General Riddles

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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!

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.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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.

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

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