General Riddles

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

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

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

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

When I get multiplied by any number the sum of the figures in the product is always me. Who I am?
9 e.g. 9 X 6 = 54; 5 + 4= 9

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

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