Question: What do you call an ant with a trunk?

Answer: An eleph-ant.

Ratul Banerjee, Class VI, Don Bosco School, Siliguri

Boy: Mom, did you see me before I was born?

Mom: What a silly question! Of course not.

Son: Then how did you know that I was your son?

Sneha Saraf, Class VII, Mahadevi Birla Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta

Question: What starts with ‘t’, ends with ‘t’ and has a lot of ‘t’ in it?

Answer: A teapot.

Varnika Binani, Class V, Birla High School for Girls, Calcutta

Ramu: What travels faster — heat or cold?

Shyamu: Heat, of course.

Ramu: What makes you so sure?

Shyamu: Because we often catch a cold.

Aditi Shah, Class V, St Thomas Girls’ School, Calcutta

Teacher: Describe the two parts of your brain.

Student: There is nothing right in my left brain and there is nothing left in my right brain.

Kevin Gandhi, Class VII, La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta

Mother: Didn’t you have an exam today? How was the paper?

Son: The usual — white paper with black printing.

Saumodip Bose, Class VIII, Heritage Academy, Calcutta

Teacher: If you buy something for Rs 8.50 and sell it for Rs 9.30, will you have a profit or a loss?

Student: I’ll have a profit on the rupees and a loss on the paise.

Subham Saha, Class VIII, Burnpur Riverside School, Asansol

Father: How were the questions for today’s exam?

Daughter: I had no problem with the questions, dad. Only the answers troubled me.

Harshita Saraf, Class VI, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta

Question: What do footballers have in the evening?

Answer: Penal-tea.

Dipanjal Pal, Class VII, Howrah Zilla School, Howrah

Question: What did the foolish man do when he missed bus number 66?

Answer: He took the number 33 bus — twice!

Dipranil Chakraborty, Class VIII, Shibpur S.S.P.S. Vidyalaya, Howrah

Father: If you study seriously, you will get ahead.

Son: But dad, I already have a head!

Aelisha Priyadarshini, Class VI, Kendriya Vidyalaya, ONGC Sivasagar, Assam