Questions that seem easy but are not

“How and why do men and women seem to think so much alike?”

The obvious answer is “because we’re the same species”, however studies of the brain show that when you get down to the basic hardware and functioning of the brain, men and women are very different.

Those are quite large differences. Yet the genders don’t seem to be all that far apart in their conscious thought processes; I’ve read plenty of accounts written by women with a woman’s viewpoint, both their own and female fictional characters, and their inner experience don’t come across as anywhere near as alien as I’d expect with brain differences that large. Somewhere between the hardware level and the conscious one, those differences are largely covered up so well that you need to study the brain with modern technology to realize they are there. How? Why?

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A question that seems simple but has a lot of philosophical and mathematical complexity.

Are there more people alive today than have ever lived and died on this planet.

There are many mathematicians grappling with this question.

In the Indian epic Mahabharat. someone asked this question of a wise king and his response was a philiosophical one.

Why is it dark at night, despite abundant starlight?

Who put the bomp in the bomp-she-bomp-she-bomp?

Will this specific computer program, when fed this specific input, ever stop running?

Am I blue?

Why are most residents of Wyoming light-skinned?

Who are you?

Have you stopped beating your wife?

How does a bicycle work?

You should only ask this question if you also ask its companion question:
“Is a bear Catholic?”

Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

As per usual the obligatory XKCD

The mouse over question is fun as well

Also heard as “Is the bear Catholic?”

Proper answers:

“Good as she is, she still only checkmates me two times out of three.”

“Hey! She wouldn’t have bought me that feather whip and rubber pirate outfit if she didn’t want me to use them!”

How can you suck noodles into your mouth?

How did there get to be two sexes?

Oooh, I know this one!
Time Flies like an arrow, Fruit Flies like a banana.

Here’s a few:
Does a dog (or any animal) have Buddha nature?
If a man argues and a woman isn’t around to hear it, is he still wrong?
Why is the word abbreviation so long? And why are there multiple abbreviations for it?
What does your elbow taste like?

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