Brain Teasers for 5th Grade

Question 1

What is always coming but never comes?

Accepted Answer

The Future, Tomorrow

Question 2

If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become?

Accepted Answer

Wet, It's still a red stone.

Question 3

How much dirt is there in a hole 3 ft deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?

Accepted Answer

None. How is there dirt in a hole?...

Question 4

Which is heavier: 100 lbs of gold or 100 lbs of feathers?

Accepted Answer

They are the same

Question 5

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

Age

Question 6

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

Accepted Answer

Wasn't it Noah?

Question 7

A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?

Accepted Answer

When did roosters lay eggs?

Question 8

A clerk at a butcher is 161.8 cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Accepted Answer

Meat

Question 9

There are 10 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?

Accepted Answer

All 10

Question 10

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Accepted Answer

Mt. Everest was not discovered yet

Question 11

Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?

Accepted Answer

Stop imagining!

Question 12

There is 5 apples and you take 3. How many do you have?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 13

What gets broken without being held?

Accepted Answer

silence, a promise

Question 14

There are 14 fish and 8 drown. How many fish are there?

Accepted Answer

14 fish

Question 15

How many months have 28 days?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 16

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

a towel

Question 17

If you take off my skin I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

Accepted Answer

An onion

Questions 17