General Riddles

Use the word "dormitory" to make two words which will complete the below sentence. Daniel stays in a _______ _______.
dirty room

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

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

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