General Riddles

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

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