General Riddles

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

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

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

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.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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