Funny Multiple Choice Questions With Silly Wrong Answers

137 strange facts that are true, each with one right answer and three ridiculous ones, to play on a phone or print as a ten-question quiz with a key.

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The elephant is the largest land animal, and there is one playground move it cannot do. Which?

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Animals 38

  • A firefly is not a fly. What kind of insect is it? Answer: A beetle. Source: Wikipedia: Firefly
  • About how often does a sloth climb down from its tree to go to the bathroom? Answer: About once every eight days. Source: Wikipedia: Sloth
  • An owl cannot roll its eyes. What does it do instead? Answer: Turns its head as far as 270 degrees. Source: Wikipedia: Owl
  • Arctic reindeer eyes do something odd between summer and winter. What? Answer: A shiny layer at the back changes from gold to blue. Source: Wikipedia: Reindeer
  • Australia's lyrebird is famous for doing what? Answer: Copying almost any sound it hears. Source: Wikipedia: Lyrebird
  • Barnacles look like little shells glued to a rock. Which animals are they related to? Answer: Crabs and lobsters. Source: Wikipedia: Barnacle
  • The binturong of Southeast Asia is also called the bearcat. What is it said to smell like? Answer: Popcorn. Source: Wikipedia: Binturong
  • Dung beetles can roll their ball in a straight line at night. What do they steer by? Answer: The Milky Way. Source: Wikipedia: Dung beetle
  • The electric eel really is electric. What is it not? Answer: An eel. Source: Wikipedia: Electric eel
  • The elephant is the largest land animal, and there is one playground move it cannot do. Which? Answer: Jump. Source: Wikipedia: Elephant
  • Guinea pigs are not pigs. Are they at least from Guinea? Answer: No, they come from the Andes of South America. Source: Wikipedia: Guinea pig
  • How does a male bowerbird try to win a mate? Answer: He builds a structure and decorates it with bright objects. Source: Wikipedia: Bowerbird
  • How does an archerfish catch insects sitting on leaves above the water? Answer: It shoots them down with a jet of water. Source: Wikipedia: Archerfish
  • The kiwi is the only bird with what at the very tip of its beak? Answer: Its nostrils. Source: Wikipedia: Kiwi (bird)
  • The microscopic tardigrade has two nicknames. One is moss piglet. What is the other? Answer: Water bear. Source: Wikipedia: Tardigrade
  • The narwhal's long spiral tusk is really an overgrown what? Answer: Tooth. Source: Wikipedia: Narwhal
  • On Dominica and Montserrat, two Caribbean islands, what is a mountain chicken? Answer: A frog. Source: Wikipedia: Mountain chicken
  • Parrotfish spend their days crunching on coral. What does all that munching add to the sea floor? Answer: Sand. Source: Wikipedia: Parrotfish
  • The Portuguese man o' war looks like a jellyfish. What is it really? Answer: A colony of small animals working as one. Source: Wikipedia: Portuguese man o' war
  • The roadrunner sprints across the desert on foot. Which bird family does it belong to? Answer: The cuckoos. Source: Wikipedia: Roadrunner
  • Some baby aphids arrive in the world already what? Answer: Pregnant. Source: Wikipedia: Aphid
  • The Tasmanian devil holds which title? Answer: Largest meat-eating marsupial. Source: Wikipedia: Tasmanian devil
  • Turritopsis dohrnii is a tiny jellyfish with which grand nickname? Answer: The immortal jellyfish. Source: Wikipedia: Turritopsis dohrnii
  • What do myotonic goats, better known as fainting goats, do when they are startled? Answer: Stiffen up and sometimes tip over. Source: Wikipedia: Myotonic goat
  • What does a bombardier beetle do when it is bothered? Answer: Fires a hot chemical spray with a pop. Source: Wikipedia: Bombardier beetle
  • What does a sea otter keep in the loose pouch of skin under its foreleg? Answer: Food, and sometimes a rock. Source: Wikipedia: Sea otter
  • What does a snail have thousands of? Answer: Microscopic teeth. Source: Wikipedia: Snail
  • What is surprising about the king cobra? Answer: It is not a true cobra. Source: Wikipedia: King cobra
  • What kind of animal is a prairie dog? Answer: A ground squirrel. Source: Wikipedia: Prairie dog
  • What shape are a goat's pupils? Answer: Horizontal slits. Source: Wikipedia: Goat
  • Which animal has fingerprints so human-like that the two are hard to tell apart? Answer: The koala. Source: Wikipedia: Fingerprint
  • Which of these can a crocodile not do? Answer: Stick out its tongue. Source: Wikipedia: Crocodile
  • Which surprising extra does a male platypus carry on each hind foot? Answer: A venomous spur. Source: Wikipedia: Platypus
  • Which taste can a cat not detect at all? Answer: Sweet. Source: Wikipedia: Cat
  • Why does the tiny fennec fox have such enormous ears? Answer: To shed heat and to hear prey under the sand. Source: Wikipedia: Fennec fox
  • The wildebeest has a second name that is only three letters long. What is it? Answer: Gnu. Source: Wikipedia: Wildebeest
  • Wojtek served with Polish soldiers in the Second World War and was promoted to corporal. What was Wojtek? Answer: A brown bear. Source: Wikipedia: Wojtek (bear)
  • The word armadillo is Spanish for what? Answer: Little armored one. Source: Wikipedia: Armadillo

