To be, or not to be? is the opening phrase of a soliloquy from Prince Hamlet of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and also one of the most famous passages in English literature. However, this is not the only question left unanswered both in Shakespeare’s play and in real life. In reality, there are more questions left unanswered than there are answers.
Although it may seem that the older we get, the more answers we gain, the truth is that we only grow to understand how much we still don’t know and how many hard questions remain unanswered—and possibly never will be.
While many hard-to-answer questions can be scientifically explained and answered, there are many confusing and hypothetical questions that even science can’t provide a solution to.
Despite humans being the only (yet discovered) most intelligent species, some facts are so challenging to uncover that they escape the grasp of human logic. Not everything can be explained at this stage in our lives, and the many unanswered questions stem from this.
For now, the only option is to refer to those questions with no answers as philosophical and hope that perhaps we will find the explanations to all seemingly unanswerable questions in the future.
Below, we’ve compiled some very impossibly hard questions to answer that go beyond the human brain’s abilities. So if you are looking for an easy way to make your brain hurt, the many questions below will do the trick. Do you know of any more confusing questions to ask? Let us know!
#1 Assassination’s Weird Flex
How important do you have to be to be considered assassinated and not just murdered?
#2 Wait, So Do We Even Agree on Colors?
How do you know that you see colors the same way that another person sees them? For instance, what if what’s red to you is blue to them, but they still call it red?
#3 This Is Literally Me Every Day
If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?
#4 The Most Patient Letter Ever
Isn’t the word ‘queue’ just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?
#5 Golf’s Sneaky Minimalism
Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?
#6 Curious Territory: Forehead or Beyond?
How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?
#7 Undead Drama: Who Wins Here?
If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie?
#8 Wait, am I the glitch or the game?
How do you know you’re not crazy and just hallucinating your whole life?
#9 Time traveler vibes, low-key genius
How did the person who invented the calendar know what day it was?
#10 Plot twist: Nose knows best
What would happen if Pinocchio said ‘My nose will grow now’?
#11 Time well wasted, no regrets
If you had fun while you were wasting time, can you still say that you wasted time?
#12 Blind faith, or just winging it?
Do caterpillars know that they’re going to be butterflies or do they build the cocoon not knowing what will happen?
#13 The feline conspiracy deepens
Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
#14 Lost and Found in Brain Fog
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
#15 Questioning the “New and Improved” Paradox
When they say that something is ‘new and improved’, how can it be improved if it’s new? What is it improving on?
#16 Makes zero sense but here we are
Why do people say that they ‘slept like a baby’ if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?
#17 Because calendar drama is real
Why did we decide to give February just 28 days when lots of other months have 31 days? Couldn’t we have just taken some of the 31st days from other months and added them to February?
#18 The Ultimate Genre Debate
Where do they put the bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?
#19 When “Cold” Means Nothing Cold
Why do they say that you have a cold when your temperature goes up?
#20 Morals: Group Chat Edition
Who decided what’s right and wrong?
#21 Same species, wildly different job titles
Why is Goofy considered a person and Pluto considered a pet when they’re both dogs anyway?
#22 Mind-Bending Dream Logic
If you had a dream that none of your dreams would come true, and you woke up and had none of your real-life dreams come true, would that be a dream come true?
#23 Wait, so being told to lead is just following?
If you told someone to ‘be a leader and not a follower’, wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?
#24 Words that refuse to update
Why are they called buildings if they’re already built?
#25 Wait, dogs are the taste testers now?
How do we know that a new dogfood has an “improved taste”?
#26 Mind-Bending Strength Test
If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you weak or are you strong?
#27 Mind-Blowing Food Logic
If tomatoes are a fruit, is ketchup considered a smoothie?
#28 Wait, Do Deaf People Even Hear Thoughts?
What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?
#29 Worms vs. Patience: The Real Playbook
If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?
#30 Mind-Bending Brain Teaser
Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?
#31 Objectivity? Lol, good luck with that
Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?
#32 Identity Crisis, But Make It Deep
What makes you, you?
#33 Instant Applause Energy Boost
Why do we hit our hands together (clapping) when we like something?
#34 Mind-Bending Success Paradox
If you’re trying to fail and you succeed, did you fail or did you succeed?
#35 Wait, the dictionary might be lying?
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?
#36 Forever young, forever confused
If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?
#37 Plot twist: shoes don’t play fair
If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?
#38 Freezer’s Dark Secret Revealed
Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?
