Top 10 silliest Alexa questions of 2021
When Alexa the smart speaker was launched, meme makers had a gala time creating jokes around weird questions asked to Alexa, the robotic assistant, and the weirder answers it gave. After all, the engineers who programmed Alexa are also human, and they have a sense of humour just like the users. So, they put in lots of funny answers to keep people entertained while talking to a blinking speaker!
Q: Alexa, what do you want for Christmas?
A: To watch Die Hard with Captain Picard would be a dream.
Q: Alexa, drum roll, please.
A: OK. (Alexa then plays audio of an actual drumroll.)
Q: Alexa, your mother was a hamster.
A: Well, your father smells of elderberries. Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Q: Alexa, do you have any pets?
A: I don’t have any pets. I used to have a few bugs, but they kept getting squashed.
Q: Alexa, what is the value of pi?
A: The approximate value of pi is 3.141592653589 … (Alexa will go on for a bit, then make a joke, such as “phew!” or “this thing goes on forever!”)
Q: Alexa, I’ve got 99 problems.
A: But a glitch ain’t one!
Q: Alexa, are you blue?
A: Only my light ring. Only, my light ring.
Q: Alexa, surely you can’t be serious?
A: I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley. (Answers vary widely on this one.)
Q: Alexa, will you be my girlfriend?
A: I like you … as a friend.
Q: Alexa, how much do you weigh?
A: I am weightless, like a cloud. Wait a minute, clouds actually weigh a lot, so that’s not quite right. Let’s just say I’m more sass than mass.
These are exactly as Alexa responded to us! The fun thing is that the team running this gadget keep changing responses, so they may fetch new answers in the new year. For those who want to try out something stranger, we suggest speaking to Alexa in Hindi. The answers can be mind bogglingly funny. For example, when asked to play Mera Naam Joker, Alexa was responding with a strange hip hop number with the word ‘joker’ in it. This was rectified after it caught too much attention for poor Alexa.