General Riddles

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.

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

I am a 5 letter word. Take away my first and last letter, I will remain same. If you also take away my middle letter, I will remain same. Who am I?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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