General Riddles

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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

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

I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?
Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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

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