General Riddles

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

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

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.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

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

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

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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