General Riddles

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

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

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

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

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