General Riddles

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

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

7. I have three letters. I read the same forward and backwards. I know you'll get the answer, I know you'll see. It's a word that is important to you and me. What word am I?

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

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