101 Funny Trivia Questions and Answers to Make You Laugh and Learn

Think you know a lot about the world? Well, get ready to challenge your brain in the silliest way possible! These funny trivia questions will have you giggling as much as they’ll have you guessing. From wacky world records to the most absurd things ever banned, this is trivia like you’ve never seen before.

Funny Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What is the record number of toothpicks stuck in a beard?
Answers: 3,500 toothpicks. 

2. What’s the record for the most people gathered together dressed as Superman?
Answers: 867 people. 

3. What’s the longest time someone has gone without sleep?
Answers: 11 days and 25 minutes. 

4. How many hot dogs did Joey Chestnut eat in 10 minutes to set a world record?
Answers: 83 hot dogs. 

5. What’s the record for most spoons balanced on a human body?
Answers: 96 spoons.

6. What’s the fastest time to solve a Rubik’s Cube while blindfolded?
Answers: 12.10 seconds. 

7. How many T-shirts did one person manage to wear simultaneously?
Answers: 260 T-shirts.

8. What’s the record for the longest fingernails ever grown?
Answers: 42 feet 10.4 inches.

9. How long is the world’s longest documented tongue?
Answers: 10.1 cm (3.97 in)

10. What’s the record for the most apples bobbed in one minute?
Answers: 37 apples.

11. In which country is it illegal to chew gum?
Answers: Singapore.

12. Where is it illegal to wear high heels at historical sites?
Answers: Greece, specifically at the Acropolis. 

13. Which country once banned Winnie the Pooh?
Answers: China. 

14. Where was it once illegal to die?
Answers: Longyearbyen, Norway. 

15. In which U.S. state is it illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket?
Answers: Kentucky. 

16. Where is it illegal to build sandcastles?
Answers: Certain beaches in Spain. 

17. In which city is it against the law to wake a sleeping bear for a photo?
Answers: Alaska.

18. Where is it illegal to feed pigeons in certain areas?
Answers: Pune.

19. In which country was it once illegal to name your pig “Napoleon”?
Answers: France.

20.  Where is it against the law to run out of gas on the highway?
Answers: Germany.

21. Which animal holds the record for the most land mines sniffed out?
Answers: African giant pouched rat.

22. What unusual pet was found after being lost for 629 days on Kangaroo Island?
Answers: Valerie.

23. Which bird species can recognize itself in a mirror?
Answers: Eurasian magpie.

24. What’s the name of the cat that inherited $13 million from its owner?
Answers: Tommaso.

25. Which animal can survive being frozen and thawed repeatedly?
Answers: Wood frogs. 

26. What’s the name of the world’s largest cat, found in Myrtle Beach, SC?
Answers: Hercules.

27. Which birds are known to hold funerals for their dead?
Answers: Crows.

28. What animal sleeps with one eye open?
Answers: Dolphins. 

29. Which creature has three hearts and blue blood?
Answers: Octopuses. 

30. What’s the only mammal that can’t jump?
Answers: Elephants. 

31. What is the world record for the longest spaghetti noodle?
Answers: 3,776 meters (12,388 feet 5 inches).

32. Which country banned ketchup in school cafeterias to preserve traditional cuisine?
Answers: France. 

33. What fruit was once considered so exotic that King Charles II posed for a portrait receiving one as a gift?
Answers: A pineapple.

34. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, according to a scientific study?
Answers: 364 licks. 

35. Which popular candy bar was originally marketed as a meal replacement?
Answers:  PayDay candy bar.

36. What’s the most expensive spice by weight?
Answers: Saffron.

37. What food was accidentally invented when a chef got angry and sliced potatoes extremely thin?
Answers: Potato chips. 

38. In medieval Europe, what common breakfast food was used to predict the gender of unborn babies?
Answers: Eggs. 

39. What fruit contains enzymes that can be used as meat tenderizers?
Answers: Papaya.

40. What popular breakfast cereal was originally created to curb sexual desire?
Answers: Cornflakes. 

41. Which U.S. president had the shortest term in office?
Answers: William Henry Harrison.

42. What unusual law exists in the UK regarding salmon?
Answers: Salmon Act of 1986

43. Which king of France believed he was made of glass and might shatter?
Answers: King Charles VI.

44. In ancient Rome, what did people use instead of toothpaste?

Answers: Tooth Powder.

45. During prohibition, how did the U.S. government poison alcohol?
Answers: They added toxic chemicals to industrial alcohols.

46. What was sold as “elastic meat” in the 1800s?
Answers: Gelatin. 

47. Which Victorian era job involved waking people up by shooting peas at their windows?
Answers: A knocker-upper. 

48. What unusual accessory did ancient Egyptian servants wear at fancy dinner parties?
Answers: Cones of scented fat on their heads.

