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"Is this a rhetorial queation?" is one of my favoutites

If you like trick questions you should try and watch QI it is a programme based entirely on them.

Ok sorry for the double post but I've just found a book that contains loads of "Cool Trick Questions"

How many wives did Henry VIII have?
2 or 4 if you are Catholic. Anne of Cleves was annuled so the marriage never took place. Pope Clement VII declared the marriage to anne boleyn illegal. Henry himself declared his mariage to Catherine of Aragon illegal. He annuled his marriage to Anne Boleyn before her execution (which is strange since she was executed for Adultery and if the marriage never existed she couldn't betray it) He did the same to Catherine Howard.

How many nostils have you got?

4. Two extrenal and 2 internal thstconnect to the throat.

Where did Marco Polo come from?

Croatia. Mark Chicken to give hon his anglicised name was born Marko Pilic in Korcula.

I'll leave you with one.

Who invented the steam engine?

a. James Watt
b. George stephenson
c. Richard Trevithick
d. Thomas Newcomen
e. A Heron from Egypt

A classic trick question:

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Jim has 2 brothers and 1 sisters. There are 6 people in his family. Mom, Dad, John, Jake, Joan, and... who is the other family member?

I'm double posting because I forgot to say what I was going to say: This title sucks. You could have just made it 'Trick Questions'

Yeah, little things annoy me. It seems (to me) that your intelligence isn't as high as it should be when you write that.

@Pixie, how are they trick questions?

What was Billy the kids real name?

i got a good one but its hard and sortof fantasy world so here it is:

ur trapped in a metal box with no openings and only a desk and a mirror to get out and u cant move anything but urself,how do you get out?

What was Billy the kids real name?

Are you a homos-(got killed before he could finish)

ehhh that one is kinda hard
no idea how

well i got a classic:

which is heavier, 1000 pounds of feathers or 1000 pounds of steel?

Billy.

i got a good one but its hard and sortof fantasy world so here it is:

ur trapped in a metal box with no openings and only a desk and a mirror to get out and u cant move anything but urself,how do you get out?

There is already a thread for riddles, and some of these would better suit that thread...

Except I can't find it D:

If a rooster lays an egg on a roof which way does it roll?