He'd just asked his own trick question, and gotten the right answer.
If that sounds like a trick question, that's because it is.
Here's a trick question: who's produced the most books in the past 30 years?
There's no sense in my trying to ask you a lot of trick questions.
A trick question is, how long will you be here?
At first, you might think this is a trick question.
That was, of course, supposed to be a trick question.
He had thrown her a trick question, but she was ready for it.
It's a trick question for the time being, because the answer seems to be Montreal.
The old man pulls this trick question on anyone who comes within range.