Food 21

  • A lump of chewed birch bark tar found in Finland shows that people were chewing gum about how long ago? Answer: 5,000 years ago. Source: Wikipedia: Chewing gum
  • A pound cake is traditionally made with a full pound of what? Answer: Butter. Source: Wikipedia: Pound cake
  • An almond is a seed, not a true nut. Which fruit is the almond tree grouped with? Answer: The peach. Source: Wikipedia: Almond
  • An egg cream is a fizzy fountain drink. Which two things does it famously not contain? Answer: Eggs and cream. Source: Wikipedia: Egg cream
  • Before the tropical fruit arrived, what did English speakers call a pineapple? Answer: A pine cone. Source: Wikipedia: Pineapple
  • Cotton candy spun by machine was invented in 1897 by a candy maker and a man with which unlikely job? Answer: Dentist. Source: Wikipedia: Cotton candy
  • The first recorded gingerbread figures were made at the court of which monarch, in the likeness of her guests? Answer: Elizabeth I of England. Source: Wikipedia: Gingerbread man
  • Fortune cookies end the meal in Chinese restaurants across America. Where did they most likely come from? Answer: Cookies that Japanese immigrants made in the United States. Source: Wikipedia: Fortune cookie
  • German chocolate cake is named after what? Answer: A chocolate maker named Samuel German. Source: Wikipedia: German chocolate cake
  • How many times are refried beans usually fried? Answer: Once. Source: Wikipedia: Refried beans
  • In 1893 the United States Supreme Court had to decide whether which food is a fruit or a vegetable? Answer: The tomato. Source: Wikipedia: Nix v. Hedden
  • In Denmark a Danish pastry is called wienerbrød. What does that mean? Answer: Viennese bread. Source: Wikipedia: Danish pastry
  • In the Second World War, Britain spread the story that carrots gave its pilots night vision. What was the story hiding? Answer: Radar. Source: Wikipedia: Carrot
  • In which country was Hawaiian pizza invented? Answer: Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Hawaiian pizza
  • The Jerusalem artichoke is not from Jerusalem and is not an artichoke. What is it? Answer: A kind of sunflower from North America. Source: Wikipedia: Jerusalem artichoke
  • Mongolian barbecue was developed in the 1950s. Where? Answer: Taiwan. Source: Wikipedia: Mongolian barbecue
  • Russian dressing is a salad dressing from which country? Answer: The United States. Source: Wikipedia: Russian dressing
  • Welsh rabbit is an old name for cheese sauce on toast. How much rabbit is in it? Answer: None at all. Source: Wikipedia: Welsh rarebit
  • What do broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage and Brussels sprouts have in common? Answer: They are all the same species of plant. Source: Wikipedia: Brassica oleracea
  • What is a baby-cut carrot, the kind sold peeled in bags? Answer: A little piece cut out of a bigger carrot. Source: Wikipedia: Baby carrot
  • Worcestershire sauce often hides which ingredient, to the surprise of many vegetarians? Answer: Fish. Source: Wikipedia: Worcestershire sauce

