General Riddles

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

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

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

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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".

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

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