ð Silly Test
A fake school test where the silliest answer that still makes sense gets full marks.
How to play
- Pick a test: math comes first, and stars open science, English, and history and geography.
- Read the question, then read all four answers.
- Forget the sensible answer. Choose the silliest answer that is still somehow correct.
- Enjoy the teacher's red-pen comment on your paper.
- Finish the test to get your grade: A+ means top of the silly class.
- Try the timed Pop quiz for bonus points.
A hilarious multiple choice test
Silly Test is a free comedy quiz that looks just like a real school test, except the sensible answer is always wrong. Find x? "It's right there, next to the 3." Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? "At the bottom." Your job is to spot the silliest answer that still makes sense, and then enjoy the teacher's red-pen comment. It plays in your browser with no download, and the whole list of funny test answers is further down the page.
Why funny test answers make us laugh
Everyone has seen those lists of funny answers on children's exams, the clever homework replies and the witty answers that are technically right but not what the teacher wanted. They are funny because the logic is perfect, and it just isn't the logic that the question expected. That kind of lateral thinking is a real skill: to write a silly answer that works, you need to understand the question, know what it was meant to ask and then find another meaning. So even though this is a joke, you are still practising how to read questions carefully.
All the answers are made up for fun
Every question and answer in Silly Test was written just for this game. We don't use real children's work, so nobody is being laughed at. The game has no marks that matter, either: getting an F here only means you're too sensible, and you can try again as often as you like.
Four silly subjects
The Silly Math Test has trains, apples and very wide brackets. The Silly Science Test covers the four seasonings and where to find your stomach. The Silly English Test is packed with puns, which makes it a little harder for younger players, and the Silly History & Geography Test has plenty of very confident guesses. Earn stars to open each new test. Each comes with a report card at the end, from "F, for fun" to "A+: top of the silly class".
Good for classrooms and parties
Teachers can use Silly Test as a light way to end a lesson, or to show how much the wording of a question matters. It also works well on a shared screen at a party: read the question, let everybody shout out their answer and see who picks the silliest. And if you want to try writing your own silly answers, the list below is a good place to get ideas.
Funny math test answers
Find x.
Answer: It's right there, next to the 3. The diagram shows an x, and this student found it.
If you have 4 apples in one hand and 6 in the other, what do you have?
Answer: Very big hands. It's correct, if you think about it.
Expand (a + b)Âģ.
Answer: (a + b)Âģ. The student made the gap wider. It has been expanded.
What is half of 8?
Answer: Either 4 or 3, depending on how you cut it. Cut an 8 across the middle and you get two 0s. Cut it down the middle and you get two 3s.
Sam has 30 sweets and eats 26. What does he have now?
Answer: A stomach ache. The test didn't say to count them.
What is the area of a square?
Answer: Wherever the squares hang out. Every shape needs a neighbourhood.
How do you change 7/8 into a decimal?
Answer: Rub out the line and write in a dot. Well, it's a change.
A train leaves at 3 p.m. going 60 mph. Where will it be at 5 p.m.?
Answer: On the tracks. Trains usually are.
What is the formula for water?
Answer: H I J K L M N O. H to O. Very clever, and also wrong.
What is 2 + 2?
Answer: Fish, if you draw it just right. Turn the numbers around and you can draw a little fish.
Name a number between 1 and 3.
Answer: 2, obviously, but this feels like a trick. Tests can make anyone suspicious.
Bob has 12 pencils and gives 5 away. What does he do next?
Answer: Asks for them back. Pencils are valuable.
What do you call an angle over 90 degrees?
Answer: A very nice angle, well done. This student is a kind marker.
What does a bar graph show?
Answer: How many drinks everyone had at the juice bar. A real effort, from a real juice fan.
Round 67 to the nearest ten.
Answer: It's already round enough. Who needs corners on a number?
What's the difference between 8 and 3?
Answer: One is curvy and the other is half of it. Technically an excellent observation.
