General Riddles

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

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