General Riddles

What can you catch but not throw?

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many pigeons remain?
None. Explanation: They all fly away at the sound of the gunshot.

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

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

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.

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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