Words and names 27

  • The 1939 novel Gadsby runs to more than 50,000 words. What is missing from every one of them? Answer: The letter E. Source: Wikipedia: Gadsby (novel)
  • According to most modern reference works, OK began in 1830s Boston as a jokey abbreviation of what? Answer: Oll korrect. Source: Wikipedia: OK
  • Astronaut is built from two Greek words. What do they mean? Answer: Star sailor. Source: Wikipedia: Astronaut
  • Before the name interrobang won, which of these was suggested for the combined ?! mark? Answer: Exclarogative. Source: Wikipedia: Interrobang
  • Breakfast cereal takes its name from Ceres, the Roman goddess of what? Answer: Grain crops. Source: Wikipedia: Cereal
  • Dandelion comes from the French dent de lion. What does that mean? Answer: Lion's tooth. Source: Wikipedia: Taraxacum
  • Denim takes its name from which French city? Answer: Nîmes. Source: Wikipedia: Denim
  • England has several rivers called Avon. Where does the name come from? Answer: An old word that simply means river. Source: Wikipedia: River Avon, Bristol
  • The leotard is named after Jules Léotard. What was his job? Answer: Acrobat. Source: Wikipedia: Leotard
  • The made-up word ghoti is a joke about English spelling. How is it meant to be pronounced? Answer: Fish. Source: Wikipedia: Ghoti
  • The name porcupine goes back to Latin words meaning what? Answer: Quill pig. Source: Wikipedia: Porcupine
  • The name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for what? Answer: Desert. Source: Wikipedia: Sahara
  • Quarantine comes from a Venetian word for a waiting period of how long? Answer: Forty days. Source: Wikipedia: Quarantine
  • Saying runny babbit when you mean bunny rabbit is called a what? Answer: Spoonerism. Source: Wikipedia: Spoonerism
  • Sideburns are named after a Civil War general with famous whiskers. What was his name? Answer: Ambrose Burnside. Source: Wikipedia: Sideburns
  • Umbrella comes from the Latin word umbra. What does umbra mean? Answer: Shade or shadow. Source: Wikipedia: Umbrella
  • What is a mondegreen? Answer: A misheard phrase or song lyric. Source: Wikipedia: Mondegreen
  • Where does the word boycott come from? Answer: A land agent in Ireland named Captain Charles Boycott. Source: Wikipedia: Boycott
  • Which single word, repeated eight times, makes a grammatically correct English sentence? Answer: Buffalo. Source: Wikipedia: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
  • Who came up with the word gobbledygook, in 1944? Answer: Maury Maverick, a Texas politician. Source: Wikipedia: Samuel Maverick
  • The word bungalow first meant a house in the style of which region? Answer: Bengal. Source: Wikipedia: Bungalow
  • The word dord sat in a dictionary from 1934 by mistake. What was it supposed to say? Answer: D or d, short for density. Source: Wikipedia: Dord
  • The word muscle comes from the Latin for which animal? Answer: A little mouse. Source: Wikipedia: Muscle
  • The word robot comes from a 1920 Czech play. What does the Czech word robota mean? Answer: Forced labor. Source: Wikipedia: Robot
  • The word shampoo reached English from Hindi. What does its root mean? Answer: To press, knead or soothe. Source: Wikipedia: Shampoo
  • The word trivia comes from Latin parts that literally mean what? Answer: Three roads. Source: Wikipedia: Trivia
  • The word tulip is thought to trace back to a Turkish word for which item of clothing? Answer: A turban. Source: Wikipedia: Tulip

History 18

  • A war between Britain and Spain that began in 1739 is named after which part of a sea captain called Jenkins? Answer: His ear. Source: Wikipedia: War of Jenkins' Ear
  • According to legend, the Roman emperor Caligula meant to name Incitatus consul. Who or what was Incitatus? Answer: His horse. Source: Wikipedia: Incitatus
  • According to the sagas, why did Erik the Red call his icy new home Greenland? Answer: To make it sound inviting to settlers. Source: Wikipedia: Greenland
  • At the 1904 Olympic marathon, Fred Lorz crossed the line first and was disqualified. Why? Answer: He rode part of the way in a car. Source: Wikipedia: Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
  • Defenestration is a word made famous by events in Prague. What does it mean? Answer: Throwing someone out of a window. Source: Wikipedia: Defenestrations of Prague
  • First Lady Grace Coolidge kept a White House pet named Rebecca in the 1920s. What was Rebecca? Answer: A raccoon. Source: Wikipedia: Rebecca (raccoon)
  • From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games gave out medals for which of these? Answer: Painting, sculpture, music, literature and architecture. Source: Wikipedia: Art competitions at the Summer Olympics
  • In 1630s Holland, prices for which item soared to dizzy heights and then collapsed in February 1637? Answer: Tulip bulbs. Source: Wikipedia: Tulip mania
  • In 1859 Joshua Norton of San Francisco gave himself which job title? Answer: Emperor of the United States. Source: Wikipedia: Emperor Norton
  • In 1932 Australian soldiers were sent to Western Australia to take on which opponent? Answer: Emus. Source: Wikipedia: Emu War
  • In the 19th century, where would you most likely have found a treadmill? Answer: In a prison, as a punishment. Source: Wikipedia: Penal treadmill
  • The Leaning Tower of Pisa began to tilt while it was still being built. How long did the building work take? Answer: 199 years, in three stages. Source: Wikipedia: Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • The Pig War of 1859 was a border standoff between the United States and Britain. How many people were hurt? Answer: None, the only casualty was a pig. Source: Wikipedia: Pig War (1859)
  • There was teaching at Oxford by 1096. Which of these is younger than that? Answer: The Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. Source: Wikipedia: University of Oxford and Tenochtitlan
  • What did astronaut Alan Shepard do on the Moon? Answer: Hit two golf balls. Source: Wikipedia: Alan Shepard
  • What is missing from the face of the Mona Lisa? Answer: Clearly visible eyebrows and eyelashes. Source: Wikipedia: Mona Lisa
  • What strange thing happened in Strasbourg in the summer of 1518? Answer: Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people danced for weeks. Source: Wikipedia: Dancing plague of 1518
  • Which playground classic was an Olympic event from 1900 to 1920? Answer: Tug of war. Source: Wikipedia: Tug of war at the Summer Olympics

