General Riddles

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

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

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

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?
The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South Pole).

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