Funny Questions to Ask a Teacher

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Funny Questions to Ask a Teacher

If you could teach us anywhere, where would we go?

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What would the first lesson be there? Kindergarten to grade 2.

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These 100 funny questions to ask a teacher are the class's turn to ask: what the teacher was like as a kid, what the weirdest excuse ever was, what really goes on in the teachers' lounge. Every one is kind.

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Before the first card, press Topic and pick a set, then a level: Easy for kindergarten to grade 2, Medium for grades 3 to 5, Hard for grades 6 to 12. A round is 12 cards. On the end card, Print these gives the set as slips to cut apart for a jar on the teacher's desk.

For a yearbook or school paper interview

For a yearbook or school paper holds 20 questions with quotable answers: What would the yearbook caption under your photo say if you wrote it? Copy the list, on the end card, copies them to paste into a reporter's notes.

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  • Would our teacher rather works out loud: the class guesses the answer before the teacher gives it.

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What are some funny questions to ask a teacher?

Try What did your hair look like in your school pictures? What is the weirdest excuse you have ever heard? Would you rather teach every lesson by singing or by miming? Each has a follow-up for when the answer is short.

What can you ask a teacher on the first day of school?

Before you were a teacher and If you were not a teacher are about the person, not the lessons: If you were a student in our class, where would you sit? The teacher chooses how much to tell.

Are any of the questions rude?

No. None asks a teacher's age, pay, family or home, none asks what a teacher thinks of a colleague or a student, and none is meant to embarrass. The jokes are about school life: the lost and found, fire drills, the lounge fridge.

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Before you were a teacher 16

  • How messy was your handwriting at our age? Follow-up: When did it start to improve? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What did you believe about teachers before you became one? Follow-up: Which belief fell apart first? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What did you collect when you were our age? Follow-up: How big did the collection get? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What did you want to be when you were our age? Follow-up: How close is teaching to that? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What did your hair look like in your school pictures? Follow-up: Which year was the worst one? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What happened to the homework you never handed in? Follow-up: How did your teacher take the story? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What rule did you break as a student that you can admit to now? Follow-up: What did your own teacher say about it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What was in your lunch box when you were little? Follow-up: What did you trade away from it? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What was the moment you decided to teach? Follow-up: Who was the first person you told? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What was the strangest job you did before teaching? Follow-up: What from that job do you still use in class? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What was your playground claim to fame as a kid? Follow-up: How good were you at it, really? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What were you like as a student, in three honest words? Follow-up: Which of the three would your teachers have picked? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which book did you read again and again as a kid? Follow-up: How many times, do you think? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which class did you struggle in, and how did you get through? Follow-up: What would you tell that student now? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which school subject were you surprisingly bad at? Follow-up: How did you get around that subject? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Who was your favorite teacher when you were small? Follow-up: What did that teacher do that you do now? Kindergarten to grade 2.

In this classroom 18

  • How do you find out it is a snow day, and what is your first move? Follow-up: Who is happier about a snow day, you or us? Grades 3 to 5.
  • How many times a day do you say "eyes on me"? Follow-up: What would you rather be saying? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What can you tell about a class in its first five minutes? Follow-up: What did our first five minutes tell you? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What do you draw on the board when words are not enough? Follow-up: How well can we tell what it is? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What do you really think when the fire drill bell goes off? Follow-up: What were we doing the last time it rang? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What do you write on the board and hope nobody questions? Follow-up: What happened the last time someone did? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What gives you away when you are trying not to laugh? Follow-up: When did we last nearly break you? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What happens in this room once the buses pull away? Follow-up: How long do you stay at school? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is the funniest answer you have ever read on a test? Follow-up: What grade did that answer get? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the funniest wrong name a student has ever called you? Follow-up: What did you say back to the student? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is the hardest word to spell on the board without checking? Follow-up: How do you check when nobody is looking? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the silliest thing you have ever had to take away until the bell? Follow-up: How long did it sit on your desk? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is the strangest thing ever to turn up in the lost and found? Follow-up: Who came to claim it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the weirdest excuse you have ever heard? Follow-up: How hard was it not to laugh? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which classroom rule exists because of one very specific day? Follow-up: What happened on that specific day? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which hour with our class do you look forward to? Follow-up: Which hour is the sleepiest? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Which lesson went so wrong that it was funny? Follow-up: What did you do right after it fell apart? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which object in this room would you rescue first? Follow-up: Where did that object come from? Kindergarten to grade 2.

Lunch, coffee and the teachers' lounge 14

  • How fast can you eat lunch when you have recess duty? Follow-up: What is your record time? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What do teachers talk about at lunch? Follow-up: What makes everyone laugh in there? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What does a teacher's lunch break really consist of? Follow-up: How much of the break is lunch? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What happens to you without your morning coffee or tea? Follow-up: How can we tell it is one of those mornings? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is in your cup right now? Follow-up: How many cups do you get through in a day? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is the best thing anyone has brought to the teachers' lounge to share? Follow-up: How fast did it disappear? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the lunch you bring far too often? Follow-up: What do you wish it was? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is the teachers' lounge fridge like inside? Follow-up: What is the oldest thing living in it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the unwritten rule of the teachers' lounge? Follow-up: How did you find out about that rule? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What must your coffee or tea taste like before class can start? Follow-up: How complicated does the order get? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What really goes on in the teachers' lounge? Follow-up: What would surprise us most about it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What would the perfect teachers' lounge have that ours does not? Follow-up: Which thing would get used first? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Where is the secret snack stash in this room? Follow-up: What is in the stash? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Which mug is yours, and what happens if someone else uses it? Follow-up: How did that mug become yours? Grades 6 to 12.

