General Riddles

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

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

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

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

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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