What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Answer: Pumpkin pi. The only math that comes with whipped cream.
There are 7 days in a week. How many are left after you take Sunday?
Answer: All of them, for next week. Weeks do keep on coming.
What is a right angle?
Answer: One that isn't wrong. Hard to argue with this.
Write down a prime number.
Answer: Number 1, in my opinion. "Prime" means the best, doesn't it?
What is a polygon?
Answer: A parrot that has flown away. Polly gone. Oh dear.
How much is a dozen eggs?
Answer: About 3 dollars at my shop. A very practical answer.
What is 5 x 0?
Answer: Nothing, and that's a shame. You did all that multiplying, and for what?
Funny science test answers
Name the four seasons.
Answer: Salt, pepper, mustard and ketchup. Those are the seasonings.
What does a thermometer measure?
Answer: How long you can stay quiet. In this student's house, it's a big help.
What happens to water at 100 degrees?
Answer: It gets far too hot to take a bath in. Good safety advice!
Where is your stomach?
Answer: Just below my lunch. It's really more of a lunch holder.
What is a nitrate?
Answer: Cheaper than the day rate. Night rate. Get it?
What does the word "benign" mean?
Answer: What you will be after you're eight. Be nine. Oh, very good.
What is the main job of the skin?
Answer: To keep your insides in. Very true, and very important.
Give an example of a fungus.
Answer: My brother's old lunchbox. A surprisingly strong example.
What do you call an animal that eats only plants?
Answer: Lucky, with all that salad. Well, that's one opinion.
Why do birds fly south for the winter?
Answer: Because it's too far to walk. Nobody wants to walk that far.
What are the three states of water?
Answer: Texas, Ohio and Florida. Those are three states, and they all have water.
What is the moon made of?
Answer: Mostly space. Space is mostly what's up there.
What is gravity?
Answer: It's what keeps my pencil from staying up, when I throw it. Well observed. Keep throwing.
What is the Earth's outer layer called?
Answer: The part with the sidewalks. The rest is hard to get to.
Describe the life cycle of a frog.
Answer: It goes round on its bike. Frogs need exercise too.
What happens to a body when it's in water?
Answer: The phone rings. It's always the way when you're in the bath.
What do you get if you mix red and blue?
Answer: In trouble, if it's on the carpet. Experiments have consequences.
What is a meteorologist?
Answer: A person who studies meteors. A very reasonable guess. It's weather, actually.
What organ pumps blood?
Answer: The one in church. Well, it's an organ. It pumps something.
What's the best way to prevent infection from biting insects?
Answer: Don't bite any. Good advice for everyone.
What does a magnet do?
Answer: It holds up my drawings on the fridge. Absolutely its most important use.
What makes the wind blow?
Answer: Trees waving their arms about. It looks that way.
What does a baby kangaroo live in?
Answer: Its mother's lunchbox, I think. A pouch, but that's quite close.
How do plants get their food?
Answer: From the plant shop. It's where most plants come from.
Funny English test answers
Use "fascinate" in a sentence.
Answer: My coat has ten buttons, but I can only fasten eight. Fasten eight. It's nice to be creative.
Write a sentence with "dandelion".
Answer: A dog in a tutu danced beside a lion. The dandy lion was impressed. A lion who is a dandy. Lovely.
What's the opposite of "cold"?
Answer: Warm milk. That is what the student would prefer.
What is a synonym?
Answer: A word you use when you can't spell the first one. Honestly, a very good answer.
What's a plural?
Answer: When you have more than one of them, like a sock I lost. Only one sock, though.
Where is the punctuation in this sentence?
Answer: In the wrong place, like always. Teachers do say so.
What is a palindrome?
Answer: A big airport for pals. Pal-in-drome. It sounds like one.
What is an adverb?
Answer: A word in a magazine ad. It does sound like advertising.
Write the plural of "mouse".
Answer: Mouses, or several cats. Cats tend to find them, and then there's more cats.
