What do you call a fish that practices medicine?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: easy
Hint: Think of a fish that sounds like a surgeon.
Answer
A sturgeon
Explanation
The joke is a play on the word 'sturgeon' which sounds like 'surgeon', hence the fish practicing medicine.
This is an easy wordplay riddle — a good one for children and beginners. The answer is A sturgeon.
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