Places 10

  • Agloe, New York began as a made-up name on a map. Why did the mapmakers invent it? Answer: As a trap to catch anyone copying their map. Source: Wikipedia: Agloe, New York
  • Big Diomede belongs to Russia and Little Diomede to the United States. About how far apart are they? Answer: About 2.4 miles. Source: Wikipedia: Diomede Islands
  • Bir Tawil is a patch of desert between Egypt and Sudan. What makes it unusual? Answer: Neither country claims it. Source: Wikipedia: Bir Tawil
  • How did the town of Boring, Oregon get its name? Answer: From William Harrison Boring, an early settler. Source: Wikipedia: Boring, Oregon
  • In 1968 an American businessman bought London Bridge. Where does it stand today? Answer: Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Source: Wikipedia: London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)
  • Pheasant Island sits in a river between France and Spain. What is unusual about it? Answer: It changes country every six months. Source: Wikipedia: Pheasant Island
  • Point Roberts is part of Washington State. What must you do to drive there from the rest of the United States? Answer: Drive through Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Point Roberts, Washington
  • What is the Dutch town of Baarle-Nassau famous for? Answer: It has 22 little pieces of Belgium inside it. Source: Wikipedia: Baarle-Nassau
  • What is unusual about the town of Whittier, Alaska? Answer: Almost everyone lives in the same building. Source: Wikipedia: Whittier, Alaska
  • Why do many people in the Australian opal town of Coober Pedy live underground? Answer: To escape the scorching daytime heat. Source: Wikipedia: Coober Pedy

Sports, music and things 14

  • An artist's camel-hair brush is usually made with hair from which animal? Answer: A squirrel. Source: Wikipedia: Camel-hair brush
  • An organ in Halberstadt, Germany began playing John Cage's As Slow as Possible in 2001. When is it due to finish? Answer: In the year 2640. Source: Wikipedia: As Slow as Possible
  • At Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England, what do racers chase down a very steep hill each year? Answer: A wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Source: Wikipedia: Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
  • Before it was called the zipper, the fastener went by which name? Answer: Clasp locker. Source: Wikipedia: Zipper
  • Catgut has been used for instrument strings for centuries. What is it usually made from? Answer: The intestines of sheep or goats. Source: Wikipedia: Catgut
  • The cor anglais, or English horn, is odd for which reason? Answer: It is neither English nor a horn. Source: Wikipedia: Cor anglais
  • Derbyshire, England has hosted the world championships of which sport? Answer: Toe wrestling. Source: Wikipedia: Toe wrestling
  • In which country do Panama hats originate? Answer: Ecuador. Source: Wikipedia: Panama hat
  • Underwater hockey was invented in Portsmouth, England in 1954. What else is it called? Answer: Octopush. Source: Wikipedia: Underwater hockey
  • What do competitors do in the sport of chess boxing? Answer: Alternate rounds of chess and boxing. Source: Wikipedia: Chess boxing
  • What do people do in the sport of extreme ironing? Answer: Take an ironing board somewhere remote and iron clothes. Source: Wikipedia: Extreme ironing
  • What do the musicians do during John Cage's 1952 piece 4′33″? Answer: Nothing, because the score tells them not to play. Source: Wikipedia: 4′33″
  • Where does the board game Chinese checkers come from? Answer: Germany. Source: Wikipedia: Chinese checkers
  • Worm charming is a real competitive sport. What do the competitors try to do? Answer: Attract earthworms up out of the ground. Source: Wikipedia: Worm charming

