2,062 Easy Riddles With Answers - page 8 of 21
The homes of tiny creatures that collect in corners if you aren't vigilant about dusting.
Spiders spin webs in neglected corners, and those webs accumulate visibly if a room isn't regularly dusted.
I don't forget! What am I?
Elephants are proverbially known for having excellent memories, giving rise to the popular saying "an elephant never forgets."
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
A kangaroo moves by hopping (jumping), and at rest it appears to be sitting back on its tail and haunches even while upright.
The strangest creature you'll ever find: two eyes in front and many many more behind.
A peacock's tail feathers are covered in eye-shaped spots in addition to its two real eyes up front.
I have a pet, his body is full of coins.
A piggy bank is shaped like a pig (a 'pet') and its hollow body is filled with saved coins.
He's small but he can climb a tower.
This is a pun on the Eiffel Tower -- an ant is small, but 'Eiffel' sounds like 'a fill,' or more directly, an ant can literally climb any small tower.
What do elves do after school?
This is a pun combining "gnome," a mythical creature like an elf, with "homework."
What's an insect's favourite sport?
"Cricket" is both a popular sport and a type of insect, making it the punny answer.
What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mom's day?
The big yellow school bus arrives each morning to take the kids to school, giving a parent a welcome break.
What are you certain to find inside your pocket when you reach into it?
No matter what else is or isn't in your pocket, your hand itself is always there when you reach in.
When your undies attack you.
A wedgie is when underwear rides up uncomfortably, as if it were attacking you.
What smells the most in the kitchen?
This is a play on words -- your nose is the thing doing the 'smelling,' not necessarily the smelliest object.
According to many students, dogs have an appetite for this paper item.
My dog ate my homework is the classic excuse blaming a dog's appetite for missing schoolwork.
What is Saturn's favorite day of the week?
It's a pun -- 'Saturday' sounds like 'Saturn-day,' the planet's namesake day. (The source text playfully spells it 'Saturnday' to highlight the pun.)
The coziest place for Dracula.
Vampire lore, including Dracula, depicts him resting comfortably in a coffin by day.
This guy crossed a road and everyone wants an explanation.
This references the classic "why did the chicken cross the road" joke, needing no real explanation beyond that.
What suits do lawyers wear?
This is a pun: lawyers argue 'lawsuits,' which sounds like 'law suits' -- the clothing lawyers might wear.
What is a bunny's favorite music?
This is a pun: rabbits hop, so their favorite music genre would be 'hip-hop.'
What is a cat on ice?
"Cool cat" is slang for someone stylish, punning on the literal coldness of ice.
Without what would everyone lose their head?
The head is physically attached to the body by the neck, so without a neck, everyone would literally "lose their head."
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea what does it become?
It's a simple trick question -- dropping anything in any sea just makes it wet, regardless of the sea's name or the hat's color.
What kind of fish chases a mouse?
This is a pun: a cat chases a mouse, and "catfish" contains the word "cat."
What do you get if you milk a cow after an earthquake?
The shaking motion of an earthquake makes the pun of getting a "milkshake" when milking a cow during one.
I am the place to turn when nature calls. What am I?
"When nature calls" is a common euphemism for needing to use the bathroom.
What runs around a house but doesn't move?
A fence encircles ("runs around") a house's perimeter, but it stays perfectly still.
Out of all the celestial bodies, this one has the funniest name.
Uranus is the planet whose name is a perennial source of juvenile jokes because of how it sounds.
What kind of nail can be grown?
Unlike a metal nail used in carpentry, a fingernail is living tissue that naturally grows out of your finger.
The offspring of a feline and a Xerox machine.
"Copycat" literally combines "copy" (what a Xerox machine does) with "cat" (a feline).
What do you call a rabbit with fleas?
This is a pun on the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, combining 'bugs' (fleas) with 'bunny.'
How a big, hibernating mammal would show affection.
This is a pun: bears hibernate through winter, and a tight, affectionate squeeze is called a 'bear hug.'
Teddy bears are never hungry because they are always what?
This is a pun: teddy bears are filled with stuffing, so they're always 'stuffed' rather than hungry.
How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
An empty pocket can still contain a hole -- the hole itself counts as "something," even though the pocket holds nothing else.
What does a cat have that no other animal has?
While traits like purring or claws appear in variations elsewhere, "kittens" are specifically and exclusively baby cats -- no other animal has kittens by definition.
How do snails travel?
Snails move by slow muscular contractions of their foot, making 'slowly' both literally and idiomatically true.
Which bow can't be tied?
A pun on "bow" -- a rainbow is a colorful "bow" across the sky, but it is a natural phenomenon, not a ribbon that can be tied.
What is red and smells like blue paint?
This is an absurdist joke riddle -- red paint simply smells the same as blue paint, since color has no real effect on paint's odor.
A red house is made out of red bricks. A blue house is made out of blue bricks. What is a green house made out of?
