General Riddles

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

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

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

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