General Riddles

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

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

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

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

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.

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.

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

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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