General Riddles

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

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

Complete the sequence: 4, 7, 15, 29, 59, 117 ?
235 Explanation: 4+3=7 7+4x2=15 15+7x2=29 29+15x2=59 59+29x2=117 117+59x2=235

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).

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

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

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

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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