General Riddles

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

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

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