — "fans" means both spectators and cooling devices; once the crowd (fans) leaves, there's no breeze.
What did the baseball glove say to the ball?
Wordplay — "catch" refers to both catching the ball and the common farewell phrase "catch you later."
What kind of key do you use on Thanksgiving?
Pun splitting 'turkey' into a word that sounds like 'tur-key', a type of key.
Why didn't the turkey finish its dessert?
Wordplay — "stuffed" means both full from eating and the turkey's stuffing cooked inside it.
Why did the turkey cross the road?
Wordplay — "chicken" means both the bird and slang for being cowardly, so the turkey proves it isn't afraid.
Why did they let the turkey join the thanksgiving band?
Wordplay — "drumsticks" are both a musical instrument part and a cut of turkey meat, the leg.
Who is never hungry during Christmas?
Play on words: 'stuffed' means both full of food and literally stuffed with dressing before roasting.
Where does a rabbit go for shampoo?
Wordplay — "hare-dresser" sounds like "hairdresser," and "hare" means rabbit.
How can you say rabbit without using the letter R?
"Bunny" is another common word for rabbit that contains no letter R.
Do rabbits use combs?
Wordplay — "hare brushes" sounds like "hairbrushes," and "hare" is another word for rabbit.
What type of music do rabbits listen to?
Wordplay — rabbits "hop," which sounds like the "hop" in hip hop music.
What do you call a pig that does karate?
Wordplay — a karate "chop" combines with "pork" to make "porkchop," also a cut of pig meat.
Why did Momma Pig leave her husband?
Wordplay — "boar," a male pig, sounds like "bore," meaning dull or uninteresting.
Why can't you play basketball with pigs?
Wordplay — "hog" means to selfishly keep something to yourself, and pigs are also called hogs.
What do you call pigs that write letters to each other?
Wordplay — a "pigpen" gives us "pen," and "pen pals" are people (or pigs) who write letters to each other.
If fish lived on land, where would they live?
This is a pun on 'Finland' sounding like 'fin-land,' a play on the fish body part.
What do you call a crate of ducks?
'Quakers' sounds like 'quackers', playing on the duck's quacking sound and the Quaker Oats box branding.
What happened when the rubber duckie fell into the bathtub?
'Quacked up' puns on a duck's quack and the phrase 'cracked up' meaning to laugh or break apart.
What animal keeps the best time?
The pun combines 'watch' (a timepiece) with 'dog' to form 'watchdog,' an animal that keeps guard, not literally time.
How can you tell the difference between dogs and trees?
Wordplay — "bark" refers to both the sound a dog makes and the outer covering of a tree.
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
The riddle assumes roosters lay eggs, but only hens do, so the premise is false.
I'm found in socks, scarves, and mittens. I'm found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Yarn is the material knitted into socks and mittens, and it's the classic toy kittens love to bat around.
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, Yet I am not a cat. What am I?
A kitten looks and behaves like a cat but wordplay treats the young 'kitten' as distinct from a full-grown 'cat.'
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
A twist on the black-cat superstition — luck depends on perspective, and for a mouse a cat is always bad news.
Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?
Finches, gulls, eagles, and sparrows can all fly, but ostriches are flightless birds, making the ostrich the odd one out.
Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Wordplay — "stuffed" means full from eating, but teddy bears are literally stuffed with filling.
Why did Tigger go to the bathroom?
Wordplay — "Pooh," as in Winnie the Pooh, sounds like "poo," a bathroom joke.
What is 1 animal that can see at night but be blinded at day?
A bat has poor daytime vision but navigates well at night, and the riddle's wordplay treats the numeral "1" as the letter "a" ("a bat").
What animal probably likes doors?
Wordplay — "dormouse" sounds like "door mouse."
What animals would be the best at playing video games?
An octopus has eight arms, giving it plenty of "hands" to work a game controller.
What animal is it the hardest to have a staring contest with?
Fish lack eyelids, so they never blink, making them seem to win any staring contest by default.
What kind of animal can do Kung fu?
A reference to the "Kung Fu Panda" movies.
Where do animals go to get their new tails when they're broken?
Wordplay — "retail" sounds like "re-tail."
Why don't African animals play games?
Wordplay — "cheetahs" sounds like "cheaters."
What animal is most likely to eat a relative?
Wordplay — "ant-eater" sounds like "aunt-eater."
What animal is the best at baseball?
This is a pun -- the flying mammal 'bat' shares its name with the baseball bat, the essential tool of the game.
How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
The riddle relies on a false premise: it was Noah, not Moses, who built the ark in the Bible story.
What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house?
This is a play on words — houses can't jump at all, so any animal technically jumps "higher" than a house.
I live in the absence of light... even when the sun is bright.
Shadows follow you in the light and disappear in the dark.
Why don’t zombies eat fast food?
Zombies are usually slow, so they can't catch 'fast' food (living people).
What has hands but never claps?
Clocks have hands but are inanimate; in the dark version, it refers to a corpse.
Why did the vampire start working at the blood bank?
Vampires survive on blood, making a 'bank' of it the perfect workplace.
Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
This puns on 'guts,' meaning both courage and internal organs, which skeletons lack.
Why do cemeteries have fences?
This is a pun on the phrase 'dying to get in', which usually means being very eager.
Why did the man miss the funeral?
The twist is that the person missing the funeral is the deceased person themselves.
What’s red and bad for your teeth?
This is a deliberately absurd riddle -- biting an actual brick would obviously wreck your teeth, even though red bricks aren't a typical dental hazard.
Why don’t graveyards ever get overcrowded?
This is a pun on the phrase 'dying to get in', which usually means being very eager.
What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
The joke relies on finding something even more gruesome than a bug.
What wears an eyepatch and robs ships at night?
