General Riddles

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

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

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

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

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

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