General Riddles

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

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

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

I come form North, East, West and South. I give you lots of information either verbally or textually. Who am I?

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

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