General Riddles

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

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

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

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

A slice of cake costs $3 if it is cut into two pieces. How much will it cost if it is cut into seven pieces?
$3. As the entire slice costs $3, it doesn't matter how many pieces it is cut into.

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.

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.

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.

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