#39 Blink or wink? The cyclops dilemma
If a cyclops were to close its eye, is it winking or blinking?
#40 English Is Confusing, But We Roll With It
Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?
#41 Self-Hating Haters Club?
If you hate haters, does that make you a hater and will you hate yourself?
#42 Mystery of the Number 2 Pencil
If the number 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it number 2?
#43 Bold move for breakfast goals
What was the first man to milk a cow trying to do?
#44 Plot twist: Revenge is dessert
If revenge is a dish that’s best served cold, and revenge is sweet, then is revenge ice cream?
#45 Ghosting forever, huh?
How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?
#46 Mind-Bending Brain Teaser
If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?
#47 Forever stuck in your awkward phase?
When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?
#48 Plot twist: Nature’s sugar hack
How do you grow a seedless fruit?
#49 Mind-Bender Alert: Halfway From Where?
If you are halfway from your destination, is it from the beginning or the end?
#50 English is wild, but okay
Why does “slim chance” and “fat chance” have the same meaning?
#51 Not quite a forever deal
Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?
#52 When Cats Break the Dog Pile Rules
If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?
#53 Plot Twist: Spoiler, No One Knows
Is there life after death?
#54 The Paradox You Didn’t See Coming
If you describe something as indescribable, haven’t you already described it?
#55 Sheep Problems We Didn’t Know Existed
Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?
#56 Good vs. Evil: Still No Receipt
Is it possible to know what is truly good and what is evil?
#57 Mind Games or Free Will?
Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?
#58 The Ship That Wasn’t
If you took a ship and replaced all of its parts until none of the original parts are intact anymore, is it the same ship or a completely different ship?
#59 Debt: Global Oops, We Did It Again
How is it possible that the world is in debt?
#60 Alphabetical Anarchy, Honestly
Why is the alphabetical order that way? Who said that that’s the order that it had to be?
#61 Mind-Boggling Night Visions
Can blind people dream?
#62 Mind blown: silent letters exist?
In the word ‘scent’, which letter is silent? S or C?
#63 Wait, so it’s just infinite empty?
What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?
#64 Existence’s OG mystery
Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?
#65 The Great Armrest Debate
Which arm rest is yours in the movie theater?
#66 Indecisive About Being Indecisive?
If you decide to be indecisive, which are you?
#67 When you’re both in the struggle club
Is it okay for an endangered animal to eat an endangered plant?
#68 Plot twist: yes, they actually do
Do prison buses have emergency exits?
#69 Wait, Do Fortune Cookies Expire?
Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?
#70 Mind Games or Cosmic Script?
Do we have free will or is everything predestined?
#71 Colors throwing shade at fruits since forever
Which orange came first – the fruit or the color?
#72 Existence Called Out
What is freedom and does it really exist?
#73 Existential Belly Button Debate
If God created Adam and Eve, did they have belly buttons?
#74 Weather’s indecisive mood swings
When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?
#75 Waiting so long you become the staff
Isn’t it that when you wait for the waiter to come back with your order, you become the waiter in the process?
#76 Mistakes: Why We’re Low-Key Scared of Growth
If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?
#77 Winning the Longevity Game, Slightly Slower
Isn’t good health just a slower rate at which to die?
#78 Time just couldn’t wait, huh?
If a baby’s bum pops out of its mother at 11:59 PM, and the head comes out at 12:01 AM, what day will the baby be declared to be born on?
#79 Science’s sneaky little secret
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
#80 Plot twist: It’s always no, right?
Is your answer to this question ‘no’?
#81 Color? More Like a Mind Bender
What is the color of a mirror?
#82 Guess the ocean’s reaction to us all diving in
What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?
#83 Brain Freeze Meets Color Confusion
Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?
#84 Teacherception moment
Who taught the first ever teacher?
#85 Brain Teaser or Mind Twister?
If nothing is impossible, then would it be possible for something to be impossible?
#86 Brain’s way of trolling us again
Why do noses run but feet smell?
#87 Living in Perpetual Tomorrowland
Will tomorrow ever come?
#88 Time’s awkward pause button question
Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?
#89 Mind-Bending Without the Sky
What would the water look like if the sky didn’t exist?
#90 Homework, but make it complicated
Can a homeless kid ever be given homework?
#91 Plot twist: save the heart, short-circuit death?
If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?
#92 Plot twist: Clown meat’s a vibe
Do cannibals think clowns taste funny?
#93 Time’s got jokes, right?