The pun blends "vampire" and "pirate" into "vampirate," a nocturnal ship-robbing creature.
What animal can see at night but be blinded at day?
Bats are adapted for night and can be dazzled by bright daylight.
What famous nurse wore her pajamas all day long?
The pun swaps the real nurse "Florence Nightingale" for "nightgown."
Where do dead outlaws go on a Saturday night?
The pun points to "ghost towns," abandoned Old West settlements fitting for the ghosts of dead outlaws.
I have four legs but no tail. Heard only at night. What am I?
Frogs have four legs, no tail, and are loud at night.
What animal has more lives than a cat?
Wordplay — a frog "croaks" every night (its sound), and "croak" also means to die, so it seems to "die" nightly yet keeps living.
What is full all day and empty at night?
Shoes are filled by feet during the day and left empty at night.
Where do zombies go for a night out?
The pun combines going clubbing (dancing at night) with zombies being literally dead.
Round or oval? Light or dark. You can cut me into pieces. What am I?
Potatoes are varied in shape and can be light or dark-skinned.
What can only move by jumping?
In chess, the knight is the only piece that moves in an L-shaped "jump," leaping over other pieces.
Empty as space, scary as a ghost, I appear every night. What am I?
Darkness is intangible like empty space yet unsettling like a ghost, and it arrives predictably every night.
Riddle involving Irish, dragons, and "biddles."
A play on the 'knight/night' pun; dragons hunt at night to find knights.
In the light, I may reflect. In the dark, I'm cold and wet. What am I?
This liquid shimmers and reflects light in the sun, but feels cold and wet at night.
I scream out in the dark, I bring light to you, my flame whispers in the darkness. What am I?
A candle's flickering flame lights the dark and can make a soft, whispering sound as it burns.
A light aloft alone in shadow, I light the way for paths you follow. What am I?
A lamppost stands alone above the darkness, illuminating the path below for people walking at night.
The man had not slept in days, yet he was well-rested. How could this be?
"Days" specifically excludes nights, so he was fine because he slept every single night, just never during the day.
I usually wear a yellow coat and have a dark head. I make marks wherever I go. What am I?
A standard pencil is yellow with a dark graphite tip (head) that leaves marks.
Sometimes black, sometimes white. You see me at night. Some have walked on me. What am I?
The moon can look black or white and has been walked on by astronauts.
Plain to see as black & white. I roam at night. Startle me and odiferous emissions result. What am I?
Skunks are black and white, nocturnal, and spray a smelly liquid when startled.
What brightens your day when it's dark, although it's usually in the shade?
A lamp provides light in dark spaces and is often literally positioned under a lampshade.
Dark with white markings, smooth like a rock. Where learning occurs, I convey thought. What am I?
Blackboards are dark surfaces written on with white chalk.
I'm the first thing you see in the morning and last at night. You ignore me, but cross your eyes to see me. What am I?
Your nose is always in your field of vision, but your brain ignores it unless you cross your eyes.
I'm far away but shine bright. I sleep by day, I wake up at night. I stay by the moon but never get close. What am I?
Stars are visible in the night sky near the moon but are actually very far away.
You can have me almost every night, sometimes bad sometimes good. Whether child or adult, I'll be there. What am I?
Dreams happen at night and can be sweet or nightmares.
What do ghosts like to do on a Saturday night?
'Boogie' means to dance, and it starts with 'boo,' a ghost's signature sound.
Who always stalks you during the day but becomes too tired to stalk you at night?
A shadow follows you constantly in daylight but vanishes once night falls and there's no light to cast it.
A man rides into town on Friday. He stays two nights. How does he leave on Tuesday?
The horse itself is named "Friday," so the day-of-week math never needs to add up at all.
Every night, I'm told what to do. And every morning, I do what you tell me to do. But you still get mad at me and hit me. What am I?
An alarm clock is set at night, wakes you in the morning, and often gets hit via its snooze button.
I follow you by day, by night I blend right in but no one sees me except when I'm in the light. What am I?
A shadow trails you in daylight but disappears into darkness at night since it needs light to be visible.
Why does a dragon sleep all day?
"Knights" sounds like "nights," so the dragon hunts at night after sleeping through the day.
They are dark and always on the run. Without the sun, there would be none. What are they?
Shadows only exist because sunlight is blocked, and they shift constantly as the sun moves.
When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?
Flipping a light switch up usually turns the light on (bright), and flipping it down turns it off (dark).
Why couldn't Goldilocks sleep?
Wordplay — "night-bears" sounds like "nightmares," tying into the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story.
What boy wizard magically grew a beard each night?
Wordplay — "Hairy Potter" sounds like "Harry Potter."
How do you know that a vampire loves baseball?
The pun plays on "bat" meaning both a baseball bat and the animal a vampire transforms into.
What did Sir Lancelot wear to bed?
The pun turns "nightgown" into "knight gown," referencing his knightly title.
I run in and out of town all day and night. What am I?
A road literally runs continuously in and out of town, at every hour of day or night.
I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I?
It describes the moon's nightly presence, brightness, phases, and its role in solar eclipses that darken the sun.
A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible?
The horse itself was named "Sunday," so riding out and back "on Sunday" is just naming the horse, not a calendar paradox.
How many chambers in the human heart?
The human heart has two atria (top) and two ventricles (bottom).
What does DNA stand for?
DNA is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms.
Average weight of a newborn baby?
The average birth weight is between 5.5 and 10 pounds.
How many bones are in the human body?
Humans are born with more bones (~300) which fuse together as they grow to reach ~206.
What is the largest organ in the human body?
The skin protects the body and regulates temperature; it can weigh up to 20 lbs.
What is the pH of water?
Pure water is neutral on the pH scale, which ranges from 0 (acidic) to 14 (basic).