What is the past tense of "I swim"?
Answer: I swam, and now I'm cold. It adds such detail.
Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: Someone who likes romance. We can't say they are wrong.
What is the main idea of a paragraph?
Answer: To fill the page, and finish early. A clever strategy.
What do you call a story written by a person about themself?
Answer: A selfie. A modern answer.
What is a preposition?
Answer: When you ask someone to get married, but not yet. Propose. Nearly.
How do you spell "cat"?
Answer: K-A-T, because it's cool like that. Well, the sound's right.
What are the 26 letters of the alphabet?
Answer: They're the ones I'm still learning. An honest answer, if nothing else.
What does a comma do?
Answer: It lets you take a breath so you, don't, faint. Comma, comma, comma.
What is a limerick?
Answer: A small green fruit with a brick in it. A lime and a brick.
Write a sentence using the word "information".
Answer: Geese fly in formation. Very nice, and it's a nice image.
Funny history and geography test answers
Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom. It usually is.
What are the Rocky Mountains made of?
Answer: Very, very many rocks. The name gives it away.
Where is the Great Wall of China?
Answer: In China, holding up a really big roof. A very great wall needs a roof.
What is the capital of France?
Answer: F. F is a capital letter, and it starts France.
Who was the first man on the moon?
Answer: The one who got there first. Sound reasoning.
What did the Romans build that's still used today?
Answer: My brother's sand castles, probably. Sadly, that isn't quite true.
Where do you find the Equator?
Answer: On maps, it goes round the middle like a belt. Exactly what it looks like!
Why did the pioneers go west?
Answer: Because of the signs. The signs were helpful.
Which is the longest river in the world?
Answer: The one that takes longest to swim. Good test. Who's going to do it?
What's a volcano?
Answer: A mountain with the hiccups. A beautiful image.
Who invented the light bulb?
Answer: Somebody working in the dark. Someone must have needed it.
Name the largest ocean.
Answer: The wet one, on the left of the map. Not an unfair description.
What do we learn from the pyramids of Egypt?
Answer: Not to leave building work to the last minute. It took a really long time.
Where is Mount Everest?
Answer: Near the top of the page. On this student's map, anyway.
What was a knight's main job?
Answer: Working the late shift. Knight shift. Good one.
What was the name of Columbus's ship?
Answer: The big one. Technically it was.
Who lived in the castle?
Answer: Kings, and the people who cleaned it. Someone had to.
What's the coldest place on Earth?
Answer: My bedroom in January. Very convincing.
What does a compass do?
Answer: It tells you you've gone the wrong way. Yes, and quite often.
What is the capital of Italy?
Answer: I. I is the capital of Italy, in capital letters.
Why is the ocean salty?
Answer: Too many fish crying. What a sad story.
What did ancient Egyptians write on?
Answer: Whatever they could reach. The walls were especially handy.
What language did the Romans speak?
Answer: Mostly Roman. You'd think so.
More funny games
For more laughs, try Funny Riddles, catch your friends out with Trick Question Trap or spin the Would-You-Rather Wheel. Every quiz and puzzle is on the Brain Games page.
Free and safe
Silly Test is free to play, with no download, no sign-up and nothing to buy. There is no chat, and your stars are saved only on your own device. See the Parents & Safety page for more.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get the right answer in Silly Test?
Choose the silliest answer that still makes sense. The sensible answer is usually wrong, and that's the joke.
Are these real children's test answers?
No. Every answer was written for this game, in the style of those famous funny test answers. No real child's work is used.
What are some funny test answers?
Our favourites include "Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? At the bottom" and "If you have 4 apples in one hand and 6 in the other, what do you have? Very big hands."
Will this confuse children about real school answers?
Each question shows the joke clearly, and the sensible answers are right there among the choices. It's an obvious joke, and most children love being in on it.
Is Silly Test free?
Yes. It is free to play in the browser with no download, no account and nothing to buy.