General Riddles

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

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

Here come the best enigmas that appeared in the Batman movies - usually Riddler asking Bruce Wayne. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace.
A clock.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

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

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

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