The riddle plays on the compound word 'greenhouse' - it is actually built of glass, not colored bricks, unlike the literal red and blue houses.
What kind of street does a ghost like best?
A pun on "dead end" -- ghosts, being dead, would naturally prefer a street that is literally a dead end.
Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?
A pun on "crabby" -- a crab(apple) tree sounds like "crab," meaning bad-tempered.
What has a foot but no leg?
A ruler measures in 'feet' (the unit) but obviously has no actual leg.
What kind of room doesn't have physical walls?
An online chat room is a virtual space for conversation with no physical walls at all.
What type of house weighs the least?
This is a pun: a 'light' house weighs the least because its very name contains the word 'light.'
What do you get if you put a radio in the fridge?
A fridge makes things cold, so the radio inside would play "cool" music, a pun on temperature and style.
There is a kind of fish that can never swim. What is that?
A dead fish cannot swim because it is no longer alive -- a simple, slightly dark pun on the phrase "can never swim."
What starts with an "e" but only has a single letter in it?
An envelope starts with the letter E, and it's designed to hold exactly one 'letter' inside -- playing on 'letter' meaning both an alphabet character and a piece of mail.
Which side of a cat has the most fur?
This is a play on words -- the 'outside' of a cat is the side facing out, which is where all its visible fur is.
What always goes to bed with its shoes on?
A horse is fitted with horseshoes, which stay on its feet ('shoes on') even while it sleeps standing up.
What type of dress can never be worn?
This is a pun: a street 'address' is spelled like 'a dress,' but you can't wear it -- it's information, not clothing.
What fruit can you use to sip water?
This puns on the word 'straw' hidden in 'strawberry' -- a drinking straw is used to sip water. (Source key printed this as 'straw-berry'; the hyphen has been removed.)
What fruit never ever wants to be alone?
"Pear" is a homophone of "pair," meaning two together, so it "never wants to be alone."
What type of drink is usually added to cereal in the morning?
Milk is the classic drink poured over cereal for breakfast.
I'm a fruit that grows on a tree. Some of my varieties include Red Delicious and Granny Smith.
Red Delicious and Granny Smith are both well-known varieties of apple.
This food is a tortilla filled with cheese and sometimes chicken before being heated or cooked.
A quesadilla is a tortilla folded around cheese, and sometimes meat like chicken, and grilled or heated until melted.
What is the only chain we can eat?
This is a pun: while you can't eat a metal chain, the 'food chain' is the one chain whose very name involves eating.
If you are a man then your best friend will eat this for dinner.
A dog is proverbially "man's best friend," and dogs eat dog food for dinner.
I'm a red creature from the sea with large claws, or pincers, and I'm often boiled and served as an expensive dish at seafood restaurants.
A lobster is a red-shelled sea creature with large pincer claws, a prized and pricey main course at seafood restaurants.
This Chocolate baked good is a soft candy made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Fudge is a soft, sugary candy traditionally made by cooking sugar, butter, and milk or cream together.
I'm a soft, sweet food made from a mixture of flour, shortening, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and often decorated.
Cake is a sweet baked good made from flour, shortening, eggs, and sugar, often decorated with frosting.
I am a delicious way of representing data. What am I?
A pie chart is a pun-friendly, 'delicious' way to visually represent data as wedge-shaped slices.
I'm a thick slice of beef or other high-quality meat or fish that is often cooked on a grill or fried.
A steak is specifically a thick cut of high-quality meat or fish, typically grilled or fried.
I'm a lot like a pancake, except I'm a little crisper, and I'm square, with square patterns all over.
A waffle is cooked like a pancake but comes out crisper with its signature square grid pattern.
If you are a sore loser, you are often called the sour variety of this fruit.
The idiom 'sour grapes' describes someone who bitterly dismisses something they failed to get, like a sore loser.
This for is a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry.
This describes a pie, encased in pastry on both its top and bottom.
Many people confuse me with a vegetable, but I'm actually a fruit. I'm red when I'm ripe, and I'm sliced and served on burgers.
Botanically a fruit despite being treated as a vegetable, tomatoes turn red when ripe and are commonly sliced onto burgers.
This orange vegetable is a favorite of Bugs Bunny.
Carrots are the orange vegetable famously munched on by Bugs Bunny.
This pastry is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples.
By definition, an apple pie is a fruit pie whose main filling is apples.
Often cooked as fillet, this meat comes from an animal that swims underwater.
Fish fillets are a common way of preparing fish, an animal that lives and swims in water.
This orange colored fruit gets its name from its color.
The orange is one of the rare cases where the fruit gave its name to the color, not the other way around.
This food is made of grated potatoes smashed together and fried in the form of a tot.
Tater tots are made from finely grated, formed, and fried potatoes shaped into small tot-sized pieces.
Edible beach crawler served at seafood restaurants, similar to a lobster, but quite different.
Crabs are crustaceans that crawl on beaches and are served in seafood restaurants, similar to but distinct from lobster.
