General Riddles

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

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.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

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