If you were not a teacher 16

  • If our class were a sports team, what would the team be called? Follow-up: What would you shout from the sideline? Grades 3 to 5.
  • If school ran at night, what would the first class be? Follow-up: What would night recess be like? Grades 6 to 12.
  • If we gave you a trophy, what would it be for? Follow-up: Where would you keep the trophy? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • If you could add one button to your desk, what would it do? Follow-up: How often would you press it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • If you could cancel one thing at school forever, what would go? Follow-up: What would you do with the spare time? Grades 3 to 5.
  • If you could send a note to yourself on your first day of teaching, what would it say? Follow-up: How would the new teacher have taken it? Grades 6 to 12.
  • If you could teach one lesson that is on no curriculum, what would it be? Follow-up: How would you grade that lesson? Grades 6 to 12.
  • If you could teach us anywhere, where would we go? Follow-up: What would the first lesson be there? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • If you drove the school bus for a day, where would the last stop be? Follow-up: Who would get the front seat? Grades 3 to 5.
  • If you had a superpower at school, what would it be? Follow-up: When would you use the power first? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • If you were a student in our class, where would you sit? Follow-up: What would you see from that seat? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • If you were not a teacher, what job would you do? Follow-up: What would you wear to that job? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • If you won a surprise day off tomorrow, how would you spend it? Follow-up: What would you refuse to do that day? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What would you call your memoir of life in a classroom? Follow-up: What is chapter one about? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which made-up subject deserves a place on our schedule? Follow-up: What would the homework be like? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which trivia topic could you beat our whole class at? Follow-up: Which topic would we beat you at? Grades 6 to 12.

Would our teacher rather 16

  • Would you rather assign no homework for a year or grade none for a year? Follow-up: Who wins either way? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather grade a hundred tests or sharpen a thousand pencils? Follow-up: How long would that take you? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather grade essays written in crayon or essays written in riddles? Follow-up: What score would the first one get? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Would you rather have a board that never wipes clean or markers that always run dry? Follow-up: How would you cope with it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather have lunch with our class all week or alone on the roof? Follow-up: What would be for lunch up there? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Would you rather have recess all day or story time all day? Follow-up: What would we do first on that day? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Would you rather lose your voice for a day or lose your coffee for a week? Follow-up: How would we know the difference? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather never hear the bell again or never hear "is this on the test" again? Follow-up: What would you like to hear in its place? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Would you rather read to us or have us read to you? Follow-up: Which book would it be? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Would you rather share your desk with an octopus or with a llama? Follow-up: What would you name the pet? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Would you rather switch places with us for a week or with the principal for a day? Follow-up: What is the first rule you would make? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Would you rather take us on a field trip to the moon or to the center of the Earth? Follow-up: What would the permission slip say? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather teach a class of thirty of you or be a student in your own class? Follow-up: What would you learn from that? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Would you rather teach every lesson by singing or by miming? Follow-up: Which lesson would be hardest that way? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Would you rather teach in pajamas or in a superhero cape? Follow-up: What color would it be? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Would you rather teach one giant lesson or a hundred tiny ones? Follow-up: How tired would you be by the end? Grades 3 to 5.

For a yearbook or school paper 20

  • What did your first year of teaching get wrong that makes you laugh now? Follow-up: How did you find it out in the end? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What do you do for fun on a Saturday? Follow-up: How did you start doing it? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What do you want this year's class to be known for? Follow-up: What are we known for so far? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What does a great day of teaching feel like? Follow-up: How often do you get a day like that? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What does our school do better than anywhere you have been? Follow-up: When did you spot that? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What is one thing students could do that would make your week? Follow-up: When did someone last do it? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What is the best thing a student has ever made for you? Follow-up: Which shelf does it sit on? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the funniest thing that has happened at an assembly? Follow-up: How did everyone recover? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What is the most memorable day of your teaching life so far? Follow-up: What made that day stand out? Grades 6 to 12.
  • What sets off your loudest laugh at school? Follow-up: Who has heard it from down the hall? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • What should we still remember from this year when we are grown up? Follow-up: What will you remember about it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What talent of yours has this school never seen? Follow-up: Who was the last audience for it? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What would students be surprised to learn about you? Follow-up: Who at school already knows? Grades 3 to 5.
  • What would the yearbook caption under your photo say if you wrote it? Follow-up: What would your students write there? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which field trip went down in history, for good or bad reasons? Follow-up: What part of that trip do you still talk about? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which piece of your advice do students quote back to you? Follow-up: Who gave that advice to you first? Grades 6 to 12.
  • Which read-aloud book do you never get tired of? Follow-up: Which voice do you do best? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Which school day of the year do you start counting down to? Follow-up: What happens on that day? Kindergarten to grade 2.
  • Which three words would you paint over our classroom door? Follow-up: Which word would your students pick? Grades 3 to 5.
  • Which tune do you hum while you grade our work? Follow-up: Who put that tune there? Grades 3 to 5.
How this list was compiled

Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors in October 2026; no question or follow-up is copied from another list. Every card is a light question a class puts to its own teacher, with a follow-up. Every line was screened against the site's rules for children's pages and then for a teacher's sake: nothing about a teacher's age, pay, family, home or beliefs, nothing that asks a teacher's opinion of a named colleague or pupil, and no card meant to embarrass. Levels are grade bands set by the editors, not a measurement: Easy for kindergarten to grade 2, Medium for grades 3 to 5, Hard for grades 6 to 12. On 2026-10-02 a script compared every question and follow-up with every other list on this site, and lines that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work