Teachers play an important role in our lives. They impart knowledge, inspire us to learn, and prepare us for the future. Teachers often use riddles and brain teasers to engage students and encourage critical thinking. Here are 85 riddles about teachers with answers to test your logic, lateral thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Riddles about teachers
General riddles about teachers
1. What does a teacher do after school is out for summer vacation?
Answer: They have a lot of free time without students.
2. I have a large family with millions of brothers and sisters. We greet students every morning and send them home every afternoon. What am I?
Answer: A school bus.
3. What kind of shoes do teacher’s wear?
Answer: School shoes.
4. Why did the teacher wear sunglasses?
Answer: Because her students were so bright!
5. Why do students get nervous in a math class?
Answer: Because there are too many problems!
6. Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems.
7. What stays in one corner but travels all over the world?
Answer: A postage stamp.
8. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
9. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
10. I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
Riddles about math teachers
11. Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems!
12. What did the math book say to the other math book?
Answer: I’ve got problems.
13. Why was the fraction nervous?
Answer: Because it was improper.
14. What did the calculator say to the math teacher?
Answer: You can count on me!
15. Why do math teachers make great detectives?
Answer: They are good at solving mysteries.
16. What happened when the shapes teacher called in sick?
Answer: There was a substitute tutor.
17. Why did the geometry class stop?
Answer: Because it was the end of the period.
18. Why doesn’t math get hungry?
Answer: Because it has many meals!
19. Why couldn’t the angle find its partner?
Answer: Because it was always a little obtuse.
20. What do you get when you cross a road and a multiplying table?
Answer: Squashed bugs!
Riddles about English teachers
21. Why did the teacher wear sunglasses?
Answer: Because her class was so bright!
22. What did the English teacher say to her class before vacation?
Answer: Have a grammar summer!
23. Why do English teachers make great cheerleaders?
Answer: They are very good with punctuation.
24. What did the English book say to the math book?
Answer: I’ve got problems too but at least I have poetry!
25. Why was the English teacher angry?
Answer: Because her students had no class!
26. Why did Johnny get bad grades in English?
Answer: Because he wasn’tpunctual.
27. Why did Suzy bring scissors to English class?
Answer: Because she wanted to cut sentences.
28. What happened to the nouns that got in a fight?
Answer: They had to go to pronoun court.
29. Why do sentences always have to stick together?
Answer: Because they have to stay grammatically correct!
30. What do you call a grumpy grammar teacher?
Answer: Moody clauses.
Riddles about science teachers
31. Why was the science book unhappy?
Answer: It had too many problems!
32. Why was the windmill exhausted?
Answer: It was turbine itself out!
33. Why did Johnny bring a ladder to science class?
Answer: Because he wanted to go to high school!
34. How does a scientist freshen her breath?
Answer: With experi-mints!
35. What did the science teacher say when he finished the experiment?
Answer: I’m done in the lab!
36. Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up on its own?
Answer: Because it was two tired!
37. What do you call a scientist who studies ducks?
Answer: A quackpot!
38. Why do scientists make good artists?
Answer: Because they draw great conclusions.
39. Why did science class end early?
Answer: Because it was time to test tube!
40. Why did Suzy fall off the swing set?
Answer: Because she had no chemistry.
Riddles about history teachers
41. Why did the history students do so poorly on their test?
Answer: They wanted to see dates instead!
42. Why did the history book blush?
Answer: Because it saw dates!
43. What dance was very popular in 1776?
Answer: Indepen-dance.
44. Why did the history teacher wear armor to class?
Answer: She was preparing for the middle ages!
45. What kind of music did the Pilgrims listen to?
Answer: Plymouth Rock!
46. Why couldn’t the Pilgrim finish his dinner?
Answer: He was stuffed!
47. What was the most popular game in 1776?
Answer: Revolutions per minute.
48. How did the Romans cut their pizzas?
Answer: With Little Caesars!
49. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Answer: The same middle name!
50. What do you call a crushed Viking?
Answer: Flat Leif Eriksson!
Riddles about school subjects
51. What subject is royalty?
Answer: History, because it rules!
52. What school subject is heaviest?
Answer: History, because there’s so much dates and facts!
53. What school subject is the tastiest?
Answer: Geography, because of all the maps they chew!
54. What school subject is the longest?
Answer: Art, because it stretches the truth!
55. What school subject is the coldest?
Answer: Algebra, because of all the problems!
56. What school subject is the loudest?
Answer: Chemistry, because of all the reactions!
57. What school subject is the most magical?
Answer: Spelling, because of all the witchcraft!
58. What school subject is the roundest?
Answer: Geometry, because of all the shapes!
59. What school subject is the driest?
Answer: History, because it’s full of old stuff!
60. What school subject is the most musical?
Answer: Math, because it has the most notes!
Riddles about school supplies
61. What starts with E, ends with E, but only contains 1 letter?
Answer: Envelope.
62. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: A pencil.
63. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
64. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
65. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
66. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs.
67. What is cut on a table but is never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards.
68. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin.
69. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
70. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddles about school rules
71. What must you always keep once you’ve given it away?
Answer: Your word.
72. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
73. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
74. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
75. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
76. I am where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
Answer: A dictionary.
77. The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
78. What belongs to you but is used mostly by others?
Answer: Your name.
79. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office.
80. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddles about school lunch
81. What did one plate say to the other plate?
Answer: Lunch is on me!
82. What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet?
Answer: Supplies!
83. Why did Johnny throw his clock out the window?
Answer: Because he wanted to see time fly!
84. What did the cafeteria clock do when it was hungry?
Answer: It went back four seconds!
85. Why did Suzy sit on her watch?
Answer: She wanted to be on time!
Conclusion
We hope you enjoyed this collection of 85 riddles about teachers and school! Riddles are a fun way for teachers to engage students while encouraging problem-solving skills and developing their intellect. The riddles covered a range of topics related to teachers and education, from math and English to history, science, supplies, rules and lunchtime. How many were you able to solve correctly? Test your wit and intelligence with these teacher riddles! Let us know in the comments if you have any other fun riddles about teachers and education.