This food, made from pork, is often eaten alongside eggs and bacon.
Sausage is a classic pork-based breakfast food commonly served alongside eggs and bacon.
Although I may have eyes, I cannot see. I have a round brown face with lots of acne. What am I?
Potatoes have small growth buds called "eyes" and a bumpy brown skin that can resemble a face with acne.
A close relative of ketchup that people often spread on their dog.
Mustard is a condiment related to ketchup that people often put on a hot dog, playfully called 'their dog.'
This food is usually grilled and put between two buns, with cheese, tomato and pickles.
A hamburger is grilled and served between two buns with classic toppings like cheese, tomato, and pickles.
The lunch destination of choice for teenagers and hospital employees.
Both schools and hospitals commonly have cafeterias where students and staff eat lunch.
This breakfast food is thin, flat cake or batter, usually fried and turned in a pan. It is often enjoyed with butter and syrup.
Pancakes are thin, flat, fried batter cakes traditionally served with butter and syrup.
This dish consists of a rolled tortilla with a filling typically of beef or chicken and served with a chili sauce.
An enchilada is a rolled, filled tortilla covered in chili sauce.
I'm a long, green-skinned fruit with watery flesh, usually eaten raw in salads or pickled.
A cucumber is long and green-skinned with watery flesh, commonly eaten raw in salads or pickled.
I am yellow on the outside, white inside, and very appealing. What am I?
A banana has yellow skin and white flesh inside, and "a-peel-ing" is a pun on its peel.
This food is a Thanksgiving tradition.
Roast turkey is the centerpiece dish of a traditional Thanksgiving meal.
I am the kind of food monkey likes, and people slip on me and fall in cartoons. What am I?
Bananas are a favorite monkey snack and a classic cartoon slipping hazard thanks to their peel.
Ketchup's slightly less popular brother.
Mustard is another classic condiment bottle, usually standing right next to ketchup but a bit less favored.
This dip for chips is a spanish style sauce, mainly consisting of peppers, diced tomatoes and spices for a spicy flavor.
A spicy sauce of tomatoes, peppers, and spices served as a dip is salsa.
What has ears but can't hear?
An 'ear of corn' is the name for its edible part, but corn obviously has no ability to hear anything.
What do you call a dog that sweats so much?
This is a pun on 'hot dog,' since an overheated, sweating dog would be a 'hot' dog.
I'm a vegetable that is a long, green stalk. I'm usually eaten at thanksgiving with cheese or peanut butter.
Celery stalks are often eaten with cream cheese or peanut butter, and celery is a common Thanksgiving side dish.
What kind of apple has a short temper?
'Crab apple' contains the word 'crab,' and being 'crabby' means being short-tempered.
I'm a dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked.
Ground meat shaped into a loaf with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked, is exactly meat loaf.
I'm usually served alongside burgers. I'm crispy golden potato sticks.
French fries are crispy golden potato sticks commonly served alongside burgers.
This food is a staple grain in many pantries worldwide. You often steam or boil it and serve it in a variety of different ways. One brand touts the fact that it can be cooked in 1 minute.
Rice is a pantry staple boiled or steamed worldwide, and instant rice brands famously advertise a one-minute cook time.
Taking this from a baby is said to be quite easy.
This plays on the idiom 'like taking candy from a baby,' meaning something very easy.
This toasted sandwich is made with bacon, lettuce and tomato.
A BLT sandwich consists of Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato, usually toasted.
These are crisp, green, and are found near deli sandwiches.
A pickle spear is the classic crisp, green side served alongside deli sandwiches.
This crisp stick-shaped roll is often enjoyed with soup or marinara sauce.
Breadsticks are the crisp, stick-shaped bread often served alongside soup or Italian meals with marinara.
I stink up your breath and fights evil vampires. What am I?
Garlic gives you strong-smelling breath and is famously believed in folklore to ward off vampires.
What is this Mexican dish consisting of a fried folded tortilla, filled with various mixtures, such as seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomato?
A taco is a fried, folded tortilla filled with seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomato - a Mexican classic.
What has a green top, red on its belly, seeds on the outside, and tastes great in jelly?
A strawberry has a green leafy top, red flesh, seeds dotting its outer surface, and is a popular jelly flavor.
A breakfast food that is cracked from white shells and is often scrambled. Usually served with bacon, sausage, toast or pancakes.
Eggs are cracked from shells and commonly scrambled for breakfast alongside bacon or toast.
This is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice sushi-meshi combined with other ingredients, usually raw fish or other seafood.
Sushi is vinegared rice combined with other ingredients, most often raw fish or seafood, a hallmark of Japanese cuisine.
This food is a staple for households worldwide. Its definition is: An edible seed, typically kidney-shaped, growing in long pods on certain leguminous plants.
Beans are kidney-shaped edible seeds that grow in long pods on leguminous plants, a worldwide dietary staple.