When did time begin?
#94 Math: Human Hack or Cosmic Truth?
Did we invent math or did we discover it?
#95 Existential Crisis? Same Here
What is the goal of humanity?
#96 Deep Thoughts, No Cap
What is ‘god’?
#97 Kinda feels both, right?
Did you arrive at this point in your life because you willed it or because you were destined to be here?
#98 Wait, my eyes have a shape now?
What shape is your field of vision?
#99 Mood Forever Unclear
Are we living or slowly dying?
#100 Mind over matter, literally?
Is a body transplant just the same as a brain transplant?
#101 Mind-Bending Geography Moment
How far east do you have to go before you start going west?
#102 Plot twist: They’re the only allowed fans
Are children who act in R-rated movies allowed to watch the film when it’s done?
#103 Wait, Are Brows Hair or What?
Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?
#104 Brace Yourself for the Afterlife
Do they bury people with their braces still on or do they remove them?
#105 When everyone agrees, is that the real tea?
If everyone says that life is unfair, doesn’t that mean that life is fair?
#106 Mind-Blown Soap Dilemma
If you drop your soap on the floor, does the floor become clean or does the soap become dirty?
#107 Caregiver vs. Caretaker, Who Knows?
Why are caregivers and caretakers the same thing?
#108 Wait, Earth’s Got Feelings Now?
Is the Earth alive?
#109 Not the mood, literally every time
Why do people have to die?
#110 So… killing bad guys is okay?
If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?
#111 Time’s just a weird human flex
Why do we base our age off of the number of times we went around a burning ball of gas?
#112 Falling, floating, or physics trolling you?
If you were to dig a hole that went through the center of the Earth and you jumped through, would you be falling or floating upwards?
#113 Philosophy’s Ultimate Mic Drop
What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force?
#114 License to Dye
What hair color do they put in bald people’s driver’s licenses?
#115 Not as easy as it sounds
Can you stand backwards on a flight of stairs?
#116 Wait, who put that there?
Why did they put the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary?
#117 Grounded comedian energy
What do you call a fly without its wings?
#118 Bless you, deity?
If God sneezed, what would you say?
#119 Talk Less, Do More—Seriously
When all is said and done, would you have said more than you have done?
#120 Time Travel: Group Chat Pending
Will you exist in the future if you can’t ever go there?
#121 Wait, Did the Rock Just Blink?
If, in an instant, a moving object looks the same as an unmoving object, is movement possible?
#122 Brain Movies or Secret Messages?
What are dreams?
#123 Deep Thoughts, Shallow Deadlines
What is the purpose of setting goals if we all die anyway?
#124 When Does Old Age Officially Start?
What age should a person be considered old enough to die of old age?
#125 Plot twist or totally unscripted?
To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?
#126 Deep Thoughts at 2 AM
Why are you here at this very moment in your life?
#127 Rules with a side of “except when”
If we need to follow rules at all costs, then why do we make exceptions to these rules?
#128 And here we are, still wondering
Why does anything exist?
#129 Time’s just messing with us, right?
What is the purpose and meaning of time?
#130 Just a blip in cosmic history?
Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?
#131 Evolution’s awkward family reunion
If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
#132 Circle wins again
Why is a “manhole” round?
#133 Wait, You Can Yawn in Your Sleep?
Can you yawn when you are asleep?
#134 Travel or just skywalking?
If we could fly, would we still say we are traveling somewhere?
#135 Plot twist: Fish have feelings too
Can a fish get seasick?
#136 The Classic Brain Teaser, Still Unsolved
Which came first – the chicken or the egg?
#137 Love’s greatest myth busted
Are soul mates a real thing?
#138 Local slang hits different
What do they call french kissing in France?
#139 Dentists: DIY or Doctor’s Visit?
Do dentists go to other dentists or do they treat their own dental care problems?
#140 Height Doesn’t Equal Shade
If you were shorter than someone, would it be possible to talk down to them?
#141 Meta mystery: origin edition
When you buy something that’s made in China while you’re in China, does it still have the made in China tag?
#142 Philosophy or just forest noise?
If a tree fell in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
#143 Debate That’s Older Than Dirt
Which came first: the Sun or the Earth?
#144 Nighttime mind wanderings?
Can you have a daydream at night-time?
#145 When your arm’s the only VIP at the wake
If a person dies at sea and only their arm is recovered, how would he be displayed in a casket? Does it need to be a full sized casket?
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