Science 9

  • An ice cream headache, or brain freeze, starts when something cold touches which spot? Answer: The roof of your mouth. Source: Wikipedia: Cold-stimulus headache
  • If you could find a bathtub big enough, which planet would float in it? Answer: Saturn. Source: Wikipedia: Saturn
  • Mushrooms build their cell walls from a material called chitin. Where else does chitin turn up? Answer: In the shells of insects and crabs. Source: Wikipedia: Chitin
  • The shiny mineral pyrite fooled enough prospectors to earn which nickname? Answer: Fool's gold. Source: Wikipedia: Pyrite
  • Some people sneeze when they step into bright light. What is the tongue-in-cheek name for this? Answer: ACHOO syndrome. Source: Wikipedia: Photic sneeze reflex
  • What happens if you hold a lump of the metal gallium in your hand? Answer: It melts. Source: Wikipedia: Gallium
  • What is a borborygmus? Answer: A rumbling stomach. Source: Wikipedia: Stomach rumble
  • Where was helium first detected, in 1868? Answer: In sunlight, while the Sun is eclipsed. Source: Wikipedia: Helium
  • William Herschel found a new planet in 1781 and wanted to name it after his king. Which name did he pick? Answer: George's Star. Source: Wikipedia: Uranus

How it works

These comical multiple choice questions are 137 strange facts that happen to be true, each with one right answer and three ridiculous ones. What is a mountain chicken? Which job did the co-inventor of cotton candy have? Tap a guess to check it, play a ten-question round, or print a quiz with its answer key.

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Run a ten-question round from one phone

Hold the phone, read the question and all four choices aloud, and let the room shout a letter. Tap the most popular guess. The right choice turns green, and the card adds a line on why the odd answer is the true one, with a link to its source. Next question moves on. For a scored round, switch to Scored round and press Start the round. It draws ten questions and hides every answer until you press Finish the round. Then you get the score by topic and every question you missed, with its explanation.

House rules for a table or for teams

One point for each right answer is all the scoring you need. With teams, each team writes a letter before anyone speaks, because a joke answer makes people blurt. The Start from menu narrows the quiz to one of seven subjects: animals, food, words and names, history, places, science, or sports, music and things. These work as funny multi choice questions for a work social or a family dinner, since nobody needs to be an expert. Three of the four choices are daft, and the fun is finding out that the fourth one is real.

Print the quiz, and what the phone remembers

Print the question sheet, under the question, gives you ten questions with lettered choices and a line for a name, a date and a score. A tick on With answer key puts the right letters and the explanations on a page of their own. The key prints with its sheet, so it never gets matched to the wrong quiz. Pick a topic first and the sheet holds only that topic. The phone keeps a Missed pile and a count of the questions you have seen. All of it stays in this browser, and Clear my progress wipes it.

  • Read all four choices in the same serious voice. The quiz is funnier when a small dragon sounds as likely as a raccoon.
  • Give a bonus point to any team that can say why the true answer is true before you read the explanation.
  • Read the explanation aloud after every answer. The second fact is often stranger than the first.
  • If two teams finish level, settle it with a closest-number question from the trivia tie-breaker questions.

Questions and answers

Are the right answers really true?

Yes. Each right answer was checked on 18 or 19 September 2026 against the English Wikipedia article linked from that question, and the sentence that supports it was read. Where a story is a legend, such as the Roman emperor said to have wanted his horse made consul, the question calls it a legend. The three wrong choices are jokes and are meant to be plainly untrue.

Where do I find the answers?

On screen, tap a guess and the card shows the right choice, a short explanation and a source link. On paper, a tick on With answer key lists the right letter and the explanation for each question on your sheet. The list of questions further down this page leaves the answers out, so nobody can peek mid-round.

Can I use these comical multiple choice questions at work or with kids?

Yes. The deck is clean: nothing sexual, no drinking, and nothing that mocks a person or a group. Most questions suit anyone from about age ten who reads well, and the animals topic is the gentlest place to start. For a quiz written for children, use the trivia questions for kids.

Is there a round with no right answer, where the room votes?

Not on this page. Every question here has one true answer, because the quiz marks the choice you tap. When the fun you want is the argument, use the funny would you rather questions, the this or that questions or the most likely to questions, and count hands the old way.

How long does a round of funny multiple choice questions take?

Allow about a minute a question when you read the explanations aloud. For a longer quiz, press Try another set after the score. It deals ten new questions, and Print on its score card then lists that set. One at a time has no round length: it asks every question in the topic once, then starts again in a new order.