49. What is Scotland’s national animal?

Answers: Unicorn.

50. Which war was temporarily paused because soldiers were too busy playing soccer?
Answers: World War I.

51. Which movie popularized the phrase “You had me at hello”?
Answers: Jerry Maguire.

52. Which animal is the fastest on land in the world?

Answers: Cheetah.

53. What item of clothing did Michael Jackson patent in 1993?
Answers: Anti-gravity shoes.

54. Which popular video game character was originally named “Mr. Video”?
Answers: Mario.

55. What unusual pet did Salvador Dalí take for walks in Paris?
Answers: An anteater. 

56. Which famous painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 by a museum employee who believed it belonged in Italy?
Answers: The Mona Lisa. 

57. What did Disney animators study to make the Beast’s movements realistic in “Beauty and the Beast”?
Answers: A mixture of behaviors from gorillas, lions, bears, wolves, and buffalo. 

58. Which rock band required a bowl of M&Ms with all brown ones removed in their contract rider?
Answers: Van Halen.

59. What was the first music video ever played on MTV?
Answers: “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

60. What is the color of the most poisonous frog in the world?

Answers: Yellow.

61. Which noble gas is used in neon signs?
Answers: Neon. 

62. What is the fifth sign of the zodiac?

Answers: Leo.

63. Which scientist was famous for electrocuting himself repeatedly?
Answers: Cyrus Reed Teed.

64. What color is a chameleon in a room full of mirrors?
Answers: Dark or Dull Hues.

65. Which animal’s milk is pink?

Answers: Hippopotamus. 

66. What mathematical shape can you create by folding a pizza slice?
Answers: Curved triangle or a curved sector of a circle.

67. What’s the technical term for the fear of long words?
Answers: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. 

68. Which planet rains diamonds?

Answers: Neptune and Uranus.

69. What phenomenon causes the “new car smell”?
Answers: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

70. How much does the internet weight?
Answers: 50 grams.

71. In which country is it illegal to run out of gas on the highway?
Answers: Germany.

72. Which country has a town where the mayor has been a cat for over 20 years?
Answers: Alaska (USA), in the town of Talkeetna. 

73. Where can you find the world’s shortest commercial flight?
Answers: Between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. 

74. Which country has a spa where you can bathe in beer?
Answers: Czech Republic. 

75. What country has citizens who celebrate Christmas with a traditional visit to KFC?
Answers: Japan. 

76. Which country has a town with only one resident?
Answers: United States.

77. Where would you find a museum dedicated entirely to ramen noodles?
Answers: Yokohama, Japan. 

78. In which city is it illegal to eat garlic before going to the theater or public meetings?
Answers: Gary, Indiana.

79. Which country has a hotel made entirely of salt?
Answers: Bolivia. 

80. Where can you find a fence made entirely of used skis?
Answers: Canmore, Alberta, Canada. 

81. What is the record for the longest marathon dressed as a video game character?
Answers: 2 hours, 52 minutes, and 57 seconds.

82. Which country once banned computer games entirely?
Answers: Greece. 

83. What sport uses a “broom” and a “stone”?
Answers: Curling. 

84. In which sport might you perform a “chicken wing”?
Answers: Australian rules football and rugby league.

85. What’s the maximum number of clubs allowed in a golfer’s bag?

Answers: 14 clubs.

86. How often were the ancient Olympic Games held?

Answers: Every Four Years.

87. What is the literal translation of the Finnish word “eukonkanto”?

Answers: Wife Carrying.

88. Which sport features a position called the “hooker”?
Answers: Rugby. 

89. What golf event had a first-timer curse?

Answers: The Masters.

90. How many players are allowed on each team in the official hide-and-seek championship?

Answers: 5. 

91. What is the deadliest job in America?
Answers: Logging workers.

92. In which U.S. state is it illegal to wear a fake mustache in church if it causes laughter?

Answers: Alabama.

93. How many dimples does an official golf ball have?
Answers: Between 300 and 500.

94. What’s the technical term for the plastic or metal piece at the end of a shoelace?
Answers: An aglet. 

95. Which mammal cannot vomit?
Answers: Rats. 

96. What percentage of statistics are made up on the spot?
Answers: 73%

97. How many Earths could fit between the Earth and the Moon?
Answers: 30 Earths.

98. What’s the fear of palindromes called?
Answers: Aibohphobia.

99. What is the word with the highest number of synonyms in English?

Answers: Run.

100. What appliance adds moisture to the air?

Answers: Humidifier.

101. What do players insert into coin-operated pool tables to begin a game?

Answers: Coins.

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