General Riddles

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

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.
10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

End always begins with me. Time, space and universe always end with me. Who am I?
The letter 'E'.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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.

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

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

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