General Riddles

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

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

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

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