General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

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

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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

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

There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many pigeons remain?
None. Explanation: They all fly away at the sound of the gunshot.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

I am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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