92 Stupid Questions To Ask Your Friends

“Stupid is as stupid does” is a saying that served Forrest Gump well throughout his life. It means that someone should be judged by their actions and not their intelligence. It’s a proverb that rings true when discussing stupid questions. These silly, surprising, and dumb questions will have people wondering if you ever finished high school, but are sure to provide your friends with plenty of laughs. 

As the great Albert Einstein once said, “there are no stupid answers, only stupid questions,” something you will agree with if you keep on reading. While we don’t advise asking stupid questions in serious situations, they do make for great conversation starters when with friends or if you find yourself in awkward silence during a date. But if you do ask a dumb question or two you should expect back stupid answers. It won’t take long for people to catch on if you are trying to be funny by asking a silly question. And let’s be honest, a stupid question is never a simple question with a straightforward answer. 

Just like any normal question, stupid questions cover everything and anything. They come across as eye-brow-raising and will either prove your stupidity or have your friends in stitches. Many of the questions selected below are bonkers and make no sense but are great for a laugh. And as laughter is key to happiness, so it seems are stupid questions, with the following sure to frustrate but also beguile and entertain your friends and family and get them chuckling. 

92 Stupid Questions To Ask Your Friends

1. Brushing your teeth or wiping your butt – you have to give one up. Which one would it be and why?

2. Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower when he doesn’t usually wear any pants?

3. What are three things you could buy at a grocery store to make the cashier give you weird looks?

4. Should I tell my parents I’m adopted?

5. Why is it called “beauty sleep, when you wake up looking like a troll?

6. If animals could talk, which species would be the rudest of them all?

7. What do blind people see when they dream? 

8. Why do we say that an alarm clock goes “off” when it actually turns “on?”

9. Would you rather own a horse the size of a cat or a cat the size of a mouse?

10. How many chickens would it take to be able to kill a lion?

11. If people from Poland are called Poles, do you call people from Holand “Holes?”

12. During the apocalypse, would it be better to live on your own or in a community?

13. How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn’t live there?

14. I swallowed an ice cube whole. Why haven’t I pooped it out?

15. Do you need to set an appointment to see a psychic or will they be expecting you?

16. How do bankruptcy attorneys make any money?

17. If roses are red, why are violets blue?

18. Can your baby get pregnant if you have sex while pregnant?

19. Why do round pizzas come in square boxes?

20. Is the sea salty because the shore never waves back?

21. What was the first person to milk a cow trying to do?

22. Do hummingbirds hum because they can’t remember any of the words?

23. Is it possible to know if someone is crying underwater? 

24. Why is it that when people are asked what they would bring to a deserted island, they never answer “a boat?”

25. Do Roman nurses and health care workers refer to an IV as a four?

26. If Batman’s parents are dead, then how was he born?

27. When people go soul-searching does it mean they are ghost-hunting?

28. Is it really expensive to live in New York? 

29. If prunes are dried plums, where do they get prune juice from?

30. What if the Cookie Monster doesn’t like cookies?

31. If wine is just grape juice, does that mean beer is wheat juice?

32. Is whale sperm the reason why the ocean is so salty?

33. Why do we say “after dark” when it’s actually really after light?

34. Can atheists get insurance policies that cover acts of God?

35. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

36. If corn oil is made from corn and vegetable oil is made from vegetables. What is baby oil made from?

37. Why is an electrical socket called an outlet when you plug things into it?

38. Do people with a stutter also stutter when speaking with their inner voice? 

39. Why do we say that people work like a dog if they work all day when all dogs do is lie around?

40. If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

41. Why is it necessary to nail down a coffin’s lid? Are we expecting what’s inside to try to break free?

42. If you decide to describe yourself as indecisive, are you decisive or indecisive?

43. Why is it that you may drink a drink but not food a food?

44. What’s the difference between a wise guy and a wise man?

45. Why are chickpeas called chickpeas when they’re neither chicks nor peas?

46. If a boy named after his dad is called junior, what do you call a girl named after her mom?

47. Why did they name Donkey Kong that way if he’s a monkey and not a donkey?

48. What do you call a male ladybug?

49. Why do we use leaf-blowers instead of leaf-suckers?

50. Do inflatable dolls count as passengers in the carpool lane?

51. Why is room temperature used as a measurement of warmth when not all rooms have the same temperature?

52. If there’s a New Zealand, where did Old Zealand go?

53. Do car tires get tired? 

54. If you pamper a cow and give it lots of stuff, does it produce spoiled milk?

55. Why do they call them pig-tails if pigs only have 1 tail?

56. If dragons can breathe fire, what happens when they accidentally sneeze?

57. Why is drowsiness listed as a side effect of sleeping pills?

58. If eating your dessert before a meal will spoil your appetite, then won’t eating a meal before your dessert ruin your appetite for dessert?

59. Is it possible to blow up a balloon while you’re underwater?

60. If someone owns a piece of land, how deep does their ownership go? Do they own it all the way to the center of the earth?

61. Why is it that we call something “cool” when it’s not really cold?

62. When someone is sad, we say they’re blue, so if someone is really sad are they dark blue?

63. If you write a book about failure, and it doesn’t sell, is it called success?

64. Why is Greenland called Greenland when it is white and covered with ice?

65. Who came up with names for things? Like, who stood in front of a door and said ‘hmm, this is a door’?

66. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the others drown too?

67. Do mermaids give birth to live children or do they lay eggs?

68. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality comes from morons?

69. Why do they say “one size fits all” when it clearly doesn’t fit a baby?

70. If blue is the color of the sky, then what’s the color of the land?

71. Where do lost socks go when they go missing?

72.  If your refrigerator is still running, is it because it’s trying to lose weight?

73. Why are they called training bras? What do we teach them?

74.  If the important thing is to get up after falling, why don’t we just learn better balance?

75. You can make one of your body parts detachable without any negative repercussions. What body part would it be and why?

76. If sunglasses are for protection, why do they make people look suspicious?

77. Who referees the referees?

78. If a mom tells a bad joke, do we call it a mom joke or a dad-mom joke?

79. Why is it called “shipping” if it goes by truck? Why is it called “cargo” when it goes by ship?

80. Would you rather have a disease that makes you say every thought that ever crosses your mind or a disease that makes you react very inappropriately to all the interactions that happen to you and around you?

81. If he had lived, would Blackbeard have changed his name to Whitebeard when he got old? 

82. Why is it called a monkey wrench if it’s shaped nothing like a monkey?

83. When you’re saying goodbye to someone, why do they call it waving if there’s no water involved?

84. If a white flag means surrender, does a black flag mean attack?

85. Why do they say “like taking candy from a baby” when babies tend to be greedy for candy? Wouldn’t it be easier to take money from a baby?

86. When they say that specific dog food has a new and improved flavor, who tests it?

87. If a person suffering from amnesia was suddenly cured, would they remember that they had no memory?

88. Why do superheroes wear their underwear outside of their clothes?

89. Do you think Adam had a belly button since God created him?

90. If bananas have a peel, does that mean we’re skinning them to eat their insides?

91. Why do people say that something sells like ‘hotcakes’ if they sell out fast? How fast do hotcakes sell?

92. If a doctor has a heart attack while performing surgery, will the other doctors and nurses present work on him first?