General Riddles

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

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 don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

I am a seven letter word. I have two sets of double letters in a row. I can fly like a bird or a plane. Kids love me. I end with N. 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!

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