What is heavy going forward but not going backward?
Ton.
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A doughnut.
If you have it, you don’t share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
A secret.
Two people were playing chess and both won. How did this happen?
They were playing against other opponents
What can go through glass without breaking it?
Light.
Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth?
Third.
How far can a fox run into the woods?
Halfway; otherwise he’d be running out of the woods.
I start in little but I end in full, you’ll find me in half and complete.
The letter “l.”
It has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive. What is it?
A glove
What has 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach?
A deck of cards.
A girl buys a dozen eggs and, on the way home, all but seven break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Seven.
There is an electric train which is headed towards the east. So, where does the smoke go?
There is none: An electric train produces no smoke.
I am the only organ that named myself. What am I?
The brain.
What word is always spelled wrong?
Wrong.
This vehicle is spelled the same from the front as well as from the back. What is it?
A racecar
What eight-letter word remains a word as you keep removing one letter from it?
Starting.
While a cat was outside, it started to downpour. The cat couldn’t find any shelter and got completely soaked by the rain, yet not a single hair was wet. How could this be?
It was a hairless cat.
I am a ball that rolls but can’t bounce or be thrown.
An eyeball.
What comes up to let us go, or goes down to make us stay?
An anchor.
You throw away my outside, eat my inside, then throw away the inside. What am I?
Corn on the cob.
What goes up and never comes down?
Your age.
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven.
How can you go 10 days without sleep?
You sleep at night.
I call the trees my home, yet I never go inside, and if I ever fall off the tree I will surely be dead.
Leaves.
If there are three apples and you take two, how many do you have?
Two.
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
An umbrella.
You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Second place.
Here’s a list of sports: golf, darts, tennis, cricket, football, badminton. Which should come next: archery, boxing, squash, gymnastics, or baseball?
Gymnastics.
An Uber driver is going the opposite way down a one-way street. He passes five policemen along the way, none of which stops him. Why not?
Because the Uber driver was walking.
You are in a dark room with a box of matches. Nearby are three things: a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. Which do you light first?
The match
The person who makes it has no need of it, and neither does the person who buys it. But the person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are a grandfather, father, and son.
A man shaves many times during the day, but at the end of the day, he still has a beard. How is this possible?
The man is a barber.
Tom is younger than Dave but older than Jill. Lou is older than Sally who is older than Tom. Dave is older than Lou. Who is the middle child?
Sally.
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How was that possible?
Friday was the name of his horse.
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