General Riddles

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

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

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

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

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

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