General Riddles

What can you catch but not throw?

A rooster was injected with strong fertility inducing injections that could yield an average production of 10 score eggs over a period of 10 months. How many eggs would it deliver in a single day?
A rooster does not deliver eggs, it's the hen who does that!

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

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

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

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